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Hellmuth Shows Up Late for Day 2A

During the early stages of day 2A, 11-time World Series of Poker champion Phil Hellmuth was absent from his seat and his short stack was being blinded off. Apparently, he had no idea he was scheduled to play on Monday. Friend and fellow poker pro Mike Matusow came to Hellmuth’s aide, having security wake Hellmuth […]

Full Tilt Poker Woes Prompt British Legal Reform

The British Government is to review how overseas online gambling operators, including poker sites, are regulated in light of the recent troubles experienced by Full Tilt Poker when Alderney Gambling Control Commission suspended the site’s license to operate, shutting the site down and suspending player funds. The move is being spearheaded by Culture Secretary Jeremy […]

The Poker Farm Goes Poolside at World Series of Poker

The World Series of Poker main event is underway and poker fans can keep up-to-date with all the latest news, views, and gossip via a new daily video blog, Poolside at the WSOP, with Jesse May and Rury Mason. The irreverent show features a mix of player news, timely statistics, and lots of laughs with […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 1D Recap

Day 1D at the 2011 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event attracted the largest number of players of the four first-flight days offered with 2,809 runners. That ensured a total number of entrants of 6,865. This created a prize pool of more than $64,531,000, with the winner walking away with $8,711,956 for […]

$8.7 Million To WSOP Winner

It has been announced that the 2011 World Series of Poker main event has attracted a total of 6,865 entrants, creating a prize pool of more than $64 million, with the winner walking away with $8.7 million of the total purse. Despite this summer’s turnout marking a 454 player drop-off from last year, the 2011 […]

TPE Analyzes Hand By Wolak

Card Player has teamed up with the great minds from Tournament Poker Edge to bring you top-notch hand analysis from key hands during the World Series of Poker. This time around, we’ll take a look at a hand played by eventual Ladies Event champion Marsha Wolak, who defeated seasoned pro Karina Jett heads up to […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 1C Chip Counts

Of the 2,181 players who bought into day 1C of the 2011 World Series of Poker main event, just 1,471 of them survived. Kevin Song bagged up with the most chips, building his stack to 163,325, but he’s still way behind day 1A chip leader Fred Berger (209,500) and day 1B chip leader Ben Lamb […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 1C Recap

With just 1,875 entrants registered in the first two starting days of the 2011 World Series of Poker main event, many began to wonder if Black Friday had indeed had a bigger effect on the poker world than originally anticipated. Instead, day 1C drew an impressive 2,181 players and tournament officials have already confirmed that […]

WSOP: Celtics Star Paul Pierce

NBA star Paul Pierce is one of the 2,181 who took a seat on day 1C of the 2011 main event. Nearing the end of the day, the 33-year-old poker enthusiast had a stack of more than 70,000, and was in good shape to survive to continue the grind on day 2A. Card Player caught […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

Recently Twitter has been overloaded with a constant stream of the poker world’s progress in the World Series of Poker main event. Bad beats and angry bust out comments seem to be the tweets de jour. Aside from that, congratulations have been going out to recent WSOP bracelet winner Nick Binger. Binger simply tweeted, “I […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 1B Chip Counts

Here are the official chip counts counts for all of the 616 players who survived on Day 1B of the main event at the 2011 World Series of Poker. They will return to action on Day 2B on Tuesday, July 12. They will be joined by the survivors from Day 1D at that time. Cards […]

Hasan Anter Wins $1,500 NLH

Hasan Anter won the final $1,500 event of the summer on Friday, after outlasting a huge field of 3,389 to take home $777,928 in prize money. With his first bracelet, Anter becomes the first Scandinavian champion this summer. Amusingly, the 22-year-old poker pro won the final of the tournament with a royal flush to send […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 1B Recap

Day 1B at the 2011 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship is in the books and from the 985 players who entered 616 have survived. Those players from Day 1B will join the survivors from Day 1D on Tuesday, July 12. Cards get into the air for Day 1C at noon on Saturday […]

Nick Binger Wins $5,000 PLO/8

Nick Binger has won the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi/Low Split at the 2011 World Series of Poker. The poker pro put the finishing touches on his deep run on Friday afternoon. Binger had to outlast a tough field of 352 players and a final table that included the likes of Allen Kessler, Nick Schulman, Phil […]

WSOP Prelim Numbers Part IV

The full run of preliminary bracelet events is now in the books at the 2011 World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and total participation in the 57 events that preceded Event No. 58 ($10,000 no-limit hold’em main event) stands at 65,355. Thirty two of 48 preliminary events that […]

