For the first time, the WSOP Main Event played down to ten players instead of nine. It sparked a debate about calling the final table an “official” one with only nine players but not ten. It matters because making the actual Main Event final table is a big deal –
The 2022 World Series of Poker is coming to and end. The next few days will see crowds lessen. Full-time summer campers are heading home. Many players are simply exhausted after seven weeks of nonstop poker action. There is an influx of people to the WSOP areas today, though, and
Skill is important in poker. Luck also plays an important role. Poker is a combination of factors, plus players battling each other’s mental state and endurance at the tables. The World Series of Poker Main Event puts this on display like no other tournament, especially when the field thins down
These last weeks and days of the 2022 World Series of Poker are tense. The Main Event is working slowly but steadily to reach a final table. Fan favorites bust out, new stories emerge from remaining players, and the coverage loops everyone into the action. Meanwhile, players not in the
The Main Event thinned its field to little more than 100 players on its fifth day of play. The main attraction at the 2022 World Series of Poker is at a serious point, one in which the money jumps become much more significant and the competition much tougher. Players are
The World Series of Poker announced this year’s inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame. That person is Layne Flack. The posthumous honor comes nearly one year after Flack’s untimely death. HOF Announcement Last year, the World Series of Poker established a new tradition for announcing Hall of Fame inductees.
Many tournaments are running again at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. There is the One More for One Drop and Lucky 7s, both of which offered unlimited reentries and several starting flights. There is a PLO bounty event, razz, and more to come. Most poker fans, however,
The biggest bubble in poker burst late last night. It was the money bubble in the Main Event. For many years, the money bubble didn’t come into play until Day 4, but last year and again this year, it happened on Day 3. It was late into the evening when
It was damn close. They needed 111 more players to create the largest World Series of Poker Main Event of all time. However, that should not take away from the fact that the turnout for the 2022 WSOP Main Event was stupendous. Late registration for Day 2 (both of them)
There was great hope that this 2022 World Series of Poker would produce a record-setting Main Event. It had potential. And many of this year’s events set their own records, smashing past turnout and bringing the masses to the tables at the new Bally’s and Paris venues. However, there were
By all accounts, the first-ever WSOP Million Dollar Mystery Bounty tournament was a success. The event offered a $1K chance at this bracelet, with reentries allowed at one per flight. There were four flights. Payouts began at the end of each flight for a certain percentage of the field. By
The WSOP Main Event could be a record-setting event. Hopes are high due to the numbers attending the entirety of the World Series of Poker thus far this year. And some predicted an all-time high for the Main. The three initial starting days indicate that this might not be the
