Ryan Hughes won his second WSOP bracelet in the $1,500 Seven-Card Stud Hi/Lo event, becoming the first player in WSOP history to win two stud hi/lo bracelets. Day 2 of the event was suspended when the field got down to 13 players. Ryan…
The 198 players that returned for Day 2 of Event #48, $2,000 No-Limit Hold’em, had all achieved their first goal, that of cashing in the tournament. With the money bubble bursting just before the end of play on Day 1, the eliminations…
Going into the final table of the $5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Handed Event #46, Richard Lyndaker and Joe Commisso were one and two on the leaderboard. They would be the last two standing. By the end of their grueling, six-hour…
The Hard Rock Casino in Tampa, run by the Seminole tribe of Florida, is a large, great room. They have 50 tables, spread $1/2 and $2/5 no limit hold’em with a $100 capped buy-in. They spread $2/4 limit hold’em and $1-5 limit stud…
The final table of event no. 46, six-handed no-limit hold'em looked like it was going to be a speedy affair after losing three players in the first 28 hands. But once heads up play began, it became apparent that with nearly $400,000 in prize differentials, the players would be in for a long…
The year 1991 will always be remembered in World Series of Poker history as the year when the main event first-place prize grew to $1 million. This made even the most die-hard cash-game players take note and focus their energy on the world championship tournament. Even the preliminary events had…
The 2008 World Series of Poker has already been dubbed "the year of the pro", but it is also a year of repeats and broken records. A most impressive record has been set here tonight as Ryan Hughes becomes the first player to hold two WSOP bracelets in stud eight-or-better events. A man…
Benny Binion passed away on Christmas Day in 1989, making the 1990 World Series of Poker the first without its creator holding court over the festivities. His passing was yet another step that the tournament took from the original Texas road gamblers reunion it had started out as in 1970. It was…
Recent university graduate Max Greenwood came into the final table of the $1,000 no-limit hold'em with rebuys event looking for the biggest score of his short career. But a bad flop for his underpair threatened to send him back to Toronto with a third-place finish. Luckily for the young…
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