Phil Laak knew it was going to be tough to break the record for consecutive hours of poker played –the official record stood at over 72 hours, while the unofficial record stood at 78 hours—but the Unabomber, as Laak is known by, almost made it look easy! LaakRead Full Article

The online poker world saw its poster-child come up just short in his bid to take home his first World Series of Poker bracelet, but alas it was not meant to be and Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan finished in 2nd place of Event #11,the $1,500 No limit Holdem tournament.Read Full Article

Over on the Full Tilt Poker blog, Michael Craig wrote an interesting entry revolving around a very unusual situation at the World Series of Poker. It seems just before a 20-minute break an all-in situation occurred in the $1,000 No Limit Holdem event and as it unfolded theRead Full Article

Poker pro Phil Laak has set the poker endurance record after playing 80 hours of live poker! Laak bested not only the record of Larry Olmsted, which stood at 72 hours, from the Guinness Book of World Records, but also the unofficial record of 78 hours set byRead Full Article

Putting “The Master” alongside other World Series of Poker legends as Phil Ivey and Billy Baxter, Men Nguyen captured his 7th WSOP gold bracelet yesterday in the $10,000 Seven Card Stud World Championship. Only Erik Seidel, Johnny Moss, Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, and Phil Hellmuth have more WSOPRead Full Article

With 21 players left in the $1,500 No Limit Holdem it is one of poker’s biggest names atop the leader-board: Tom “durrrr” Dwan. Many in the poker world are shocked Dwan hasn’t won a World Series of Poker bracelet yet, even though he is barely into his twenties!Read Full Article

Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi is closing in on his second World Series of Poker bracelet, his first coming earlier in the 2010 WSOP at the $50,000 buy-in Players Championship. Mizrachi will have to battle through 11 other players looking to win the $10,000 Seven Card Stud World ChampionshipRead Full Article

Event #8 –a lowly $1,500 No Limit Holdem tournament– was shaping up to go down as a very significant tournament at the 2010 World Series of Poker. Unfortunately, the man trying to add to his record 11 WSOP bracelets, Phil Hellmuth, was unable to make it to theRead Full Article

A study at a US university that was conducted recently has confirmed that a big percentage of professional poker players enhance their game with medication and illegal performance enhancing drugs. Players using these drugs claim to be able to improve their win rate but also put a massiveRead Full Article

High stakes action has started to dry up online due to the large professional poker players all flocking to the World Series of Poker is Las Vegas. The Majority of the top players were involved in the 50k Players Championship which is one of the highest stakes WSOPRead Full Article