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All 57 preliminary tournaments at the 2011 World Series of Poker are now underway, leaving the Main Event as the only tournament to be played. On Tuesday the final table was reached in Event #54, a $1k NLHE tournament, as well as in the $50k Players Championship. Event #54: $1,000 No Limit Holdem, Day 3 [...]

With just two tournaments in action at the 2011 WSOP on the Fourth of July Holiday -and neither awarding a bracelet-I’ll once more deviate from my daily WSOP wrap-up and use today’s post to talk about a few improvements I would like to see implemented in the future at the WSOP. #1 — Change the [...]

With only three tournaments in action you would have expected the WSOP to have had a fairly low-key day on Sunday, but with a man at the final table of the Ladies Championship, the second largest preliminary event field in the history of the WSOP, and the $50k Players Championship making up those three tournaments [...]

The big stories on Saturday at the 2011 WSOP were the start of the $50k Players Championship and a deep run by one particular MALE player in the LADIES Championship! Event #50: $5,000 No Limit Holdem Triple Chance, Day 3 With just four players remaining the chip-stacks are pretty close in the Triple Chance tournament, [...]

On Friday at the 2011 WSOP we saw one bracelet handed out, three tournaments end with final tables set, and of course there was the uber-controversial Ladies Tournament, which in the past few years has turned into the bizarre world sex discrimination poster-child. So on to the proceedings from Friday… Event #48: $1,500 No Limit [...]

There is a lot to get to today so I’ll skip with the introductions and get right to it. Event #46: $10,000 No Limit Holdem 6-Max Championship, Day 4 Taking a commanding chip-lead into his heads-up duel with online poker legend Chris “Moorman1″ Moorman, it was the completely unknown Joe Ebanks who would come out [...]

As we get closer to the Main Event it was another busy day at the 2011 World Series of Poker with 5 tournaments in action, one winner, one heads-up duel halted by the 10-Level Rule, and a huge turnout for the $5k Triple Chance NLHE tournament. Event #46: $10,000 No Limit Holdem 6-Max Championship, Day [...]

Most of the headlines today will be taken up by the major news coming out of the UK that Full Tilt Poker has had their eGaming license suspended by the Aldernay Gambling Control Commission (AGCC). Full Tilt has been ordered to cease all operations for clients around the world and visitors will now be met [...]

Monday was the day the 10-Level Rule at the 2011 World Series of Poker truly let its presence be felt and likely spelled the end of the line for shameful rule looking ahead to the 2012 WSOP. Two tournaments were called to a halt during heads-up and will have to be completed on Tuesday. Event [...]

While it wasn’t exactly a slow day at the WSOP on Sunday, I will use today’s column to update everyone on some of the non-tournament stories taking place at the 2011 WSOP, as well as the usual tournament reporting. Event #40: $5,000 No Limit Holdem 6-Handed, Day 4 After falling victim to the Hard=Stop Rule [...]