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Poker is a game of peaks and valleys. Nobody understands this more than Chris Bell and Gavin Smith – two players currently at the top of the poker mountaintop. Bell and Smith each notched their first ever WSOP victories over the weekend, Smith in No-Limit Hold’em and Bell in Pot-Limit Omaha High-Low Split. The first time bracelet wins are especially satisfying for the two friends as both have spent years on the professional circuit with mixed success waiting for their breakthrough WSOP moment. “You don’t realize how important it is until you win it,” Bell said. “When you play for  [ Read More ]

Who would have thought ten years ago that poker would be such a global phenomenon in 2010? If not for the online revolution and the ‘Chris Moneymaker effect’ poker could still largely be an underground game, played in sticky-floored cardrooms and only be a select group of pros and wealthy amateurs. How times have changed. During the past decade poker has become a mainstream pursuit, played my millions of people across the world every day, broadcast several nights a week on TV, and creating a global industry worth billions. Poker has taken over the world – this much we know.  [ Read More ]

It is almost that time again, for the biggest and best fantastic live poker event ever held in paradise – the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure! Starting now at PokerStars, you can play for your chance to travel to one of the most exciting live tournament series of events of the year, staged in one of the most beautiful setting in the world – the white sand beaches of the Bahamas!   The action will be hotter than ever and the prize pools even bigger when the world’s best players land in paradise in January, which is quite a feat since the  [ Read More ]

PokerStars continues to offer stops on the North American Poker Tour to go along with its other sixty bazillion tournament tours. This one's a stretch. PokerStars will take you to Los Angeles for its newest stop from Nov. 12-17. I know. Poker in California. Who'd thunk it? This stop is at the Bicycle, which has hosted World Poker Tour events and has a rich history of top-ranked local players. You'll most likely see them as well as the top pros you've come to expect from this tour, including, of course, Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Barry Greenstein and Greg Raymer. The  [ Read More ]

Add David “Bakes” Baker to the list of early contenders for the 2010 WSOP Player of the Year award. The 23-year-old American won his first WSOP bracelet Friday, taking down the $10k Deuce-to-Seven Draw (No-Limit) Championship and adding to an already impressive 2010 WSOP performance. Baker had to topple a table of world-class foes at the final table to come away with the first-place finish and $294,321 cash prize. Despite his youth, Baker turned away John Juanda, Erik Seidel and Eric Kesselman at the final table before defeating Eric Cloutier heads-up for the bracelet. Daniel Negreanu finished one spot short  [ Read More ]

Still hoping to get to Las Vegas and take a seat in the WSOP Main Event next month – without spending over $10,000? Then you need to check out the satellites that Mansion Poker still has running to get you to the Rio starting at just a few dollars! The World Series of Poker is in full swing at the renowned Harrah’s Rio Casino in Las Vegas and the granddaddy of all live tournaments – Event #57 AKA the No Limit Holdem Main Event World Championship starts July 5th! And if you are still dreaming of being there in person  [ Read More ]

It’s been another great morning for the British contingent in Las Vegas as Sam Trickett finished the runner-up in event #17, $5,000 No Limit Hold’em – just missing out on his first WSOP bracelet to American pro Jason DeWitt. Trickett had to contend with a very tough final table that featured online stars including Jeff ‘yellowsub86′ Williams, Amit Makhija, Paul Foltyn and David Benefield to make it to heads-up with DeWitt. The Nottingham pro came in as the short stack and – despite having the best of it preflop – his A-7 was cruelly outdrawn by the T-8 of DeWitt  [ Read More ]

Nothing against limit holdem, but the game sure knows how to slow things down in a tournament setting. Most welcomed the slower pace, though, as thirteen days in to the 2010 World Series of Poker finds many in the poker media already showing signs of fatigue. Many players are always looking for action, but even they like to rest up and take advantage of slower days sometimes. Event 18 was limit hold’em with a $2K buy-in, and the slower pace than no-limit or PLO presents the opportunity for LHE enthusiasts and others to work through the field, employ a different  [ Read More ]

Frank Kassela held off stiff competition in the $10k 7-Stud/8 Championship to pick up his first World Series Of Poker bracelet and $447,446 early Wednesday at the Rio. “I feel terrific,” said Kassela following his win. “I couldn’t feel better.” A final table rich in talent had gathered to play to the winner and Player of the Year candidate Vladimir Schmelev was joined by Dario Minieri, John Juanda, Steve Zolotow, Jennifer Harman and Allen “The Chainsaw” Kessler creating a formidable line-up. Amongst these marquee names, Kassela was not strongly fancied to collect the WSOP bracelet, but he defied the odds  [ Read More ]