So far it seems that the 2009 World Series of Poker could not have gotten off to a better start!  Four tournaments have begun and three records have been broken.  In Event 2, the $40k buy-in 40th Annual No-Limit Hold’em Event, the record for largest prize pool outside of a Main Event was broken at [...]

durrrr made a brief appearance for the $40K World Series of Poker Event, but busted early after showing up nearly an hour after play began. He and Antonius were on the Challenge tables for a few hours yesterday. During much of that time, durrrr also played Phil Ivey, who busted from the $40K just an [...]

With the World Series starting this week the high stakes action is certainly going to slow down a little. However, last week on the felt it was pretty crazy with Dwan and Sahamies continuing their 3k/9k PLO sessions. During several more sessions at the $500/1,000 tables on Full Tilt, Dwan and Sahamies agreed to raise [...]

LATEST NEWS: Freeroll your way to Vegas! Every Monday at 22:30 Ladbrokes will be holding a freeroll where 10 players will guarantee their seat into Tuesday’s daily final at 19:30. Register your place now! Go to Tournaments/Special in the Ladbrokes lobby. For 2009, Ladbrokes Poker is taking a fresh approach to the traditional WSOP package. [...]

Remember how many times I’ve babbled on and on about this special and great tournament that was coming up at PokerStars? Remember also how many times I said that this tournament was so great, that you would not even need real money to enter, just FPPs? Remember also that I said that you could turn [...]

The first tournament of this year’s World Series is officially in the bag. Day 2 in Event #1, the $500 Casino Employees Event, began yesterday and continued on into the early hours of the morning. Emerging victorious from the melee was 39 year old bartender Andrew Cohen. The action on Day 1 was surprisingly intense, [...]

As you could have seen reported by other FTR bloggers, The 40th World Series of Poker event is already underway! I would like to take a minute to tell you why you should qualify using PokerStars to play in these events if you do not happen to have $10,000 in spare cash lying around. First of [...]

The 40th World Series of Poker got itself firmly under way at noon yesterday with Event #1, the Casino Employees tournament. The contest was concocted by the legendary Benny Binion, as a thank you to all the staff that had made his fledgling WSOP such a success. Proceedings were officially opened by WSOP commissioner Jeffery [...]

The World Series of Poker 2009 officially starts today at noon in Las Vegas.  Poker players from around the world have been arriving over the past couple of days in preparation for the world’s largest poker tournament series.  Just as Vegas gears up for the series, some flights were delayed in and out of Vegas [...]

Back in late 2007, Titan Poker concocted the European Championship of Online Poker (ECOOP), a series of high stakes online tournaments designed to bring together Europe’s top poker talent on one exciting stage. Since that first incarnation the event has grown and grown, building towards the ECOOP IV – which began on May 25th. The [...]