July 2008 Archives

The PokerStars video blog team talked frequently with PokerStars players during the World Series, meeting great characters who had interesting stories. Perhaps the best stories though are reserved for the ‘PokerStars Six’, the half dozen PokerStars players who made it to the last table of the World Series. The...more

A final table heavily laden with players from the United States played out Saturday’s weekly Round 2 event, but it was a Kiwi that ultimately took the first prize of $276.00. That player was New Zealander ‘cabsta’ who beat ‘JTCapitan’ heads-up. He was top of 801 players who cashed in...more

In the Rio Amazon Room, there is no Monday. There is no July. Time and date are irrelevant. There is no news from around the world, lamentations about the economy, or even the usual banal discussion of the weather. It took rain in the desert to get anyone to...more

By the PokerStars World Series blog team in Las Vegas... It had to happen and now it has. We have reached three tables in the World Series main event. Three tables, 27 players, one more day until we reach the final nine. Along the way, there were all the...more

The few became fewer today. This beleaguered poker bastion known as the Amazon Room got smaller and smaller and its surviving 79 occupants endured another day of triumph and trauma. The camp was small as players took their seats at high noon and by 11:30pm what remained were just...more

By the PokerStars blog team in Las Vegas Wow. Seriously, wow. We may have already used that word to start a previous post from today, but it becomes no less applicable in the duplicate. Wow. Seriously, wow. Day four started an hour late after yesterday's extended bubble shenanigans, but...more

There will be no more days like these, at least not this year. No more days of a mathematical fog hanging over the main event as you try to calculate numbers and chip averages, or consecutive days of new faces whose enthusiasm knows nothing of the repetition that preceded...more

The World Series math is hard to understand for an outsider. This 2008 event had four day ones. It has two day twos. More people competed in the second half of Day 1 than the first, and consequently, the second Day 2 will be more populated than the first...more

Whilst the World Series main event rattled through its four day ones the equally relevant Weekly Round 2 events captured the imagination of hundreds of players each vying for a slice of the money handed out free to the top players. On Saturday 702 players logged off with something to...more

The early flights of Day 1 made it look as though this year's World Series might not be as big as last year's. Saturday called that pessimism into doubt. Today erased it completely as the Rio filled with the final flight of Day 1. By the end of it...more

It is the end of the third of four days ones here at the World Series of Poker and this tournament is almost beginning to take shape. There's still a long way to go, but patterns are emerging and, typically, Team PokerStars Pro are looming large. Chief among the...more

Poker is defined largely by its American heritage on Mississippi river boats and dusty Texas back roads. The variant played here at the World Series of Poker takes its name from those areas in the Lone Star state. But, by name and definition, this tournament is an international event....more

By the PokerStars blog team at the World Series in Las Vegas... We thought we might go our entire life without seeing Wayne Newton. We were almost certain we wouldn't ever hear him accompanied by a marching band. We would've placed good money down on Newton never uttering these...more

Monday was originally intended to be the quiet day, a day when aside from the pot limit Omaha, a few minor tournaments would play out in the usual way with players getting in their last preparations before the main event starts on Thursday. But even with the early fallers...more