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By Brad Willis... The World Series of Poker can be discouraging. You can play all month long and barely have anything to show for it. Look at Team PokerStars Pro Alex Gomes. The best win he came away with in the 2009 Series was a $5,300 cash for an...more

Brad Willis reports at the start of the main event... As far as we know, it is not written in any poker bible that every tournament Day 1 must be a blistering marathon that leaves the players a blubbering mess at the end. That understood, never before at the...more

That's all, folks. There are no more preliminary events at the World Series of Poker. If a player hasn't cashed in one yet or still have a seat in one of the two events running today, he is going to have to make his nut in the Main Event....more

Brad Willis with the latest from the Amazon Room... Last night at this time we were reporting that Daniel Negreanu had just hit his seventh cash of the year. Now we can report he's posted his eighth. Negreanu has been multi-tabling the 2-7 game and $5,000 short-handed event all...more

Team PokerStars Pro announced today that it has signed to its stable two rock stars of the modern poker world. In one fell swoop, Team PokerStars Pro pulled in longtime tournament veteran Marcel Luske and prolific young gun Jason Mercier. Known around the world as 'The Flying Dutchman,' Luske...more

Brad Willis reports from the World Series... It was not to be, apparently, for Team PokerStars Pro Chad Brown. Seeking his first-ever WSOP bracelet to mix with his more than $2.3 million in lifetime tournament winnings, Brown came into day 3 of the $1,500 Stud-8 event with the chip...more

More from the Amazon Room at the World Series... Daniel Negreanu may be a lot of things, but a tragic figure he is not. Shakespeare would have a field day in building full of tragic tales. They may not end with star-crossed lovers offing themselves or a crazed prince...more

Brad Willis reports on Event 53 at the World Series... The rail at the $1,500 is the thicker than you'd expect for a limit, split pot Stud game. Normally at a rail for that kind of event, you'd have two people watching and one of them would only be...more

Brad Willis, working the rock face in the Amazon room, reports on the HORSE event at the end of the first day... It's hard to fully define what Day 1 of the $50,000 HORSE means. It takes an incredible amount of Run Bad or some equally terrible play to...more

Brad Willis reports on the first day of the HORSE... After an initial slow start during which time we couldn't tell exactly who was playing the $50,000 HORSE World Championship and who was not, we now have a clearer picture of the event. When registration closed this afternoon, 95...more

The rematch. Last November, Peter Eastgate defeated Ivan Demidov heads up to become the youngest World Series of Poker Main Event champion ever. Demidov claimed his own piece of poker history, becoming the first player to ever make the final tables of both the WSOP and the WSOP-Europe, and he...more

JC Alvarado has narrowly missed out on winning a WSOP bracelet like his fellow Team PokerStars Mexico Pro Angel Guillen. Alvarado made it to the last five in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em, but despite a temporary comeback from the jaws of defeat, he fell in a huge coin...more

We started with 14 and now we're down to just nine in the $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em. Among them is Team PokerStars Mexico Pro JC Alvarado, who survived a few early escapades to take a place at his first WSOP final. While still at two tables, Alvarado nursed a...more

Simon Young reports on events towards the end of another day at the World Series... After being all-in for her last 30,000 or so not too long ago, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Rousso has gone on a monumental tear-up around her $10,000 Pot Limit Hold'em table - and shot...more

Ali vs. Frazier. Balboa vs. Creed. Eastgate vs. Demidov. This latter fixture may not be the most famous rematch of all time, but in terms of entertainment it's right up there. How it ended the first time is now part of World Series legend. In November 2008, Peter Eastgate...more