July 12, 2018
The elimination of Chinese player Yueqi Zhu in 10th place for $850,025 Wednesday has formed the final table in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event, and former champion Joe Cada (30) is still in the running to reprise his 2009 Main Event achievement, currently positioned sixth with 23,675,000 chips. Final table members when […]
July 12, 2018
Top US professional poker player Phil Hellmuth (53) has claimed his fifteenth World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet, along with the main prize of $485,082 after winning the $5,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em (30 minute levels) competition. Hellmuth, who with 14 bracelets was already comfortably ahead of his closest rivals, widened the gap Wednesday after defeating […]
July 11, 2018
Dutch poker pro Ronald Keijzer (26) has prevailed over 900 other entrants to win the 2018 World Series of Poker’s $3,000 pot-limit Omaha six-max event to earn the title, his first bracelet and $475,033. The win marks Keijzer’s second WSOP career cash. Keijzer faced 22-year-old Frenchman Romain Lewis heads-up who took home $293,553 for his second runner-up finish. Final Table Results: […]
July 11, 2018
The World Series of Poker Main Event Day 6 survivors have bagged up their chips for the night after the field was reduced from 109 to just 26 Tuesday night. The next player to be eliminated will earn $282,630 from the massive $74,015,600 prize pool, and Day 7 should see the formation of the final […]
July 10, 2018
Day 5 of the World Series of Poker Main Event was shortened following a major storm over Las Vegas which caused lighting and other technical hassles at the Rio around a half hour before play was scheduled to end Monday. The field at the start of the day had numbered 310, but when the chips […]
July 9, 2018
The World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event Day 4 has concluded with under 5 percent of the original field of 7,784 players still in contention…and Phil Ivey was among the big names to fall during a day that saw the field whittled down to just 310 players. After 13 hours of poker […]
July 9, 2018
Las Vegas real estate manager Longsheng Tan (34) boosted his half-million dollars in poker career earnings over the weekend in taking down the World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in NLHE event following four days of intense competition. Tan dominated much of the play in the closing days and especially at the final table, where at […]
July 8, 2018
2,786 players started the first day of combined starter fields in the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event Saturday, concluding early Sunday morning when the money bubble was reached on the elimination of the 1,183rd player. Matthew Hopkins was busted out by Bryce McVay, and from now on players are assured of […]
July 7, 2018
The World Series of Poker Main Event competition continued Friday when the 3,480 survivors of the record third starting flight battled for a position in the combined field Saturday. At the end of the 10-hour day Californian fruit farmer Ignacio Sanchez led the 1,668 players still active, holding the lead with 627,200 in chips, with […]
July 6, 2018
The first day of combined field action in the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in NLHE Main Event has concluded with just half the starting field of 2,460 (made up of the survivors of the three starting flights of the competition) surviving. 1,131 players now move on to the next day’s action, led by California […]