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BetVictor Poker Four The Win Continues

The popular Four The Win promotion at BetVictor Poker continues this July. Sit ‘N’ Go players who win four turbo six-max tournaments in a row at the same staking level will win an additional cash payout for their achievement. At the €2 + €0.20 level winners will receive €200 while at €10 + €1 level […]

Topp To Continue Road Trip After Main Event

If poker can be an outlet for coping with personal loss, playing deep in the World Series of Poker Main Event is the stone-cold nuts. For nomadic poker player Marcy Topp, it also served as a way to continue her life on the road. The 53-year-old finished in 71st out of the 6,598-player field on […]

A Look At The Ladies Still In WSOP Main Event

There were only 211 women who entered the 2012 World Series of Poker main event, making up 3.2 percent of the 6,895 total entrants. Incredibly, here on the penultimate day of the summer, there are still four women in contention, two of whom currently reside in the top 10. With 78 players remaining in the […]

Many Notables Remain In Bellagio Cup Main Event

The $10,000 Bellagio Cup VIII main event kicked off on Friday, drawing 126 entrants and creating a total prize pool of $1,222,200. The winner will take home $408,444 and a seat into the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship in 2013. After two days of play, there are currently 45 players still remaining, 18 of which […]

Jamie Robbins: WSOP Final Table Or Bust

Jamie Robbins has been here before and he knows what it will take to make the World Series of Poker main event final table. Now he just has to actually do it. The 38-year-old former online pro from San Diego finished 11th in 2009, securing $896,730, the biggest payday of his career. But the day […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Pulls Into Bolton

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Bolton begins festivities today with a £30 + £5 no-limit hold’em rebuy main event super satellite at 7.30 p.m.. The G Casino in Bolton will see plenty of poker action from today, Jul. 15 until Jul. 23, with the £500 + £50 buy-in main event wedged in from Jul. […]

Qualify For International Poker Open Tonight

The International Poker Open (IPO) €200 + €30 buy-in main event is coming up this Oct. 19-21 at The Regency Hotel in Dublin, Ireland and players can satellite in this evening at Boylepoker.com. One seat token is guaranteed tonight, Sunday, with additional seats possible for every €230 that goes into the prize pool. The €20 […]

Less Than 100 Remain In WSOP Main Event

Less than 100 players remain out of the 6,598 who ponied up $10,000 to try to win the World Series of Poker Main Event — the tournament that grabs the most attention every year. All remaining players are inching closer to the $8.5 million top prize and a bracelet. Paul Volpe ended day 4 with […]

2012 WSOP Main Event Day 5 Chip Counts

2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Chip Counts End Of Day 4 Entrants: 6,598 total Players Remaining: 97 Average Chip Count: 2,040,618 First Place Prize: $8,527,982 Rank Player Name Chip Count 1 Kyle Keranen 6,935,000 2 Robert Salaburu 6,195,000 3 Taylor Paur 5,820,000 4 Erik Hellman 4,715,000 5 Wilfried Haerig 4,505,000 6 Shahriar Assareh […]

Nash Explains Decision To Skip WSOP Day 5

Despite the Main Event field shrinking on Saturday, the headline of the day was a recreational poker player electing to skip the day in order to observe the Sabbath. After repeated attempts at contacting Jarrett Nash in his Bellagio hotel room, he was finally reached. Contrary to an original source, the religion isn’t Judaism. Nash […]

Player Skips Main Event Day 5 For Religious Reason

Jarrett Nash, a 25-year-old poker player from Texas, entered the fifth day of play at the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event with a stack of more than 500,000. However, he didn’t show up because of the Jewish Sabbath, Card Player was told over the phone by his cousin. He blinded out in 171st […]

Poker Pros Don't Feel Pressure Of Main Event

The World Series of Poker main event has been running for a week now. The field has dwindled to just 225 players and each player can now start to see the $8,527,982 at the end of the tunnel. Looking around the room, it’s easy to spot the rookies making their first deep run at the […]

Partouche Poker Deepstack Underway In Aix En Provence

The Partouche Poker Deepstack is in full swing in Aix en Provence, southern France. Players sat down yesterday, Jul. 13, to a starting stack of 50,000 and blind levels of 60 minutes. The tournament will crown its champion at some point Sunday evening, Jul. 15. The €500 buy-in main event has a guaranteed prize pool […]

Genting Poker Series Breaks The £1 Million Mark

The Genting Poker Series has announced that it has, this season, become a £1 million series due to both popularity and guarantees. The first three legs in Birmingham, London, and Edinburgh saw prize pools of £146,000, £232,000, and £154,800 respectively, so this added with £500,000 in guaranteed prize pools in the remaining four legs means […]

Win Irish Winter Poker Festival Package Sunday

The Irish Winter Festival (IWF) will take place at Dublin’s Burlington Hotel from October 26 to 29 and tomorrow evening, Sunday, is a prime opportunity to qualify for its main event. Two packages worth €1,800 each are on offer at 8 p.m. at PaddyPowerPoker.com in a €130 + €10 buy-in no-limit hold’em freezeout satellite. Feeders […]

