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WSOP 2016: Six Tournaments Players Want to See at Next Year's WSOP

The World Series of Poker has grown exponentially throughout the years. Not only have prize pools and the number of players increased, but there's also been a surge in the number of poker variants....

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Phil Ivey: Agent Cristal

Phil Ivey has been noticeably absent from the 2015 World Series of Poker. Not many people were surprised when Ivey didn’t show up the first few days, as he’s been known to show up late. But as...

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5 Defining Phil Hellmuth Moments at the World Series of Poker

On the eve of the 2015 WSOP Main Event debuting on ESPN, who better to showcase than the poker player most defined by World Series of Poker success? Love him or hate him when Phil Hellmuth is on...

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Kyle Bowker Makes Bonkers Fold, Lays Down Quad Sevens in Main Event

Kyle Bowker won his first WSOP bracelet last week, but everyone was talking about him today because of what he threw in the muck.Bowker folded quad sevens on the river of a K♠ 9♠ 7 x 7x T♠ board....

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Don’t Bust! The WSOP Main Event Final Table Bubble Blog

You can’t beat the drama that surrounds the WSOP Main Event final table bubble. It’s arguably the single biggest bubble in poker with nine lucky players becoming millionaires, instant-fame and...

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Poker Video of the Week: A Fold to Live On in WSOP Infamy

Really good poker players are able to fold even very strong holdings. And when they’re right, they always look like stars.  When they're wrong, though ... they don’t make you look that smart. As our...

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Who’s the Greatest Nov. 9er? All 80 Players Ranked by Results

The November Nine experiment is over. Earlier this month the WSOP announced that after nine years it was ditching the November Nine concept to play out the final table with a more reasonable two-day...

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A Look at the Brand-New 2017 World Series of Poker [Photos]

If this is your first year attending the World Series of Poker you might not realize the event looked dramatically different just one year ago. Yes, there is still a seemingly endless sea of poker...

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The 2017 World Series of Sick Rides

The World Series of Poker parking lot is a gargantuan expanse that’s littered with some of the most expensive (and cheapest) cars that you can purchase. It makes sense considering winning a large...

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WSOP Stories: Billy Baxter, The Original Robin Hood of Poker

42 years after winning his first bracelet, Billy Baxter is still the uncrowned king of lowball poker. He's also, technically, the first "Robin Hood of Poker." In case you were thinking, “but I always...

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WSOP Stories: Mr. A-T, The Best 2nd-Best Player in History

Johnny Moss (Left) Photo: UNLV Special Collections via Wikipedia Commons “Legend” - a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but unauthenticated, Merriam Webster Dictionary...

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Cell Phones Replaced with Kittens at World Series of Poker

We thought the World Series of Poker would be a happier place if instead of cell phones, everyone spent all their time looking at kittens.So that's what we did. The result is a strange juxtaposition...

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Meet the 2017 WSOP Main Event Final Table: Player Bios

The 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event final table is set and — for the first time in over a decade — the winner will be decided in just a few days time. The so-called November Nine, which featured...

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Bling Bling: Batista Wins Caesars Indiana Main Event

This World Series Poker Circuit Event is over, and it's certainly been an interesting one. Although common courtesy is expected at the poker table, it's not too often that players go so far as to show...

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Extreme Bustification: Day 2 at the Horseshoe Council Bluffs

The second day of competition at the World Series of Poker Circuit Event from the Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs Iowa has reached its logical end with a final table of nine players being...

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Main Event Snapshot: Donations for Ivey

With ESPN airing two more episodes on Tuesday night we're now in the money and finished with Day 4. The Day 4 coverage saw two story lines: people playing ridiculously - almost embarrassingly - tight...

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Down with Chaos, Up with Order at the WSOP

One of the most striking things to me during my brief 2008 World Series of Poker experience to date is just how much more smoothly things seem to be going than they have the past two years. The sense...

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My Picks for the Main Event

The Main Event approacheth, and in light of that, I've started to think about who I'd pick to take it down.Given that there will be several thousand entries, it's extremely unlikely that any of these...

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Late-Night Food Options Nonexistent at WSOP

I've written several times this summer about what a good job Harrah's has done in regards to responding to player complaints and trying to make the overall WSOP experience a better one for everyone...

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Norman Chad and Lon McEachern WSOP Announcer Soundboard

So far this summer we've been loving the WSOP final table live stream but there's been something missing. The big name pros are there. There's definitely enough money on the line. And there's even a...

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