Summer camp may be over, but poker goes on. The biggest poker festival in the world runs each summer in Las Vegas, and when it wraps, the poker community usually takes a moment to breathe. Nearly two months of the World Series of Poker, along with other live tournament series
The 2023 World Series of Poker is over, at least the summer series that takes place in Las Vegas. There will be a WSOP Europe and a new WSOP Bahamas, and there is always the possibility of more online poker bracelet events. But the summer set, the one with 95
The World Series of Poker owns the rights to the Poker Hall of Fame, the way that the poker community has honored the greatest in the game. It has been a way to pay respect to those in poker who created it, molded it, fought for it, changed it, set
Winning Poker Network has been busy this summer. Of course, it sent its Americas Cardroom sponsored pros and quite a few of satellite winners to the 2023 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Several of the pros lived in a house together and filmed the latest season of the
The 2023 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas is over. There were 95 tournaments held at Paris Las Vegas and Horseshoe Las Vegas from May 30 through mid-July. We’ll recap the online bracelet events and Main Event separately so as to dedicate this final wrap-up to all of the
They did it. The World Series of Poker hosted its largest Main Event in 54 years of the series. The 2023 WSOP Main Event surpassed the record by more than 1,200 players. And the 10,043-player field translated into a prize pool of $94M. And as the 2023 WSOP’s 95 live
All signs pointed to a big year. The World Series of Poker showed strong numbers in 2022, the first big year after the pandemic and the first series held at Paris Las Vegas and Bally’s-now-Horseshoe Las Vegas. The 2022 WSOP Main Event showed the second-largest attendance in its history. Players
When the WSOP World Championship began at the 2023 World Series of Poker, other live tournaments wrapped so the entire focus could be on the Main Event. It is the center of attention for so many poker players and fans, and it takes up quite a lot of space in
The absence of Doyle Brunson from the 2023 World Series of Poker has been palpable. The “Godfather of Poker” died suddenly on May 14, little more than two weeks before the start of the WSOP. Brunson may not have played any live events at the WSOP. He semi-retired from tournaments
It is more than half over. The 2023 World Series of Poker is in its second half, and the WSOP Main Event will start in just a few days. It is the culmination of a summer of poker, with the biggest series hitting its stride and heading into the stretch.
A poker tournament series consisting of 95 live events, not to mention those online in various jurisdictions, is tough to analyze before it is complete. But there is a halfway point at which the early numbers can provide some insight. The 2023 World Series of Poker just passed that halfway
The World Series of Poker just passed the halfway mark of its 95-event live tournament series in Las Vegas. It’s time to look at a Player of the Year race that has become tighter and more interesting than most anticipated. It is important to note the events that qualify for
