We’re coming into the final quarter of the 2023 Player of the Year races on the tournament poker circuit, and it looks as if the major leaderboards have become a two-man race. While Bin Weng has asserted himself to take over the lead on both boards, “Nacho” Barbero has been able to keep close to… Read more »
Quite some time ago – in fact, it was one of the first articles I ever wrote as a poker journalist – I talked about how the current tournament poker world was beginning to encroach on itself. At that time, the World Poker Tour and the World Series of Poker were beginning to square off… Read more »
If you thought activities for the World Series of Poker concluded with Daniel Weinman’s victory in July, you would be highly mistaken. Of course, there is the upcoming WSOP-Europe scheduled for October in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, but another event will start tomorrow that will draw poker players together. Sunday marks the start of the 2023… Read more »
The other day (and don’t ask how these things enter my mind), I started thinking about how people go about poker training nowadays. What happened was I started thinking about an old poker program that I used to have, Donahoe Digital’s Tournament Poker (otherwise known as DD Tournament Poker), and whether I could still use… Read more »
Looking to capitalize on the momentum of the just-ended World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Caesars Entertainment has announced a new WSOP in the Bahamas. Called “WSOP Paradise,” the series at Atlantis Paradise Island will run December 3-14. Partnering with GGPoker, the World Series of Poker will dole out 15 official gold bracelets at… Read more »
One hand changed everything Atlanta’s Daniel Weinman is the new champion of the poker world, winning the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event in a quick, two-hour final day. The Georgia Tech grad won the biggest prize in Main Event history, $12.1 million, triumphing over a field of 10,043 players, far and away the… Read more »
We will know who the newest World Series of Poker Main Event champion is later tonight or, if it goes like some final days have gone, tomorrow morning. Just three players – Steven Jones, Daniel Weinman, and Adam Walton – remain, battling it out for astronomical prize money. It’s anyone’s bracelet at this point. Jones… Read more »
Those remaining in the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event can look at things one of two ways: a) they need to outlast 140 more players to make the final table, or b) survive three more days. Either way, as close as the 149 players are to the promised land, they are still very… Read more »
More than 1,000 players were eliminated on Monday in the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event as the money bubble burst and the field was whittled to just 441 players. Now, a 441-entrant tournament is still a large contest, but it is as far cry from the 10,043 players who began the Main… Read more »
All of the surviving players from the different Day 2 flights came together in a unified field on Sunday for Day 3 of the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. When the night came to a close, 1,517 of the record-breaking 10,043 players remained, with Antonio Mallol Heredia leading the way with 1,899,000… Read more »
Two starting flights down, two to go. The 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event is halfway through its four Day 1s and it is still Day 1A’s Yehuda Dayan who enjoys the chip lead, advancing to Day 2A with 389,900 chips. Nobody from Day 1B eclipsed the 300,000-chip mark, but several ended the night… Read more »
The World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off on Monday as more than 1,000 hopefuls paid the $10,000 to participate in the most famous poker tournament on Earth. Tournament organizers have been confident all year that this one will break the 2006 record of 8,776 entrants. Last year’s Main Event came within 100 of… Read more »
Tamar Abraham Wins $1,000 Ladies Event Winning your first World Series of Poker bracelet is special. Winning it in against a historically large field is even better. That’s what Tamar Abraham did Sunday, grabbing the crown in the $1,000 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship. With 1,295 players, it was the largest field in the event’s history,… Read more »
Chris Brewer got emotional a couple weeks ago when he won his first-ever World Series of Poker bracelet after years of coming close. With the “one of the best to never win one” title shed, perhaps he was a little more relaxed, as this past weekend, he won his second, taking the crown in Event… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth has done it again. In one of the top moments of the 2023 World Series of Poker, the 1989 World Champion once again etched his name into the record books, winning his seventeenth WSOP bracelet in Event #72, the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold’em tournament. At a table that included another… Read more »
Canadian Lonnie Hallett foiled those who were looking to witness history Monday, as he defeated Poker Hall of Famer Billy Baxter heads-up to win the 2023 World Series of Poker $1,000 Seniors Event. It was history-making for Hallett, though, as it marked the first gold bracelet win of his career and a $765,731. Hallett went… Read more »
This afternoon, Caesars Entertainment and World Series of Poker officials announced the eleven people who are the nominees for induction into the Poker Hall of Fame. The 2023 class is split almost equally between players who have had a long history on the felt versus those who have contributed from off the velvet baize. It… Read more »
Ashton looking to join elite club The $10,000 Main Event is the most famous poker tournament at the World Series of Poker (and in poker, in general), but the most prestigious event just may be the $50,000 Poker Players Championship. It is called a championship for poker players, after all. With the sky-high buy-in and… Read more »
Cheating allegations getting serious You can always count on there being some sort of controversy every year at the World Series of Poker. The 2023 edition has been fairly clean, that is, until this past weekend, when multiple poker pros accused Martin Kabrhel of marking cards during the $250,000 High Roller event. Now the WSOP… Read more »
Ben Lamb ran through an absolutely stacked final table on Tuesday to win his second career World Series of Poker bracelet, taking the title in Event #25: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship. For the win, Lamb cashed for nearly half a million dollars. Poker is a funny game in that luck plays as… Read more »
If poker is your business, then business has been pretty good over the last week. The 2023 World Series of Poker has been doing some brisk business, seventeen events into the schedule, and several bracelets have been handed out over the last couple of days. Here’s a quick look at who those fortunate recipients have… Read more »
The nomination period for the Poker Hall of Fame has begun. On Tuesday, the World Series of Poker made the nomination form available to the public on its website. While you can nominate anyone you would like, there is a set a criteria that must be met in order for that nominee to actually be… Read more »
At the World Series of Poker, the excitement comes from the quest for a gold bracelet. There is one event, however, where main thrill for many is not the final table or the bracelet: the $1,000 Mystery Millions event. And this year, there were not one, but two million-dollar bounty prizes, both won on Sunday.… Read more »
Less than a week into the 2023 World Series of Poker and we are already at the point where a million events overlap and it feels like there is a final table concluding every other minute. On the first Sunday of the WSOP, the schedule really came to a head as four gold bracelets were… Read more »
It is one of the largest poker tournaments in the history of the game. The $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop not only revolutionized the “High Roller” poker world but also upped the game for charitable works. Now the same game is coming back, albeit in a different venue, but it still should… Read more »
