July 6, 2010
Weekend action in the 41st World Series of Poker spilled over into the early hours of Monday morning, with two events reaching a final table, popular pro Daniel Alaei winning his third WSOP bracelet and Huck Seed receiving the accolades as the best of 27 top names in the Tournament of Champions. Seed is $500 […]
July 6, 2010
Official statistics from the 41st World Series of Poker currently running at the Rio in Las Vegas indicate that through the first 56 events, there have been 65,647 entries, surpassing last year’s total entries including the main event of 60,875. And this year’s main event registration numbers have yet to be recorded! Judging by the […]
July 6, 2010
Monday afternoon saw the start of the first heat of the 41st World Series of Poker Main Event kick off as 1,125 entrants for Day 1a action assembled at the Rio in Las Vegas. There will be three other Day 1’s as the field is reduced through to two Day 2’s and then the survivors […]
July 5, 2010
Most Americans were celebrating Independence Day on Sunday with feasting and relaxation, but in Las Vegas players in the last three preliminary events were still fighting on the felt for big money prizes and the last three winner bracelets before the main event kicks off Monday. In event 54, the last of the $1,000 buy-in […]
July 4, 2010
Friday saw the start of the fifty-sixth event in this year’s 41st World Series of Poker, and with it fewer opportunities to win gold bracelets and tempting prizes, as only the Main Event now remains on the starter grid. Events 52 through 56 are all now in various stages of completion, which means 5 more […]
July 4, 2010
Monday will see the start of the $10 000 buy-in Main Event of the 41st World Series of Poker, so it’s perhaps a good time to refresh memories on what the main event is all about. This is the last of this year’s WSOP events and the culmination of 56 poker competitions that have attracted […]
July 4, 2010
There will be some relieved members of poker’s elite set who made bets that Tom Dwan would not win a bracelet in this year’s WSOP; his best chance (barring success in the main event) crashed in flames in event 55 Saturday as he headed for the rail in 17th place for a $31,288 paycheck, but […]
July 4, 2010
With the 41st World Series of Poker headed into the widely publicised main event next week, the newspaper USA Today carried an interesting weekend perspective on the rising influence of young guns on international poker. The whiz kids – most of them barely 21 and eligible to enter the World Series of Poker events, are […]
July 2, 2010
A German criminal court sent four men aged under 21 to jail Thursday for perpetrating a daylight raid on a million-euro poker tournament in Berlin earlier this year (see previous reports). Sky News reports that, armed with Kalashnikov assault rifles, grenades and machetes the gang burst into the city’s Grand Hyatt Hotel in March and […]
July 2, 2010
In Florida, a new law effective on July 1st eased buy-in restrictions for no-limit poker games in card rooms and extended playing hours. The law lifts a maximum $100 restriction on buy-in for cash games at state-sanctioned poker rooms. High-stakes games will become legal at 23 poker rooms run by horse and dog tracks and […]