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Jonathan Duhamel Assault Update—Last week WSOP champion Jonathan Duhamel’s suffered a home invasion. His WSOP gold bracelet, a WSOP watch and a large sum of cash were taken. Duhamel suffered a physical attack during the break in. Authorities acted quickly and now PokerNews.com is reporting that four suspects are being held in custody. Calls to [...]

This week its all about the players. Here’s a quick look at this year’s Poker Hall of Fame inductees as well as whos on top in the GPI. 2011 Poker Hall of Fame Barry Greenstein—Born in Chicago in 1954 Brian Greenstein is the 42nd inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame. Greenstein is known as [...]

After a long long night of poker play, we finally have a winner for this year’s 2011 WSOP Main Event. Pius Heinz fought hard for the title but somewhere around 2 in the morning he got it. Eight million in the bank, a gold bracelet and only 22 years old. It was a great battle [...]

NHUPC Canceled—The National Heads-Up Championship (NHUPC). With no budget for advertising, promotion or pricey entrance fee for professional players the tournament has been canceled indefinitely. PokerStars and Full Tilt were major advertising players in the NHUPC but of course they are banned from operating in any way shape or form on American soil. Without the [...]

Hinrichsen Wins Largest WSOPE Event to Date—Andrew Hinrichsen became the sixth ever Australian to take home a WSOP gold bracelet this week when he won the second event of the WSOP Europe. It was a No Limit Hold em event that had a record breaking number of entrants and supplying the final table folks with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]