by Rafael Guerrero | Published: Jul 03, '09

Matt “Hoss_TBF” Hawrilenko can now call himself a million-dollar man after winning Event No. 56 ($5,000 no-limit hold’em six-handed). The penultimate event of the 2009 World Series of Poker saw only the third million-dollar payout of this year’s WSOP go to Hawrilenko. With 12 previous WSOP cashes, number 13 proved to be the lucky one […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Apr 24, '09

The sixth day of play at the 2009 World Poker Tour Championship began with 10 players at noon on Friday. It took three hours to lose the first player of the day, when Bruno Fitoussi exited in 10th place ($98,050). Eugene Katchalov fell next in ninth place ($130,735) more than a half-hour later. It took […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jan 14, '09

The World Poker Tour Southern Poker Championship begins today at noon at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi. This is the second time that the Beau Rivage will host a WPT event, the first was the WPT Gulf Coast Poker Championship that took place in September 2007. The $10,000 WPT no-limit hold’em championship event […]

by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Oct 04, '08

Tournament pro Matt Brady has been one of the most respected players on tour over the past two years. Despite boasting lifetime earnings in excess of $750,000, Brady had yet to claim a big tournament on his resume, a tournament that would solidify his status as one of the best up-and-coming players in the game. […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jun 21, '08

Jesper Hougaard proved to the world once again that when an aggressive player from Denmark is at a final table, every other player at the table should take notice. Hougaard was inspired to play more poker when he first saw Gus Hansen dominate on the World Poker Tour a few years ago. Now Hougaard owns […]

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Jan 21, '26

The World Poker Tour’s season is officially in the books with the conclusion of the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. All told, there were nearly 35,000 entries made across the 53-event schedule that ran from Dec. 2-22 in Sin City. That made for more than $59 million in total prize money, with nearly […]

by Craig Tapscott | Published: Jan 07, '26

Marshall White started playing poker while in college at Appalachian State, where he double majored in Philosophy and Spanish. The poker boom was in full effect on his campus, and White was better than most at separating others from their beer money in his weekly home game. He dabbled online, and started moving up in […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Mar 14, '25

Three cashes, including a win, a runner-up, and a third-place showing. A dominating performance worthy of player of the series honors in almost every high roller series. But it wasn’t enough. Neither was three cashes with two wins. Although he had two formidable opponents challenging him, Joey Weissman captured the PokerGO Cup series championship with […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Feb 27, '25

David Williams burst onto the poker scene in 2004 after finishing runner-up in the World Series of Poker main event for $3.5 million. He didn’t score a bracelet then, but gold would follow in a $1,500 seven card stud event in 2006 for $163,118. Just a few months after his main event score, the 44-year […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Feb 14, '25

Rank Player Rings Cashes Earnings 1 Pam Belote 8 51 $127,821 2 La Sengphet 7 65 $454,942 3 Loni Hui 5 47 $746,913 4 Janet Fitzgerald 4 38 $237,274 4 Marsha White 4 25 $79,163 6 Krista Gifford 3 153 $540,721 6 Wendy Freedman 3 87 $433,901 6 Cherish Andrews 3 69 $364,730 6 Nancy […]