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Epic Poker First Tournament a Success—-Last Friday Annie Duke, the commissioner of the newly formed Epic Poker League, presented David Rheem with the first ever championship ring after his flush led him to victory against Erik Seidel. 80 hands of play had brought the final six to this point and all the players took home [...]

Its fun to look back at old blogs and do the whole ‘what happened on this day four years ago’ thing. This time I had a look at last year and struggled to conceive just how much things have changed since last summer. I guess we will start calling it the pre-black Friday poker world. [...]

Well its been an exciting few weeks with lots to review and new players to talk about but right now its all about the November Nine. Yes the final players in event 58 of the 2011 WSOP main event has been decided. Here’s the line up for your review. 1. Matt Giannetti, Las Vegas, NV. [...]

The end is drawing closer by the day and with only one event still in player we will soon know the lineup for November’s final table.  Here’s where things stand Tuesday evening. Event 56: No Limit Hold’em—a $1,500 buy in brought over 3,000 players to the table and resulted in a prize pool of just [...]

Yes ladies and gentlemen the final event has begun in this year’s WSOP.  As I write there are still 700 players left out of an original pool of 897. Still time to predict this year’s final table. Here’s where things stand right now. Event 46: No Limit Hold’em/Six Handed Championship—Joe Ebanks of Stow, Ohio brought [...]

Here’s where we left off last week and here’s where we’re heading this coming week. Event #35: Pot-Limit Omaha / Six Handed—There were 507 entrants for this event with a $5,000 buy in. It was Jason Mercier of Davie, Florida that took home the bracelet along with $619, 575 in prize money. Hans Winzeler of [...]

No extra room for gabbing so here goes… Event #18: No Limit Hold’em—3,157 original players came down to Foster Hays of Dallas and Casey Kelton of Alaska with Hays taking home the bracelet and a lovely $735,400 for his hard work. There was a buy in of $1,500. Event #19: Two personal favorites took home [...]

Poker fans everywhere are glued to the action during the second week of the 2011 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, Nevada. 13 bracelets have already been distributed. Here’s a look at the results so far this week. Event 6: Limit Hold’em—Harrison Wilder took home to Oregon a tidy $205,065. The first 22 places of [...]

Play is taking place as I write but some of the results for the 42nd WSOP have already come in. As announced on the WSOP official website here’s how things look at the beginning of the second week of play. Event One: Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em—Sean Drake of Sacramento, California earning $82,292. Not bad for [...]

Full Tilt Not Paying Players? — According to Pokernewsdaily and the folks over at EGR magazine, Full Tilt has had enough of their assets unfrozen by the Department of Justice to pay out one third of the U.S. players. The amount available is somewhere in the 60 million dollar range. But Full Tilt says its [...]