Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The Big One for One Drop website has released the official entry list for the historic $1,000,000 buy-in poker tournament scheduled to kick-off at 1:11 PM tomorrow at the Rio. Most of the names were already known, but there were some last minute entries, as well as theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There were a lot of interesting tidbits coming out of the Rio on Friday including a few new names being added and subtracted from the Big One for One Drop entry list. We also saw a record set on Friday during the $5k NLHE tournament, as well asRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 30, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Yesterday 936 poker players (almost all of whom were of the farer sex) showed up to participate in the $1,000 Ladies Championship at the 2012 World Series of Poker. The tournament brought out plenty of amateur players, who for many this will be the only WSOP event theyRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In 2010 Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi turned his WSOP career around (and his life for that matter) when he won the $50k Poker Players Championship, which was astonishingly Mizrachi’s first WSOP bracelet. Mizrachi then went on to final table the 2010 WSOP Main Event, finishing 5th, etching hisRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 29, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With a $1,000,000 buy-in, pretty much everyone in the poker world understands just how big a deal the Big One for One Drop tournament at the 2012 World Series of poker will be. But what we may be overlooking is how this tournament will be covered by theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 27, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It took a miracle one-outer, but by the end of Day 3 Viktor “Isildur1” Blom was the chip-leader in the $50k Poker Players Championship, headlining a star-studded field of 26 players that remain in the hunt for one of poker’s most prestigious titles. The hand in question cameRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 27, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Today we are going to stick with yesterday’s controversial hand in the $50k Poker Players Championship as the main topic of discussion, and look at some of the debate that has been raging since it first came to light (a sincere thanks to Donnie Peters from PokerNews.com forRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 27, 2012 Posted in Poker Promotions | No Comments »

From July 12 through July 22 PokerStars will be running their second MicroMillions tournament series. The MicroMillions tournament series gives players who lack the bankroll to play in events such as the PokerStars WCOOP or SCOOP series the chance to test their skills in a tournament series whereRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the premier tournaments at the World Series of Poker over the past seven years has been the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship, where players are tested in a variety of different poker formats in order to win not only a WSOP bracelet but also the ChipRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 26, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

There was some very strange goings on at the Rio yesterday as a player had $50,000 jacked from them at a poker table while they had walked away. In this installment of the WSOP Notebook I’ll touch on this breaking story as well as fill you in onRead Full Article