At a final table with bracelet winners and accomplished pros, it was the player with just a single WSOP cash to his credit who triumphed and won the bracelet Thursday night in the $2,500 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em Event.
The third time was a charm for Brent Wheeler who won his first WSOP gold bracelet on the heels of his third final table appearance early Thursday morning. In addition to the trophy, Wheeler was awarded $191,605 for his championship in the $1,500 Limit Hol
There are some who say that poker is now a young man’s game. The generation of hotshot online poker pros tend to get stereotyped as single twenty-somethings who divide their time between grinding the tables and living the high life.
The Event 8 final table wasn’t quite “all Michael Malm all the time”, but it was when it mattered. The 29-year-old marketing specialist from Coquilam, British Columbia outlasted Steven Wolansky heads-up to become the third Canadian-born champion a the 201
After years of noteworthy results but no WSOP victories, Matthew Waxman can finally call himself a bracelet winner. The Florida poker pro defeated a large field in Event 7, a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em event, to win over $300,000 and a shiny new piece of har
When the day began, Benny Chen of Prince Edward Island, Canada was a restaurant manager. When it ended, he was a millionaire.
Mike Gorodinsky was never too far from the top of the chip counts in Event 5, a $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Low mix event. He bagged Day 1 third of 162 remaining and used his momentum to steamroll the competition on Day 2, finishing with the chip lead
John Beauprez’s previous claim to poker fame was creating the Pot Limit Omaha training site PLO Quick Pro. After tonight’s not so quick final table though, he will forever be known as a WSOP gold bracelet winner.
The first two events at this year’s World Series of Poker were all about the poker players from Wisconsin, but the first big field event was all about a player from a little further north.
Sometimes taking the chip lead into a final table can be a bit of a curse for players. There are expectations that you will do well and not meeting them is always a little disappointing.
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