05-25-2012
PokerNews concludes the 2012 World Series of Poker Rookie Roundup with Viktor "Isildur1" Blom.
05-08-2012
Doyle Brunson blogged about the good times with his late friend Amarillo Slim, and ESPN unveiled its television schedule for the 2012 WSOP.
05-04-2012
Get caught up with the week's top poker news stories including results from the APPT and the EPT, and more.
05-01-2012
This week's Five Thoughts looks at Amarillo Slim, TwoPlusTwo, the WSOP APAC and more.
04-29-2012
Thomas Austin Preston, Jr., known to the poker world as “Amarillo Slim” & winner of 1972 World Series of Poker, recently passed away at the age of 83.
11-15-2011
Titanic Thompson was one of the most prolific gamblers in history, betting on everything from golf to poker. Kevin Cook takes a look at this colorful character in his new book, Titanic Thompson: The Man Who Bet on Everything.
11-19-2010
Everyone knows that the poker community has recently become infatuated with MMA-style fighting, but what would happen if your favorite poker players entered the octagon to face off?
05-30-2010
It was the first of many busy days at the Rio on Saturday, for the 41st Annual World Series of Poker. Hoai Pham won the first bracelet of the WSOP, the first $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold's event attracted 2601 players and Kirk Morrison leads the...
09-02-2009
In this week's installment of ESPN's World Series of Poker Main Event coverage, two of Hollywood's top comedians set out to prove that they could play with the best of them.
07-23-2009
Ed 'Junior' Whited came from the Walter Clyde 'Puggy' Pearson school of poker. A hefty man who maintained thick sideburns and kept his hair slicked...
06-12-2009
Perhaps it’s fitting that after the theatrical clunkers served up in the name of poker in recent years, a better film about the game was due...
03-12-2009
By the mid-1980s, Amarillo Slim's Super Bowl of Poker was firmly ensconced as the second biggest poker tournament in the world. In 1984, the field for the main event was actually big enough to force Slim to change...
03-05-2009
Once upon a time poker tournaments with $10,000 buy-ins were as rare as blizzards in Las Vegas. In fact, from 1972 to 1978 the main event of the World Series of Poker was the only tournament in the world that could lay claim...
01-28-2009
With high-stakes poker players, the action hardly ever stops once the river card is dealt, the tournament finds a winner, or the table's biggest fish racks up for the night. Proposition bets are a favorite pastime for many...
09-23-2008
If we consider the birth of the World Series of Poker in 1970 as the dawning of a 'modern' era of professional poker, a signal occurrence in the early history of that era was the emergence of one of the WSOP's early champions...
06-28-2008
Three-time WSOP bracelet winner John Bonetti died of cancer on Saturday, June 28th in his hometown of Houston, Texas. Bonetti won his first WSOP bracelet in the 1990 No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball event at a final table that included...
06-24-2008
Day 1 of Event 42, $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, began with 2,218 players, the largest starting field ever assembled for the WSOP Seniors event. And when the 220 remaining players, led by Duane Gerleman, return for...
