Minnesota’s Ian Matakis has clinched the 2023 World Series of Poker’s annual Player of the Year honor, as announced by the WSOP on Tuesday. Matakis’s winning total of 5,203.89 points easily outdistanced all other players. That included the defending POY champion, Shaun Deeb, who finished second with 4,276.12 points, over 900 behind Matakis’s winning pace. […]

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It’s been a long summer, a record-breaking summer, here at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, Nevada. Over the past month and a half, players from across the globe descended upon Sin City to try their hand at winning one of poker’s most prestigious and sought-after awards: a WSOP gold bracelet. Throughout the […]

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The 2023 was one for the ages that will be remembered for a very long time thanks to record breaking numbers across the board. The amount of stories that can be written about it are countless so it was actually very difficult to pin down just a few highlights to write about but I have […]

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And then there were four. Pennsylvania poker pro Ryan Miller became the fourth double-bracelet winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker after emerging as the winner of one of the final tournaments of the WSOP’s summer run, Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. Miller topped a 331-entry field to win $208,640 in an unscheduled Day 4 […]

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The champion of the largest World Series of Poker Main Event in history is Daniel Weinman. Exactly fourteen days after the tournament began, Daniel Weinman raked the last of the 602.5 million chips in play after winning the final hand at 3:20 pm local time. The Atlanta, Georgia native earned the Main Event record-breaking $12,100,000 […]

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The World Series of Poker, in conjunction with its international online partner, GGPoker, has announced a new Bahamas-based tournament series, WSOP Paradise. The new series will make its debut December 3-14, 2023, at Atlantis Paradise Island, across Nassau Harbor from downtown Nassau itself. The 12-day series will include 15 bracelet events, and the overall series […]

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While the World Series of Poker does not facilitate deals, it’s fairly common to see the final two or three players come to an agreement due to the sizable pay jumps.  With $4M for third place, $6.5M for second, and $12.1M for the champion, it would have been extremely reasonable for Steven Jones, Daniel Weinman, […]

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Jamie Gold saw his 2006 WSOP Main Event record $12M score officially topped on Monday as Daniel Weinman made quick work of Adam Walton and Steven Jones to win $12.1M and the title of Main Event champion. While many in the gaming and athletics world are disappointed when their records are finally broken, Gold was […]

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Day 9 of the record-breaking World Series of Poker Main Event saw the remaining nine players play down to the final three. A rather quick day of play, which only lasted 116 hands, included loud, jam-packed rails and players being eliminated left and right. Now, we enter the final day where either Steven Jones, Daniel […]

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The World Series of Poker’s 2023 Player of the Year chase has entered the home stretch, and Minnesota’s Ian Matakis has expanded his lead, giving him a large but not insurmountable edge as results from just a handful of events remain to be tallied. The WSOP’s annual POY race tends to enter a lull during […]

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Brampton, Ontario’s Jason Clarke will be participating the WSOP Main Event for decades to come after being randomly selected as the winner of the World Series of Poker’s “Main Event for Life” promotion, in which one lucky player who participated in the 2023 WSOP Main Event was randomly selected as the recipient of a $10,000 […]

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Adam Walton is living the absolute dream right now as he heads into first place as the chip leader by a considerable margin. His 143,800,000 chips are good enough for an outrageous 120 big blinds as the final nine players will become four by the end of the day. Final table seat draw Seat 1: […]

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Felipe Ramos is arguably one of the best players in the world who has never won a bracelet. Today, he hopes to get the proverbial monkey off his back. Ramos has joined an exclusive group, earning his 100th-career WSOP cash in the $10,000 6-Max. The field has whittled down from 550 entries down to the […]

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Something that is always fun to do during a Main Event is to go back through the chip counts and see where the final table players were in the chip counts each day. Where were the names that we would eventually learn and become a part of poker history hiding in the end of day […]

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What happened to Chris Moneymaker? Type any celebrity’s name into a search engine and you’re bound to find a pre-packaged answer to what is likely the most-asked question about someone whose fame has evolved: What happened to Paris Hilton? What happened to Peyton Manning? What happened to Chris Moneymaker? Truth be told, those three stars […]

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Faraz Jaka has played in every single World Series of Poker in Las Vegas since 2007, occasionally also playing in WSOP Europe. Finally–after cashing for the 71st time–Jaka got the job done. The famous founder of popular poker coaching website JakaCoaching.com won the WSOP $1,500 Shootout, coming out as the winner on three-straight 10-man tables […]

