Last week, King's Casino owner Leon Tsoukernik made a rather tough decision as he opted to forfeit his $50,000 deposit and skip the $1M Big One for One Drop at the WSOP, in exchange for participating instead in the €25,750 Super High Roller event at the EM European Poker Championship held at Casino Velden in Austria. However, the sacrifice was absolutely worth it for the controversial casino owner as he took down the event and won the top cash prize of €370,000!
John Hennigan (left) and Mori Eskandani (right) have been inducted into the prestigious Poker Hall of Fame.
The owner of the Hall of Fame, The World Series of Poker, announced last Thursday that the two people shall become their 55th and 56th members for their exclusive club. The 10 finalists were announced earlier this month right after an online nomination procedure.
Joe Cada may have finished only at 5th place in the Main Event of this year's WSOP (for $2,150,000), but that's probably okay with him because after a few days, he has gotten his fourth career bracelet when he took down Event #75: The Closer - $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em for $612,886!
The poker player who has made himself super busy during the first half of the year 2018 and has been reaping a lot of cash prizes and recognition for all his hard work is none other than Justin Bonomo, and now the latest achievement that he can potentially put under his name could be that he'll win a summer tournament that is worth $10 million in cash prize.
It took almost a full decade since his last knockout win, but on Sunday July 15 Manny Pacquiao reminded everyone, especially his fans, that there's still so much more left in him.
Manny Pacquiao (60-7-2, 39 Kos), who will turn 40 years old in December, erased rising suspicions that he was definitely past his prime by showing scenarios of his old self in a one-sided boxing takedown of Argentine brawler Lucas Matthysse at the Axiata Arena in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup Final is the football match that every fan is excited to talk about, as this will determine the winner of the 2018 FIFA World Cup. The upcoming event shall be the 21st final of the FIFA World Cup, a tournament held every 4 years in which men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA battle it out on the field. The winners of the World Cup will then qualify for the 2021 FIFA Confederations Cup.
The excitement gets higher as each day passes by at the 2018 WSOP Main Event, because as more and more players get eliminated, then the more difficult it is for the remaining ones to stay afloat in the hopes of finally winning that coveted Main Event championship bracelet as well as the humongous first-place prize money worth more than $8.8 million!
It looks like Phil Hellmuth can't stop smiling, because he has finally won the 15th bracelet of his poker career in this year's WSOP Event #71 $5,000 NLHE (30-min levels) and he even has a plump sum of $485,082 to take home to his wife!
If you ask the players, the third-place play-off between England and Belgium in the 2018 World Cup is a game that nobody really wants to play in. There's going to be a new hero to hoist the trophy on July 15, and this match may very well be the described as the closing curtain for that momentous event. However, this particular match shall allow the England team to end their 2018 campaign onto a more positive outlook and it allows them an intriguing rematch with group-stage adversary Belgium.
The final table has finally been set in the 2018 WSOP $10,000 Main Event World Championship. From a player field of 7,874 entries in total (the 2nd biggest field in the tournament's history), now there are only nine players left to battle it out for the championship gold bracelet and the first place prize money of a whopping $8.8 million.
Being able to outlast a field of 901 entries is an achievement done by Ronald Keijzer, who won his very first bracelet and he takes home with him a plump $475,033 payday in Event #69 $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha 6-Handed.
The 2018 FIFA World Cup Final is the football match that every fan is excited to talk about. The upcoming event shall be the 21st final of the FIFA World Cup, a tournament held every 4 years in which men's national teams of the member associations of FIFA battle it out on the field. The winners of the World Cup will then qualify for the 2021 FIFA Confederations Cup.
A total of 109 survivors out of the initial 7,874 entries returned to Day 6 of the 2018 WSOP Main Event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino, and all of them are vying for the number one spot that gives them not only a golden bracelet, but also a whopping $8.8 million cash prize! At the end of the day, the 100+ contenders have been narrowed down to 26 hopefuls left, and the one to lead them on this day was Aram Zobian with 41,585,000 chips.
Last Friday evening at the 2018 WSOP Event #66 $1,500 NLH, something said by a poker player to another fellow player led to his disqualification from the WSOP event.
Adrian Sorin Lovin, a poker pro who registered from Russia but at the WSOP he wore blue shirts emblazoned with ‘Team Italy', had advanced to Day 2 in Event #66 with a fairly healthy stack. At that time, the initial field of 1,351 was narrowed down to 227, which was 24 spots from the money bubble.
