Daily news from poker and online poker world http://www.pokernews.com/news/ Sun, 11 May 2008 18:28:11 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/i/logo-pn2.gif http://www.pokernews.com/news/ en-us Copyright 2003-2008, PokerNews.com http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/10/wsop-2008-dates-announced.htm Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. has announced that the 39th annual World Series of Poker® Presented by Milwaukee's Best Light will run May 30 through July 17, 2008, and will again be held at the Rio™ All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. poker/news/2007 WSOP Mon, 08 Oct 2007 23:23:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/09/poker-pomp-world-series-poker-europe-launches.htm For nearly 40 years, the World Series of Poker handed out gold bracelets in the Las Vegas desert. For all but the last three of those years, these coveted symbols of poker excellence were handed out in a place known as 'Benny's Bullpen'... poker/news/2007 WSOP Fri, 07 Sep 2007 07:04:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/08/2007-2008-wsop-circuit-schedule-announced.htm Just two weeks after the 2007 World Series of Poker Main Event concluded, Harrah's has released the complete schedule for the coming poker year's WSOP Circuit. This is the fourth year running for the WSOP Circuit, where the winner... poker/news/2007 WSOP http://www.pokernews.com/poker-forum/topic2465/ Thu, 02 Aug 2007 09:49:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/7/tough-choice-mitchell-lolis.htm For most of us, playing in the World Series of Poker means you have achieved a respectable level of play enabling you to enter the realm of 'real poker players'. We all dream of winning a coveted gold bracelet... poker/news/2007 WSOP Fri, 20 Jul 2007 14:19:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/7/jerry-yang-wins-2007-wsop-main-event.htm 6,358 players started the Main Event of the 2007 World Series of Poker on July 6th. Nine men remained yesterday to play the final table. Truly a worldwide final table, Players with origins in Denmark, Russia... poker/news/2007 WSOP Wed, 18 Jul 2007 15:56:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/7/jerry-yang-sometimes-nice-guys-finish-first.htm We are about to set off on an interesting journey in the poker world. What's it going to be like to have a soft-spoken, 'nice guy' as our world champion? Although he has only been world champion for a few hours, Jerry Yang seems... poker/news/2007 WSOP http://www.pokernews.com/poker-forum/topic2391/ Wed, 18 Jul 2007 10:51:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/7/wsop-updates-event-55-day6-philip-hilm-on-top-as-final-table-set.htm 6,358 players started the 2007 WSOP Main Event on July 6th. Nine days, countless hours and innumerable energy drinks later, 36 players remained in the field. Sunday's Day Six required a grueling 16 hours of play to get from the 36 players... poker/news/2007 WSOP Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:18:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/7/wsop-stories-the-pros-on-the-rail.htm As the players' friends and family watched a long WSOP Day Six of play, finally resulting in the 2007 Championship final table, they rubbed shoulders with a couple of poker's well known names. Lee Watkinson had some Full Tilt peers sweating him... poker/news/2007 WSOP Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:25:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/7/wsop-updates-event-55-day5-david-tran-philip-hilm-lead.htm Day Five at the 2007 World Series of Poker saw the 112 remaining players continue in their pursuit of the custom Corum winner's bracelet and $8.5 million in first-place money. 36 players survived the day, including one World Champion... poker/news/2007 WSOP Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:47:00 -0700 http://www.pokernews.com/news/2007/7/team-pokernews-mikkel-madsen-final-36.htm From $100 to $285,000. Does that sound good? That's what Denmark's Mikkel Madsen has been able to achieve for himself over the last week and a half. In May, Mikkel put $100 into play on Mansion Poker, and was able to turn that $100... poker/news/2007 WSOP http://www.pokernews.com/poker-forum/topic2374/ Sun, 15 Jul 2007 13:19:00 -0700