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....
View ArticlePhil 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...
View Article5 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...
View ArticleKyle 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....
View ArticleDon’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...
View ArticlePoker 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...
View ArticleWho’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...
View ArticleA 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleWSOP 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...
View ArticleWSOP 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...
View ArticleCell 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...
View ArticleMeet 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...
View ArticleBling 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...
View ArticleExtreme 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...
View ArticleMain 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...
View ArticleDown 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...
View ArticleMy 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...
View ArticleLate-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...
View ArticleNorman 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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