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WSOP 2019 Main Event creates 2nd biggest field ever; Winner set to take home $10M
Day 2C has now come to close, concluding the day 2 action and giving us the other half of what will form our day 3 field tomorrow. All remaining players will be in the same place to play out the rest of what is the second largest Main Event ever. Here are the updates from […]
WSOP Main Event 2019: Qui Nguyen makes his mark on Day 2AB
After the madness of day 1C, the Main Event rediscovered some equilibrium. The surviving players from days 1A and 1B came together to fight it out at the Rio, with Bryan Campanello leading the way at the start of play. By the end, many players had fallen, with some interesting names having also clambered up […]
WSOP Main Event 2019: Crazy day at the Rio for biggest ever Day 1C!
Day 1C typically brings big fields and interesting stories at the WSOP Main Event, but yesterday was on an entirely different level. The first unusual happening was the sheer number of players who flooded into the tournament areas. This was then followed by a generous helping of Ivey-busting, shoe-throwing, player-mooning, double-disqualifying, earthquake interrupted poker – […]
WSOP 2019 Main Event Day 1B: Adam Owen takes the lead; Numerous Asian pros make it to day 2
The WSOP 2019 Main Event moved on to its second starting flight yesterday, leaving the 375 lost souls from day 1A in its wake. With the second of three day 1’s playing out, the Rio was full of players hoping to follow the 960 survivors from the day before. The field size for day 1A […]
WSOP 2019: Campbell doubles, Baker binks and Schulman adds to career haul
Yesterday’s action has brought the best and worst of doubles to the fore, with one player taking his second runner-up spot of the series while another claims his second bracelet this summer. In addition, former bracelet winners have been getting busy, with two of them adding to their career collection in the last 24 hours. […]
WSOP Main Event takes off; Day 1A field sees 44% increase from 2018
The biggest WSOP event of all has finally arrived – event 73. The $10,000 NLH Main Event is underway, with the first of three starting day flights having played out last night. With the smoke having cleared after the opening salvos, we have all the latest on risers and fallers to bring you. Typically, the […]
Big Cash Games action in Las Vegas during the WSOP
Reports suggest the current blinds in Bobby’s Room are $4K/8K and $250K pots are changing hands. Who said summertime in Vegas was all about the WSOP? This cash game action does of course spring up partly due to the WSOP bringing players together, but many players head to Vegas at this time of year purely […]
WSOP 2019: Sejin Park wins Korea’s second bracelet as Yueqi Zhu is denied title defence
The 2019 WSOP continues to roll on, with stories and bracelet battles springing up across the Rio. Yesterday saw two exciting Asian stories unfold, with Korea’s Sejin Park adding to Korea’s stellar series, and Yueqi Zhu attempting to win the same event two years running, having also final tabled it the year before that. Event […]
Pinoy Briefs: Mark Amparo wins the Metro WALK TO A MILLION; Manila Super Series and APPT Manila in July
We’ve entered the last half of the year and with that comes plenty of exciting poker all over the Asian region. Focusing our attention on the Philippines, this July will see plenty of cards flying and chips shuffling at Okada Manila. Two events will bookend the month, the Manila Super Series 11 and APPT Manila. […]
WSOP 2019: Phil Hui Wins $50K Player’s Championship, Negreanu, Seidel and Ivey go close
This week has been a fascinating one at the Rio, with the $50K Player’s Championship concluding, Phil Ivey and Tom Dwan getting involved in the action, and star names going deep in events too. There may not be too many $10K events left, but the biggest one of all is now not far away. With […]
Timofey Kuznetsov’s Life: Biggest Profits, Losses, Private Life & Net Worth
– General Information – Credit: Antonio Abrego Timofey Kuznetsov, better known as his PokerStars screen name Trueteller, is a Russian professional poker player. He was born in 1991. For most of his career as a poker player, he’s focused on high stakes online cash games, playing high volumes of No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit … Read more
Huidong Gu captures the inaugural APPT Jeju Main Event; Yang Zhang runner-up
The inaugural Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Jeju crowned its first Main Event champion with Macau’s Huidong Gu overcoming the 362 field at Jeju Shinhwa World – Landing Casino. This was Gu’s first-ever major title; he pocketed KR₩ 183,695,000 (~US$ 159,000), the largest live score of his career. In a brief interview with APPT, Gu expressed, “I […]
Ben Farrell wins the Zynga Poker WPT500; Nikita Luther runner-up; Yohwan Lim & Dhaval Mudgal ITM
From June 21 to 27, the poker tables at ARIA casino filled with action for the World Poker Tour’s Zynga Poker WPT500. There was plenty of opportunity to join with eight stating flights offered. In the aftermath, 1,932 entered for a very juicy prize pool of $ 966,000. Navigating his way to the top was […]
Early highlights of APPT Jeju; Main Event rounds up 362 entries
Shifting our attention from west to east, one of the most prestigious tours offered in Asia is underway. PokerStars LIVE Asia is hosting the inaugural Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Jeju at the Jeju Shinhwa World – Landing Casino. Doors opened on June 22 and is scheduled to run until June 29. The top story […]
Moorman1 no more: Peter “Belabacsi” Traply tops the online tournament All Time Money List!
For many years, the online tournament throne has been occupied by the same man. Chris “Moorman1” was the first to cross the $10 million in 2013, and $15 million mark for online tournaments in 2018, as far as anyone knew. Now, having been quietly amassing a fortune in online tournament scores for thirteen years, a […]
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WSOP 2019: Chidwick and Schwartz claim Gold as Jiyoung Kim wins bracelet for Korea
With plenty of prestigious events going on this week, the crowds in Las Vegas have had their fair share of big names fighting it out for bracelets. They have also seen numerous Asian players grinding away in the latter stages of tournaments too, and after several close calls, we now have our first Asian winner […]
Linglin Zeng captures maiden victory at the $1600 buy-in MSPT Main Event
It’s not all about winning WSOP bracelets in Las Vegas. Around the city, numerous poker events also offer juicy guarantees. From June 17 to 21, the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) held a $3,000,000 guaranteed Main Event at the Venetian. It drew a massive 2,472 entrants each one ponying up the $1,600 buy-in for a prize […]
Full review of Asian performance during the first half of 2019 WSOP
We have reached the halfway mark of the 2019 World Series of Poker at the Rio All Suites Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. The series has been running since May 28 to conclude on July 16. A total of 89 events fill up the schedule. At the time of writing, 43 events have completed. […]
WSOP 2019: John Hennigan bests Daniel Negreanu for bracelet six, Joseph Cheong claims his first
The last twenty-four hours has seen one of poker’s most controversial stars come agonisingly close to a seventh bracelet, while the man who defeated him heads-up picked up what was the seventh bracelet of his own career Elsewhere, Joseph Cheong picked up the first bracelet of his career, with China’s Zinan Xu also going deep. Event […]
