With just a couple of days left in the month, it appeared as if SOXxxxxx would be within striking range of repeating the position of monthly champion of the Ladbrokes Leaderboards. However, his lead was dwindling and wildrick, who was in second place, had been closing the gap over the last week. This meant that [...]

After the Intense H.O.R.S.E. event that saw many of poker’s top players battling for over $7 million, some stars made the insane decision to jump right into the Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo tournament and play. Among them were Chris Ferguson, Tony G, Kathy Liebert, Hoyt Corkins, and Men Nguyen. Joining them were 543 players who [...]

For those who thought that the major money would all be seen in the Main Event of the 2008 WSOP, they were proven wrong in a big way with the World Championship H.O.R.S.E tournament. That’s because 148 players paid the mind-boggling $50,000 buy-in to make the prize pool worth $7,104,000. And many of those involved [...]

Event #43 of the WSOP drew a surprisingly decent number of players for a Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-low Split-8 or Better tournament. In all, 720 players paid $1,500 to get into the tournament that had a prize pool just under one million dollars. Chris Ferguson, Barry Greenstein, Lee Watkinson, Tom Schneider, and Joe Hachem all took [...]

The 2008 WSOP continued its trend of offering something for nearly everyone in the Seniors No Limit Hold’em World Championship. 2,218 seniors came calling with their $1,000 bets upfront and their buy-ins created a prize pool of $2,018,380. Even though this was a seniors event, that didn’t mean there was any lack of talent in [...]

In last week’s look at the Ladbrokes Leaderboard race, the champion from May in SOXxxxxx took the lead away from wildrick and increased it to a decent margin.  226 points to be exact. But there was still plenty of time for wildrick to make a move on SOXxxxxx with a week and a half left [...]

Event #41 of the WSOP brought a mixture of two games in Mixed Hold’em – Limit/No Limit.  731 people paid $1,500 to get into this tourney which featured a prize pool of $996,450. The 731 number would be cut all the way down to 98 by the time things wrapped up on day 1.  People like Greg Raymer, Tom [...]

Most card players in the world aren’t too keen on the game of 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball.  That’s probably a good reason why only 238 players paid the $2,500 buy-in. But there were still some big name players fighting for the $547,400 prize pool.  John Juanda, Mike Caro, Greg Raymer, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Carlos [...]

With 2,720 players paying the $1,500 buy-ins for Event #39, one would have thought that this No Limit Hold’em tourney would’ve lasted a lot longer.  But the truth is that the first day set the theme for super-quick eliminations. In fact, over 90% of the field would be knocked out on the first day with [...]

The 38th event of the 2008 WSOP would start off with some domination by Michael Binger as he bolted out to the lead in the $2,000 buy-in event.  He was quickly eyeing the top prize out of the $1,101,100 available.  But his day 1 lead wasn’t totally secure as a host of other players challenged [...]