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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 [...]

With 2,031 poker player returning to the Rio for Day 2a on Monday fans around the Rio were able to watch some of the biggest stars in the poker world -as well as from the NBA and television-compete for poker’s biggest prize.
Among the players in action on Monday were Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, 2009 WSOP [...]

Fear not poker players, Black Friday proved nothing more than a minor bump in the road at the 2011 World Series of Poker. Preliminary event attendance was up overall, and it didn’t matter if it was $10k Championships, or $1k Stimulus tournaments, the pros and casual players all turned up for the WSOP.
With preliminary event [...]

Here is a look at the last 29 bracelet winners of the 2011 World Series of Poker along with some key highlights from the tournaments.
*BOLD marks Championship events*

Event #29: $2,500 10-Game Mix / Six Handed - WINNER Chris Lee, $254,955
Event #30: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship - WINNER James Hess, $557,435

Hess became the [...]

Here is a look at the first 28 bracelet winners of the 2011 World Series of Poker along with some key highlights from the tournaments.
*BOLD marks Championship events*

Event #1: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em -WINNER Sean Drake, $82,292
Event #2: $25,000 Heads Up No-Limit Hold’em Championship- WINNER Jake Cody, $851,192

Cody became the third Triple [...]

Black Friday was supposed to decimate the attendance numbers of the 2011 World Series of Poker, and thus far there has been scant evidence of anything having changed in the poker world considering the 2011 WSOP numbers have INCREASED over last year. However, even the most optimistic amongst are not expecting the 2011 World Championship [...]

With the Main Event set to kick-off today what better way to lead into it than to have one of the greatest final tables in poker history finish up the night before. The $50k Players Championship could go down as the talk of the 2011 WSOP after last night’s proceedings!
Event #54: $1,000 No Limit Holdem, [...]

All 57 preliminary tournaments at the 2011 World Series of Poker are now underway, leaving the Main Event as the only tournament to be played. On Tuesday the final table was reached in Event #54, a $1k NLHE tournament, as well as in the $50k Players Championship.
Event #54: $1,000 No Limit Holdem, Day 3
Team PokerStars [...]

With just two tournaments in action at the 2011 WSOP on the Fourth of July Holiday -and neither awarding a bracelet-I’ll once more deviate from my daily WSOP wrap-up and use today’s post to talk about a few improvements I would like to see implemented in the future at the WSOP.
#1 — Change the value [...]

With only three tournaments in action you would have expected the WSOP to have had a fairly low-key day on Sunday, but with a man at the final table of the Ladies Championship, the second largest preliminary event field in the history of the WSOP, and the $50k Players Championship making up those three tournaments [...]