A total of 7,874 players jumped into Event #65 $10,000 NLHE Main Event World Championship, and now only 109 players remain as Day 5 ended in a rather peculiar way. Day 5's chip stack hero is Houston resident Michael Dyer with 12,180,000.
Now that Germany has been eliminated and out of the way, a new World Cup champion shall be crowned in Russia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup!
The World Cup is indeed a memorable event just like a person's 50th birthday, but it only happens once every 4 years and the entire world is watching. Which team is going to hoist the FIFA World Cup Trophy come July 15?
Once again, the 2018 WSOP $10,000 Main Event has narrowed down its second biggest field in the history of the prestigious tournament (7,874 entries), and after a total of 41 hours of poker play so far in this event, the field of 1,182 now has only 310 players left after Day 4.
Event #62 $888 Crazy Eights NLHE 8-Handed has been bagged by Galen Hall, who outlasted a massive field of 8,598 player entries, winning his very first WSOP gold bracelet and the cool $888,888 top prize money after managing to hold on and survive 4 days of extreme poker action.
On Monday, the World Series of Poker has released the list of the 10 finalists eligible for the 2018 Poker Hall of Fame class. Just one or two will be inducted.
The list of 10 poker players was created after a process of public nomination and a vetting of these nominations by the Poker Hall of Fame Governing Council. The decision now falls in the hands of 28 living members and a few journalists to determine who gets inducted.
Let's take a look at what's happened in the starting 3 days of WSOP's Event #65: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT - World Championship.
Day 1A A total of 925 players participated in the first Day 1 flight of the Main Event but after 5 levels of 2 hours each, only 659 survived to advance to Day 2. Timothy Lau claimed chip leader position (338,700 chips), followed by Truyen Nguyen (324,800) and Chris Fraser (316,100).
Dan Matsuzuki, a resident of Tempe, Arizona, has won his first ever gold bracelet in this year's WSOP Event #64: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better. The first place cash prize of $364,387 in this event is now his biggest career cash as his previous best is just a 9th place finish in the 2015 WSOP $1,500 Ten Game Mix 6-Handed for $9,018.
Scheduled from June 3 to July 3, 2018, Event #11: $365 PLO GIANT of the 2018 WSOP has now come to an end, and the one who outlasted a field of 3,250 entries is Canadian Tim Andrew, who has won his very first bracelet with his first cash at the WSOP series.
There were a total of 8,920 players who signed up for Event #6: $365 GIANT NLHE (scheduled from June 1 to July 1, 2018), and in the end it was Jeremy Perrin who emerged victorious, taking home his first-ever bracelet and a nice sum of $250,966.
This year at the WSOP, Phil Galfond now has a total of three bracelets to his name, after he won Event #60: $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship which had a player field of 237 entrants. Along with the bracelet and the title, he took home the first-place cash prize worth a whopping $567,788.
After defeating a player field of 2,065 entries in this year's WSOP Event #59: $1,000 NLHE Super Turbo Bounty, Mike Takayama has officially become the first Philippine poker player to have ever won a WSOP bracelet in the history of the prestigious annual poker festival. His success from defeating Italian poker player Lorenc Puka has earned him a gold bracelet and an awesome $198,568 first-place prize money.
John Hennigan (left) and Mori Eskandani (right) have been inducted into the prestigious Poker Hall of Fame.
If you ask the players, the third-place play-off between England and Belgium in the 2018 World Cup is a game that nobody really wants to play in. There's going to be a new hero to hoist the trophy on July 15, and this match may very well be the described as the closing curtain for that momentous event. However, this particular match shall allow the England team to end their 2018 campaign onto a more positive outlook and it allows them an intriguing rematch with group-stage adversary Belgium.
Last Friday evening at the 2018 WSOP Event #66 $1,500 NLH, something said by a poker player to another fellow player led to his disqualification from the WSOP event.
Now that Germany has been eliminated and out of the way, a new World Cup champion shall be crowned in Russia at the 2018 FIFA World Cup!
Once again, the 2018 WSOP $10,000 Main Event has narrowed down its second biggest field in the history of the prestigious tournament (7,874 entries), and after a total of 41 hours of poker play so far in this event, the field of 1,182 now has only 310 players left after Day 4.
Let's take a look at what's happened in the starting 3 days of WSOP's Event #65: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT - World Championship.
