June 30 2011
Besides the three that awarded bracelets, four more events saw action on day 29 of the 2011 WSOP. Two of those events were fresh ones which kicked off on day 29, while two of them saw their players return for ...
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June 30 2011
The third bracelet winner of day 29 of the 2011 WSOP was Kenneth Griffin. He was the only winner of the day who hadn’t initially been scheduled to pick up his bling on day 28.
21 players returned to the ...
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June 30 2011
Day 29 of the 2011 WSOP awarded no fewer than 3 bracelets. The first of those went to Andre Akkari, winner of the $1,500 NL Holdem event. Like that event, event #44, the $2.5k Razz one, was supposed to award its ...
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June 30 2011
Day 29 of the 2011 WSOP made up for the relative bracelet drought of the previous day. Several events had been scheduled to play down to their bracelets on Day 28, but two of these wore forced over to day ...
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June 30 2011
After yesterday’s suspension of its Alderney license, Full Tilt Poker has pretty much gone offline as far as its regular customer-serving operations are concerned. While site officials have probably been pulling every string since to get the operation back online, ...
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June 29 2011
Operation “Shock and Awe” against online poker and online poker interests world-over seems to be in full swing still. Ever newer and ever more shocking means are found to surprise industry members and poker players alike.
On Wednesday morning, games ...
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June 29 2011
Day 28 of the 2011 WSOP was supposed to see several bracelets awarded. Unfortunately, due to the 10-level rule, only one of those prospects came to fruition: Ben Lamb won the $10k PLO World Championship event. The rest of ...
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June 29 2011
The 10-level rule once again prevented several bracelets from being awarded on day 28 of the 2011 WSOP. Eventually, only one piece of jewelry found its way to an owner: the one awarded by the $10k PLO world Championship ...
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June 28 2011
38 players returned to the tables on day 3 of the $10k PLO World Championship event, to play down to the final table and possibly even to the title. The first hurdle of the day was the money bubble though. Jyri ...
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June 28 2011
Day 27 of the 2011 WSOP was a truly busy one. There were two bracelets awarded: in the $5k NL Holdem Six handed event and the $1.5k Limit Holdem Shootout. The $10k PLO World Championship event played through its money bubble ...
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June 27 2011
On day 26 of the 2011 WSOP, a whole bunch of different events rolled on. The $1,500 NL Holdem Shootout (event #41), saw 60 players return to its tables on day 2 of the tournament.
Eventually, the field managed to play ...
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June 27 2011
The 26th day of the 2011 WSOP only served up a sole bracelet, a rather shabby showing in the wake of the bracelet-shower that Day 25 had treated us to. That single bracelet went to Arkadiy Tsinis, the winner of ...
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June 27 2011
The 26th day of the 2011 WSOP only saw a single bracelet awarded: the one which rewarded Arkadiy Tsinis for his $1,500 NL Holdem Event win. There were a handful of other events rolling on as well, but none of ...
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June 27 2011
Day 25 of the 2011 WSOP was certainly a busy one bracelet-wise. No fewer than 3 players earned their WSOP stripes that day, but there were other going-ons as well.
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June 27 2011
The final day of the $10k HORSE World Championship Event (#37) was to be an extremely short one: only two players returned to decide the fate of the title: PokerStars’ Fabrice Soulier and Shawn Buchannan. Soulier had a massive chip ...
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June 26 2011
Day 25 of the 2011 WSOP ended the bracelet drought by awarding no fewer than 3 titles and gold bracelets.
The first bracelet winner of the day was Mikhail Lakhitov, who earned his WSOP stripes in the $2.5k NL Holdem ...
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June 26 2011
A much anticipated bill, aimed to legalize online poker, has been introduced by Rep. Joe Barton, giving renewed hope to the representatives of the besieged industry. Unlike other such attempts in the past, HR 2366, also known as the Online ...
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June 25 2011
The volume of online poker action hasn’t been particularly impressive lately. The Black Friday events have certainly put the brakes on the scene, and the fact that the WSOP is in full swing, isn’t helping the nosebleed stakes scene a ...
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June 25 2011
Besides the two events which were supposed to play down to a winner but failed, Day 24 of the 2011 WSOP hosted two events which had begun a day earlier. A new event got going as well.
