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After nearly 6 hours of 10-handed play Brandon Stevens was finally eliminated, and the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table is set. Making the final table is worth a whole lot more than the prize-money at stake, so it’s understandable why the players tightened up when the play became 10-handed; making the [...]

Well it took seven days of poker for a couple of players to pull ahead of the pack at the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event: Joseph Cheong, 24,490,000, and Cong Nguyen 23,100,000, have both shot out to sizeable leads over the remainder of the field. The next closest player is 2010 bracelet winner [...]

With life-changing amounts of money at stake it’s a bit surprising how fast and furious the action has been at the WSOP Mani Event. A few players have started to separate themselves from the rest of the field, most notably the top Poker Pros in 1st and 2nd place at the end of Day 6: [...]

So far throughout the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event players have not been shy about getting their money into the middle, and the starting field of 7,319 players is now down to just 204! As tournament director Jack Effel said earlier, “They’re just playing fast… They don’t have to go broke now; they [...]

The money bubble was not only burst yesterday at the 2010 WSOP Main Event, it was incinerated! The 1,200 or so players that took to the tables at the Rio yesterday was pared down to just 574, and the money bubble burst shortly after the dinner break, when Tim McDonald went out in 748th place [...]

After an action packed Day 3 that saw hundreds of players hit the rail in the first couple hours of play and shed over half the field by the end of the day, the 2010 World Series of Poker is now down to 1,240 participants, and will likely approach the money bubble by the end [...]

It’s a bit misleading to call today’s action Day 3 considering there have been six days of poker played at the 2010 WSOP Main Event so far, but this will be the third day of play for each of the remaining players. The field has been cut down from 7,319 entrants to 2,560, all of [...]

Four opening days are now in the books, and the WSOP Main Event is in full swing, so I decided to take a look at some of the statistics from the 2010 Main Event which will go down as the second largest major poker tournament of all-time.
With 7,391 total entrants the 2010 World Series of [...]

I know, I know, the 2010 World Series of Poker isn’t even close to being over yet, and I’m already talking 2011! But that’s the beauty of poker; the game is constantly evolving and moving in all different directions -sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse.
Case in point, the decision to add multiple [...]

After solid turnouts on Day 1a and Day 1b, Day 1c at the 2010 World Series of Poker gave the prestigious poker tournament a solid shot at breaking 7,000 players for only the second time in history -and an outside shot at breaking the record of 8,773 players that entered the tournament in 2006.
A total [...]