Hold the presses and don’t you dare hit that refresh button: the 2012 WCOOP schedule is here. The largest, richest and most eagerly anticipated online poker series in the world is on our doorsteps with the highs and lows of the World Series but a fading memory (and green or red number on bankroll ledgers). [...]

Phil Ivey defies description, but we’ll try.  He’s been called….“The Tiger Woods of Poker.” “The World’s Greatest Poker Player.” “A Modern-Day Stu Ungar – Without the Baggage.” “Poker’s Most Secretive and Mysterious Figure.” All these depictions fit.  But they also lack any sense of revelation into who this man really is, why he is what [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 60 2-7 DRAW LOWBALL NO-LIMIT New York poker pro Nick Schulman laid claim to one of the last remaining bracelets of the 2012 World Series of Poker with his win Saturday evening in Event #60, the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball World Championship. After getting the best of runner-up former [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 59 NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM Dominik Nitsche, a 21-year-old professional poker player from Minden, Germany, won the $1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament, which was completed Saturday night at the Rio in Las Vegas in front of a cheering mob of international supporters. The four-day competition attracted a whopping 4,620 players — which was [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 58 PLO HI-LOW SPLIT-8 OR BETTER The Russians are not only coming, they are now winning — and, winning big. One of the most star-studded fields of the year turned up for the latest World Series of Poker tournament, which was the $3,000 Buy-In Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split Championship. The high-caliber [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 57 SIX HANDED NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM It may simply be known as “Event #57,” but the No-Limit Hold’em tournament that ended after just one hand today was bigger and richer than every single WSOP Main Event Championship held up through 1999. The $10,000 buy-in Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em tournament attracted 474 entrants – [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 56 NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM Tomas Junek won the latest World Series of Poker tournament, held at the Rio in Las Vegas. He topped a huge field of 2,798 players. He won $661,022. He won a WSOP gold bracelet. Other than that, it was pretty much a normal day for Mr. Junek. The [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 55 BIG ONE FOR ONE DROP July 3, 2012 will go down as the richest day in poker history. No time, no day, no event ever in the history of the game awarded more cash. And yet — crazy as it may sound — money was perhaps the second or even [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 54 NO-LIMIT HOLD’EM “The Morning After” Following the richest night in poker history, Will Jaffe took poker’s grandest stage and seized the spotlight. On the “morning” after Antonio “The Magician” Esfandiari’s jubilant victory in the Big One for One Drop, Jaffe and his merry band of fellow New Yorkers came to [...]

2012 WSOP – EVENT 53 NO LIMIT HOLD’EM Neil James “Jim” Willerson won the most recent championship-level event at the 2012 World Series of Poker. The 36- year-old attorney from San Antonio, Texas won the $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament, classified as Event #53. Willerson not only received the game’s most coveted prize – the [...]