entertainment - "international poker"

In what may be the longest day of the 2008 World Series of poker, the final table of Event #33, $5,000 Stud Hi/Low World Championship was set when Sebastian Ruthenberg eliminated Howard Lederer in ninth place. The final elimination...

A bracelet for a major online star and a marathon final-table bubble were the stories of the day from the World Series of poker. The major online star was Italy's Dario Minieri, who after teasing WSOP audiences in 2006 and 2007...

Think about it. There have been over 30 completed World Series of poker tournaments in less than three weeks, with just as many prestigious WSOP bracelets awarded to well-known pros and relative unknowns alike. The whirlwind that has been the 2008 WSOP thus far is one destined to go down in history as records are being broken and the popularity of the game as strong as ever. read more in pokerworks.com

With so much star power in the field, it was a lesser-known German player who led Event #35, $1,500 Seven-Card Stud at the end of Day 1. A field of 381 poker players was winnowed down to 71 after eight levels of play, with Leonardo Ebeling...

Kenny Tran is a dreadful man; but this commentary does not apply to his personal life, where he is probably the sort of guy you would want to hang out with and have a beer, but when you play against him, the dreadful part of him comes out. Oddly enough, he would probably be flattered by this description of how he plays the game. Kenny is the new Event #25 (10,000 Heads-Up No Limit World Championship) World Champion. This bracelet means that he is currently the best in the world when it comes to playing poker one-on-one.

Even when Phil Hellmuth is not winning bracelets he is still breaking records. Even though he has not scored his 12th bracelet in the 2008 World Series of poker yet, another milestone has fallen for the poker Brat. During Event #32 yesterday, Mr. Hellmuth successfully made it to the money portion of a tournament for the 65th time. Cashing in a WSOP event that often is a new World Series of poker record.

Anna Wroblewski knew at age 19 that she was going to make her living as a poker player. She moved to Las Vegas with a small bankroll and soon found out that she could not pass for 21 in the poker rooms and had to go back to Chicago...

Recently Barry Greenstein, known as the Robin Hood of poker, won a World Series of poker event but he isn't the only one donating his winnings this year. The winner of the recent Seven-Card Stud event at the 2008 World Series of poker, Eric Brooks, had made a promise to donate whatever he won to The Decision Education Foundation, a Palo Alto educational nonprofit organization. He wound up winning the event, and more than $400,000 was the prize, all of which will be donated to the foundation...

Today is Day 21 of the 2008 World Series of poker and once again two new events are getting started. The first event is a relatively cheap No Limit Holdem while a second event is one of those $10,000 World Championship types - Omaha High Low Split Eight or Better. Guess which event the professional poker players are going to avoid like the plague. Now, normally there would be no reason why a professional poker player would avoid playing in a $1500 No Limit Texas Holdem tournament.

While he is chasing World Series of poker gold in Las Vegas, poker pro Phil Ivey is also planning to host eight surety tournaments at the Golden Nugget casino, the largest hotel casino in the Las Vegas area. The name of the event is The Budding Ivey Foundation Charity poker Tournament and it will take place on Tuesday, July 1. The No Limit Texas Holdem tournament will also feature tournament director Matt Savage, and it will have a recommended buy in of $1000 and optional $500 rebuys...