Event #38, the ...
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June 25 2011
The 24th day of the 2011 WSOP was a rather disappointing one in the sense that it didn’t award any titles, despite the fact that it was supposed to distinguish two winners with gold bracelets: those of the $2.5k NL ...
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June 25 2011
Jason Mercier’s bracelet wasn’t the only story on Day 23 of the 2011 WSOP. The $10k HORSE championship and the $2.5k NL Holdem Event have both reached their respective money bubbles. Two events got going: the $1.5k NL Holdem event, ...
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June 24 2011
There was only one bracelet given away on day 23 of the 2011 WSOP, and even that didn’t end up in the possession of a player who’s never tasted WSOP glory before. PokerStars pro Jason Mercier was the one who got ...
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June 24 2011
Besides the bracelet-awarding $1k NL Holdem tournament, 3 more events rolled on, on the 22nd day of the 2011 WSOP.
Event #35, the $5k PLO Six-handed Event, saw its second day kick off with 105 players returning to ...
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June 23 2011
The 22nd day of the 2011 WSOP only awarded a single bracelet. The winner of the $1k NL Holdem Event (#34), Mark Schmid, a 31 year old poker pro who used to play at Full Tilt Poker ...
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June 22 2011
Besides doling out 2 bracelets, Day 21 of the 2011 WSOP saw another event roll on and a new one kick off.
Event #34, the $1k NL Holdem one, entered its second day with 334 players showing up at the ...
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June 22 2011
Phil Hellmuth had already come close to winning a WSOP bracelet once this year – in a non-Holdem event no less - but he got denied over the home stretch by Full Tilt Poker’s John Juanda. The Poker Brat’s ...
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June 22 2011
Day 21 of the 2011 WSOP saw 2 bracelets awarded, one of which nearly ended up in ex-UB pro Phil Hellmuth’s pockets. Hellmuth is certainly on a roll this year, as the $10k Stud 8 or Better Event marked ...
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June 22 2011
Day 20 of the 2011 WSOP was a busy one: it awarded no fewer than 3 bracelets: to Chris Lee, James Hess and Sam Stein. A handful of other events rolled towards their bracelet-crowned conclusions, while another one kicked ...
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June 20 2011
Two bracelets were scheduled to be awarded on Day 19 of the 2011 WSOP, but only one of them found its way to an owner: the one given to the winner of the $1,500 NL Holdem Event, Andy Frankenberger.
The ...
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June 20 2011
Day 19 of the 2011 WSOP was supposed to award 2 gold bracelets. Eventually though, it only made one player’s day and that player was Andy Frankenberger, winner of the $1,500 NL Holdem event.
28 players made their way back ...
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June 19 2011
Day 18 of the 2011 WSOP was outstandingly generous with the bracelets: it awarded no fewer than 3 of them. 4 more events saw action, which are yet to play down to a winner.
Event #28, the $1,500 NL Holdem ...
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June 19 2011
18 players returned to the tables on the 3rd day of the $10k Limit Holdem World Championship Event with a clear goal in mind: to play down to the bracelet. Given the daunting size of the buy-in, the field was ...
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June 19 2011
Mark Radoja walked away with a bracelet on Day 17 of the 2011 WSOP. There was plenty of other action on Day 17 too.
The $1,500 Stud 8 or Better event saw 23 players return to the tables on its ...
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June 18 2011
The 17th day of the 2011 WSOP awarded only one bracelet. That single piece of day 17 WSOP bling ended up in Mark Radoja’s possession. What did Radoja do to deserve the honor? He won the $5k NL Holdem Shootout. ...
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June 18 2011
Day 16 of the 2011 WSOP saw plenty of action outside the two bracelet-awarding events too. An event played down to the final table, another one soared past its money bubble and two new events got rolling.
The $5k ...
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June 18 2011
The second bracelet of the 16th day of the 2011 WSOP went to John Monnette, winner of the $2,500 8-Game Mix event.
25 players returned to the tables on the 3rd day of the tournament to play down to ...
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June 17 2011
Day 16 of 2011 WSOP was certainly a busy one. It awarded two bracelets to the winners of the $1.5k PLO and the $2.5k 8-Game Mixed events. It also saw an event reach its final table and two others ...
