Going into the final table of the €5,300 buy-in PLO tournament at the World Series of Poker Europe the talk of the tournament was Sam Trickett, as the young UK star sought yet another big score, as well as his first WSOP bracelet. Trickett entered Wednesday’s final tableRead Full Article

One look at Sam Trickett’s tournament results over the past two years and it would be hard to argue that Trickett isn’t amongst the top tournament players in the world, and the young UK star is about to add to his growing list of accomplishments as he hasRead Full Article

The 2011 running of the $50k Players Championship saw a dramatic increase in attendance for the second straight year, but still well below the tournaments heydays of the mid 2000’s when attendance often flirted with 150 players. With a total of 128 entrants –12 more than in 2010—theRead Full Article

On Wednesday night, the $10k Omaha 8 Championship at the 2011 World Series of Poker was stopped during 3-handed play, making the tournament the third victim of the new WSOP Hard-Stop Rule which limits the amount of time a tournament can be played on any given day toRead Full Article

The $25k buy-in NLHE Heads-Up Championship got underway on the opening day of the 2011 World Series of Poker on Tuesday, and attracted a field of precisely 128 players –which likely had tournament officials doing cartwheels and back-flips as logistically this is the perfect number for a bracket-styleRead Full Article