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The World Series of Poker (WSOP) shall once again make a stop at the Los Angeles' Bicycle Hotel & Casino this coming December, with a 12-event series, featuring a $1,675 buy-in main event. The 12-event series starts off December 1 with a $365 buy-in no-limit hold'em event with a $50K guarantee.

Read more » World Series of Poker Circuit Returns to Bicycle Casino this December

After outlasting notables such as Ari Engel and Jared Jaffee on yesterday's nine-handed final table of World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah's Atlantic City Main Event, Robert Kuhn took home $122,098 in first-place money, a diamond-studded gold ring, and a reserved seat in the 2016 WSOP Global Championship!

Read more » Robert Kuhn Wins WSOP Circuit Harrah's Atlantic City Main Event

On Thursday, The World Series of Poker announced that it has begun entering into agreements with casinos/poker rooms in Italy, Morocco and Mexico to expand its WSOP Circuit. Marrakech, one of Morocco's largest cities, will host the first international Circuit event from March 7th to March 15th, 2015 at Casino de Marrakech Es Saadi (picture).

Read more » WSOP Circuit Expands Outside The U.S.

On Monday evening, Jonathan Gaviao was crowned the champion of Harrah's Tunica Main Event, the 13th stop on the 2013/2014 World Series of Poker Circuit. Gaviao, a 23-year-old College Station, Texas resident, bested a field of 577 entries to lay hands on $181,757 in prize money, his first gold ring and a seat in the National Championship.

"It's wonderful," he said. "It's always nice to win a ring and make a little bit of money. I couldn't ask for anything more."

Final table results:

1st: Jonathan Gaviao - $181,757
2nd: Carter Myers - $112,420
3rd: Charles Hopkins - $82,205
4th: Brad Lipsey - $61,000
5th: Jackson White - $45,897
6th: David Lee - $35,009
7th: Cord Garcia - $27,073
8th: Bryan McMullin - $21,222
9th: Timothy Tracy - $16,860

Canada's first ever WSOP Circuit Main Event (The River Rock Main Event) is now in the history books. John Crncic, a poker amateur from Vancouver who won his seat through a $180 satellite, ended up taking home the whole thing for $286,382, a WSOP circuit gold ring, and a free seat in the $1 million National Championship. Apart from those amazing prizes, Crncic's boss promised him to pay the buy-in to the 2013 WSOP Main event if he won. Crncic assured the WSOP that his boss was a man of his word.

"I'm afraid I'm going to wake up and it's going to just be a dream," Crncic told the WSOP following his win. "It's absolutely fantastic. This is much more than I hoped for."

A total of 1,032 player signed up for the first ever WSOP Circuit Main Event (The River Rock Main Event) held in Canada - the third largest in WSOP Circuit history and the largest cash buy-in poker tournament ever in Canada. After 3 days of play, the player field had been narrowed down to only 9 players and Day 3 chip leader Sonny Sekhon held 4,660,000 chips, almost 33 percent more than Ryan Biermann in second place.

Read more » Sonny Sekhon Leads Canada's First Ever WSOP Circuit Main Event Final Table!

About a month has pasted since the 2010 WSOP Main Event, the last event at the 2010 World Series of Poker, went on a break in wait for the final table that will be played in November. Tomorrow it's finally time for the first stop on the 2010/2011 WSOP Circuit. The first stop on the tour will take place at Horseshoe Council Bluffs in Iowa and after that there are another 12 stops scheduled. One of these stops will take place in October outside the U.S.  - Emerald Casino in South Africa.

However, according to the WSOP Circuit crew, there might even be more stops added to the tour. New for this season is that there will be a big final at Caesars Palace in April next year. One can qualify for this final, for example, via a new ranking system that was introduced this year.

Read more » Time for 2010/2011 WSOP Circuit