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Most people in Jeff Shulman’s position would be doing some major brown-nosing for the WSOP –Shulman is one of nine remaining players in the WSOP Main Event (set to reconvene in November) and guaranteed $1.2 million with the possibility of earning $8.5 million. Instead, Shulman told members of the media he would ‘throw the Main [...]

The WPT has announced that it has released confidential information to multiple parties, leading to speculation that the company is on the selling block. WPT CEO Steve Lipscomb recently told the Wall Street Journal that, “…the WPT is not for sale. But of course everything is for sale.” Lipscomb went on to confirm that information [...]

The WSOP Circuit Events are a series of tournaments at different Harrah’s owned casinos across the country. Each Casino plays host to multiple tournaments -at varying stakes starting at a couple hundred dollars– culminating in a “Championship” Tournament with a higher buy-in of $5,000.
Harrah’s introduced the WSOPC in 2004, and has tinkered with the structure [...]

The WSOP has turned some 150 poker players into millionaires over the years. The following list takes a look at the top 10 money winners from the WSOP, and what they had to accomplish to take home those huge paydays.

The players on the all-time cash list have all benefitted from staying power; unlike the all-time money list that is full of flash in the pan success stories, the players on the all-time cash list have been at the top of the poker food chain for years.

A host of A-list celebrities, professional athletes, and poker superstars battled it out at the WSOP’s Ante Up for Africa tournament -where ½ of the players’ prize money would be donated to the ENOUGH Project and International Rescue Committee.
Ante Up for Africa co-founder/professional poker player/Celebrity Apprentice runner-up Annie Duke was more excited about the potential [...]

The fans have spoken, and after over a month of online voting the nominees for the 2009 Poker Hall of Fame have been released. The list consists of the top 10 players as voted by the public, and the inductees will now be voted on by current Hall of Fame members and a select panel [...]

A study published earlier this year took millions of hands of statistical data, from PokerStars, and verified what poker players have known all along: Poker is a game of skill. A far less scientific, but no less poignant, display has been put on at the 2009 WSOP; where the top players in the world have [...]

Tournament success can best be summed up in six words: “How many bracelets do you have?” Amazingly, only one of these players can also be found in the top 10 on the All-Time Money list -Phil Hellmuth currently holds the #9 spot on the money list.

The WSOP main Event is the Indy 500 of the poker world. True fans know who is running hot; winning WPT and EPT events around the globe; and who won a WSOP bracelet. On the other hand, the casual poker fan -which represents the majority-only cares about one thing: Who won the Main Event.
The huge [...]