Bad Beat Jackpot Over €1 Million at Paradise Poker

The world record bad beat jackpot has passed €1 million at ParadisePoker.com. A spokesman for the network said, “When the Bad Beat jackpot hits, there must be at least four players sitting at the table for it to be valid. Winning a massive amount of money by losing a big hand is what the IPN […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 1A Chip Counts

Here are the official chip counts counts for all of the 556 players who survived on Day 1A of the main event at the 2011 World Series of Poker. They will return to action on Day 2A on Monday, July 11. They will be joined by the survivors from Day 1C at that time. Cards […]

WSOP Main Event: Day 1A Recap

Day 1A at the 2011 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em championship is in the books and from the 897 players who entered on the first possible day of the event 556 have survived. Those players from Day 1A will join the survivors from Day 1B on Monday, July 11. Cards get into the […]

Victor Chandler European Masters of Poker Freeroll Tonight

Victor Chandler Poker hosts its fourth European Masters of Poker Iron Man freeroll tonight, Friday July 8 at 20:15 CET. Online poker player need just 50 VIP Points to enter the tournament which has one guaranteed package to the Irish event worth €2,000 and including EMOP main event buy in, four nights accommodation, and €350 […]

Party Poker Offers Old Trafford Poker Experience

The Grand Series of Poker rocks up to Old Trafford football stadium, home to Manchester United from August 2 to 6 and online poker players can now win a package worth $3,600 at PartyPoker.com. Online qualifiers, including daily freerolls, are running until July 16 with the main weekly satellite taking place every Sunday at 18:20 […]

ME Day 1A: Brutal Table Draw

For most professionals on one of the four starting days of the main event, the first table is a chance to play against less experienced opponents and build up a stack for day two. However, there are always a few tables out there that can deviate from the norm. Here on day 1A of the […]

Brunson Kicks Off WSOP Main Event

With Doyle Brunson’s legendary words of “Shuffle Up and Deal,” the 2011 World Series of Poker main event officially kicked off on Thursday. Nearly 1,000 players were in attendance for the first of four starting days in the Amazon Room at the Rio, though that number is sure to climb as registration remains open for […]

Viktor Blom Crushes SuperStar Showdown

Swedish online wizard Viktor Blom took a 9-2 in the ongoing PokerStars.com SuperStar Showdown last weekend with a convincing victory over Terje “Terken89” Augdal. Blom scooped Augdal’s $150,000 bankroll in just 1,500 of the 2,500 hands allowed in the game which was a mix of no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha. He lost $10,000 in the […]

WSOP: Rast Wins, Hellmuth Denied

A casual observer may take a glance at Phil Hellmuth’s 2011 World Series of Poker and be impressed with his five cashes, three final table appearances and nearly $1.6 million in earnings, but Hellmuth himself will only be disappointed with the fact that three times he made it to heads-up play and three times he […]

WSOP: Main Event Begins Thursday

The biggest event of the poker year is upon us once again. Cards will get into the air in the $10,000 no-limit hold’em world championship on Thursday, July 7 at the 2011 World Series of Poker at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. The main event will welcome thousands of players to the […]

Maxim Lykov Wins WSOP $1k NLHE

It wasn’t quite a wire-to-wire victory, but Maxim Lykov did what a final table chip leader should do and used his well-earned ammunition to claim his first World Series of Poker bracelet in event no. 54, the last $1,000 no-limit hold’em event of the summer. The Russian pro defeated 2,644 players over the course of […]

AGA Won't Support Barton’s Bill

Frank Fahrenkopf, President and CEO of the American Gaming Association, has said that his organization will not support Rep. Joe Barton’s (R-Texas) Internet Gambling Prohibition, Poker Consumer Protection, and Strengthening UIGEA Act of 2011, and instead will continue with plans to introduce its own version of a federal online poker bill this fall, according to […]

New Players at Victor Chandler Get Poker Freerolls

Victor Chandler Poker is offering €20,000 across two freerolls this month for new players who sign up at the site. Players simply need to join and deposit using the bonus code TILT1000. Those who do so before July 17 will play a €10,000 freeroll on July 18 while those who sign up between July 18 […]

World Series of Poker Betting at Matchbook.com

Online betting exchange Matchbook.com is offering over 30 betting markets on the World Series of Poker main event which gets underway on Thursday and is giving depositors’ at the site the chance to sweat over 30 players with a chance to win free cash if they make the final table. Anyone who makes a minimum […]

WSOP: $50K Player's Champ. Day 4

Only nine players remain in the 2011 $50,000 WSOP Player’s Championship, after play wrapped up at almost 6 a.m. local time at the Rio Hotel and Casino. With just one elimination away from the official final table of eight, action was paused and will resume Wednesday afternoon. The money bubble burst in the middle of […]