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Immediately after Diego Ventura won the $1,979 Poker Hall of Fame Bounty tournament, he began to break down in tears. His long-awaited moment had finally come. So had his country’s. After a long and successful career both live and online, the GG Poker-sponsored player finally won a live tournament. He also won a historic WSOP […]

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Prominent high-stakes tournament pro and six-time WSOP bracelet winner Shaun Deeb recently offered a touching gesture to the family of his recently passed friend and fellow online pro Thayer Rasmussen. Deeb, who won Event #27: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed last month, presented Rasmussen’s mother with the gold bracelet he won in that event. Deeb […]

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The 2023 WSOP Main Event final table is set and, thanks to a very welcome structure change, the poker public was treated to a Day 8 spectacle that will live long in the memory. With nine players remaining Adam Walton sits on top with solid lead. He’s only two years removed from finishing 42nd in […]

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We may have just witnessed one of the most brutal super-deep Main Event bad beats in recent memory. Joshua Payne opened to 1.8 million with K♠️K♦️ from the lojack and Jose Aguilera 3-bet to 4.5 million with Q♠️Q♣️ from the button. Daniel Weinman woke up with J♠️J♣️ and shoved all in for 29.1 million from […]

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The field of 15 will be reduced to nine today on Day 8 of the 2023 World Series of Poker. The action has been incredible and the anticipation is growing as we can now put a face to the name of the future Main Event champion, who will take home a Main Event-record $12.1M. At […]

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It might not have the had the same wild excitement and swings we experienced on Day 5 of the 2023 WSOP Main Event, but Day 7 brought us a lot closer to identifying the champion. The 49 players who began the day ended up as 15 when all the dust settled, after some quick early […]

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Prominent high-stakes pro and six-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Rast was named today as the 2023 enshrinee into the Poker Hall of Fame. Rast, 41, was elected in his second year of eligibility and becomes the 59th poker figure to be honored with PHOF induction. “With a nearly 20-year-long career riddled with record-breaking wins and […]

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Masato Yokosawa ran deep in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event. With hundreds of thousands of fans, he came into Day 7 with 3,175,000. Unfortunately for him, his Main Event ended in brutal fashion. Yokosawa had built his stack up to about 5 million when he tangled with Daniel Vampan for it all. […]

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Josh Arieh captured his second bracelet of the 2023 World Series of Poker on Wednesday, winning Event #80, the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. High Roller. The victory was Arieh’s sixth in an official bracelet event, and he earned $711,313 after topping an elite 112-player field. Earlier in the series, Arieh took down Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em […]

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Day 7 of the Main Event! Traditionally it has been the day to go from 27 down to the final table but with swelling field sizes it has been getting harder and harder to get down to 9 in just 7 days, so this year there will be a Day 8, making this year’s Day […]

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We talk a lot about what’s “good for the game.” Exactly what that means is debatable. Personally, I know it when I see it. Bill Klein is good for the game. However, more than most, his good extends far beyond the poker room walls in which he finds himself. Klein is well-known for donating his […]

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Sometimes, you just have to go for it. That sounds like a speech you make after your bold bluff gets called and you’re on the way to the payout line. Yet, that’s not how this story unfolded. At the World Series of Poker Main Event, on one of the feature tables, Daniel Vampan ignited poker […]

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Roughly mid-way through Day 5 of the WSOP Main Event and a familiar face has been dominating on one of PokerGO’s feature tables, none other than the World Poker Tour’s own Tony Dunst. At the time of writing, the 38-year-old has 5,080,000 chips with the blinds at 20,000/40,000/40,000, giving Dunst an incredible 127 big blinds […]

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You might be surprised to know that some of the biggest sweats in the World Series of Poker Main Event involve fantasy sports. Early in the summer, commissioner Daniel Negreanu and friends hosted their annual 25k Fantasy Draft. For a $25,000 entry, teams drafted players for the summer series who earn points for performance in […]

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Day 4 of the Main Event was a long and crazy one with the bubble drama kicking off the day and the day eventually ending with 441 players left. After the bubble was breached, the real push for the deep runs began as big stacks began to accumulate more while the shorties dusted themselves to […]

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Having just doubled up with pocket kings through Steven Chidwick’s pocket queens on one of the PokerGO feature tables, 2022 Pro Football Hall of Famer Richard Seymour has taken his stack to 1,063,000 chips, giving him 106.3 big blinds with just short of 1,000 players left on Day 4. The seven-time Pro Bowler, five-time All-Pro, […]

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The setting: the Horseshoe Grand Ballroom is full up with poker players waiting for the Day 4 restart of the 2023 WSOP Main Event. The field has been trimmed to 1,517 from the original 10,043, and only ten more eliminations are needed to get the remaining 1,507 into the money. Those first ten eliminations take […]

