It should be no surprise that with only a few events still to be finalized in this year’s World Series of Poker, Jeff Lisandro holds on to the top spot for Player of the Year honors.  He has won 3 bracelets this year after all. What more could he do? Lisandro has 355 points in [...]

Brandon Cantu, a.k.a. “any2cantu”, had a chance to win his second WSOP bracelet last week in Event #39, but came up just short, settling for second place.  He admitted that he took the loss very hard, but fortunately for him, he did not have to wait long for redemption. This time, while playing Pot-Limit Omaha [...]

Skalie’s Diary …- By Jon “Skalie” Kalmar (UK Sponsored Pro) Day 7 – Tuesday 9th of June Two major events today. It’s both my first WSOP event and secondly I check out of the Rio. I don’t know which I am looking forward to the most. I got up early and left my bags with [...]

Few players can claim to be as masterful at a single discipline of poker as Jeffery Lisandro can at 7-Card Stud. His victory in Event #44, the $2,500 Razz, completes a rare Triple Crown of World Series stud events. It also propels him into the exclusive group of players who have won three bracelets in [...]

Day 3 of Event #46, $2,500 Mixed, kicked off with 14 players looking to make the final table. When it was whittled down to 9 here’s what the chip count looked like: Jerrod Ankenman — 1.2 million Jon Turner — 591,000 Sergey Altbregin — 387,000 Eric Crain — 355,000 Jeff Tims — 260,000 Chris Klodnicki [...]

Most of the world’s best Pot-Limit Omaha players were on hand for Event #40 of this year’s World Series, the World Championship of Pot-Limit Omaha.  In all there were 295 entries to this year’s championship event, quite a bit fewer than last year’s 381 entries.  However, victory is still just as sweet. The championship events [...]

The latest in a never-ending stream of World Series No Limit Hold ‘em events concluded last weekend, crowning 2009’s 36th bracelet winner. Event #36 had a $2,000 buy-in and a healthy prize pool of $3,084,900. The fairer sex have been having a poor time of it at this year’s World Series, with all the bracelets [...]

The Red Pros at Full Tilt Poker have been making their presence felt at the 2009 World Series of Poker. The online behemoth is famous for attracting the very finest talent to its stable of sponsored players, a fact clearly evident at this year’s WSOP. Just over halfway through the series Full Tilt players have [...]

Angel Guillen. Angel Guillen. Angel Guillen. Repeat it 1,000 times until you can remember this name. Angel Guillen, a young poker pro from Team PokerStars Mexico has shown the world what exactly it was the management at PokerStars saw in him when they recruited him to be part of the most prestigious team of big [...]

A star-studded final table was on display last night at the Rio with the completion of Event #35, the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha (with re-buys) championship.  The tournament used quite an unusual structure, as only two re-buys were allowed during the first few levels, a change from last years tournament, won by Phil “OMGclayaiken” Galfond. A [...]