In an effort to keep up with the ever-changing times, the World Poker Tour has made the decision to live stream all its Main Tour championship events over PokerGO, the subscription streaming service from the former Poker Central. “The World Poker Tour delivers the thrilling and action-packed poker programming our audience loves,” said Joe Kakaty,… Read more »
Kory Kilpatrick certainly knows how to make the most of his World Series of Poker final table appearances. On Monday, the professional poker player from Athens, Georgia, won his first-ever bracelet, nabbing the jewelry in the 2014 WSOP Event #20: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Shootout in what was also the first trip to a WSOP final… Read more »
Six of the nine Final Table players for the WSOP Main Event are sponsored by Poker Stars, which is why the site is celebrating with promotions, freerolls and chances to play against the potential champs. Read more »
Up and coming poker site Million Dollar Poker Club is awarding players with poker training opportunities. Up to 50 of the trained players will then be sent to the WSOP. Read more »
The world of poker is shocked and disappointed in Scotty Nguyen, whose reprehensible behavior and foul language was seen by many as a mockery of the first Chip Reese Memorial $50,000 HORSE tournament. Read more »
Tonight ESPN will air one of the most high-profile tournaments on the 2008 World Series of Poker slate, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship. Read more »
When viewers who are disinterested in the Beijing Olympics can flip their television sets over to ESPN on Tuesday night. On the cable network channel, the $50,000 HORSE tournament will be airing. All of the action will kick off at 8:00pm ET on the Worldwide Leader in Sports. Read more »
At 8:00pm ET on Tuesday, August 12th, Event 5 of the 2008 World Series of Poker will debut on ESPN. A pair of one hour episodes will air, highlighting the final table of the $1,000 rebuy tournament. Read more »
Now that the World Series of Poker Main Event is on hold until November, the world is turning to London for a fix of championship poker, as the World Series of Poker Europe announces its schedule, venue and the first famous players to confirm attendance. Read more »
If you're looking for entertainment this Tuesday night, August 5th, do what many poker enthusiasts around the country will be doing and turn on ESPN, the Worldwide Leader in Sports. The fourth event of the 2008 World Series of Poker will air at 8:00pm ET. The $5,000 mixed hold'em event contains one of the most star-studded final tables ever played in poker's largest live tournament series. You'll see one-half of Team Bodog, David Williams and Justin Bonomo, taking on a final table that includes Full Tilt Poker pros Erick Lindgren and Howard Lederer as well as "November Nine" member David "Chino" Rheem, who becomes the first member of the November Nine to be viewed on national television. This article doesn't contain spoilers, so read on with confidence. Read more »
GigaMedia Limited (Nasdaq: GIGM) announced today that the World Series of Poker, sponsored by GigaMedia's Everest Poker, has successfully completed the first portion of the main event and will begin airing this week on ESPN. The broadcasts will ultimately reach in excess of 300 million households globally. Read more »
Following on the radio interview she gave last week, Tiffany Michelle has issued a thorough rebuttal of Poker News' accusations against her, hoping to clear her name and to put to rest all talk of betrayal and lack of ethics on her part. Read more »
As young poker pro Tiffany Michelle made it deep into the WSOP Main Event and became the last woman standing at spot 17, some noticed a change in her sponsorship patches: while she started out wearing Poker News gear, she ended her Main Event run in Ultimate Bet logos. Poker News issued a strongly worded statement regarding what they see as a breach of trust, while Michelle states she never had an exclusivity deal. Here are both sides of the story. Read more »
The WSOP has now come to a standstill, as the final table of the Main Event is finally determined. Now we all must wait for November 9 to find out who will win poker's most coveted prize and over $9 million. Read more »
What better way to kick one of the most notorious events in Las Vegas than with Wayne Newton? The singer was on hand yesterday to kick off the festivities at the 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. On hand with him was the Universiy of Nevada at Las Vegas marching band, who roused the field of 1,297 players as they settled in for a day of exciting poker. Read more »
While the Brasilia Room in the Rio Convention Center is far from a glamorous setting it served as the stage for yesterday's 2nd Annual Ante Up For Africa charity poker tournament. The event, co-hosted by Annie Duke and actor Don Cheadle drew a number of famous faces from both the poker world and Hollywood. Notable pros in attendance included Phil Hellmuth, Greg Raymer, Erik Seidel, and Howard Lederer and some of the non-poker celebrities included Ray Romano, Adam Sandler, Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Charles Barkley, and Jason Alexander. Read more »