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The money bubble has burst early on Day 4 at the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event, with more than 1,500 players moving into the payout positions. Players slowly worked through the first 90 minutes of play on Day 4 as they inched closer to the bubble. Day 4 began with 1,517 players, just […]

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The bubble of the World Series of Poker Main Event is one of the most electric countdowns in poker. The stakes are higher than ever, the pressure is immense, and each hand of poker is more meaningful than the last. For those that don’t know, the “bubble” refers to crossing the point where an eliminated […]

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Jason Somerville holds a special place in the zeitgeist of poker content creation. Somerville, an early adopter of the Twitch streaming platform, led the charge in streaming online poker content to a large audience. Somerville knew how to build a community and his savvy marketing moves saw his channel blow up in popularity in a […]

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One of the most “enigmatic” players in poker, as PokerOrg’s Jeff McMillan noted earlier today, is Florida’s Maurice Hawkins. Hawkins entered today’s Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event, with the overall chip lead. Hawkins is certainly among the best players in poker to have never won a WSOP bracelet, but he’s made a lasting […]

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It’s been a fantastic weekend for PokerStars co-founder Isai Scheinberg. Having arrived in Las Vegas earlier in the week, the legendary Scheinberg has managed to play in his first ever World Series of Poker Main Event while also receiving one of the poker world’s most prestigious honors. Scheinberg, who in his mid-seventies remains a vibrant […]

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The WSOP Main Event is converging into one full field today for the first time with 3,538 players left on Day 3. The money bubble is at 1,507 so it will be a tough ask to make the money today as last year it required an extended day to reach it late in the night […]

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Everyone who plays poker dreams of being in this moment. You’re days into the World Series of Poker Main Event. Your table gets selected for the feature table for the world to watch. You look down at pocket aces, your heart beats fast, and you get a dream flop. That was just the situation Kory […]

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The 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event set a new high-water mark for participation on Saturday as late registration came to a close hours into Saturday’s Day 2B play. By the time all registrants had been verified,10,043 players had entered the Main since Monday’s action began. The new mark obliterated the 2006 record of […]

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There’s always something unexpected and under the radar at the World Series of Poker, where the poker comes in all flavors. There’s the Main Event and all the other bracelet events, both live and online. There are satellites and daily tourneys and cash games, and even more than that. There are little gatherings and get-togethers […]

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(Author’s update: The initial official chip report as issued overnight by the WSOP incorrectly listed Arnaud Mattern as the chip leader. On Friday evening, the WSOP published an updated day 2ABC chip-count listing that showed Christopher Brammer as the Day 2ABC leader. — hh) French poker pro Arnaud Mattern enjoyed the best day of all […]

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The tour of celebrities at the 2023 World Series of Poker continued on Friday with celebrity restaurateur Guy Fieri on hand to unveil the Main Event’s championship bracelet. Fieri made a grand entrance into the Horseshoe Event Center to present the World Championship bracelet to the public. Fieri unveiled the bracelet at the primary final […]

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One of the most interesting things every year at the WSOP Main Event is to monitor how the former champions do. Some are consistent performers who we see every year, while some have drifted away from the game of poker after having achieved the ultimate prize already. I went into the history and checked how […]

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Day 1D of the Main Event was a huge one and saw the record 8,773 field of 2006 fall and ended with 3,202 players with chips at the end of the night. After all the bags were collected and bagged there was a familiar name at the top of the chip counts, Nicholas Rigby of […]

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One of the facts of life when it comes to playing in poker tournaments is that when the bubble looms, the action slows. Dramatically. It can be even more dramatic when there’s more than just a min-pay at stake. In satellites to larger events, stalling on the bubble can reach mind-numbing extremes. And if it’s […]

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There are myriad reasons why this World Series of Poker Main Event is a special one. This is the 20th anniversary of Chris Moneymaker’s historic win that kicked off the “Moneymaker Era.” This is also officially the biggest World Series of Poker Main Event in history as the 8,773 record was broken shortly into Day […]

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It’s taken 17 years, but the World Series of Poker’s 2023 Main Event has slashed through the event’s all-time attendance mark, which has stood since 2006. During today’s first two-hour level in Day 1D, the fourth and final opening flight, the overall attendance had climbed past 8,773, the 2006 mark. Unofficial day-by-day attendance figures for […]

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Day 1c of the 2023 Main Event was a busy day with around 3,080 players entering to take their shot at what is very likely to become the largest Main Event in WSOP history. At the end of the day 2,326 players  (~ 75% of the field) were able to find a bag and advance […]

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