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Bryan Campanello Wins Event #33: $2,500 Seven-Card Razz

14 of 301 players remained when Day 3 of this event began. When the cards were in the air, all eyes were on David Bach who had finished both Day 1 and Day 2 as the chip leader. However, it was another player, Bryan Campanello, who dominated the final day and also managed put a stop to Bach's winning streak.

Read more » WSOP 2013: Here Are The Winners of Event #33 and #34

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Just a few minutes ago, American poker pro Erick Lindgren (a well-known figure from the classic televised cash game High Stakes Poker) took down Event #32: No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed) after a very interesting heads-up against Lee Markholt, who was looking to win his first bracelet.

Lindgren brought a massive lead to heads-up play, but Markholt gave him a good fight. It didn't take long before Markholt doubled up with a flopped straight vs KK of Lindgren. After that he went on a winning streak to bring the stacks to about even. However, Lindgren never let go of the lead and proved too strong for Markholt who received $374,960 for finishing runner-up after losing several big pots. Lindgren received $606,317 in prize money and now has 2 WSOP bracelets under his belt!

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Chris Dombrowski Wins Event #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
Congratulations to Chris Dombrowski, of USA, who battled through a field of 2,108 players over three days to earn his first gold bracelet and $346,332! Dombrowski was ranked third when the final day began and there were 13 players left. After a few hours of play, he was the chip leader and played heads-up against Mathew Moore.

Read more » WSOP 2013: A Brief Recap of Event #30 and #31

Eighteen months ago, PokerStars celebrated its 10th anniversary by, for example, hosting a fourth World Record tournament attempt. The tournament was a huge success as it attracted 200,000 runners who played for a $250,000 prize pool. That world record lasted until last Sunday when the site hosted its fifth World Record tournament attempt...

Read more » PokerStars Sets New World Record With 225,000 Player Tournament

Poker pro and western singer Tom Scehneider is the latest winner at the 2013 World Series of Poker. He bested a field of 261 in the $5,000 buy.in H.O.R.S.E. event for $318,955 and a fourth gold bracelet! Scehneider won the $1,500 HORSE event along with $258‚000 less than a week ago and he's the only two-time winner at the 2013 WSOP.

Read more » WSOP 2013: Tom Schneider Wins Fourth Bracelet in Event #29: H.O.R.S.E.

Ken Lind is the winner of Event #26: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship
Not less than 4,407 players (a new record for this event) signed up for Event #26: $1,000 Seniors No-Limit Hold'em Championship and created a $3,966,300 prize pool. Poker legends such as Johnny Chan, Tom McEvoy and T.J. Cloutier were among the participants, but, unfortunately, none of them were among the 34 players who returned for the final day (Day 3).

Read more » WSOP 2013: Another Three Bracelets Have Been Awarded!

Josh Pollock Wins Event #22: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha
This event concluded after three relatively quicks days of play with Josh Pollock as the champion. The 29-year-old from Silver Spring, Maryland bested a field of 1,021 players and defeated no one else than Noah Schwartz heads-up to win his first gold bracelet and a sweet $279,431 (the biggest cash of his entire career!).

1st Josh Pollock $279,431
2nd Noah Schwartz $172,931
3rd James Parks $108,196
4th KT Parks $78,532
5th Shawn Silber $57,974
6th Eric Shanks $43,460
7th Eddie Blumenthal $33,057
8th David Greene $25,483
9th Brandon Crawford $19,909

Read more » WSOP 2013: Here are the latest Winners...

Event #19, #20 & #21, all three-day events, have been concluded and all three winners are non-americans.

Event #19, $5,000 Pot-Limit Hold'em saw Belgium player Davidi Kitai take home the first prize of $224,560 after hitting three of a kind after the flop revealed a Jack against runner-up Cary Katz whom had gone all in with KK. This gave Kitaia his second WSOP gold bracelet (his first bracelet was won in Pot-Limit Hold'em Event 38 in 2008's WSOP). The top 9 finishers below:

Read more » WSOP 2013 Update: Event #19, #20 & #21

When 14 of 2,017 players returned for the final day all eyes were on Phil Ivey, even as Taylor Paur held the chip lead. But Mr. Ivey didn't get many minutes in the spotlight as he was the first player to be eliminated (14th place ). Once Phil Ivey was out of the picture, all eyes were on Taylor Paur, who made it to the final table as the chip leader.

