Sunday is the biggest day on the online poker calendar. The time for every player great and small to plug into his nearest interweb terminal and sweat the Sunday Million. PokerStars’ flagship tourney has been drawing in the punters for years and continues to be the most lucrative weekly tournament around. Usually, just one Sunday [...]

With the swell of uncertainty that has billowed up around online poker in these past few months, there was a collective sigh of relief to see the familiar face of the WCOOP swinging into view. It was also invigorating to see an old adage be reaffirmed, with the winner of Event #6 proving that all [...]

The 2011 November Nine is set and once again there will be no women on the final table. However, one young lady did come close. Erika Moutinho battled all the way to 29th place, winning the coveted Last Woman Standing moniker. It’s a sad fact that the number of women who enter the World Series [...]

The WSOP Ladies Event used to be little more than a curiosity. A place for women to compete against each other, instead of wallowing through the usual sea of Y chromosomes. It had definite positive qualities. Encouraging those females to play in the WSOP who might otherwise have steered clear of the series, for one [...]

Phil Ivey has taken an aggressive route to salvation. Attempting to emerge from the wreckage of Black Friday with his reputation intact, but has this gambit paid off? It all began with a law suit, demanding that Full Tilt pay out millions of dollars owed to their customers and an announcement that he would be [...]

There’s no denying that 2-7 Triple Draw is something of a niche poker discipline, but it’s no less skilful for it. Just take a look at the list of stellar pros who signed up for WSOP 2011 Event #49 if you’re in need of any convincing. 309 competitors made their way to the Rio for [...]

The sorry saga that is Full Tilt Poker continues to rumble on, with news that the company’s former star player, Phil Ivey, has withdrawn his law suit against the site. However, hot on the heels of that reprieve comes another class action filing, this time aimed solely at recouping the money owed the thousands of [...]

Events that generate real column inches at the WSOP usually involve big pros making the final table. Sometimes, amid stories of Mercier’s second and Hellmuth’s close shave, the success of an ordinary man or woman can be overshadowed. Kirk Caldwell is just such a gentleman. His victory in Event #32 – a $1500 No Limit [...]

HORSE is definitely the best name for a poker format. Comprised of five different variations – Hold’em, Omaha, Razz, Stud, and Omaha Hi/Lo – it also happens to be the most comprehensive test of skills available at the World Series. Usually an excursion for the game’s elite, Event #16 was a $1,500 version designed to [...]

It’s an odd paradox that the lower the number of attendees a World Series tournament gets, the more media attention it garners. The reason is that contests like Event #16, the $10,000 No Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship, only appeal to a select group of players. That refined bunch usually tend to be the best [...]