With six of the November nine busting out the previous Sunday, the WSOP main event title was up for grabs Tuesday night airing on ESPN. The six players to exit Sunday and their respective winnings are: 4th Matt Giannetti $3,011,655 5th Phil Collins $2,268,909 6th Eoghan O’Dea $1,720,396 7th Badih Bounahra $1,313,851 8th Anton Makiievskyi [...]

The final nine players who will make up the 2011 WSOP main event final table have emerged from a field of 6,865 players. The chip leader, Martin Staszko (40.1 million in chips) — A professional poker player for about one year, is 35 years old and admits that he plays much more online than live. [...]

Here’s the latest regarding the online poker challenge match between Tom “durrrr” Dwan and Daniel “Jungleman 12″ Cates that’s taking place on Full Tilt Poker.com The latest session finished March 29, 2011 with almost 1,100 hands being played. Jungleman 12 came out slightly ahead by about $40,000.  So far, 19,335 hands have been played out [...]

The second of  Tom “durrrr” Dwan’s  poker challenges, this one, a no-limit hold ‘em contest against Daniel “Jungleman 12″ Cates just finished its latest session. “Jungleman 12″ came out ahead in the 844 hands played today winning about $24,000. The totals so far in the 11 sessions played are: 11,569 total hands played out of [...]

The final nine players who will make up the 2010 WSOP main event final table have emerged from a field of 7,319 players who began play back on July 5. The chip leader, Jonathan Duhamel (65.9 million in chips) is a 22-year-old from Montreal who finished 10th last December in EPT Prague. Next is John [...]

The 41st annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) is set to begin on Thursday, May 27, 2010. As every poker fan knows the WSOP is an annual event that began back in 1970. That year, Johnny Moss was awarded the championship by votes of the other players in the event. It became the freeze-out event [...]

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Here is an update on the “durrrr Challenge” where Tom “durrrr” Dwan is playing heads-up in Pot-Limit Omaha against Patrik Antonius. If you’re not familiar with the challenge, check out the “durrrr” online Poker Challenge that I posted previously that explains many of the rules and details of the challenge. As of today, there have [...]

Tom “durrrr” Dwan is a high-stakes player and online poker sensation who has challenged the poker world with his 50,000 hand “durrrr” Challenge. Tom has offered to put up $1.5 million to any opponent’s $500K, playing heads-up at four tables simultaneously for 50,000 hands. Whichever player is ahead at the conclusion of the 50,000th hand [...]