Three new WSOP bracelet winners and a new leader in the POY race highlight Day 25 at the World Series of Poker. We’ve got the details on that plus ongoing action from each and every tournament from the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Event 36 – $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em – Winner 1,734 bought [...]
Three more bracelets were awarded today at the World Series of Poker as Allen Bari, Harrison Wilder and Amir Lehavot all became WSOP champions. We’ve got the details on those victories plus summaries of each ongoing WSOP event below. Event 4 – $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em – Final The number of great poker players who have [...]
Contemporary entertainment rests on two main pillars: Judgment and criticism. We’ve decided to bring that simple elegance to PokerListings.com by reducing the poker world’s weekly happenings to two simple lists. Buckle up and get ready for this week’s In and Out List. Poker’s In List – May 13-20 1. Hat Guy Prahlad Friedman dropped a [...]
The high of beating Daniel Negreanu for $150k this weekend didn’t last long for Viktor “Isildur1” Blom as he lost $423k last night. It certainly wasn’t due to a lack of effort as Blom played 4,011 hands of $50/$100 PLO and No-Limit Hold’em. Unfortunately for Blom, he was absolutely crushed by Rui “PepperoniF” Cao. In [...]
Victor Ramdin continues to dominate The Big Event at The Bicycle Casino now down to just 22 players. The 56-player money bubble cracked early on Day 3 Tuesday as the field was whittled down from 68 to beyond the final three tables. Ramdin started the day with a 2:1 chip lead over anyone close to [...]
Phil Ivey booked a short session last night that saw him utterly dismantle Kagome Kagome for $431k. Ivey, not known for putting in a tremendous amount of volume online, needed just 244 hands of $3,000/$6,000 Limit Hold’em to dominate Kagome Kagome. The legendary Team Full Tilt Pro is now up over $720k in online poker [...]
Dan “jungleman12” Cates bumped a cold streak last night with a $326k win on Full Tilt Poker. Cates, who was down over $300k in the last few weeks, took on rumprammer and gavz101 at $500/$1,000 Cap PLO. In a three-hour span Cates recorded 1,757 hands and absolutely rocked the opposition, proving once again that he’s [...]
The 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure kicked off with its $100k Super High Roller event at the Atlantis Resort & Casino on Paradise Island in the Bahamas Thursday. Daniel Negreanu 38 of poker’s biggest names and a few wealthy whales helped create a $3,743,000 prize pool that will see the top five paid, including $1.5 million [...]
Joe Tehan bagged the coveted NAPT Las Vegas title after knocking out every player on a tough final table for £725,000. Arriving relatively short-stacked, Tehan began dismantling his opponents after knocking out Jake Toole in eighth place. Young star Jason Mercier, chasing his second NAPT title this year, quickly followed alongside Michael Binger, before Tehan eliminated [...]
If you aren’t well versed in poker lingo and unsure of what exactly a Satellite is and why they are such a big deal, listen up and we will clue you in. When you find a tournament you want to play in but your bankroll balance is stopping you, don’t worry about not being able [...]
