The word of the day yesterday was wow. I said it and heard it everywhere in reference to the ever-increasing numbers of entries in Event 5, better known as the Housewarming. By the end of Day 1C (the third of four flights on Saturday), there were already nearly 13K entries
The fields are huge. Players are coming out in droves to play the 2022 World Series of Poker. While several tournaments have already exceeded their past years’ fields, the Housewarming Event of this year tells the story in just one tournament. The Housewarming is the equivalent of tournaments like the
On Day 4 of the 2022 World Series of Poker, two players won WSOP gold bracelets. For each of them, it was the fourth career bracelet…just like David Peters won his fourth bracelet the day before. Four! This appears to be a good sign for any player with three bracelets
The 2022 World Series of Poker officially began on Tuesday, May 31. But on Thursday, June 2, it got real. Event 5 is the Housewarming event, the one to welcome everyone to the new venue with a $500 buy-in and a $5M guarantee. And the players came out in droves
That didn’t take long. There has been talk of an increasing number of women in poker. Cash games are tough to monitor, and few tournament operators track demographics. But people who pay attention to such things have noticed. Women’s groups like the Fantastic Ladies in Poker, Globetrotting Poker Ladies, the
Day 1 of the 2022 World Series of Poker is in the books! If this is any indication of what to expect for the entirety of the 2022 WSOP, it’s going to be big. Many people have predicted that this series could be big and full of new records, but
This morning, May 31, the 2022 World Series of Poker got underway in Las Vegas. The 2022 WSOP is the first one since 2019 that is running per tradition – from May 31 to mid-July and without vaccination or mask requirements. That’s not to say this is a typical WSOP.
The World Poker Tour ended the last two of its main tour stops with some unfinished business. Each had a final table that needed to play out, and they were doing it in Las Vegas. As in previous seasons, the WPT saved a couple of its final tables for the
The Mid-States Poker Tour has been hosting some well-attended tournaments this year, crushing guarantees and making history. One particular player made history by winning more MSPT titles than anyone else. Dan Bekavac did that and then went on to turn around a very bad situation. First, let’s recall that this
What a year it’s been for the RunGood Poker Series…and it’s not even half over. The RunGood Poker Series – RGPS – started the year by setting a new Main Event record at its Thunder Valley Casino stop in early January. The rungood continued – see what I did there?
Alas, another Venom tournament from Americas Cardroom and the Winning Poker Network is in the history books. This one was a Venom PKO, a smaller event but with the bonus of progressive knockouts. Poker players love a good PKO these days. The last Venom PKO was in September of last
This week, the World Series of Poker revealed its new page dedicated to the 2022 WSOP Player of the Year leaderboard. Let’s remember last year’s WSOP POY race. It won’t be that tough, since it wrapped less than six months ago. It was the post-pandemic 2021 WSOP, and it was
