Posted in High Stakes, Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 13th, 2008
The year of the pro continued yesterday as two of the biggest names in the game took down preliminary events.
It was in Event 18 NL 2-7 Draw Lowball w/Rebuys, that Mike Matusow captured his third WSOP bracelet and the $537,862 first prize. He took home the bracelet defeating a very tough final table which consisted [...]
Posted in High Stakes, Pro Circuit, Tournaments, WSOP on Jun 5th, 2008
The 39th Annual World Series of Poker is well underway and several “name” pros have already won their first bracelets.
Event 1: $10K World Championship of Pot-Limit Hold’em. 2006 WPT Foxwoods winner Nenad Medic took down the $794,112 first prize along with his first bracelet besting a very pro-heavy field including Andy Bloch, Kathy Leibert, Mike [...]
Posted in High Stakes, Live Poker, Pro Circuit on Dec 4th, 2007
In unfortunate news, poker legend David “Chip” Reese died last night in his sleep at his home in Las Vegas. Details of his death are still unknown but it is believed that Reese called his doctor around 10pm on Monday complaining of pneumonia syptoms but never went to the hospital and passed away in his [...]
Posted in Golf, High Stakes, Pro Circuit, TV on Oct 20th, 2007
ESPN will air High Stakes Golf featuring a number of well-known poker pros tomorrow (Sunday Oct 21) and also next Sunday starting at 8pm.
Posted in Cash Games, High Stakes, Live Poker, TV on Aug 28th, 2007
High Stakes Poker season 4 started off with a bang last night. Here is one of the first hands between Phil Hellmuth and Mike Matusow…
Posted in Cash Games, High Stakes, Live Poker, TV on Aug 26th, 2007
The 4th season of the extremely popular High Stakes Poker will begin tomorrow night at 9pm EST on the Game Show Network. The minimum buy-in has been raised to $500,000 for this season, which should provide for even more action than ever before.
The season premiere is said to feature Mike Matusow, Antonio Esfandiari, and Todd [...]
Posted in Cash, Golf, High Stakes, TV on Aug 14th, 2007
9 Poker players will begin play today in the inaugural Doyle Brunson and Dewey Tomko Invitational. There will be two events with the first starting today being a three-person scramble with three teams of three competing for a $9 million prize pool. The teams are:
Doyle Brunson/Dewey Tomko/Vince Van Patten
Erick Lindgren/Daniel Negreanu/Josh Arieh
Russ Hamilton/Phil Hellmuth/Bill Walters
The [...]
Posted in High Stakes, Pro Circuit, TV, Tournaments, WPT on May 1st, 2007
Carlos Mortensen won the Season Five WPT Championship and the $3,970,415 prize. It was Carlos’ second WPT win to go along with his WSOP Main Event Championship, further establishing himself as one of the best ever to play.
Posted in Cash Games, High Stakes, Online Poker, PLO on Mar 25th, 2007
Just yesterday on Full Tilt, Brian “sbrugby” Townsend won the biggest online Pot-Limit Omaha pot worth $429,240!
3 players were all-in on the flop:
sbrugby with top set of Queens, David Benyamine with top pair and an open-ended straight flush draw, and Durrrr with the Ace high flush draw.
Durrrr hit his draw on the turn but [...]