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  • The Five Biggest Storylines From Week Four of the 2021 WSOP
    The Five Biggest Storylines From Week Four of the 2021 WSOP

    Incredible heaters and heartwarming stories took focus during a wild week of the 2021 World Series of Poker. This year’s historic WSOP is now officially past the halfway point and this week has forged some of the memories that won’t soon be forgotten. Hellmuth surged (then lost) the 2021 Player of the Year lead, Michael […]

  • WSOP 2021: David ‘Bakes’ Baker Wins Third Career Bracelet, Negreanu and Hellmuth In $10K Dealers Choice Final 10
    WSOP 2021: David ‘Bakes’ Baker Wins Third Career Bracelet, Negreanu and Hellmuth In $10K Dealers Choice Final 10

    It was a busy day inside the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino on Tuesday with three gold bracelets being won and a constellation of poker stars battling in the Amazon room. Michael Noori, David ‘Bakes’ Baker, and Anthony Koutsos all won gold. At the same time, high roller superstar Michael Addamo took the lead in […]

  • WSOP 2021: Phil Hellmuth Wins 16th World Series of Poker Bracelet, Extends All-Time Record
    WSOP 2021: Phil Hellmuth Wins 16th World Series of Poker Bracelet, Extends All-Time Record

    One of the biggest days in recent World Series of Poker history played out at the Rio on Day 18 of the 2021 WSOP as Phil Hellmuth won his 16th bracelet with victory in the $1,500 2-7 Lowball Draw Event #31. Hellmuth saw off a stacked final table of talented mixed game specialists to oust […]

  • Tony Tran Crushes WPT Rolling Thunder Final Table for Second Title
    Tony Tran Crushes WPT Rolling Thunder Final Table for Second Title

    The final table of the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder stop was not hurting for storylines before play began on Tuesday afternoon. Defending champion Erkut Yilmaz had a shot at going back-to-back. Jake Schwartz had another shot at his first WPT title at his sixth final table. Robert Heidorn, who bubbled the 2019 WSOP Main […]

  • No Gold Club: Best Players Without a World Series of Poker Bracelet
    No Gold Club: Best Players Without a World Series of Poker Bracelet

    Winning a World Series of Poker gold bracelet is widely considered by many to be poker’s ultimate achievement. For some players, it defines his or her career. For others, it’s the one prize eluding some of the game’s best.

  • WSOP: Ben Heath Leads $50K Final 12; Big 50 Continues to Grow
    WSOP: Ben Heath Leads $50K Final 12; Big 50 Continues to Grow

    The 2019 World Series of Poker continued on Saturday with another massive field in the Big 50 as that event quickly hurtles toward a record for the largest WSOP event ever.

  • WPT Player of the Year Update: Yilmaz Moves Into Lead
    WPT Player of the Year Update: Yilmaz Moves Into Lead

    The World Poker Tour crowned four champions this week, with three coming from the WPT’s delayed final tables that took place in Las Vegas and another one coming in Northern California. The conclusion of these four events cause a lot of shakeup in the Hublot WPT Player of the Year standings, and it’s now two-time […]

  • Demo Kiriopoulos Wins Record WPT Fallsview
    Demo Kiriopoulos Wins Record WPT Fallsview

    The World Poker Tour has a new WPT Champions Club member. On Monday night, Canadien Demo Kiriopoulos captured first place in the Season XVII WPT Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event. Kiriopoulos topped a record-breaking field of 602 entries to win the C$517,424 ($382,894) top prize.

  • PSPC: Baumstein, Platinum Pass Winner Marc Rivera Lead Final Table
    PSPC: Baumstein, Platinum Pass Winner Marc Rivera Lead Final Table

    The final table for the PokerStars NL Hold’em Players Championship is set. On Thursday, the final eight players will take their seats to play for a massive $5.1 million first-place prize in what is the largest $25,000 tournament of all time.

  • WPT: Tony Tran Wins bestbet Bounty Scramble
    WPT: Tony Tran Wins bestbet Bounty Scramble

    Almost everybody who has entered a poker tournament has experienced this at some point; you look down at your stack and notice you’re desperately short. It feels like it’s only a matter of time before you’re eliminated.

  • WPT: Mike Sexton Wins partypoker.net WPT Montreal
    WPT: Mike Sexton Wins partypoker.net WPT Montreal

    For nearly 15 years Mike Sexton has been the voice of World Poker Tour broadcasts. Thursday night in Montreal the Poker Hall of Famer was unable to be in the broadcast booth as he was busy adding his name to the WPT Champions Cup after overcoming Benny Chen heads-up to win the partypoker.net WPT Montreal […]