The final table for the last major tournament of 2012 is now set, and what a final table it is at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Doyle Brunson Five Diamonds World Poker Classic. Leading the way into Sunday’s action will be former Five Diamonds Champion Antonio Esfandiari. EsfandiariRead Full Article

You may have noticed a new clothing line, 3Bet, around the Rio during the 2012 World Series of Poker, with perhaps the most exposure coming during Antonio Esfandiari’s and Brian Rast’s final table run in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament. Rast is one ofRead Full Article

The Big One for One Drop tournament was a booming success at the 2012 World Series of Poker, stealing the show at the biggest tournament series in the game over the past week. The three-day event was capped-off with a fantastic final table that featured poker superstars PhilRead Full Article

With super-deep-stacks, top-tier poker players and amateurs, and an $18 million first-place prize we were all expecting big things from the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One Drop tournament that kicked off at 1:11 PM on Sunday, but few could have predicted just how exciting, mesmerizing, and wildRead Full Article

Women have been making final tables left and right at the 2012 World Series of Poker, and on Wednesday it was former Bodog Poker Pro Amanda Musumeci who would take her shot at becoming the first female player to win an open-event bracelet at the WSOP since VanessaRead Full Article

A pair of double bracelet winners, Brian Rast and Greg Mueller, advanced to the final table of Event #9, the $1,500 NLHE tournament with reentries. In addition to Rast and Mueller, Amanda Musumeci continued the good run of women at the 2012 WSOP, as she enters the finalRead Full Article

With all of the preliminary tournaments out of the way it’s time to hand out the first-ever PokerNewsBoy.com World Series of Poker Awards! Winners were chosen by me (in the most non-scientific selection process of all-time) in a total of six categories: Comeback Player of the Year –Read Full Article

As is to be expected in a $50k buy-in tournament featuring an 8-game format the final table of the $50k Players Championship at the 2011 World Series of Poker is absolutely stacked with names like 2011 WSOP bracelet winner Brian Rast, Phil Hellmuth looking to improve upon twoRead Full Article

The most mindboggling number to come out of the 2011 World Series of Poker thus far hasn’t been the marked attendance increase in many tournaments despite Black Friday, or that women have finished runner-up in two open events thus far and made four final tables, or even theRead Full Article

Three big names in the poker world are sitting atop the leader-board heading into the final day of the $1,500 Pot Limit Holdem tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker, Brian Rast, Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler, and Ali Eslami. Rast is one of the best cash game playersRead Full Article