With a couple of notable exceptions, you can register late for every bracelet event at the World Series of Poker, including the Main Event. During the Main Event, you have over eight hours from the start of play to get involved and in 2015, as in every year since they started allowing late registration, there […]
Anthony Zinno was having an incredible year before he ever set foot in Las Vegas for the 2015 World Series of Poker. With back-to-back World Poker Tour titles, the second and third career wins on that tour, Zinno could have struck out for the next nine months and still had an incredible year to remember. […]
The logistics of setting up a $500,000 tournament are staggering, but the first ever Super High Roller Bowl went through its three days without a single major hitch. Most importantly, the players were happy with how everything played out on the table, and most of the 43 who bought in went out of their way […]
Brian Rast has had some tremendous success in the poker world, but the number of opportunities any poker player has to win $7.5 million in one tournament are extremely limited, to say the least. Rast took full advantage, surviving a rollercoaster ride of a final table on the way to ultimately defeating Scott Seiver heads-up […]
Every year, as the World Series of Poker schedule winds down, players look for a “summer saver” – a tournament that gets them back to even or makes them profitable should they manage to cash. After a dramatic final hand on Day 2 of the $500,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl seven players have found themselves with […]
For a couple days the Aria hosted the the Super High Roller Cash Game as a lead up to the mind-numbing $500,000 Super High Roller Bowl. After starting a bit late 43 players sat down to play and only 27 remain with David Peters leading the way. Scott Seiver, Connor Drinan, Bill Klein, Andrew Robl […]
There are tournaments that are designed to go fast at the 2015 World Series of Poker and tournaments designed to go slow. Sometimes the action outpaces the best laid plans of tournament staff, as was the case when the final four eliminations in the Seniors Championship came over the course of just 11 hands. On […]
A crazy weekend at the 2015 World Series of Poker came to a close with two memorable final tables. Max Pescatori made it two repeat 2015 winners in as many days, Brazilians nearly literally tore down the Mothership in excitement and the $50,000 Poker Players Championship kicked off. Add in a tournament appearance by Doyle […]
There have been a lot of big stories breaking in the first couple of weeks at the 2015 World Series of Poker, with some familiar faces adding bracelets or making deep runs in the first 20 or so events of the summer. The WSOP isn’t the only show in town, however, with a series of […]
Ari Engel is one of the busiest players in poker today. He has nearly $2 million in tournament earnings and is on the road playing nearing constantly. Engel stepped away from the tables for a few moments to shed some light on why he travels so much and what the World Series of Poker could do to help players. […]
The 2015 World Series of Poker opens its doors Wednesday and Dzmitry Urbanovich holds a record-high points total in the 2015 BLUFF.com Player of the Year race but is too young to play in Las Vegas. Urbanovich has 888.53 POY points, the highest anybody has had through May over the last three years. Steve O’Dwyer is also ahead […]
Dan Smith leads the BLUFF Poker Player Power Rankings on the last week for before the 2015 World Series of Poker re-shuffles the standings as two factors adjust the rankings – players making deep runs and scoring bracelets and players’ scores dropping value from the calendar. Smith is just one small cash ahead of Mike Leah, […]
Dan Smith‘s uncanny ability to crush €5,000 EPT events put him back in the lead of the BLUFF Power Rankings but any player in the top tens spots could unseat him with one big finish. Smith added a fifth €5,000 spade trophy to his collection in a Hyper Turbo event at EPT Grand Final for $122,224 and […]
There’s an excitement in the air with just two weeks to go until the 2015 World Series of Poker, but players are already getting in some serious volume in the lead-up. In one of the busiest weeks of the year, if not the busiest, an astounding 14 of the top 20 players in the 2015 […]