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June 17 2011
Besides the three events that resulted in bracelets awarded to various players, day 15 of the 2011 WSOP saw action in four more events.
Event #22, the $1,500 PLO event had 117 players return to action on its day 2. ...
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June 17 2011
Day 15 of the 2011 WSOP played host to the final stage of the $10k Seven Card Stud World Championship event too. As a matter of fact, it was this event that became responsible for the 3rd bracelet of the ...
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June 17 2011
The second of the $1k NL Holdem events is in the books, and Jason Somerville is the one whose wrist currently holds the prized bling. No fewer than 3 WSOP bracelets were awarded on Day 14 of the 2011 Series. ...
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June 16 2011
Only 6 players returned to action on the final day of the $1,500 NL Holdem Event of the 2011 WSOP, of whom Foster Hays had by far the largest stack. Weighing in at 3.6 million chips, his stack stood ...
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June 15 2011
Day 14 of the 2011 WSOP saw a single bracelet awarded, the one in the $2.5k Limit Holdem 6-max event for which Kim Nguyen and Darren Woods battled heads-up. Nguyen was only the second woman to reach the heads-...
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June 15 2011
12 players returned to action on day 3 of the $2.5k Limit Holdem 6-max event, some of them looking to win a bracelet, others looking to just hang around and see what the future brings. Matt Matros (the pro who ...
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June 15 2011
Day 13 of the 2011 WSOP only awarded one bracelet: the $1,500 HORSE event was won by Aaron Steury, who pocketed the jewelry together with a top prize of $289k. Two more events kept rolling towards their respective conclusions: the ...
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June 15 2011
Several events rolled past their respective money bubbles on Day 13 of the 2011 WSOP, but only one coveted gold bracelet found its way into the pockets of its rightful owner this time. The event that awarded the bling was ...
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June 13 2011
Full Tilt Poker’s John Juanda walked away with his 5th WSOP bracelet on Day 12 of the 2011 WSOP, and Brian Rast earned his stripes in the $1,500 PLHE event. There was plenty of action which – for the time ...
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June 13 2011
There was plenty of action on day 12 of the 2011 WSOP, but the eyes of the poker world were on event #16, the $10k NL 2-7 Lowball World Championship event. The reason was a simple one: Phil Hellmuth ...
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June 13 2011
Day 12 of the 2011 WSOP saw 2 bracelets awarded, but unfortunately for Phil Hellmuth, who had been on the hunt for his 12th piece of WSOP jewelry in the $10k NL 2-7 Lowball World Championship event, none of ...
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June 13 2011
Besides the two bracelet-producing events, Day 11 of the 2011 WSOP saw action through a handful of other events too.
Event #15, the $1,500 PL Holdem event, saw 88 players return to the green felt on day 2 of ...
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June 13 2011
Event #14, the $3k Limit Holdem one was responsible for the second bracelet awarded on Day 11 of the 2011 WSOP. Tyler Bonkowski was the beneficiary of this piece of bling, and deservedly so after pulling out a borderline impossible comeback.
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June 12 2011
Event #13 of the 2011 WSOP, the $1,500 NL Holdem Shootout, saw a massive “name” pro participation. 16 players returned to the tables on the final day of the event, in order to battle it out in a two-table ...
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June 11 2011
Much of the day 10 spotlight was hogged by the two bracelet winners: Zhukov and Diaz, but there were plenty of other events which saw action too, just kicking off or taking yet another step towards a final conclusion.
Event #13, ...
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June 11 2011
Day 10 of the 2011 WSOP carried some special significance: it was the day which gave away the first $10k World Championship bracelet, to Wyaceslav Zhukov. While the quite Russian stole much of the spotlight for the day, other things ...
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June 10 2011
The English language may not be Vyaceslav Zhukov’s friend yet, but that did not prevent the Russian from hoisting up the first World Championship bracelet awarded by the 2011 WSOP, at the end of the $10k Omaha Hi/Lo event. Three ...
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June 10 2011
Two bracelets were won on day 9 of the 2011 WSOP, by Sean Getzwiller and Geffrey Klein, and that drew a lot of the spotlight away from the other events which kicked off or kept rolling towards their conclusions.
