Poker

WSOP’s Finest Out to Prove They’re the Best in $50,000 Poker Players Championship

The World Series of Poker’s (WSOP) $50,000 Poker Players Championship got underway on July 6 with 93 entries being collected on the first day. The $50,000 Poker Players Championship was added to the WSOP’s schedule in...

WSOP POY Race Set For an Explosive Finale As Chris Ferguson Sits in Second Place

With the World Series of Poker (WSOP) heading into the home straight, fans and players alike are now looking to a potentially explosive end to the Player of the Year (POY) race. Every year, as the WSOP is nearing an end,...

Non-Hold’em Action at the WSOP Sees One Player Win Without Knowing the Rules

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has just passed the halfway mark and the non-Hold’em events are now starting to pique the interests of players. Although the biggest Hold’em event of all is yet to come, those with a...

WSOP’s Poker Hall of Fame Open for Nominations

Nominations for the 2017 Poker Hall of Fame are now open and fans are being asked to submit their picks via the World Series of Poker’s (WSOP) official ballot page. As has been the case in previous years, the first stage of...

WSOP Halfway Point Report: Records Fall as 24,000+ Players Ante-Up

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has reached its halfway point and, so far, the vital statistics make for positive reading. When the Department of Justice (DOJ) shutdown PokerStars, Full Tilt and Absolute Poker on April 15, 2011,...

Record-Breaking Seniors Could Push WSOP Main Event to New Heights

The Seniors event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has not only crowned a winner in recent days but broken another record. 2017 seems to be the year of record-breaking No Limit Hold’em fields and the Seniors event has...

WSOP Player of the Year Race Heating Up

The 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is fast approaching the halfway mark and that means the Player of the Year race is starting to heat up. In 2016, Jason Mercier was the runaway winner of the WSOP Player of the Year title...

WSOP Weekly Round-Up: Mariz is the Big Winner as Millionaire Maker Concludes

Another week at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is over and looking back at the highlights it’s been another successful few days inside the Rio, Las Vegas. The biggest story of the week came courtesy of Event #20, the...

WSOP Marathon Proves Not All Bracelet Events Need to be a Sprint

The latest innovation from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) got underway recently, and the concept appears gone down well with the masses. When the WSOP announced its 2017 schedule, it did so with a number of new tournaments. One...

WSOP Breaking Records Despite Legionnaires’ Disease at the Rio

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is still pulling in big numbers despite two reports of Legionnaires’ disease stemming from stays at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas. Players at the WSOP are used to dealing...