Read more » WSOP 2013: Taylor Paur Wins Event #18: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

Athanasios Polychronopoulos won his second WSOP gold bracelet by winning event #17 yesterday.

In this No-Limit Hold'em event there were no less than 2,105 players and a total prize pool of $2,841,750. Polychronopoulos beat the runner-up Manuel Mutke by hitting a Queen of Clubs on the river, making a two pair - Jacks and Queens, against Mutke's pair of Jacks. Mutke got $322,908 for the second place while Polychronopoulos earned a healthy $518,755 for winning the event.
Polychronopoulos won his first gold bracelet in 2011, event #48 $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, which gave him $650,223.

Below is the top ten finishers of the Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em:

Read more » WSOP 2013: Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Five events of the 44th annual WSOP concluded during the weekend. Here's a short summary.

Event #12: $1,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em
535 players was seated when event #12 started on the 5th of June.After two days and some seven hours, there was only one player left - Lev Rofman. Mr.Rofman left the event as the last man standing and $166,136 in prize winnings. The last table below:Read more » WSOP 2013 Update

The 2013 GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions (played in Macau, China) attracted 71 players (54 rebuys) who created a massive HKD$119,375,000 prize pool (approx. USD $15,379,600). The final table, which took place earlier today, was a fast paced one as the average stack was only 15 big blinds.

Read more » Niklas Heinecker Wins GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions ($4,464,516)

It's been quiet from Viktor "Isildur1" Blom since he took down the SCOOP 2013 Main Event in the end of May. The main reason for that is that he hasn't won nor lost any significant amounts at Full Tilt's nosebleed tables. Well, that was until yesterday when he took on Gus Hansen at the 2-7 Triple Draw and the FLO8 tables. They started the session at the 2-7 Triple Draw tables and "The Great Dane" took the young Swede for about $100k until things took a big turn...

Read more » High Stakes: Blom Wins Half a Million Dollars!

924 players entered Event #11 $2,500 No-Limit Hold'em Six Handed and created a prize pool of $2,102,100. The final day (and the final table) of the tournament was played today and, after 13 players had hit the rail, Levi Berger took down the first prize of $473,019 and a his first gold bracelet! Berger's win also means that Canadians have now won four bracelet at the 2013 WSOP!

Final table results:
1 Levi Berger $473,019
2 Scott Clements $292,339
3 Ben Palmer $185,426
4 Eddy Sabat $121,711
5 Jacob Bazeley $82,297
6 David Gonia $57,282

Event #7: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em
The final day of this event saw 5 amateurs who combined for $2,968 in WSOP earnings and five established pros with more than $4 million in combined earnings. After several hours of play, Matt Waxman and Eric Baldwin were the last men standing and Waxman had 3.1 million to Baldwin's 2.4 million. The two would battle for, believe it or not, 187 hands over the course of almost seven hours before a winner finally had been decided.

Read more » 2013 WSOP: Another Four Bracelets Have Been Awarded

The first ever International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) at the Wembley Stadium in London has come to an end. After several days of play (online and live), Jakub Michalak, from Poland, laid hands on the trophy and the first prize of €436,000. Michalak is the number one ranked online player in Poland and in the top fifty in the world.

Read more » Jakub Michalak Wins 2013 International Stadiums Poker Tour Wembley Stadium

It's not only in Vegas that big sums of money are at stake at the moment, because today a HKD 1 million buy-in (approx. USD$130k) tournament kicks off in Macau, China. Guangdong Ltd Asia Millions (2 re-buys maximum) is hosted by PokerStars Live at the City of Dreams (PokerStars LIVE Macau) and will run until June 7, 2013, with live streams. Chinese businessman and several well known poker pros (Gus Hansen, Isaac Haxton, ElkY, Jonathan Duhamel, Erik Seidel and a few others) are due to attend the event, which is expected to become one of the biggest high roller events in history!

