With both bracelet events on Thursday falling prey to the Hard-Stop Rule we knew at least two WSOP bracelets would be handed out on Friday, with the possibility of up to four bracelets being awarded. In the end three bracelets found new homes around the wrists of first-timeRead Full Article

John Juanda and Jason Mercier: That is the entire list of players who have come out victorious over the first 35 tournaments of the 2011 World Series of Poker that have previously won a WSOP bracelet. Mercier is the latest bracelet winner –his second career WSOP title—having wonRead 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

For Phil Hellmuth, the last of his 11 World Series of Poker bracelets won came all the way back in 2007, and for the second time at the 2011 WSOP the “Poker Brat” came up just short of bracelet #12 after finishing as the bridesmaid for the secondRead Full Article

27 tournaments at the 2011 World Series of Poker have crowned a champion and in just one of those instances has the player previously won a WSOP bracelet –John Juanda, who is now the proud owner of five WSOP bracelets. This amazing run of first-time winners at theRead Full Article

The amazing streak of first-time bracelet winners continued on Thursday as Mark Radoja captured his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the $5k NLHE Shootout tournament, defeating a very tough final table in the process.–of the 24 winners at the 2011 WSOP only five-time bracelet winner JohnRead Full Article

Yet another professional poker pro captured their first World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2011 WSOP on Wednesday; this time around it was John Monnette who broke through with a win in the $2,500 8-Game Mix tournament. Monnette traversed the 489 player field over three days, andRead 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

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

Mixed Games have come a long over the past few years, evidenced by the nearly 1,000 entrants in the $1,500 HORSE tournament; a tournament that in 2008 attracted just over 800 participants and wasn’t even on the schedule in 2007! With more and more players starting to branchRead Full Article