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The first 46 events of the 2013 World Series of Poker were relatively uneventful, with only the Millionaire Maker and the Seniors Tournament generating any kind of buzz of their own, but over the course of the final 15 or so tournaments of the WSOP it’s going to be one big day after another. Beginning […]

Team Canada is putting together one of the most impressive performances of any country not named the United States in World Series of Poker history. The contingent of poker pros that crossed the northern border with the US to play in the WSOP have now won nine bracelets in 39 tournaments at the 2013 WSOP, […]

The 2013 World Series of Poker has seen a resurgence of sorts for a number of players that dominated the game during the Poker Boom years, but have fallen off the map a bit in the past few years. The names that have collected WSOP bracelets this year pretty much say it all, Mike Matusow, […]

Three WSOP Bracelets were won on Thursday night, including one by former WSOP Player of the Year Erick Lindgren (his second career bracelet) as well as a 21 year-old WSOP rookie winning bracelet #1 of his career. Here is a quick rundown of the three events that concluded on Thursday-night/Friday-morning. Event #32: $5k No Limit […]

Only 22 players in the 44-year history of the World Series of Poker have won five or more bracelets, and David Chiu has now joined that illustrious group. Chiu, whose last bracelet win at the WSOP came back in 2005, won the $2,500 Seven Card Stud tournament over the weekend, to go along with his […]

Below you will find a rundown of the first 20 bracelet winners at the 2013 WSOP, as well as a few notes on some of the more interesting players who have captured WSOP gold in 2013. Event #1: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em — Chad Holloway $84,915 Chad is a well-liked tournament reporter (his official […]

We are about a third of the way through the 2013 World Series of Poker so I thought it would be a good time to reflect upon the first 20 tournaments of this year’s WSOP and see what trends have started to develop, and offer up my thoughts on a few of the things that […]

Poker is a high variance game, so what Mike Matusow did this weekend at the 2013 World Series of Poker is something along the lines of Babe Ruth calling his home-run shot. Matusow was making a deep-run in the $5k Seven Card Stud 8-or-better tournament when Cardplayer Magazine published an interview with “The Mouth” where […]

We’ve now seen 11 World Series of Poker bracelets handed out at the 2013 WSOP tournament series taking place in Las Vegas, and aside from a fun ending to event #1 it’s been a rather ho-hum WSOP up to this point. We have seen a few “name” players pickup some WSOP hardware though: Trevor Pope […]

Some days the action at the World Series of Poker is fast and furious, with four or five events taking place at the same time and multiple bracelets being awarded. And so it was on Tuesday, as three WSOP bracelets were won yesterday, including the conclusion of the Millionaire Maker tournament. Benny Chen wins Millionaire […]