What started as a field of 4,345 players in Event #3 of the 2010 World Series of Poker, a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament, is down to just 41. Sitting in eighth on the leaderboard after two days of play is UB.com pro Eric “basebaldy” Baldwin, aWSOP bracelet winner who is in prime position to collect his second piece of hardware.
Baldwin nearly didn’t survive Monday’s action, however. He pushed all-in pre-flop with 8-7, but picked an inopportune time to do so, as an opponent woke up with pocket tens. However, Baldwin flopped two pair when the first three cards came A-8-7, but his... Read More.
Barring a last-minute breakthrough by the Poker Players Alliance (PPA), U.S. Treasury, or Federal Reserve, the regulations of the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act(UIGEA) will go into effect on Tuesday, June 1st.
In November, the Treasury and Federal Reserve granted a six-month delay in mandatory industry compliance with the UIGEA’s rules until June 1st. In the interim, it was presumed that the muddled 2006 law, which sailed through the Senate after being attached to an unrelated port security measure, would be clarified. However, with groundbreaking health care reform and a sagging... Read More.
Last year, 6,012 players turned out for the $1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em Stimulus Special held during the World Series of Poker (WSOP). This year, the first of six open $1,000 events (#3) attracted 2,601 players on Day 1A and 1,742 on Day 1B for a total field of 4,343.
The day was not without some controversy. A total of 555 players returned after the dinner break and, when all is said and done, the top 441 overall will finish in the money. Given that 276 players survived Day 1A, this means that, if the field were to shrink below 165 players on Day 1B, the remaining players would actually... Read More.
We’re just two days away from the start of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The game’s elite and a host of amateurs will descend upon Las Vegas on Friday to capture one of 57 bracelets up for grabs and claim riches in a slew of cash games and side events. The Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino will serve as the epicenter of the poker world until July 17th.
The first two days promise to feature record-setting fields and a high caliber of poker talent. On Friday at Noon PT, the annual $500 Casino Employees No Limit Hold’emtournament will begin. Last year, 866 players turned out for the... Read More.
In 2003, a little-known Tennessee accountant named Chris Moneymaker took down the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Moneymaker is the reason you and I are here today and this week marks the seven-year anniversary of his win. Moneymaker joined Tuesday’s installment of the ESPN.com poker news show “Inside Deal.”
The annual WSOP used to wrap up in May. Such was the case in 2003, when Moneymaker outlasted industry titan Sammy Farha in the $10,000 buy-in poker tournament after winning his seat online. On his anniversary, Moneymaker told “Inside Deal” hosts Laura Lane and Bernard... Read More.
If there’s one thing UB.com pro and 11-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth has proven over the last few years, it’s that he will do anything for attention. Whether it’s dressing up as Julius Caesar, ranting at players on live TV, or collapsing in a heap of tears after a gut-wrenching tournament elimination, nothing the UB.com pro does is surprising.
It came as no shock, then, that Hellmuth was spotted in rapper Ludacris’ video for his new song “Sex Room” (featuring Trey Songz). That’s right, Hellmuth appears about two minutes into the six-minute video... Read More.
On Wednesday, World Series of Poker (WSOP) officials released a media guide containing the details of the upcoming festivities in Las Vegas. Included in it was the rundown of the 2010 WSOP Europe.
Five events are on tap this time around, one more than in 2009. The WSOP Europe schedule will once again play out at the Casino at the Empire in Leicester Square in London and kick off on September 14th. Fourteen days later, a champion of the £10,350 buy-in WSOP Europe Main Event will be crowned. Last year featured the first ever running of the Caesars Cup, which pitted Team Americas, led by Daniel... Read More.
The World Series of Poker will no doubt collect the most poker foot traffic, but players might be surprised to learn that this summer in Las Vegas they’ll have an entire menu full of tournament series choices.
The Orleans Open, which began this week will run through May 30 and feature nine events ranging from $200 + $25 to a $500 + $40 final event this coming weekend. Starting stacks will vary from 15,000 to 25,000 depending on the buy-in, and the tournament will have 45-minute levels for the no-limit events and 30 minutes for the limit events.
The Caesars Palace Mega Stack Series begins May... Read More.
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As soon as the European Poker Tour Grand Final ended in Monte Carlo, all of the talk turned to the players’ upcoming trips to Las Vegas for the summer. But not everyone is Vegas-bound. PokerNews took a break from the World Series of Poker chatter to talk to Mike “Timex” McDonald, who at 20-years old, is too young to play at the Rio this summer (though oddly enough, he’s still listed as a draft pick in Full Tilt‘s Fantasy WSOP promotion.)
McDonald announced his semi-retirement from poker in aCardRunners blog post in early April. Though he’s only 20, he’s... Read More.
The World Poker Tour Spanish Championship ended today when Ali Tekintamgac topped a field of 326 opponents to win €315,000, a $25,000 seat in the 2011 WPT Championship and a Tiffany bracelet. Tekintamgac scored his first major tournament win to go along with his first tournament cash, which he scored at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo (125th place) earlier this month. “I couldn’t feel any better now,” said Tekintamgac. “I have been playing poker for 20 years but it was only recently that I thought I would go for it on the big stage and take part in major tournaments.”
The... Read More.
