entertainment - "event"

Another pair of WSOP winner's bracelets found loving homes in Saturday's action at the Rio, including one that will likely have visits from close kin. History was made when Blair Hinkle captured event #23, $2,000 No-Limit Hold'em...

152 world-class players took the field for what has traditionally been one of the more raucous events of the WSOP. Day 1 of event 28, the $5,000 Pot-Limit Omaha w/ Rebuys tourney, would live up to that tradition. And even though...

Event #27 drew a capacity crowd of 2,706 players, including returning champ Phil Hellmuth, Jr. Hellmuth won this event last year, giving him a record 11 WSOP bracelets and a nice payday in the amount of $637,254. The top 270 players...

Everest Poker has been preparing for the 2008 World Series of Poker for quite some time. And it was back in March of 2008 that the site took a major step toward worldwide recognition by signing an agreement with Harrah's Entertainment for satellite rights and brand placement at the most prestigious event of the poker year. read more in pokerworks.com

It was a Saturday in Las Vegas, and there was a $1,500 no-limit hold'em event on the schedule. The WSOP built it, and they came. All of the tournament rooms were packed with players by the noon start time, and though the madness of this event died down as the day progressed, there was a pot-limit Omaha tournament to fill the tables and fill the noise void with recurring yells of 'rebuy!' read more in pokerworks.com

Day 2 of the 2008 WSOP event #25, the $10,000 Heads-Up No-Limit Hold'em World Championship, started with 32 players and played three rounds to get down to the final four. Vanessa Selbst must have liked making the final four in this event...

I started late because I knew the $5,000 Pot Limit Omaha with rebuys was starting at 5 p.m. and I wanted to be around for most of the action on this one. I was a bit disappointed at first because it seemed like there was a large number of players missing that normally play this event. After walking through the $1,500 tournament briefly though, my faith was restored as the players I expected to be playing were. One table has got to be among the sickest starting tables I've ever seen. Check it out: read more in pokerworks.com

In a commanding performance, Blair Hinkle - second in chips when the day began - was responsible for sending six of the other eight finalists home through a mixture of luck, timing and aggression. His runaway victory, in which...

Max Pescatori, whose nickname is the "Italian Pirate," just added another World Series of Poker bracelet to his loot. Pescatori bested a field of 457 players in event #24, $2,500 Pot-Limit Hold'em/Omaha and navigated his way...

Daniel Negreanu, the poker player from Canada they call the 'Poker Kid', has recently won his fourth World Series of Poker bracelet. The $2,000 Fixed Limit Holdem event, event 20, was filled with 479 players seeking a big pay off with a prize pool of over $800,000. Kid Poker held his own to the final table, where he beat out the last few to pick up over $200,000 and a coveted gold WSOP bracelet...