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World Series of Poker News

  • PokerNews Op-Ed: The November Nine - Who's the Best for Poker?

    November 07, 2009

    With less than a week to go before the "November Nine" return to Las Vegas for a shot a poker immortality, sports books are setting lines, office pools are coming together, and many of us in the poker media are busy speculating what effect our next...

     
  • PokerNews World Series of Poker Final Table Predictions

    November 07, 2009

    In honor of this weekend's final table, we here at PokerNews HQ have all individually run a number of extremely complex algorithms and formulas (we guessed) to come up with our official predictions.

     
  • The World Series of Poker November Nine: Kevin Schaffel

    November 06, 2009

    Although he may be the oldest member of the November Nine, don't expect Kevin Schaffel from Coral Springs, Fla., to bow to the younger lads at the table. Having played poker for 40+ years, Schaffel may not be as intimidating as his younger, more...

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Live Reporting

Concluded Event 57

$10,000 World Championship No Limit Hold'em

$10000+$0 Number of players - 9 Live Reporting Log
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  Meet Your November Nine

What a day of poker! If you asked anyone in the media when we got here this morning if we thought the tournament would be down to its final nine players -- the November Nine -- before 11pm, we would have laughed and challenged you to put your whole bankr

 
 

WSOP Winners

Year Winner / Winning Hand Prize (US$)
2008 Peter Eastgate {A-Diamonds}{5-Spades} 9,152,416
2007 Jerry Yang {8-Diamonds}{8-Clubs} 8,250,000
2006 Jamie Gold {Q-Spades}{9-Clubs} 12,000,000
2005 Joe Hachem {7-Clubs}{3-Spades} 7,500,000
2004 Greg Raymer {8-Spades}{8-Diamonds} 5,000,000
2003 Chris Moneymaker {5-Diamonds}{4-Spades} 2,500,000
2002 Robert Varkonyi {Q-Diamonds}{10-Spades} 2,000,000
2001 Juan Carlos Mortensen {K-Clubs}{Q-Clubs} 1,500,000
2000 Chris Ferguson {A-Spades}{9-Clubs} 1,500,000

History of WSOP by years

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Online poker Tweets
  • Matthew Parvis

    Phil Ivey just cracked a smiile after winning a pot.

    3 minutes ago
  • Jeff "Jeff Madsen" Madsen

    Busted Ftops. gonna head down to rio in a minute...

    5 minutes ago
  • Jeffrey Pollack

    Kevin Schaffel is our 8th place finisher. #wsop

    5 minutes ago
  • Jonathan Little

    Sad scene. Buchman lucksacked schaffel and his group of clowns went nuts. Makes me a tad depressed. http://yfrog.com/5kn64kj

    8 minutes ago
  • Matthew Parvis

    What an unbelievable hand. Eric Buchman eliminates Kevin Schaffel with Quad Kings against the Aces of Schaffell.

    8 minutes ago
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