Through 57 events at the 2011 World Series of Poker the ladies have once again been shut out, unable to win a single open-field event, but as the money bubble burst midway through Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Main Event –the biggest open-field event thereRead Full Article

It seems Ben Lamb is not going to simply concede the 2011 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award to Phil Hellmuth, considering Lamb will head into Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event on Thursday as the chip-leader with over 550,000 chips. Lamb will notRead Full Article

One lawsuit goes away and another one appears to take its place, so is the saga of Full Tilt Poker after Black Friday. Just when the beleaguered online poker room thought it was making some headway in resolving its problems in repaying US poker players who can noRead Full Article

The $10k No Limit Holdem 6-Max Championship is the first tournament of the 2011 World Series of Poker that will award $1 million to the winner, thanks to the 474 entrants who created the $4,455,600 prize-pool. By the end of the day a mere 162 players remained inRead Full Article

The second running of the $10k HORSE Championship saw practically no change in attendance from last year when 241 players entered the tournament –this time around 240 players registered for the tournament. As with all mixed-games and $10k Championship events the field was basically made up of pokerRead Full Article

Thus far at the 2011 World Series of Poker the first-time events have drawn sizable fields, with the $25k Heads-Up Championship setting a prize-pool record, and the 10-Game Mix tournament attracting a solid field. Yesterday another new format was introduced as the $5k buy-in 6-Handed PLO tournament gotRead Full Article

What happened to Seven-Card-Stud? The once popular poker format has been steadily declining over the last decade in terms of popularity, and at the 2011 World Series of Poker this was on full display as the $10k Seven-Card-Stud Championship drew an identical number of participants as the $10kRead Full Article

So much for Black Friday negatively impacting the attendance numbers at the 2011 World Series of Poker! Yet another tournament has broken a record in terms of attendance, this time the $1,500 No Limit Holdem event which bested the previous mark, set in 2007, by six entries. ARead Full Article

We are T-Minus 3 and counting until the start of the 2011 World Series of Poker on May 31, when the $500 Casino Employees tournament and the $25,000 Heads-Up No limit Holdem Championship get underway, and in this article I’ll take a look at some of the side-stories,Read Full Article

By virtue of his two final tables –including a win in the 2010 Legends of Poker Main Event—as well as a 16th place finish in a third World Poker Tour Main Event, Andy Frankenberger locked up the WPT Player of the Year Award yesterday when Sam El SayadRead Full Article