For the third consecutive year, European poker fans will be privy to a large variety of free poker-oriented events via Bluff’s Poker in the Park. This year’s Poker in the Park will return to its home in Leicester Square (London) on August 13-14. read more
Since the beginning of the game, the crowds surrounding poker tables have had a decisive male majority. Of course anyone that’s familiar with the modern poker scene recognizes the faces and names of lethal lady pros like Annie Duke or Jennifer Harman. Still, despite the millions of dollars female pros have been raking in they remain remarkable to the general public not because of their excellence but because of their gender.
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After Day 3 of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, French online pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier leads the field of seven hundred eighty-nine players with almost 1.4 million chips.
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Day 4 saw 648 players reach one of the most desired goals in a player’s career: a money finish at the World Series of Poker. Young unknown player Matt Affleck leads the field with over 1.8 million in chips. Day 3 chip leader Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier is in sixteenth place at the end of Day 4 with 1.25 million, while multiple bracelet winner Phil Ivey is just ahead of him in fifteenth place with 1.276 million.
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Out of the nearly 6,500 players who started on this long, exciting and frustrating journey, only 64 were left at the end of Day 6. While these players represent the top one percent of all finishers in this year’s event, they each have a long way to go before they can make the final table and the November Nine.
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As the WSOP Main Event action rages on at the Rio, the heat is also building over at the Bellagio where the WPT’s Bellagio Cup opened on Tuesday. While the Bellagio Cup boasts a bigger buy-in than the Main Event ($15,000 vs $10,000) the field is expected to be a tenth of the size. Last year the event attracted 446 players, but judging by the Day 1A turnout of only 79 players this year’s field will represent just a fraction of the Main Event’s 6494 participants.
At last, the field of 6,494 hopefuls has been honed down to the November Nine.
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Day 2A of the 40th Annual World Series of Poker Main Event has wrapped up.
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This year’s World Series of Poker has been setting records and selling out events at every turn, so it should come as no surprise that the Main Event has been…well, eventful. While the first fiftysome events of the series ran rather smoothly, the first few days of the Main Event have been marked by several snafus, not least of which was a marketing error that left almost 500 players out of the action on Monday. read more
The Fortieth Annual World Series of Poker Main Event has concluded its round of “Day Ones” with some notable eliminations, a memorable entrance and a rather large controversy. read more
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