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After Day 1a of the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event drew a strong, but unimpressive field of 1,125 poker players, Day 1b of the Main Event saw a total of 1,489 players take to the poker tables at the Rio. However, attendance is way up over last year’s numbers of 1,116 and 873 [...]

The preliminary events are over, and the Main Event is underway, which means that the hardcore poker fans are no longer the only people interested in the 2010 World Series of Poker.  The Main Event will take 12 days to play down to the final table -the final table participants will then reconvene in November [...]

Dan Kelly started the 2010 WSOP in a heated battle with three other top online poker players for the 7th spot on the Brunson 10, a group that will represent the popular online Poker Room Doyles Room and eventually consist of a total of 10 of the best young Poker Pros in the world.
Going into [...]

Fourth of July weekend at the Rio was spent wrapping up any preliminary events that were underway so the Pavilion can be made ready for the real World Series of Poker to begin; the Main Event! The preliminary events didn’t just go softly into the night on Sunday, we not only had a player win [...]

This will be another update that is a little bit all over the place since I’m writing this as tournaments are in progress on Sunday; most notably the Tournament of Champions which has seen Daniel Negreanu shoot out to 1st place with 10 players left in contention. We also saw a huge win from Dan [...]

Since I’ve already done an in-depth update on the $25k 6-Handed No Limit Holdem tournament this recap will focus on the $10k PLO Championship that is also finishing up today. In the other action at the WSOP yesterday the $2,500 NLHE tournament got underway, and Brendan Taylor outlasted Poker Pros Jonathan Little, Mike Schneider and [...]

And then there were six! The final table for the $25,000 buy-in 6-handed No Limit Holdem tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker is set, and while the finalists may not be the biggest names in poker, they are highly recognizable to serious poker fans.

1. Dan Kelly, 5.895 million chips - Kelly, known online [...]

As the 2010 World Series of Poker inches closer to the Main Event, players are starting to realize that another year of what could be called the “Craziest Month in Sports” is coming to a close. Only one tournament other than the Main Event has yet to begin, and that kicks off today.
Event #51: $3,000 [...]

One of the more interesting tournaments got underway yesterday, the $25,000 buy-in 6-max No Limit holdem event, which Daniel Negreanu expects to be a coming out for party for a number of big-time online poker players.  Also in action were the Limit Holdem Shootout, and the Triple Chance No Limit Holdem which played down to [...]

After taking a day off from my recap duties yesterday to spout my thoughts and opinions on the 2010 World Series of Poker I realized why I have been doing daily recaps: The action adds up quick! So, today there will be two recaps, the first one for the three events that concluded yesterday, and [...]