(Way) Outside the WSOP – (Week 1 Review)
A review of the action from the first week of the World Series of Poker: The UNLV marching band and Doyle Brunson helped start the Series and the registration problems that plagued last year’s first...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP (Day 17 Evening Update)
What’s happening this evening while watching Tiger Woods decide to wait until Monday to win his next major: The $10,000 Heads-Up World Championship is down to the final 2, as Kenny Tran is taking on...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP (Day 18)
Reviewing what happened last night… In a final table that ESPN SHOULD be covering (instead of ESPN360), the final table of the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha w/rebuys final table has been set for around 3pm....
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP (Day 18 Evening Update)
The $5,000 PLO w/rebuy event is down to its final 3, with Phil Galfond the dominating chip leader, David Benyamine is a distant 2nd. Phil Hellmuth, Daniel Negreanu and John Juanda were eliminated in...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – (Day 19)
What happened at the WSOP last night while Phil Hellmuth was humble in defeat… In a table full of well known names, it was online regular Phil Galfond who took down the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha w/rebuys...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – (Day 19 Evening Update)
What’s happened tonight while preferring to watch the Pokerati Bowling Series over PBS every time: The $3,000 NL Holdem event is down to headsup play with John Phan and Johnny Neckar. There’s been some...
View Article2008 WSOP Hits Halfway MarkCasualty Toll Yet to Be Determined
It seems that the 2008 WSOP is at the halfway point. If judging by days, we are almost there, but if looking at events, more than half of them have concluded and we’re in the second half. Thus...
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RE (3): Horsing Around… With David Singer
The $50K H.O.R.S.E. event is only two days away, and players are considering their options: A. Buy-in directly with $50,000 B. Find backers but face $50,000 in makeup if they don’t cash C. Sell pieces...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – (Day 29)
Recapping last night’s events with a preview of today’s action: The $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha Eight or Better event was won last night by Martin Klaser, who was dominant in the brief heads-up battle with...
View Article$50K HORSE Pre-Day 3: Stable Half Empty
By the end of Day 2 of the 5-day event, there were only 67 players left standing in the tournament. The 81 players who have been eliminated left $4,050,000 behind for the others. Among those gone from...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP (Day 32)
Recapping last night’s action, with an eye on what’s going on today: As noted below, Scotty Nguyen takes down the $50,000 HORSE event, taking down almost $2,000,000, his 5th bracelet, and the first to...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – (Day 32 Evening Update)
What’s happening tonight at the WSOP, while Wicked Chops Poker is celebrating the good news. JC Tran takes his name off of the “Best player to never win a bracelet” list, taking down the $1,500 NL...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – (Main Event Day 1D)
What’s happening at the WSOP while waiting for the arrival of Phil Hellmuth and the UB Army at 2pm: A little over half of the 1,928 that started play on Day 1c get to return on Wednesday to meet those...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – (Main Event Day 2b Evening Update)
First, some belated congratulations to the winners of the tournaments that started on Monday. The media tournament was won by Brett Collson of pocketfiveslive.com (he donated his $5,000 prize to the...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 6 Evening Update
The $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event started at noon today, and it appeared they were competing with the two Day 1’s of the $1,000 NL Holdem Stimulus Special in terms of winnowing the field in a hurry. As...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 14
Recapping the Monday overnight at the World Series of Poker: Brian Lemke Goes ShronkDaddy on 5k Final Table Brian Lemke, cousin of the late Justin Shronk of PokerRoad and PokerNews, came back from a 4...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 15
Recapping the overnight action from Tuesday: Alaei-ay-ay! Daniel Alaei won his second career WSOP bracelet in the $10,000 Omaha 8 or Better World Championship, to win over $445,000. Alaei took the chip...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 1c Evening Update
The Day 1c field has returned from its dinner break a few minutes ago, with two more levels to play today. The difference between this field and the first two Day 1’s is that the field as well as...
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Hottest Boys of Poker
Boys will be boys, and those of us in poker’s minority know this. The Wicked Chops entities made “hot girls” the norm for poker media, and the PokerListings guys have jumped on board with this gem,...
View Article(Way) Outside the WSOP – Day 25
Recapping Sunday night’s WSOP action: Angle corners Seniors’ bracelet 78-year old Harold Angle of Sun City Center, Florida defeated Michael Minetti heads-up to win the $1,000 Seniors’ No-Limit Holdem...
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