Bad beats in poker are awesome to witness but absolutely no one would want to be at the losing end of that situation. The simplest description of a bad beat is when a poker hand that is a favorite to win initially, suddenly loses to an underdog hand that catches up and surprisingly beats it.
A brand new poker-playing bot was developed by the same group of researchers who presented Libratus back in 2017, and this time, it had successfully defeated a team of top poker players in a 6-handed NLHE game.
Facebook worked with researchers from the Carnegie Mellon University spearheaded by CMU professor Tuomas Sandholm and his graduate student Noam Brown, who scheduled a showdown featuring the latest version of the AI poker supercomputer called "Pluribus" versus some of the top poker players in the industry, and the results, published earlier this month in the journal Science, were remarkable. The bot managed to beat down its opponents, something no other AI before has achieved (previous AI programs can only win at a two-player poker game). It is expected that the outcome of this project shall have major implications on AI research and the game of poker itself.
Gus Hansen is one of the few high-stakes poker pros who give us a glimpse of what goes on behind the doors of Bobby's Room at the Bellagio in Las Vegas.
Even though he failed to cash a significant amount that befits a super high-stakes player during the 50th year anniversary of the WSOP (he won $20,200 for placing 689th at the 2019 WSOP Event #73: $10,000 Main Event), Hansen was able to accumulate a stack that reached seven figures at Bobby's Room, which he proceeded to cash out.
Robert Alexander, a US tech entrepreneur and owner of sweepstakes-based online gaming company Kizzang, has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission for embezzling company funds to fuel his lavish gambling activity.
He also scammed people, including poker player Patrik Antonius who loaned him $700,000.
After 10 grueling days of around 12 hours per day of play, a winner has now emerged in Event #73: $10,000 NLHE Main Event - World Championship of the 2019 WSOP at the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas.
With a buy-in of $10,000 and the player entries reaching 8,569 in total, the entire prizepool built up $80,548,600, with the last man standing to get the lion's share of a whopping $10 million!
Chris Moneymaker (left) and David Oppenheim (right) have been inducted into the prestigious Poker Hall of Fame.
The owner of the Hall of Fame, The World Series of Poker, announced on Monday during the Main Event final table celebration that two people shall become the 57th and 58th members for their exclusive club. The 10 finalists were announced earlier last month right after an online nomination procedure.
The 2019 WSOP is scheduled to end on July 16, 2019, but most of Team partypoker members are already heading their way home after a fruitful poker quest in Las Vegas. A total of 69 cashes had been made amongst them, worth $1,456,500 in total.
On Sunday, July 14, Day 8 of the 2019 WSOP $10,000 Main Event kicked off at 6:30pm local time.
2019 WSOP: Event #73: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT Schedule: July 3 to July 16, 2019 Venue: Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas Buy-in: $10,000 Prizepool: $80,548,600 Total Entries: 8,569 Remaining: 5
In a continuous effort to enforce fairness and security for all players on the site, partypoker revealed that it has successfully closed 67 more ‘bot' accounts in June 2019 as well as they seized $24,257 and €8,888 to be redistributed to players.
On Wednesday, July 10, Day 5 of the 2019 WSOP $10,000 Main Event kicked off at 12 noon local time.
2019 WSOP: Event #73: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT
Schedule: July 3 to July 16, 2019
Venue: Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $80,548,600
Total Entries: 8,569
Remaining: 106
Timothy Su once again the Chip Leader on Day 5 Timothy Su, who was chip leader in Day 2ab of the event, is once again the chip leader with 19,235,000 chips at the end of Day 5, considered to be the longest day so far in this tournament as it concluded around 2am on Thursday.
At the final hour, Su defeated 3-time bracelet winner Brian Yoon when his top pair of kings were no match against Su's bullets.
On Tuesday, July 9, Day 4 of the 2019 WSOP $10,000 Main Event kicked off at 12 noon local time.
2019 WSOP: Event #73: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT
Schedule: July 3 to July 16, 2019
Venue: Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,000
Prizepool: $80,548,600
Total Entries: 8,569
Remaining: 354
Before Day 3 ended, Ryan Pochedly became the bubble boy of the Main Event, which caused excitement to well up among the remaining 1,286 players, because it meant they have now secured themselves a $15,000 payday from then on.
On July 3, Wednesday, the inaugural partypoker MILLIONS Vegas edition scheduled from June 28 to July 2, 2019 at the Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada has ended, and the top winner goes by the nickname ‘Kingsofcards'.
The $10,300 buy-in MILLIONS special edition event with a $5 million guaranteed prize pool has been won by Tom Marchese, who took home a nice plump sum of $1 million!
$5 Million Guaranteed MILLIONS Vegas
When: June 28 to July 2, 2019
Where: Aria Resort & Casino, Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,300
Entries: 536 players
MILLIONS Vegas is actually a standalone $5M guaranteed ‘Special Edition' of the tour's focal Main Event, featuring a $10,300 buy-in.
On Monday, July 8, Day 3 of the 2019 WSOP $10,000 Main Event kicked off at 12 noon local time. Day 3 is composed of all the survivors of Days 2ab and Day 2c in a combined field.
2019 WSOP: Event #73: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT
Schedule: July 3 to July 16, 2019
Venue: Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,000
Remaining: 1,286
A total of 2,880 players returned but only 1,286 survived when Day 3 ended.
On Sunday, July 7, Day 2c of the 2019 WSOP $10,000 Main Event kicked off at 11am local time. Day 2c is composed of players who survived Day 1c.
2019 WSOP: Event #73: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT
Schedule: July 3 to July 16, 2019
Venue: Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,000
Day 2c saw Julian Milliard as the chip leader of the pack who bagged 947,900 - an incredible feat for someone who started the day with only around 20 big blinds. He said, "I've had two crazy days. On Day 1, I was down to 4,000 chips and tripled with ace-nine vs ace-jack, and started today with 16,000. I then had ace-nine beat pocket tens and ran it up from there!"
On Saturday, July 6, Day 2ab of the 2019 WSOP $10,000 Main Event kicked off at 11am local time. Day 2ab is composed of all the survivors of Days 1a and 1b in a combined field.
2019 WSOP: Event #73: $10,000 NLHE MAIN EVENT
Schedule: July 3 to July 16, 2019
Venue: Rio All-Suites Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas
Buy-in: $10,000
Day 2ab saw Timothy Su as the chip leader with 791,900 chips in his bag, followed by Tony Blanchandin (744,500), Anton Morgenstern (735,000), Florian Duta (731,500), and Galen Hall (705,900).
On July 3, Wednesday, the 2019 WSOP Main Event kicked off smoothly with over 1,300 players duking it out on Day 1a. This breaks the record from last year's Day 1a of 925 participants.
WSOP bracelet winner Bryan Campanello was the Day 1a chip leader with 417,500 in his bag, subsequently followed by Raymond Travis Rice (335,000), Timothy Su (297,300), Quentin Roussey (266,400), and Takehiro Kato (259,200).
A brand new poker-playing bot was developed by the same group of researchers who presented 
