Despite a bleak world-wide economy, Black Friday, and competing tournaments around the world, over the past couple of years attendance records have been falling by the wayside at major tournaments, with the latest victim being the World Series of Poker Europe. In Event #2, a €1,000 buy-in NLHE tournament, a total of 771 players registered over the two starting days, easily eclipsing the oldRead Full Article

The public voting stage of the 2011 Poker Hall of Fame induction process is now complete, and it is now on to the next step; where the Top 10, eligible, vote-getters will be voted on by a select group of 17 men and women from the poker media as well as the 18 living members of the Poker Hall of Fame. The eligibility hasRead Full Article

After over a month of poker tournament, after poker tournament, after poker tournament, the 2011 World Series of Poker had its first full day-off on Wednesday as the remaining players from the two Day 2 flights of the 2011 Main Event get set for Wednesday’s Day 3; the first day when the entire field of the 2011 WSOP Main Event will be combined. WithRead Full Article

With 2,031 players starting Day 2a of the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event on Monday –actually 2,030, since Phil Hellmuth thought he was playing Day 2b and almost was blinded off as he showed up extremely late—the Rio had another full house on its hands, with players filling both the Amazon and Pavilion rooms. By the end of the night one ofRead Full Article

The final table of Event #47 –yes the 2011 WSOP is nearing completion—a $2,500 Omaha/Seven-Card-Stud hi/lo tournament, was one of the best of the 2011 WSOP with names like Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi, 1998 Main Event Champion Scotty Nguyen, and high-stakes poker pro Abe Mosseri. But in the end it was an unknown player by the name of Owais Ahmed who would conquer all.Read Full Article

If concern started to grow after the $1k No Limit Holdem came in slightly under last year’s attendance numbers these fears were quickly squashed when the $1,500 NLHE 6-Max tournament shattered last year’s attendance number by 257 entrants! A total of 1,920 players registered for the tournament on Day 1, ballooning the prize-pool to a massive $2,592,000, with the winner set to receive aRead Full Article

The full roster for the upcoming NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship was released today, and now that the entire 64 player field is known I thought I would take a look at some of the favorites amongst the field. First, here is a look at the complete 64 player field: The majority of entrants are poker players, including Phil Galfond, Sorel Mizzi, Patrik Antonius,Read Full Article

After implementing a fan voting system last year –a process that saw Mike Sexton end up as the lone inductee– the Poker Hall of Fame once again opened up the nomination process to the fans. After the initial nomination period a whopping 181 poker players have been nominated for poker’s highest honor. Next week the top 10 nominees will be sent to the NominationRead Full Article

The final 10 players in the $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship came into day 6 of the poker tournament knowing four of them would fall just shy of the televised final table, not to mention the $1.5 million first-place prize-money. Heading into day 6 it was crystal-clear that the final table was shaping up to be one for the ages, with poker’s biggest namesRead Full Article

The elite eight is set to return to the poker tables at Caesars Palace on Sunday, and headlining the remaining field will be the 76 year-old 10-time WSOP bracelet winner Doyle Brunson. Along the way Doyle has defeated Brock Parker, who won back-to-back bracelets at the 2009 WSOP; Actor, and poker enthusiast, Don Cheadle; and young superstar Annette Obrestad. In the round of eightRead Full Article