Poker players can be some of the pettiest people on the planet; there is nothing wrong with this. If you can watch somebody else win without dying a little on the inside perhaps you should give up on poker and take up something less competitive, like needlepoint. So with that in mind, most of us experience the euphoria of schadenfreude when somebody takes an early exit from a big tournament like the World Series of Poker. With that said, I ...
Abe Mosseri started the final day of play for Event #55 in a position that has become all too unfamiliar to those who eventually win a World Series of Poker championship this year; he had a chip lead ...
Event #49 ($50,000 World Championship H.O.R.S.E.) cost each of the 95 players fifty grand to play, took five days to complete, and the final table took twenty hours, but it is finally done; it’s in ...
There are those who fall squarely into the “apologist” category when it comes to explaining the current state of the World Series of Poker. They will calmly explain to you why the Hellmuth’s ...
It took three days of hard poker playing, and the demise of 761 other players, but Brandon Cantu collected his second bracelet at the conclusion of Event 48 - $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo ...
Event #43, the $1,000 Seniors World Championship, was odd in a couple of ways. First of all it didn’t really end when it should have. The winner from Event #44 could have been in the audience ...
Usually when Jerrod Ankenman is anywhere near a poker winners circle, it is in a tournament named “Escargot” or “Fargo”. I have nothing against these tournaments, anything named after an ...
A million and a half chips is a really big stack. It must look even bigger if this number of chips is the difference between your stack and the guy you have to beat in order to win a tournament. If ...
It seems to be almost a common occurrence when only two players are left in a WSOP event. One has a chip stack so big that it would require a team of ...