The 2008 WSOP: By the Numbers In poker, it's all about the numbers. What percentage of the time do my opponents raise? How often will I flop a set with pocket sixes? What are the odds that the big blind will call if I put him all in? What are the odds that my opponent makes her flush on the turn? How often will the board pair on the river? Questions like these go through a poker player's head constantly. It's the key to winning and the key to losing. The 2008 World Series of Poker has been a winning endeavor for Harrah's and for the players involved. Let's take a look at some of the key stats from one of the most successful tournament series in history. Read more »
2007 Main Event Champion Jerry Yang got Day 1b underway with a speech along with the customary "Shuffle up and deal!" as 1,158 players began play on Friday. The field was smaller than day 1a, as was expected with it being July 4th. Americans, along with players from countries all over the world, wore flags in their caps provided by the staff to celebrate the holiday. Read more »
As if millions of dollars on the line weren't enough, the WSOP also offers a Milwaukee's Best Light Player of the Year award to one person during each World Series of Poker. This is typically someone who has dominated play throughout the entire tournament schedule. In hold'em, points are awarded based on a person's finish, with 100 points going to the first place finisher, 75 to the second place finisher, 60 to the third place finisher, and continuing down to five points just for cashing. Different point structures exist for different types of poker. Play is only tracked during the Las Vegas WSOP (the WSOP Europe and Circuit Events do not count). The Main Event, Seniors Event, Ladies Event, and the Casino Employees tournament do not count. With that in mind, let's take a look at the top finishers in the 2008 Player of the Year standings. Read more »
One of the staples of World Series of Poker tournaments are marathon matches. I remember covering the 2006 World Series of Poker Main Event (the year that Jamie Gold won). Play would start every day around noon and wrap up 16-17 hours later. The next day, everyone would stumble back to the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino to start all over again. In shootout events, advancing through the tournaments works slightly differently. Instead of collapsing tables, each step in the process becomes the equivalent of a sit and go tournament. If you win your table, you move on. If you don't, you're knocked out of the tournament. There were 823 entrants into Event 53 of the 2008 WSOP, a $1,500 Limit Shootout tournament. In the end, Matt Graham defeated Jean-Robert Bellande to take home his first WSOP bracelet. Read more »
Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi was unable to make history Monday evening. Mizrachi was attempting to claim victory in the same event that his brother Rob won last year, the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship, but his goal fell short as took home third place for $331, 279. Read more »
J.C. Tran finally accomplished Monday night the one thing that had avoided him during his professional poker career: He earned his first World Series of Poker bracelet. Read more »
Besides the Main Event, all eyes at the World Series of Poker gaze with fascination towards the $50,000 buy-in HORSE Championship. This five-day event has become a staple of the WSOP since its introduction in 2006. With a buy-in that is five times the size of the Main Event's price tag, the $50K HORSE event at the 2008 World Series of Poker attracted a field of 148 players. Making the eight-man final table was a lineup of elite poker players. In the end, Scotty Nguyen took down his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet, emerging victorious in one of the most heralded events in WSOP history. Read more »
After five grueling days of play, the $50,000 HORSE has finally crowned a champion who will be the inaugural recipient of the David "Chip" Reese Memorial trophy. The final table kicked off at 3pm and, fifteen hours later, only one man, Scotty Nguyen, was left standing. Nguyen began the day second in chips and remained towards the top of the leader board all day. Along the way to his victory, Nguyen knocked out Barry Greenstein in 6th place, Matt Glantz in 4th place, and Erick Lindgren in 3rd place. Read more »
After four lengthy days of play, the $50,000 HORSE final table was set late last night with the elimination of Ralph Perry in 9th place. Erick Lindgren is the chip leader going into the final table today with 3.85 million, but Scotty Nguyen is not far behind with 3.55 million. Read more »
