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The 2010 World Series of Poker is reaching its closing act this week, after which the REAL WSOP begins: The Main Event! Since there was very little earth-shattering news coming out of the Rio yesterday, I’m going to change up the recap format today and just give more of a running commentary and thoughts on [...]

It’s not uncommon for a tournament to throw event officials a minor curveball every now and then, but the pitch the Tournament of Champions delivered to WSOP officials was one of the nastiest 12-to-6 breaking balls of all-time! So, here is what went down:
Tournament of Champions
The plan from the start was for the 27 participants [...]

As if the Tournament of Champions wasn’t going to bring enough drama and terrific play, there was some very interesting table draws on Day 1 of the tournament, a lot of table talk, as well as a very inebriated -but pleasant-Scotty Nguyen.
Storyline #1: Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow start at the same table. Well we’ve [...]

I’m not sure if the poker gods were smiling at the TOC yesterday, but it’s a certainty that the gods of uncomfortable and irony would be making an appearance -sitting Annie Duke and Daniel Negreanu next to each other. Duke and Negreanu have a long history with one another; a history that has bubbled over [...]

This was the final weekend of tournaments before the Main Event kicks off next Monday -Next Saturday is the Ante Up for Africa tournament, followed by an off-day on Sunday-saw the action heat up once again as one poker pro tries to get off the World Series of Poker schnide, while the biggest names in [...]

1 online poker qualifier; 1 WSOP Academy satellite winner; 3 former TOC champions; the reigning WSOP and WSOPE champions; and 20 of poker biggest stars voted on by the fans. This is the makeup for the 2010 Tournament of Champions at the World Series of Poker which kicks off at noon from the Rio in [...]

A surprising finish in the HORSE tournament was the talk of Day 29 at the 201 World Series of Poker. The final 10 Players in the $10k HORSE Championship included names such as Richard Ashby, Eugene Katchalov, Carlos Mortensen, Matt Glantz, Scott Fischman, Brian Townsend, Nick Schulman and Marco Traniello, but in the end it [...]

Yesterday saw one bracelet awarded, and no, it wasn’t given to Phil Hellmuth! Yesterday’s tournaments were in the play-down stage, with the $1,500 NLHE and $10k HORSE Championship getting down to three tables. To cap off a fairly uneventful day at the World Series of Poker only one tournament began yesterday, the Mixed Holdem event.
Event [...]

With the Main Event growing nearer every day players are starting to realize that the 2010 World Series of Poker is starting to wind down -which means the action is heating up-and much like when a playoff team loses their final game, it’s a long wait until next year.
In Part 1 I took a look [...]

Wednesday was an interesting day at the 2010 World Series of Poker with a number of tournaments finishing up, and a number of tournaments working their way down to the final tables. The stories going into Day 27 of the WSOP were Annette Obrestad’s deep run in the No Limit Holdem Shootout, original November Nine [...]