Poker players and fans have been waiting for the announcement. Speculation had run rampant for many months – even years in some circles. The latest rumor had been that the WSOP would make the official announcement this week. Lon McEachern, Norman Chad, and Jamie Kerstetter spilled the beans on the
The partypoker US Network put together an online poker tournament series for its players in late November. The series is timed to begin on November 23, at just about the same time as the World Series of Poker finishes up in Las Vegas. Players returning home or those having watched
The World Series of Poker took the opportunity of a special Hall of Fame Bounty event at the 2021 WSOP to announce the latest inductee to the Poker Hall of Fame. The tournament was Event 79 on the schedule, a $1,979 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event in which members of
And then there were three. An Austrian, Brit, and American will walk into the Rio today, each vying for the title of WSOP Main Event champion. The 2021 World Series of Poker NLHE World Championship will play for the win today. Day 48 of the WSOP brought that Main Event
The fall months are in full swing around the United States. And in states with PokerStars as a state-regulated poker site, poker players can celebrate the fall with the newly-announced Fall Fest of tournaments. The weather in Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey will be ideal for staying indoors, curling up
It’s ready. The 2021 World Series of Poker No Limit Hold’em World Championship set its final table on Day 47 of the series in Las Vegas. In more common terms, the WSOP Main Event has its final nine. Late into the night, Event 67 played down to the final table
Sunday was the 56th day of the 2021 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, and it offered up a lot of poker in various forms. There were two online poker events, one for high-stakes players and the other for those preferring lower stakes. The NLHE-PLO mix found its champion,
The Rio Convention Center in Las Vegas was buzzing on Saturday, which was Day 45 of the 2021 World Series of Poker. The WSOP Main Event was playing down to fewer than 100 players. The Little One for One Drop and PLO Bounty tournaments were finding their winners. The entries
On Friday, an organized chaos ruled. The World Series of Poker has a plan to accommodate several big tournaments at one time. It always does. But from the outside, it seemed that there was an awful lot happening. The Main Event thinned its field from a thousand players to fewer
The Rio Convention Center, specifically the Amazon Room, was bubbling with excitement at the end of Day 43 of the 2021 World Series of Poker. The WSOP Main Event had played down from more than 2,300 players who started Day 3 to the money bubble. Only the last 1,000 players
Most poker fans are not in Las Vegas. Even for those who are in Vegas, there’s really no way to witness al of the action at a tournament table, even a final table filmed for PokerGO and CBS Sports Network. The best way for all poker players and fans to
The numbers all came together on Wednesday, and the finally tally for the 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event is good. It’s quite respectable, actually, considering everything that the WSOP had to do to host this year’s live series. And the players made it happen. They stepped up, got
