WSOP 2019: Photo gallery
A selection of photos from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. All images by PokerPhotoArchive. RETURN TO WSOP COVERAGE HUB DAY 5 Click and swipe left/right to view images
View ArticlePoker music: What to listen to?
Back in the old west, poker players in a saloon might have been entertained by a piano player or dance hall singer while they played. A little later, in clubs and poker rooms of the mid-20th century,...
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Richard Seymour making most of second career
Those tuning into ESPN last night to watch the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event spent a number of hours seeing a world-class athlete in action, someone whose exploits on a different green field...
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Save the date: EPT Prague confirmed
Mark your calendars! The European Poker Tour is returning to Hilton Hotel Prague in the Czech Republic for a full slate of tournaments from December 6-17, 2019. Key dates • December 7-11: €1,100 EPT...
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Into the future: the Run It Up Live Home Game
Six friends sitting around a poker table, eating pizza, drinking beer. It could be absolutely anywhere in the poker-playing world, but somebody here says, “You’re going to break Twitch poker” and...
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Pressure cookers, bracelet winners and high rollers
It’s a scorcher today in Las Vegas, where the mercury has pushed up beyond 110° Fahrenheit (44° Celcius). It’s always hot out here in the desert, of course, but it had been a comparatively clement 100°...
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BE THE BOSS OF UFC: How to win this once-in-a-lifetime prize
As Bruce Buffer would say, it’s TIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIME…for you to become the boss of the UFC. Sound good? It better, because the UFC® and PokerStars is literally giving you the opportunity to ‘be the...
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The weekly round-up
Here’s a round-up from the week on PokerStars Blog… Big names go deep as WSOP ME heads to Day 7 Amazing UFC prize up for grabs Save the date! EPT Prague confirmed for December Inside the Run It Up Live...
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'Just gravy' for Gates and Marchington as day of drama awaits
Some people like the bubble. For others it’s all about the very end. (Some masochists even enjoy day one.) But for my money, today is the best day on the poker calendar: when the World Series Main...
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Ensan on course to add WSOP to EPT glory
A few players scooting off for their one-hour break contemplated heading outside for some vitamin D. That’s the one true benefit of taking dinner breaks right around the time of afternoon tea. But as...
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No stopping Gates as final table edges nearer
Garry Gates’s rail here at the Rio has been swelling all week, and the 15 or so folk who are now three deep around the main feature table stage just erupted in jubilation. Gates was all in with pocket...
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Ensan, Gates top two at WSOP Main Event final
It was clear at the start of Friday that we were in for an extraordinary day. It always is when they play down to a final nine at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. What we could not have...
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WSOP 2019: Final table player profiles
The final table for the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was set at around 2am Saturday morning at the Rio Hotel & Casino, Las Vegas. Each of the nine players, the last from a...
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WSOP 2019: The Final Table
Well, well, well. Here we are. It’s Day 8 of the 2019 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event and the finishing line is in sight. That’s because the final table starts today — at 6.30pm local time —...
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Marchington marches on as Skrbic and Su depart
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final is well and truly up and running–and we’re very quickly down to seven players after near back-to-back knockouts. Both Milos Skrbic and Timothy Su are...
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Marchington out, 'Maybe I'm the youngest seventh-place'
Only six players now remain in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event after the elimination in seventh place of Nick Marchington. The 21-year-old Brit, who led the field at the end of Day 6, was...
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WSOP: Gates unafraid as five left in hunt for $10m
The first of a three-part World Series of Poker (WSOP) trilogy is in the books as the 2019 Main Event final table played five hours on Sunday night. The idea was to reduce the returning field of nine...
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#LFGGG in WSOP Main Event; Russia's "kolobcheena" wins the Milly ($108K)
Here’s everything you need to know from the weekend… WSOP Main Event down to five MicroMillions kicks off Russia’s “kolobcheena” wins Sunday Million ($108K) Top 5 results from the High Roller Club Top...
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WSOP: Gates to fans: 'Support fuels me'
Great success on a public stage, particularly the kind that brings money, almost always draws from the woodwork old friends and long-lost contacts, suddenly remembering their old buddy after all these...
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'Villain' Maahs busts in fifth for $2.2m
Three and a half hugely tense hours at the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event have just ended with the elimination from the tournament in fifth place of Kevin Maahs. He takes...
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