Doyle Brunson, Phil Hellmuth, Scotty Nguyen and Erik Seidel were among the players telling their best stories about Layne Flack, who died recently at 52.
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The Mandalay Bay poker room has been closed since the casino shutdown caused by the coronavirus pandemic. It will have limited days and hours for now.
Only eight players in history have more World Series of Poker bracelets than Layne Flack, who became one of the faces of the early 2000s poker boom.
WSOP.com will host the events Aug. 8 to Aug. 15, with buy-ins ranging from $400 to $3,200. Players must by physically located in Pennsylvania to play.
Daniel Negreanu claimed the overall title of the PokerGO Cup on Wednesday when Cary Katz defeated Sam Soverel heads-up to win the tournament series finale.
Daniel Negreanu broke a yearslong streak without a victory, winning a $50,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em event Tuesday at the PokerGO studio by the Aria.
Germany’s Manig Loeser is the most accomplished player to break through so far in the WSOP Online. He has more than $11 million in career tournament earnings.
Chad Eveslage earned his third tournament victory and six-figure score of the year Wednesday in the World Poker Tour’s $5,000 event at The Venetian.
Andrew Moreno’s big Wynn Millions score came with his wife, who is eight months pregnant, in attendance. Three players earned more than $1 million.
No one expects women to ever make up 50 percent of the players in poker rooms. But can they be more than 5 percent? Here’s what some women players say.
The flagship WSOP at the Rio is expected to return to its normal summer slot next year, dates that have been used by the WSOP Online during the COVID pandemic.
A Caesars Entertainment spokesperson confirmed the closure of the Strip poker room and referred players to other nearby Caesars properties.
Phil Hellmuth, the all-time leader in World Series of Poker tournament victories, will face an amateur on the next “High Stakes Duel” on PokerGO.
Noel Furlong, an Irish businessman and horse trainer, won $1 million at the 1999 World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in No-limit Hold’em World Championship.
First place in the Wynn Millions poker tournament will receive just over $2 million, and second gets more than $1.2 million. The top 134 places will be paid.