After covering poker tournaments all over the world, I noticed that Scandinavian players as a whole were among the toughest and most aggressive players in the world. They seem to fit the mold of the perfect poker player... more
Several big-name poker pros and celebrities have decided to ante up for a worthy cause. The second annual Ante Up For Africa poker tournament, co-founded by actor Don Cheadle and poker pro Annie Duke, will be played at the 2008 World... more
In what may be the longest day of the 2008 World Series of Poker, the final table of Event #33, $5,000 Stud Hi/Low World Championship was set when Sebastian Ruthenberg eliminated Howard Lederer in ninth place. The final elimination... more
A bracelet for a major online star and a marathon final-table bubble were the stories of the day from the World Series of Poker. The major online star was Italy's Dario Minieri, who after teasing WSOP audiences in 2006 and 2007... more
Dario Minieri dominated throughout most of Event 31, $2,500 NLHE Six-Handed, and finally secured his first WSOP bracelet and $528,418 for the win. 1,012 players started this fast-paced event and at the end of the first day Minieri... more
With so much star power in the field, it was a lesser-known German player who led Event #35, $1,500 Seven-Card Stud at the end of Day 1. A field of 381 poker players was winnowed down to 71 after eight levels of play, with Leonardo Ebeling... more
320 of the wildest poker players in the world buckled in for a bumpy ride in Event #34, $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys. The nature of pot-limit Omaha created plenty of action, and the unlimited rebuys available for the first... more
This was a day of upheaval in Event #32, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Only one of the nine who would make the final table had been in the top ten in chips going into Day 2. Jose Luis Velador, the dominating chip leader going into... more
Renowned poker pro Phil Ivey and the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas will be teaming up to host The Budding Ivey Foundation Charity Poker Tournament on Tuesday, July 1 at 8pm. The no-limit hold'em event will be emceed by famed tournament... more
A couple of well-known poker pros added missing pieces to their respective poker résumés on Tuesday at the 2008 World Series of Poker. Both John "The Razor" Phan and Dutch star Rob Hollink claimed their first gold bracelets... more
The 'Year of the Pro' continued at the 2008 World Series of Poker as John Phan became the latest pro player to claim his first bracelet. Phan joined the company of Erick Lindgren and David Singer, all highly successful tournament pros... more
Event #31, $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Handed, had already burst its money bubble in Day 1 action, so Day 2 was a fast-paced race to a six-handed final table. Dario Minieri was one of the chip leaders coming into the day... more
Another $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event drew another mammoth crowd – 2,304 players packed into every spare inch at the Rio. By the end of Day 1, it was down to just 166 players, all of whom had made it into the money. Leading the pack... more
261 players ponied up $5,000 each to enter Event #33, $5,000 Stud Hi/Lo World Championship at the 2008 World Series of Poker. Among the competitors were some of the most recognizable faces in poker, including Chris 'Jesus' Ferguson... more
Before today, Dutch pro Rob Hollink had an admirable list of poker accomplishments -- 18 prior WSOP cashes, two WPT cashes, first place in the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo and over $2 million in tournament winnings... more
It was a frontrunner's day at the WSOP on Monday, as both events that saw bracelets awarded wound up having those bracelets awarded to the players leading those events at the start of the day. Phil 'OMGClayAiken' Galfond... more
Aaron Katz, who at times plays in the legendary "Big Game," is the only player going into the final table of the $10,000 limit world championship Event #30 with over a million in chips. But that doesn't mean he will have... more
Vitaly Lunkin had only one prior cash in the WSOP, an 829th-place finish in the 2006 Main Event. He can now add to that a first-place finish in a 2008 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event. A Russian pro who has cashed in ten previous... more
It stands to reason that if short-handed tables play fast, short-handed tournaments play fast. Logic ruled and the 1,012-player starting field whittled itself down to just 73 players in Day 1 of the $2,500 NLHE Six-Handed event... more
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