Everything was peachy keen for, Justin Pechie as the 24-year old American won his first ever WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 shootout. Event 41 featured 538 entrants. For first place Pechie won $167,060 in cold hard green. This win brings Pechie’s lifetime winnings to $1,133,855. In Pechie’s words, this win was of particular importance. The [...]

Mitch Schock shocked the world, winning event #39 $2,500 NLHE/PLO for a first place prize of $310,225. The professional poker player, who is a father of three, became the first player from the state of North Dakota to ever win a World Series of Poker Bracelet. Schock nearly quit poker earlier this year, due to [...]

Online poker tournaments have been in a bit of a holding pattern lately as the 2011 WSOP continues to grab headlines from Las Vegas.  However, just because these tournaments have not gotten any bigger, it does not mean there isn’t still millions to play for each weekend. Between Titan, Party, PokerStars, and FullTilt there are [...]

Matt Jarvis, part of last year’s November Nine, came back to this year’s World Series of Poker looking to win. He did just that in WSOP Event 40. The six-handed no-limit hold’em event cost players $5,000 to enter. A total of 732 registered for the tournament creating one of the largest prize pools this year: [...]

Las Vegas, NV – Ukrainian-born Arkadiy “Kamsky” Tsinis won the World Series of Poker’s 38th event. The event cost players $1,500 to enter. With 2,192 entries, the prize pool was a huge $2,959,200. Kamsky took home the bracelet and a $540,136 first prize. Tsinis is the third Ukrainian player to win a gold bracelet this [...]

There is growing bipartisan support for a unique bill in the US House of Representatives.  Introduced by Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas), this bill proposes that individual US States be given the option to allow online poker to be played within their borders, and players would then be subject to a form of location verification to [...]

It’s not secret that the winner of each WSOP event is destined to earn a ton of money. Win the Main Event and you’re life is changed forever. You are set for life. Or so it seems… Back in 2006, Jamie Gold outlasted a large field of poker players to win the Main Event for [...]

Pot Limit Omaha is known as an action game, which makes all the WSOP events of this type extremely entertaining. 685 players put up $3,000 to play PLO in Event 31, which meant a $1,870,050 prize pool and $420,802 for first place. Day 3 began with 25 players eyeing the golden bracelet, with Sam Stein [...]

One of the best things about the World Series of Poker is that there is something for everyone. An example of this is WSOP Event 30, the $1,000 Seniors No Limit Hold’em Championship. Players must be 50 years old or older in order to participate in this tournament. This year’s version was record-breaking as it [...]

It is a little bit odd, in a way, to make a big deal out of young players who have not yet won a WSOP Bracelet.  They are incredibly difficult feats of poker accomplishment, and yet at the young age of 24, Tom Dwan is already being saddled with this infamous title of “best player [...]