Poker Players You Need to Know Before 2014 WSOP: Sam Trickett
With a $10m guarantee for the Main Event, 65 more gold bracelets for the taking, the return of the $1m Big One for One Drop and "the best WSOP schedule ever" on tap, the 45th edition of poker's...
View ArticlePokerListings Intros 'On-Demand' Live Coverage at 2014 WSOP
The PokerListings reporting team will select the most interesting questions and do its best to find the answer. The team will also be producing video and conducting interviews with the biggest names...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Koon Cut, ElkY Exiled, Ivey Gets Broke (Nearly)
Have something you'd like featured in a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find Jason Koon trimming the fat (literally) before he heads to...
View ArticleGus Gives it All Back, Approaches $20m in Online Losses
Starting the week off on a high note Hansen surged back up the profit charts with a nice run at the 2-7 and 8-Game tables Monday/Tuesday. Taking six-figure scores off of several tables Hansen managed...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: KidPoker Diary, World Cup Double-Takes, Mizzi Miracle
Have something you'd like to see in a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find Daniel Negreanu planning an inside look at his daily 2014 WSOP...
View ArticleNitsche Wins National Championship, First Bracelet of 2014 WSOP
Officially Nitsche earned $352,800 for the win although according to a tweet he sent out he actually chopped three-handed for an undetermined amount. Nitsche split up the remaining prize pool with...
View ArticleRant: Screw the 'English Only' Rule (and Wales is Not in England)
I struggle to fill in the "what race are you" section of a questionnaire but apart from looking like Bruce Lee I can only speak one language: English. In fact I speak it rather well because I have...
View ArticleHigh Stakes: Gus Hansen, trex313 Take Huge Hits
It was a whirlwind seven days for Hansen, who actually made about $1.25 million before losing it all back. Hac “trex313” Dang also had a very rough week losing nearly $1 million. On the other hand...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: DNegs Origins, Poker for America, Sound of Suckers Crying
Have a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we get caught up in Daniel Negreanu's pre-Vegas origin story, wholewheartedly agree that...
View ArticleDraft a PokerListings WSOP Fantasy Team, Win an iPad Mini
PokerListings has teamed up with Fantasy Poker Manager to create an exclusive challenge for our readers with a silver, 16gb iPad Mini up for grabs. Using the Fantasy Poker Manager app on Facebook,...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: WSOP Solved, Merson Jerseyed, Grand Theft Poker
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find perennial World Series of Poker bracelet winner Matt Matros solving the WSOP for x,...
View ArticlePaul Jackson, Andreas Hoivold Confirmed for 2014 Battle of Malta
Andreas Hoivold, Paul Jackson, Louis Cartarius and Luca Pagano are the latest players to confirm they'll be joining host Maria Ho at the felt for the small buy-in, big-value event this November....
View ArticleWSOP 2014 Starts by Making it Rain with $10,000 Money Cannons
It started when WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart took the podium and asked players if they liked free money. There was a second of silence followed by a few big bangs as $10,000 in single-dollar...
View ArticleGreg Merson: 7% Away from Playing $1m Big One for One Drop
Merson played the $25,000 buy-in Mixed Max event today but is already looking forward to the $1m buy-in Big One for One Drop scheduled to play out at the end of June. Merson has sold 78 per cent of...
View Article16 Days, 4,455 Miles, One Poop Foot: My Epic Commute to 2014 WSOP
I crashed four times, flooded the engine once, burnt out my starter switch another time and stepped in my own poop. And you thought your commute was bad. The steed for the journey was a small...
View ArticleWSOP 3-Bet: Selbst Rules $25k, Cash Cannon, Negreanu’s 1st WSOP
The publicity stunt had people buzzing on what proved to be a very interesting start to this year’s WSOP. For the entire summer we’ll be counting down three highlight-reel stories from Las Vegas every...
View ArticleErick Lindgren: “I've Had to Rebuild from the Bottom"
Not a leap, not a stroll, but a long, hard road that’s easy to fall off of. Erick Lindgren, a professional poker player, went to rehab in late 2012 for problem gambling. Part of Lindgren’s woes and...
View ArticleNext Stop, Cash Ville: World Poker Tour Lands in Kazakhstan
While the majority of the poker world has headed West to Las Vegas for the mecca of all things poker, a small poker sun is rising in the East with the first-ever WPT Kazakhstan. Intrepid PokerListings...
View ArticleRich “nutsinho” Lyndaker Bounces Back from 7-Figure Downswing
“I probably wasn’t studying as hard as I should,” Lyndaker said about the downswing. “I think the heads-up players got a little better than me.” Lyndaker got his start playing home games at 16 years...
View ArticleWSOP 3-Bet: Ivey Scare, Rio Theft, Most Insane Poker Hand Ever?
The WSOP Daily 3-Bet catches you up with three key items that you might have missed from yesterday’s action at the biggest poker series of the year. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a look at Phil...
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