THE WEBCAST BROADCAST DATES:
DATE: WEDNESDAY 05/06/2013
EVENT: $100,000 HKD DAY 1
START TIME: 15:00 local time in Macau (GMT +8) from level 1
END TIME: APPROX. 00:30 local time in Macau (GMT +8) to end of level 8

DATE: THURSDAY 06/06/2013
EVENT: $100,000 HKD DAY 2
START TIME: 15:00 local time in Macau (GMT +8) from level 9 approx.
END TIME: APPROX. 00:30 local time in Macau (GMT +8) to 8 players

DATE: FRIDAY 07/06/2013
EVENT: $100,000 HKD DAY 3 FINAL TABLE
START TIME: 15:00 local time in Macau (GMT +8) from level 1 approx.
END TIME: APPROX. 21:30 local time in Macau (GMT +8) to winner

Read more » LIVE STREAM: $130,000 buy-in GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions begins today!

The brand new event began on Saturday with 6,343 entrants and concluded yesterday after four days of play. Benny Chen brought the largest stack to the final table, which kicked off yesterday, but lost the chip lead almost straight away. He was second in chips when four players remained.

Four-handed play lasted 95 hands with each player taking turns at holding the lead. However, at the end of the night, it was Chen who was the last man standing and received the first prize of $1,198,780 and the coveted gold bracelet!

Final table results:
1. Benny Chen $1,198,780
2. Michael Bennington $741,903
3. Jonathan Gray $534,506
4. Justin Liberto $400,408
5. Dan Kelly $302,104
6. Chris Hunichen $229,575
7. Upeshka Desilva $175,714
8. Robert McVeigh $135,467
9. Theron Eichenberger $105,154

Although most super stars in the poker world are in Las Vegas at the moment, there are some who instead have headed to Macau in China for the 2013 GuangDong Ltd Asia Millions (hosted by PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams). On Tuesday, a HK $250,000 buy-in tournament (a warm-up tournament to a HKD 1 million buy-in tournament that starts today) started and saw a field of 45 players, who created a HK $10,743,750 (approx. $1.39 million) prize pool.

Only the top five players made the money and Nick Wong took home the top prize of HK $4,298,000 ($550,000) after defeating defeating Team PokerStars Online's Isaac Haxton heads-up for the title. Wong had a massive chip lead when heads-up play kicked off, and it only took him a few minutes to defeat Haxton.

1 Nick Wong HK $4,298,000 (US $550,000)
2 Isaac "Ike" Haxton HK $2,579,000 (US $334,935)
3 Philipp Gruissem HK $1,719,000 (US $223,246)
4 Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier HK $1,289,000 (US $167,402)
5 Tore Lukashaugen HK $858,750 (US $111,428)

The first ever "Millionaire Maker" event (Event #6: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em) has been a huge success at the 44th Annual World Series of Poker! The brand new tournament attracted 6,343 players and the final table is now set after 3 days of action-packed poker. The final table, which begins tomorrow, will see 10 players battle it out for a first prize of $1,199,104!

Benny Chen (picture) will bring the largest pile of chips to play (5,865,000), but it won't be a walk in the park as he's closely followed by poker star Dan Kelly (4,130,000), who laid hands on his first WSOP bracelet in 2010 by winning the $25,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six-Max event.

Check back tomorrow for a final table recap!

Event #4: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (Six Handed)
On Monday, the fourth gold bracelet was awarded at the 44th Annual World Series of Poker. After 1,069 players entries and three days of play, John Beauprez had all the chips and received $324,764 and the coveted gold bracelet! The biggest name on the final table, as you can see in the results below, was the 2009 Main Event champion Joe Cada, who finished in fourth place for $83k.

1 John Beauprez $324,764
2 Manig Loeser $200,698
3 Eric Blair $127,300
4 Joe Cada $83,558
5 Mike Mustafa $56,499
6 Keven Stammen $39,325

Read more » 2013 WSOP: Another Two Winners Have Been Crowned!

Event #2: No-Limit Hold'em / Eight Handed (buy-in: $5,000)
A total of 481 players entered this event and created a $2,260,700 prize pool. The final table was set after 3 days of play and Trevor Pope had half the chips in play. He eliminated six of seven competitors at the final table and was crowned the winner after roughly four hours of play.

Read more » Latest Winners at 2013 World Series of Poker