The WSOP has concluded until November with the final table all ready and waiting with anticipation to find out who will be crowned this years World Series of Poker Main Event winner. So who are the November Nine? 1. Darvin Moon Darvin Moon is the current chip leader. He resides from Maryland and owns a small logging company. If Moon was to go on to win the WSOP, it would Read More ...
Day 1a of the WSOPE Main Event saw 156 players take to the poker tables, including some of the biggest names in the poker world: Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Vanessa Rousso, and Patrik Antonius. There were no shortage of casualties on day 1a, which saw the like of Hoyt Corkins, Robert Mizrachi, Vanessa Rousso, Huck Seed, Phil Ivey, and Andy Bloch among others eliminated. Even with the loss Read More ...
After day 1a attracted a respectable 156 players, the WSOPE was hoping for the typical larger turnout for day 1b. However, the second flight for the WSOPE Main Event had a good, but underwhelming 178 entrants. In all, the tournament had a total of 334 players; each of whom parted with the $14,000+ buy-in. Of those 334 players, 186 players remain when play resumes today at 5:30 pm –the delay Read More ...
After completing their second day of play, the WSOPE Main Event is down to 92 players. Day 3 action will kick off at noon, with the remaining participants playing down to 36 –which happens to be the number of players who will reach the money. Day 2 saw a lot of high-profile casualties including: Howard Lederer, Erik Seidel, Phil Hellmuth, David Williams, Mike Matusow, and Barry Greenstein. But fear not, Read More ...
When play resumes at noon today, poker fans will be greeted by a star-studded final table that includes two World Series of Poker ‘November Nine’ members (Antoine Saout and James Akenhead), the founder of Cardplayer Magazine whose son Jeff is another member of the ‘November Nine’ (Barry Schulman), a Poker Hall of Fame nominee (Daniel Negreanu), and one of the top up-and-coming poker players in the world (Jason Mercier). The Read More ...
After a long, back-and-forth heads-up battle, Cardplayer owner Barry Shulman came away victorious at the WSOPE Main Event. The victory marks Shulman’s second WSOP title, the first coming in 2001 when he captured the $1,500 7-Card-Stud hi/lo bracelet. Negreanu battled all day long, and had a few chances to win the tournament: Most notably when he and Shulman were both all-in on the flop; Negreanu holding pocket Aces for an Read More ...
The WSOP & Harrah’s Entertainment have released the completed schedule for the 2009-2010 WSOP Circuit series. Over the next 8 months the tour will take up residence at eleven different Harrah’s-owned properties across the USA, starting the series with a visit to the always popular Horseshoe Hammond (Indiana) Chicago in October 2009, and rounding off the whole series with it’s regular final WSOPC stop in New Orleans, for almost 14 Read More ...
There are quite a few changes in store for anyone checking out the 2010 WSOP schedule: The tournament series will still feature 57 tournaments, but there seems to be a new emphasis on lower buy-in, and larger buy-in events. * The $50k HORSE tournament has been replaced with the $50k Players Championship –an 8-game mix featuring a final table of strictly No Limit Holdem—which will put the event with the Read More ...
If you’re like me you probably don’t feel like waiting around until Tuesday night to see ESPN’s telecast of the WSOP final table. Fortunately there are several websites who will be bringing you live updates: * The Full Tilt Poker pros have set up a page where you will not only get live updates, but will also see “tweets” from the many Tilters who use twitter. Full Tilt WSOP Coverage Read More ...
has announced they will once again be running an invitation-only tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker. This will mark the first time since 2006 that the WSOP will feature the Tournament of Champions, but unlike the three previous TOC’s the 2010 version will take place in the midst of the World Series of Poker festivities. Harrah’s is putting up the entire $1 million prize-pool –with $500,000 going to Read More ...