Three Former Finalists Eying Second Chance

Out of the 282 players remaining in the 2012 Main Event, three men each have a shot at making a once-in-a-lifetime experience redundant. Eric Buchman, Joseph Cheong and Sam Holden, who each outlasted massive fields in 2009, 2010 and 2011 respectively to make final tables, are still alive after Friday’s fourth day of play. Buchman, […]

2012 WSOP Main Event Day 4 Chip Counts

2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Chip Counts End Of Day 4 Entrants: 6,598 total Players Remaining: 282 Average Chip Count: 701,914 Rank Player Name Chip Count 1 Paul Volpe 2,750,000 2 Erik Hellman 2,216,000 3 Dave D’Alesandro 2,093,000 4 Kyle Bowker 2,081,000 5 Eric Buchman 2,076,000 6 Elisabeth Hille 2,014,000 7 Andras Koroknai […]

Joe Cheong Making Yet Another Deep Run In WSOP

Poker pro Joseph Cheong has played the World Series of Poker Main Event just four times, but in that span has finished 3rd, 114th and is still alive on Friday night with less than 400 left in the 2012 rendition. He had one of the bigger stacks in the room during the last level of […]

A Look At The WSOP Main Event Bubble

At $19,227, the World Series of Poker main event money bubble created quite a great deal of drama and anxiety on day 4. Depending on who you asked, the min-cash could either be life-changing money or merely a tool of intimidation used to acquire more chips. Entering the day as the second shortest stack in […]

2012 WSOP Main Event Day 3 Chip Counts

2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Chip Counts End Of Day 3 Entrants: 6,598 total Players Remaining: 720 Average Chip Count: 274,916 Download Day 3 Overnight Chip Counts Rank Player Name Chip Count 1 Dave D’Alesandro 1,100,000 2 Sean Rice 1,076,000 3 Jacob Balsiger 1,065,000 4 Leo Wolpert 1,003,500 5 Ben Greenberg 963,000 6 […]

Euro Poker Tweets Of The Week

The poker world got a little shock early this week when the legendary Doyle Brunson hit Twitter to say that he would not be making an appearance at this year’s World Series of Poker main event. On Jul. 8, @TexDolly wrote, “I’m not playing the main event because I’m really tired after 6 weeks of […]

Poker Going Strong In 888 Trading Update

888’s trading update for the full year ending December 31, 2012 contained good news with strong trading in the second half of 2011 continuing on into 2012, most of which can be boiled down to casino and poker. After making a one-off payment of €8.7 million to Spanish authorities to settle its back taxes, the […]

Vanessa Selbst Aggressive On WSOP Main Event Day 3

The third official day of play of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event has rearranged all the survivors gunning for the $8.5 million top prize into just a single room in the sprawling Convention Center at the Rio Hotel and Casino. About ten hours of play on Thursday left 720 standing out of […]

Nevada Gambling Revenue Sees Sharp Decline

The Nevada Gaming Control Board announced today that state gaming revenue had fallen by roughly 10 percent in May based on year-over-year comparisons. In 2011, casinos statewide brought in $984 million. This year, their take plummeted to $885.1 million. Strip casinos were hit the hardest, falling from $580.4 million to $475.1 million, accounting for all […]

POY Update: David 'ODB' Baker, Gregory Merson

After the busiest season of the year, the picture is starting to come into focus for the second half of the 2012 Card Player Player of the Year race, sponsored by Lock Poker. The preliminary events are all wrapped up and the main event is currently underway at the 2012 World Series of Poker. The […]

2012 WSOP Main Event Day 2 Chip Counts

2012 World Series of Poker Main Event Chip Counts End Of Day 2 Entrants: 6,598 total Players Remaining: 1,754 Average Chip Count: 112,850 All Day 2 Chip Counts Rank Player Name Chip Count 1 Gaelle Baumann 505,800 2 Mark Demirdjian 499,900 3 Shaun Deeb 460,900 4 Michael Hack 457,000 5 Marco Bognanni 452,100 6 Gerardo […]

Shuffle Master Pre-Approved For Gaming License

Wednesday, Jul. 11, saw the Nevada Gaming Control Board give Las Vegas head-quartered gaming group, Shuffle Master, preliminary approval for a gaming license. According to the Las Vegas Review Journal, Shuffle Master was considering its options for providing companies that become licensed to operate an intrastate Internet casino in Nevada with a business-to-business online poker […]

Irish Winter Poker Festival Seat On Offer Thursday

One Irish Winter Festival (IWF) main event seat will be given away this evening at PaddyPowerPoker.com. At 8 p.m. tonight (Thursday), the site is hosting an €80 + €8 no-limit hold’em freezeout with one €1,125 seat guaranteed for the popular IWF which will run from October 26 to 29 at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin, Ireland. […]

World Series of Poker Main Event: Day 2C

Day 2C of the 2012 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event has come to a close, with the 911 survivors set to combine with the 842 who made it through day 2AB on Thursday for day 3, marking the first time the remaining 1,753 competitors will play together. A number of notable […]

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Hits Bolton Next Week

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour will stop at the G Casino in Bolton from this coming Sunday, Jul. 15 to Jul. 23, and for the second time only this year, the Tour’s main event will be in a six-max format. The £500 + £50 buy-in main event plays out from Jul. 20-22 and players begin […]