Event ...
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June 10 2011
Day 9 of the 2011 WSOP saw 2 bracelets awarded, the second of which ended up in Geffrey Klein’s possession, after he won the $1,500 NL Holdem 6-max event.
15 players returned to action on Day 3 of the tournament ...
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June 10 2011
Day 9 of the 2011 WSOP was a rather eventful one. 2 bracelets were awarded: one to the winner of the first $1k NL Holdem event of the series, Sean Getzwiller, and the other to Geffrey Klein, who won the ...
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June 08 2011
Day 8 of the 2011 WSOP saw event #8, the first one of a series-long streak of $1k NL Holdem events, play down to the final 3 players. Jon Turner had built a massive chip lead at the end of ...
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June 08 2011
The first week of the 2011 series is in the books and it is safe to declare that the event so far has been resoundingly successful. There was a lot of talk before the Series kicked off about the possible effects ...
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June 08 2011
Day 7 of the 2011 WSOP was a bit slow bracelet-wise, as only 1 player picked up the precious WSOP bling: Matt Perrins, the winner of the $1,500 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball event. The overall action hasn’t slowed ...
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June 07 2011
Brits have been doing quite well for the last few years at the WSOP, and Jake Cody’s win in the $25k NL Holdem heads-up event, which saw some of the best poker players in the world belly up to ...
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June 07 2011
So many peculiar events of bigger and smaller magnitude had shaken the online and live poker world before the 2011 WSOP began, that predicting the number of players who are likely to attend the various events has become downright impossible. ...
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June 07 2011
The WSOP always has a funny effect on the poker world: it generates interest, which in one way or another translates into increased player numbers online. Last weekend – the first of the 2011 WSOP – was no exception. The ...
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June 06 2011
Day 6 of the 2011 WSOP was certainly a busy one: no fewer than 3 WSOP bracelets were handed out, among them that of the first championship event, the $10k PL Holdem one. The $5k NL Holdem event, in which ...
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June 06 2011
Green felt hostilities flared up on day 5 of the 2011 WSOP. Eugene Katchalov stole the headlines for this day, by capturing his first ever WSOP bracelet. Maria Ho became the first female this year to advance to a final table. ...
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June 06 2011
WSOP action was kicked into high gear over the last few days. Things sped up considerably with one event starting up after the other, and with the first few WSOP bracelets disappearing rapidly in the pockets of their ...
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June 03 2011
Thursday saw the debut of the televised Grudge Match series that would definitely go down among the highlights of the 2011 WSOP. The table normally reserved for the heads-up stages of various WSOP events played host to a historic ...
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June 03 2011
Wednesday marked the second day of the $25k NL Holdem Heads-up Event of the 2011 WSOP. 32 players returned with hopes of clinching the much–coveted bling, together with a handsome first prize to reward them for their efforts. With ...
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June 03 2011
77 people returned to the tables on the second day of the $500 Casino Employees event, all looking to get their hands on the first gold bracelet of this year’s WSOP. Day 2 was supposed to be the final day ...
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June 02 2011
According to Phil Ivey it doesn’t, and that should worry US players quite a bit since their funds are in limbo at the site right now. In an ideal world, one would assume that player deposits are left intact by the ...
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June 02 2011
The second event of the 2011 WSOP, the $25k NL Holdem Heads-up Event, drew an extremely select starting field. Given the size of the buy-in no one really expected anything less of it. 128 players coughed up the ...
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June 02 2011
As usual, the 2011 WSOP kicked off with the $500 Casino Employees event, on Tuesday. Although many were worried that player numbers would take a huge hit on account of the online poker industry’s woes, the first event shrugged ...
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June 01 2011
The WSOP has always had a glaring weakness as far as coverage was concerned. Sure, various poker news sites have pretty much relayed all the necessary information, but seeing the action in real time has always been but a ...
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June 01 2011
Although some of those present at the scene reported that things were eerily quiet on the first day of the 2011 WSOP, the numbers appear to contradict those reports. Two events got going on the first day of the series, ...
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June 01 2011
The poker world had been wondering for a while where Phil Ivey had disappeared in the wake of the Black Friday indictments and whether he was going to play in the WSOP. All those questions have been answered the other day, ...
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