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by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Jan 09, '09

The 32 remaining players in the 2009 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure descended upon the EPT live stage and prepared for a long day of grinding it out down to the final table. It took over 13 hours to get the job done, but the final eight are set and ready to battle it out Saturday for […]

by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Oct 15, '08

The final table is all set for tomorrow’s conclusion of the WPT North American Poker Championship. A total of 27 players gathered to play down to the final TV table of six, and many notables were still in contention. The action began quickly when short-stacked “Miami” John Cernuto was eliminated in 27th place. A few […]

by Rebecca McAdam | Published: Sep 25, '08

Although 110 players kick-started the £2,500 H.O.R.S.E event, only 11 were left going into its third day. With each hoping for the £76,999 top prize, they were all safe in the knowledge they would be going home with a large chunk of the ₤275,000 prize pool. The very first player to go in event No. […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jun 21, '08

The World Series of Poker in 1985 featured one of the first prolonged money bubbles in the history of the tournament. Any one of the final ten players refused to go silently into the night and money-bubble action went on for five hours. Part of the reason these players dug in so much on that […]

by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Jun 21, '08

Michael Rocco came into the final table of the $1,500 7-Card Stud final table as the chip leader, but winning was anything but a foregotten conclusion. Down nearly 5-1 in chips heads up, Rocco battled back to reclaim the chip lead, and ultimately his first gold bracelet. Here were the chip counts heading into the […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Apr 26, '08

One thing had to be on every remaining player’s mind when the final table of the 2008 World Poker Tour Championship began tonight at Bellagio. One of the most successful players in the history of the WPT, Gus Hansen, was at the final table, and not only that, he was the chip leader. Here is […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Oct 23, '07

The 2007 Caesars Palace Classic got under way today at the world-famous casino and hotel in Las Vegas, and 287 players flooded the tournament poker room, which is tucked away in the depths of the massive Mecca of gambling. This attendance created a prize pool of $2,278,222, and Caesars kicked in the last $126,967 to […]

by Shawn Patrick Green | Published: Sep 29, '06

This year's stud eight-or-better tournament at the Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker was full of landmarks, some good, some not so good. The not so good is that this event, the 14th in the series, garnered the least number of entrants of any other event at 581. In fact, the two stud events […]

by Shawn Patrick Green | Published: Sep 28, '06

For being a short-handed event, there was nothing short about the path to the Poker Stars World Championship of Online Poker event No. 13 final table. Of the 1,741 entrants in the six-handed pot-limit hold'em event, it would take the longest amount of time to eliminate the seventh-to-last player. It took almost an hour to […]

by Alex Baer | Published: Jul 21, '06

by Alex Baer $5,000 Seven-Card Stud Only fifteen of the 183 entrants returned at 4 p.m. to finish out the second and final straight seven-stud event at this year's WSOP. Within these final two tables were some of online poker’s finest professional players. It seems there was only enough room for some of those pros […]