May 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
New Orleans, LA – “Big Pappa” made an astounding comeback in the most recent World Series of Poker Circuit tournament, part of this year’s Bayou Poker Challenge series being played in The Big Easy. The Georgia senior not only overcome a massive chip disadvantage when the final table started – ranked eighth out of nine […]
May 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
New Orleans, LA – Pot-Limit Omaha Eight-or-Better first gained popularity as an online game and has since spread to live tournaments. The World Series of Poker first offered Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low as a gold bracelet event in 2007 (not to be confused with PLO’s high-only format, which has been played at the WSOP for nearly […]
May 19, 2010 # No Comment Yet
New Orleans, LA – The most recent World Series of Poker Circuit tournament attracted another strong turnout of 216 players. Each entrant posted a $1,000 entry fee in order to shoot for the opportunity to wear a gold ring. The prize pool exceeded $200,000 and due to some very competitive play was the longest tournament […]
May 14, 2010 # No Comment Yet
Las Vegas, NV – Daphne “Tweety” Turner made poker history tonight. She became the first woman in the six-year history of WSOP Circuit events to win two gold rings. Turner bulldozed her way to victory in the Mixed Game event, which requires mastery of seven forms of poker. Turner pocketed $6,727. But her win is […]
May 14, 2010 # No Comment Yet
New Orleans, LA – The poker world is pretty much divided into two camps – those who like re-buy tournaments and those who don’t. Re-buy tournaments are attractive to many players because the prize pools are often two to three times the payout for a conventional freeze out tournament. The larger the number of re-buys, […]
May 13, 2010 # No Comment Yet
New Orleans, LA – The most recent World Series of Poker Circuit tournament concluded at Harrah’s New Orleans today. The winner was Steve Grant, a 24-year-old part-time local poker player from New Orleans. Grant won $23,697 for first place, plus the coveted gold ring, presented to all WSOP Circuit […]
July 4, 2008 # 2 Comments
Gibraltar: July 3rd 2008: PartyBets.com has closed its market on the 2008 World Series of Poker ® Main Event making Phil Ivey the 22/1 well backed favourite to make the final table.
A PartyBets.com spokesman said: “Betting patterns for the Main Event have been very similar to previous years. If a big name makes the final […]
June 2, 2008 # No Comment Yet
The 2008 World Series of Poker is just getting underway and already new records are being set in attendance, which is good news for the organizers of the event and the players themselves. Two years ago the poker boom was at its zenith, and then last year the attendance dropped off. With Event number 2, […]
August 2, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Two weeks passed after the World’s best known poker event WSOP ended and Harrah’s has just released the schedule for the coming year’s WSOP Circuit. This is the fourth time WSOP Circuit is running. Winner of each event wins a seat to the WSOP Main Event, worth $10,000.
This year includes 12 events and the entry […]
July 24, 2007 # One Comment
Everyone is waiting for the World Series of Poker Europe, registration has already started. Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Eli Elezra, Jennifer Harman, Erik Seidel and lots of other poker pros are already registered.
It’s said that there are over 60 WSOP bracelets between the pre-registrants so far.
Phil Hellmuth, having the record number of WSOP bracelets, says, […]
