June 18, 2015
In a particularly satisfying victory playing his favourite poker variant British writer Benny Glaser (26) won his first World Series of Poker bracelet Thursday, along with the $136,215 main prize. Playing with smooth efficiency in the $1,500 buy-in event 33 – a 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball competition – Glaser bested a field of 387 other […]
June 18, 2015
Florida poker pro Jason Mercier (28) is feeling a lot better about his prospects after a financially mediocre World Series of Poker so far turned into a notable victory in event 32 – a $5,000 buy-in Six Handed NLHE competition which he won Thursday after a tense hour-long tussle with Brit player Simon Deadman. Besides […]
June 18, 2015
23-year-old poker pro Ivan Luca from Argentina was a proud man Wednesday, claiming his own and his nation’s first ever World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet and the $353,391 main prize in Event 30 – a $1,000 buy-in NLHE competition for which 2,150 players registered. The $1.93 million prize pool enabled 216 survivors to cash, […]
June 18, 2015
The recent banning by the Twitch streaming service of poker coach Casey “bigdogpckt5s” Jarzabek for inadvertently streaming some rather risque, decidedly non-poker content is perhaps another timely reminder to Twitch streamers that whatever you have on-screen or on-camera is being broadcast as long as the stream is active. This seemingly obvious fact has escaped the […]
June 18, 2015
The mammoth five day, 7,192-entry World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in ‘Monster Stack’ NLHE event has produced a winner, with 26-year-old Florida dealer Perry Shiao claiming the $1,286,942 main prize and his first WSOP winner’s bracelet. Shiao, who has been a dealer at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, FL for the last seven years, […]
June 17, 2015
Las-Vegas resident Jeff Madsen (30) has taken down the $3K Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split Championship earning a cool $301,314. Madsen is considered a very accomplished younger player having had 40 WSOP Cashes, 11 WSOP Final Table appearances and earning his now fourth WSOP gold bracelet. Madsen dominated the end stages of the three-day tournament which […]
June 16, 2015
You could say that the 77-strong entry list for World Series of Poker event 29 was hellishly well populated with some of the most dangerous professional players in the game like Nick Schulman, George Danzer, Brian Hastings, Jason Mercier, Antonio Esfandiari, John Monnette, Dan Smith, Erik Seidel, Jon Turner, Eli Elezra, Paul Volpe…and the eventual […]
June 16, 2015
Online poker cash game traffic last week declined 3 percent – its ninth consecutive week of slumping numbers, reports the independent online poker monitor PokerScout. Only one poker room or network on the top ten leader board experienced rising traffic, one was unchanged and the others were all in decline, the monitor observed.. Pokerstars remained […]
June 13, 2015
A mistake whilst registering for a World Series of Poker event this week resulted in Christian Pham (40) from St. Paul, Minnesota finding himself in the wrong competition playing a game he was not really familiar with, but it all turned out well when he emerged triumphant to claim his first WSOP bracelet and the […]
June 12, 2015
The international high stakes poker pro Phil Ivey, who has apparently thus far eschewed the World Series of Poker this year to play online from Macau at the Pokerstars nosebleed tables, reportedly suffered a massive hit over last weekend. The High Stakes Data Base reports that all told Ivey’s bankroll was diminished by $968,000 after […]