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Each year the final table of the World Series of Poker brings together an interesting mix of poker players, and 2011 is no different in that regard. With three top US Poker Pros; four, young, talented, international players that are looking to make a name for themselves; and two older, yet seemingly more inexperienced, players [...]

Each year the final table of the World Series of Poker brings together an interesting mix of poker players, and 2011 is no different in that regard. With three top US Poker Pros; four, young, talented, international players that are looking to make a name for themselves; and two older, yet seemingly more inexperienced, players [...]

Each year the final table of the World Series of Poker brings together an interesting mix of poker players, and 2011 is no different in that regard. With three top US Poker Pros; four, young, talented, international players that are looking to make a name for themselves; and two older, yet seemingly more inexperienced, players [...]

The 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event field lost a lot of its luster on Day 7 as Sebastian Ruthenberg, Steve Brecher, John Esposito, David Bach, David “Doc” Sands, Andrew “Foucault” Brokos, Erick Lindgren, Tony Hachem, JP Kelly, and the last woman standing Erika Moutinho all hit the rail on what turned out to [...]

After six very long days of play at the Rio, the remaining players in the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event are guaranteed a minimum payday of $130,997, but after outlasting nearly 6,800 other players I’m sure every remaining player has their eyes firmly affixed to the $8.7 million prize that will go to [...]

After dominating play on Saturday, David Bach is quietly cementing his place as one of the top tournament players in the world at the 2011 World Series of Poker. The 2009 $50k HORSE Champion hasn’t added to his bracelet total on 2011, but he has finished 14th, 2nd and 3rd in tournaments as well as [...]

The 853 players that started Day 4 of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event reached the money fairly early on in the day when Reza Keshani ran his flush draw into 2010 3rd place finisher Joseph Cheong’s flopped set, which turned into quads on the river, and with Keshani’s elimination the remaining players [...]

In the few years since I switched from playing poker as a source of income to writing about poker as a source of income I have probably penned at least a dozen articles on this theme, and the remarkable thing is that each time I do, the advice changes! Whether this is because poker is [...]

Every World Series of Poker sees a number of players come out of nowhere, or rise from the ashes of poker purgatory, but there is also the other side of the coin, with a number of players who come into the WSOP with huge expectations heaped upon them -sometimes self-imposed– that fail to deliver. While [...]

Every World Series of Poker sees a number of players come out of nowhere, or rise from the ashes of poker purgatory, but there is also the other side of the coin, with a number of players who come into the WSOP with huge expectations heaped upon them -sometimes self-imposed– that fail to deliver. While [...]