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by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Jun 13, '22

Scott Seiver is having a great summer at the 2022 World Series of Poker, having won his fourth-career bracelet in the $2,500 no-limit hold’em event along with $320,059. But his luck may have soured on Sunday in the $1,000 Flip & Go event, held during the series at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas. The event […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Dec 07, '24

David Einhorn founded and manages a hedge fund with billions of dollars worth of assets under management, and is himself reportedly a billionaire, but that won’t take much of the sting away from the $500,000 cooler he experienced in the Bahamas. The occasional high-stakes participant sat down to battle it out in the Triton Million […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Jun 11, '15

Professional poker player and media personality Bernard Lee has chosen two amateur poker players to each receive a $777 buy-in to a World Series of Poker bracelet event in Las Vegas, Nevada next month. The buy-ins were among 20 prizes Lee distributed in celebration of the eighth anniversary of The Bernard Lee Poker Show. “I […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jun 29, '12

Sunday’s $1 million buy-in event at the World Series of Poker has a 48-player cap, but there may be hundreds of people financially sweating the action. By selling shares, some of the game’s best have found the funds to play the largest open buy-in event in poker history and fight for the $18 million first-place […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Jun 24, '12

Germany’s Jan-Peter Jachtmann has emerged victorious in the 2012 World Series of Poker $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship, capturing his first WSOP gold bracelet, the $661,000 first-place prize and 1,140 Card Player Player of the Year points, catapulting him into 80th place in the overall standings. “For me, this was the highlight. I came over here […]

by Bob Pajich | Published: Mar 04, '08

Winning a World Series of Poker bracelet is an achievement all poker players would love to accomplish, and thousands of players will descend on the Rio in Las Vegas in June and July to try to fight through the large fields and claim a piece of history (as well as a whole lot of money). […]

by Alex Baer | Published: Jun 26, '07

With the exception of Phil Hellmuth, every player who has taken down a $1,500 no-limit hold'em tournament at this year's World Series of Poker has been someone we don't recognize. Robert Cheung, a 46-year old from Vancouver, continues that trend. Cheung beat a field of 2,778 entrants who built a prize pool of $3,791,970. Cheung […]

by Bob Pajich | Published: Jun 14, '07

Day two of the $5,000 no-limit hold'em event is set to take place today, and among those in the top 10 chips leaders are several World Series of Poker bracelet winners – one of whom also was nominated for an Oscar. The tournament's leaders and their chip counts are: Dustin Dirksen, $304,500 Tex Barch, $219,000 […]

by Bob Pajich | Published: Jun 12, '07

A word that's rarely used to describe a poker tournament has made an appearance at this year's World Series of Poker: Sequestered. Phil Hellmuth won his eleventh bracelet last night at the Rio, and despite the large bleacher arena that's open to the public, only the players and a few selected guests got to see […]

by Seth Niesen | Published: Jun 06, '07

High buy-in mixed tournaments generally attract higher-profile players and the final table of the Omaha/seven-card stud eight-or-better event did not disappoint. It started off with some of the best in the world, but in the end only one player, Tom Schneider, outlasted the rest to win his first WSOP bracelet. Schneider defeated well-known professionals Annie […]