Among the myriad hold’em events at this years world series was Event 44, the $1,000 No Limit Hold’em w/Rebuys. 879 potential champions turned out and, in a practically unprecedented occurrence, the victor was not an established pro. In fact there wasn’t a recognizable face at the final table, a statistic that won’t be worrying Max [...]

Rich “nutsinho” Lyndaker has been known to be one of the toughest players on FTR, and now he is very close to his largest payday ever! He has outlasted 799 other players and now sits as the chip leader of the final table in event 46, $5,000 shorthanded. Day 2 ended perfectly for Rich Lyndaker [...]

The World Series of Poker does an amazing job of providing tournaments for every type of player. Whether it be buy-in, age, or gender, no players are shut out from the World Series of Poker. This was demonstrated by the wildly successful $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold ‘Em Championship in Event #42. Last year, 1,882 [...]

Writing this article I have felt a distinct sense of deja vu. It was exactly seven days ago that I reported on perennial nearly-man John Phan finally picking up a well deserved first World Series bracelet. Yet here I am again reporting on another WSOP victory for the Vietnamese ace, as he becomes the first [...]

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 [...]

Event #37 in the World Series of Poker was nothing short of exciting when David Benyamine took the first place seat in a solid match of Omaha Eight-or-better. With Benyamine being one of the biggest names in the poker world it’s no surprise that this very talented player once again rose to the top of [...]

Quite a few players started the day in Event #36 as 2,447 players took part in the No Limit Hold’em tournament.  Very few players actually made it though to play for another day. Over 90% of the players that started wouldn’t get to see a piece of the $3,340,155 prize pool that awaited on day [...]