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Event #35: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E.

After three long days of play, the $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. event's field is down to only three players. The remaining players, who have outlasted 373 other players so far, are fighting for a gold bracelet and a $261,774 first-place prize.

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32 players of 873 entrants returned for the third day of play on Thursday, and, just as planned, the day concluded once a final table of eight players remained. Jonas Christensen, from Denmark, defeated Innes Young and Hunter Cichy and will bring the largest stack (929,000) into today's final table. Christensen is just ahead of Andre Boyer, who beat Ryan Milisits and Toby Lewis, with a stack of 851,000.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Event #34: $1,500 Split Format Hold'em Final Table Is Set

Things didn't go well for Benny Glaser when he travelled to Las Vegas last year for his very first World Series of Poker. Despite entering several events, he failed to make the money once.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Benny Glaser Wins Event #33: $1,500 Limit 2-7 Triple Draw Lowball

Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier defeated a star-packed field of 550 entries in the $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em Six Max event. Mercier received the top prize of $633,357 and his third gold bracelet. His first two bracelets came in Pot-Limit Omaha events.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Mercier Wins Event #32: $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 6-Handed

Franco Ivan Luca is the first player from Argentina to win a bracelet in the 47-year-history of the World Series of Poker. Luca, a 23-year-old poker pro from Buenos Aires, topped a field of 2,150 entrants over four days of play to lay hands on his first gold bracelet and $353,391 in prize money.

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event #30: The First WSOP Winner From Argentina Has Been Crowned

Twitch is great site for poker players who want to share their screens with the world while playing cash games and tournaments. The fact is that the streaming service has become extremly popular in the poker world in the past months thanks to, just to mention 3, Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Bertrand Grospellier and Jason Somerville - who are all kind enough to reveal some of their poker secrets.

Read more » The Poker World's First "Twitch Scandal"

Perry Shiao is the winner of the Monster Stack $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event! Shiao, a 24-year-old poker dealer and part-time poker player, bested a field of 7,192 entrants over five days of play to lay hands on his first gold bracelet and the $1,286,942 first-place prize!

"I came out here to chase the dream," Shiao said afterward. "My birthday was the first day this tournament started. I couldn't have given myself a better birthday gift."

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event #28: Poker Dealer Wins Monster Stack Event For $1,286,942!

Erick Lindgren, a former Full Tilt pro and 2008's WSOP Player of The Year, has filed for bankruptcy for the second time in thee years. According to Blomberg Business, Lindgren owes over $8 million and listed assets of less than $50,000 in Chapter 11 papers on Tuesday in U.S. Bakruptcy Court in Las Vegas.

Read more » Erick Lindgren Files For Bankruptcy Again

Event #30: $1,000 No-Limit Hold'em

A bracelet is still on the line after a very long day, Day 3, of play. Ivan Luca holds a big chip lead (7,780,000) heading into tomorrow unscheduled Day 4, and he will play heads-up against Artur Rudziankov (2,985,000).

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Former PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has been chosen for the 17th season of Big Brother, a reality game show where a group of strangers live together in a house with dozens of cameras and microphones recording their every move 24 hours; the contestants of this season will be fighting for a $500,000 first-place prize.

Read more » Vanessa Rousso On Big Brother

U.S. poker pro Jeff Madsen topped a star-studded field of 480 entrants in Event #31: $3,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better to lay hands on the $301,413 first-place prize and the gold coveted bracelet. 

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event #31: Jeff Madsen Wins Fourth Gold Bracelet!

It has taken four long days but now the final table of the MONSTER STACK $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em event is set. The remaining nine players have outlasted 7,183 entries so far and now their poker skills will be put to the final test on the final table where a gold bracelet and a life-changing $1.2 million first prize is up for grabs!

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event #28: Monster Stack Final Table Is Set

Event #28: MONSTER STACK $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

The $1,500 buy-in Monster Stack event's field of 7,192 entries has been narrowed down to 29 players after three days of play. The remaining players are guaranteed a minimum cash of $36,700, with the chance of taking home the first-place prize of $1,286,942!

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Brief Updates For All Ongoing Events

Phil Galfond, who plays online under the alias "OMGClayAiken", is a proud owner of two gold bracelets following his win of Event #29: $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship on Monday night. The tournament drew 77 players who created a prize pool of $723,800 - of which Galfond received $224,665.

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event #29: Phil "OMGClayAiken" Galfond Wins Star-Filled Final Table

In 2009, Brian Hastings was on everyone's lips after taking Viktor "Isildur1" Blom for $4.18 million in one single session on Full Tilt's nosebleed tables. (He won a futher $1.5 million in a later session against the legendary Swede).

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event #27: Brian Hastings Wins His Second Gold Bracelet

Event #26: $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha saw a field of 1,293 entries - the biggest non-Texas Hold'em tourney in history. Despite the big player-field, it only took three days of play until a winner had been crowned, Aaron Wallace.

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event 26: Aaron Wallace Turns $175 Into Gold Bracelet and $226k!

The 25th bracelet event, $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed - one of the toughest events on the WSOP schedule, drew 493 players who battled it out for four days of play.

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event 25 $5,000 No-Limit Hold'em 8-Handed : Football Coach Wins The Star-Studded Event

Arash Ghaneian bested a star-filled field of 772 players over four days of play to lay hands on his first gold bracelet and $239,750 in prize money (the biggest score of his tournament career).

Read more » Arash Ghaneian Wins Event #24 - $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

Event #24: $1,500 H.O.R.S.E.

Mike Watson will lead the remaining 31 players into Day 3 of the $1,500 HORSE event with 634,000 in chips. His closest rival is Arash Ghaneian with 601k, then David Levi in third place with 481k.

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Minnesota-based poker player Jonathan Cyril Collins, a three-time winner of National Deaf Poker Tour events, was killed last month in Las Vegas in connection with a drug deal that turned into a robbery attempt.

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Three days ago, Christian Pham made a big mistake. The Vietnamese-born poker pro now living in St. Paul, MN went to the registration window and handed over $1,500 in cash, thinking he was signing up for the next No-Limit Hold'em event.

Read more » 2015 WSOP - Event #23: Christian Pham's Best Mistake Of His Life

Toronto-based Sam Greenwood topped a huge field of 1,915 players in Event #22 $1,000 No Limit Hold 'em to become the first Canadian gold bracelet winner at this year's World Series of Poker. In addition to the gold bracelet, he received $318,977 out of the total prize pool of $1,723,500.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Sam Greenwood Wins Event #22 $1,000 No Limit Hold 'em

When the cards were in the air on the last day of Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, the chip counts were as follows:

Guess what? All players started and finished in the same positions! On the final hand, Ben Zamani caught heads-up opponent Natasha Barbour bluffing. Barbour shoved her stack with nothing but 10 high and Zamani called with three of a kind aces - in order words, it wasn't a hard decision to make for Zamani.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Ben Zamani Wins Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em

Christian Pham (picture) finished as the chip leader after both Day 1 and Day 2's 10, 60 minutes levels of play on Wednesday in the $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw event.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: $1,500 No Limit 2-7 Single Draw Lowball Final Table Resumes At 2 P.M.

There's only one day left to be played of Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. Ben Zamani will lead the final five players when play resumes at 1 p.m local time. Zamani bagged up 4,535,000 in chips at the end of play and is closely followed by Natasha Barbour (picture), who was close of being eliminated on Day 3 before doubling up several times to end the day with 3,770,000 in chips.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: 5 Players Remain In Event #20: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em