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Sometimes it is all about the bracelet. That sounds silly: everyone who sits down to play a World Series of Poker event desperately wants that piece of jewelry, but most of them are not crying in their beer when they are given thousands, hundreds of thousands, and sometimes millions of dollars with their wrist bling. The majority of players would probably be upset if they were handed their bracelet, given a firm handshake, and sent off without getting a check to go with it. Eric Brooks is the exception to this particular rule.

Vanessa Selbst won the event #19 bracelet today. She took this particular Championship in a manner that would have brought a wicked little smile to the face of Moe the bully from the Simpsons or those Cobra Khan kids from the film the Karate Kid. She went out and picked on all the stacks that were small and weaker than her own. Unlike when antagonist Johnny Lawrence kicked the tail of 'Danilesan', there was no shabbily dressed karate master to save their tournament lives. She simply collected their chips and used their tiny stacks to cobble together an insurmountable chip lead.

A first day's action in event #24 at the 2008 WSOP, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha Mixed, saw a starting field of 457 trimmed down to 85 through the first session's opening eight levels of play, leaving the survivors in sight...

The World Series of Poker has safely passed 25% of its days for this year and the tournaments are still going strong, with plenty of newly minted champions and experienced poker pros making their presence known. Today, on Day 15, we will talk about a prediction for the Main event. Not who will win, place, or show, but rather who is going to be involved in some craziness, and what kind of craziness there will be.

The 2008 World Series of Poker feted its latest pair of bracelet winners on Thursday on another busy day in the Amazon Room. Action in six different events again occurred. The bracelets were noteworthy, too, going to Kid Poker...

The 14th day of the 2008 World Series of Poker was another fun-filled one. It all began with a $2,000 buy-in NLHE event and continued with Day 2 of the $5K NLHE event, Day 2 of the $3K H.O.R.S.E., a late-starting PLHE/Omaha mixture, and final tables of Omaha and LHE events. Whew! read more in pokerworks.com

Event #21 started with 731 players, which had been sliced down to just 121 by the end of Day 1 play. On Day 2, the field would break the money bubble at 72 players and establish its final table line-up. Prior to this event, Scott...

At the end of each day of event #19's play, Vanessa Selbst had the most chips. This would include the final day, when she ended up with them all in winning the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha bracelet and $227,933. This was Selbst's fourth...

Warren Beatty was upstaged at his own lifetime achievement event by, of all things, an aging ladies man and charismatic charmer. ...