So, the Day 1′s are over. Now it’s break day before Day 2A begins. Of course, I am talking about the World Series of Poker’s 2008 Main Event. There was much speculation as to whether this year’s Main Event would have more entrants than last year’s, and in the end it did. This year the [...]

There are not many accolades as significant as winning the World Series main event, but to be named the WSOP Player of the Year must come close. With the established pros doing so well across the board this year, the POY race became one the most hotly contested in recent memory. The leader changed daily [...]

Ask any poker player what their dream is, and more often than not, you’ll hear to win the Main Event at the World Series of Poker. That’s just what thousands of players are attempting to do as this is written, as Day 1B is currently going on, with Day 1A in the books, and Day [...]

James Schaff has overcome a poker great in the vein of Phil Hellmuth to take the bracelet and the prize money in event 51 which was a H.O.R.S.E. tournament. This is pretty impressive considering the sheer quantity of fans and cameras that follow Hellmuth are often intimidating to players who face him. Even though Hellmuth [...]

The final championship tournament before the Hold’em main event concluded yesterday with Event #50, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship. After all was said and done the event was taken down by Marty Smyth of Belfast. I’d like at this point, if I may, to make a brief geographical diversion. It has been widely reported [...]

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 [...]

Event 46 of this years World Series of Poker was the largest buy-in 6-max No Limit Hold’Em tournament of the series. The $5,000 tournament drew 805 entrants for a total prize pool of $3,783,500. 6-max No Limit Hold’Em is a different beast than full-ring and most consider it more conducive to the styles of better [...]