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WSOP Updates –Daniel Negreanu Facing Uphill Battle

It is midway through Day 3, and Daniel Negreanu arrives to his new table with eight racks of chips weighing down his arms. He sits at about 150,000 in chips, good for a medium stack at the table, and immediately his table lets out the groans. “This is going to be a fun rest of […]

WSOP Updates - Miracle Run Over for Diamond, Chiu Plays Big-Stack Poker

The ‘chip and a chair’ story of Jonathan Diamond’s improbable Day Three run came to an end shortly after 10:00, and again, the crucial matchup came against $2 qualifier Tyler Pendleton. At a table that also featured the return to Main Event success of legendary pro Hans ‘Tuna’ Lund, Diamond’s demise arrived when he re-raised […]

Sole Survivor: Per Erik Loeff is Team PokerNews Last Hope

Roughly 10% of the field cashed in the main event of the WSOP, and sticking with the law of averages, roughly 10% of Team PokerNews cashed also.
On Day Three, Team PokerNews members Gareth Edwards, and Yun-Hsiang ‘Terry’ Fan bit the dust. Having played great poker over the course of three days, our heroes either made […]

Sole Survivor: Per Erik Loeff is Team PokerNews Last Hope

Roughly 10% of the field cashed in the main event of the WSOP, and sticking with the law of averages, roughly 10% of Team PokerNews cashed also.
On Day Three, Team PokerNews members Gareth Edwards, and Yun-Hsiang ‘Terry’ Fan bit the dust. Having played great poker over the course of three days, our heroes either made […]

WSOP Chip Counts – We’re In The Money, But Still a Long Way to go

At the beginning of day three, we had 1,159 players, most of which were just thinking about cashing, and a good number that were also thinking about winning this thing.
A grueling day three saw 481 players still standing at its end, and a whopping 400 players eliminated after we got into the money at about […]

WSOP Updates: Notable Women Starting Day Four

As brutal as yesterday was for many of the notable men, Day Three was kinder and gentler to the notable women in the field. Many of poker’s top name women still remain to battle it out on Day Four. During yesterday’s WSOP Day Three, the record WSOP starting field of 8773 players finally whittled down […]

WSOP Updates – ‘Extra Events’ provide light atmosphere - and a Bracelet

Yes there is a Main Event going on today, it’s Day Four but there is another tournament going on as well. At 10 AM this morning Event #41 a $1,500 NLHE WSOP bracelet event began in the back of the main room. There were approximately 975 starters including many of the name professionals. I saw […]

WSOP Updates: And Then There Were Three….Women

Day Four played down to 135 players last night, far ahead of the original published WSOP schedule and leaving the field with just three women contenders.
If chips are any indication of chances, Annie Duke has the ladies’ edge going into Day Five with 918,000 chips. Duke started Day Four with 180,000 chips and put together […]

WSOP Updates - Day Four a Wild Ride for Team PokerNews’ Per Erik Loeff

The last remaining member of the Team PokerNews crew, Norway’s Per Erik Loeff, remained in the hunt for the $12 million first prize as Day Four action cleared the late-night break. Loeff was at approximately $468,000 chips, down from his peak of $800,000, following a harsh dent to his chips, a tough laydown on the […]

WSOP Updates - Day Four Chip Counts and Eliminations

It used to be that day three at the main event of the World Series of Poker was considered ‘moving day’ – that is the day that players either rise to the top for the stretch run, or fall by the wayside, with a ticking clock next to them counting the minutes until their elimination.
This […]

Away from the Spotlights, the WSOP Marches On

With most of the World Series of Poker in the books and the Main Event inside its final 90 players, it’s easy to forget that other events continue as well. For players seeking titles, bracelets, and that last taste of tournament competition, it’s the best bet in town. Saturday’s $1,500 brings in a few hundred […]

Team PokerNews –The Dream is Over

With the Elimination of Per Erik Loeff in 118th place, the last member of Team PokerNews has been eliminated from competition at the World Series of Poker.
Per outlasted 98.5% of the field for his 118th place finish, and is taking $51, 129 back to his home in Norway. His total cost for the experience - […]

WSOP Updates: Day Five of the Main Event is a Sprint.

The Main Event of the WSOP was scheduled to give players plenty of play. Day four was designed to see 600 players play down to 300. Instead, day four saw 480 players start, and only 135 finish.
Day five was essentially a ‘time freeroll’, as the day was designed to go from 300 players down to […]

WSOP Updates - Final Group Thin on Big Names

In 2005, when the poker boom fueled the first truly massive fields in World Series of Poker history, many players started claiming that the fields were just getting too big for the top pros to make their way through, and wind up at the final table.
In 2005, we saw a fair amount of familiar faces […]

WSOP Updates – Five Hour Work Day Gets the Field to 27

The excitement is beginning to build as the field narrows its way down from the 8,773 that started. With the multiple day ones, and day twos, it feels like weeks since this field began to play down from the nearly 9,000 starters to the inevitable final result of….1.
The story for the last few days has […]

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