Like somebody still wearing a Member’s Only jacket, it’s a rare to see somebody’s name that isn’t Phil Ivey reaching incredible heights in the pokersphere. This year, two people were a product of World Series of Poker (WSOP) greatness: Michael Mizrachi and Frank Kassela. After an early start to 2010 that saw IRS woes for [...]

A name synomous with the World Poker Tour (WPT) earned the recognition it deserved on Saturday. Kathy Liebert played in her 100th WPT tourney over the weekend at the 2010 Legends of Poker event at the Bicycle Casino in L.A. Liebert becomes the second player to join the 100 tourney milestone, an achievement christened by [...]

I could just type out the name “Phil Ivey”, leave the rest of this post blank, and spare you the dead horse I’m about to beat going on about just how incredible a player he is. For starters, he became the all-time leading tournament money player last year, edging out Daniel Negreanu after a storybook [...]

Atlantic City, Las Vegas’ forgotten step child, has seen year-over-year revenues fall 5%, according to a report released by the New Jersey Casino Control Commission last week. All but two of the city’s establishments reported drops in revenue, which saw slot revenue dropping 5.2% and table game revenue dropping 4.5%. The largest winner in the [...]

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The 41st Annual World Series of Poker Main Event coverage kicks off tonight at 8 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST on ESPN. Lon McEachern and Norman Chad, poker’s Statler and Waldorf, call the play-by-play as cameras take us through the second largest field in Main Event history: a staggering 7,319 players vying for a first prize [...]

As the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) enters its seventh year, tourney officials realized something had to be done to bring it out of the spiraling nosedive that would leave a wreckage indistinguishable from a backwater VFW hall home game on a Friday night. As its prestige faded with any mention of it still [...]

Last week was a busy week for me by way of meetings and poker, but there are not too many interesting things to blog about. I played in the Commerce Guaranteed Million Dollar Tournament where they had 5 Day 1s and people could enter and cash up to five times. I entered Day 1A and [...]

Welcome to the second part of a multi-part series I like to call “Amazing Feats in World Series of Poker History”, where I take a look back at past years and amazing accomplishments throughout the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). Known aptly as “The Mouth”, you either love or hate Mike Matusow. His [...]

I know what you’re thinking: sometimes, this blog seems like it’s a shrine for Phil Ivey’s accomplishments. But if he wasn’t so good, we’d be filling these posts with someone else’s name that has a lot more letters and would far more annoying to type about.
Ivey reached his record-setting 9th final table on Thursday at [...]