2019 World Series of Poker Fantasy Draft Drama
THE 888poker GREAT DEBATE:
The recent addition of a $50k Final Fifty High Roller to the 2019 WSOP schedule threw a wrench in fantasy leagues that are designed for the World Series of Poker and are also the basis for a lot of side bets. The leagues, the $25k Fantasy run by Daniel Negreanu and the $2.5k Fantasy league run by David 'ODB' Baker, have a lot of money on the line and decisions are made during the draft based on the WSOP schedule.
Immediately, players involved began to debate whether or not to add the added $50k into the draft. Negreanu proposed to appoint an arbitration committee of three to hear arguments on either side and make a final ruling.
Sarah Herring talks to Daniel Negreanu, David Baker, Frank Kesella, Remko Rinkema, Donnie Peters and Phil Galfond to get a rounded perspective from both sides.
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What do you think?
Why Is Eugene Katchalov Late to the World Series of Poker?
Eugene Katchalov just arrived at the Rio Las Vegas to play his first World Series of Poker event: the 888poker Crazy 8's tournament. Katchalov has been staying busy outside of poker. He got married, started an e-sports company and has been traveling the world. Not a bad life! Does he still want to play poker full time? Does he have big goals for the Main Event? Watch to find out!
Poker Player Ben Heath Reveals How Going Broke Changed his Game
Poker player Ben Heath breaks down the crazy bubble of the 2019 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Single-Day €50K. Poker players Daniel Dvoress, Michael Soyza, and Heath all had under 5 big blinds on the stone bubble. The payout for one of them would be €0, while the other two would be guaranteed at least €100K. What happened? How did those short stacks effect play during the bubble? Heath explains that even if he has a big cash in Monte Carlo, he wont go crazy and jump into a €100K. Why? Sasha Salinger found out that he learned to manage his bankroll the hard way when he lost half his bankroll in four days at EPT Barcelona. Watch to find out more!
Ben Heath Breaks Down His Controversial Hand Versus Sam Soverel after winning the WSOP $50K
We catch up with Ben Heath a few days after his memorable $50,000 High Roller win. Ben went on to win $1,484,085 which is his largest live cash as well as giving him his first WSOP bracelet.
In this interview Ben discusses why he’s had such little sleep recently, what his plans are for the rest of the summer and what everyone wanted to hear - what were his thoughts in that controversial hand with Sam Soverel!
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2019 WSOP Big 50: Officially the BIGGEST poker tournament in HISTORY
It's official. With 24,000 entries and growing, the 2019 WSOP Big 50 is the largest tournament in poker history! Sasha Salinger of PokerNews recaps all the Big50 action that took place on Day 1c of the massive event as well as who made it through Day 2b on to the big combined Day 3.
The Big 50 wasn't the only tournament taking place at the Rio Las Vegas. The $50K High-Roller event played down to 12 players with Ben Heath coming into Day 3 as the chip leader. The event will play down to a final table which will be live streamed on Monday. June 3rd.
Shaun Deeb is making strides in the 2019 POY race. Yesterday, he played TWO events and made Day 2 in both of them! What a hustler!
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DAN CATES TERMINATED FROM $50K PPC! #Wsop2023 #Pokernews
No three-peat for Daniel Cates as he is 'terminated' from the $50,000 Poker Players Championship.
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2019 World Series of Poker Final Fifty Champion Danny Tang!
The Event #90: $50,000 Final Fifty has now concluded with Hong Kong's Danny Tang topping the 123-entrant field to capture his first WSOP bracelet and the $1,608,406 first-place prize after defeating some of the best high roller players in the world.
Sarah Herring talks to Tang about his victory and what it was like to best the absolute best in the world. The final table included Sam Soverel, Brandon Adams, Michael Addamo, Ali Imsirovic, and Keith Tilston.
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News from the 2019 World Series of Poker: June 26
It's official! We had a TOM DWAN APPEARANCE AT THE World Series of Poker!
Durrr max late registered the $50K Poker Player’s Championship. Unfortuantely, his appearance was short-lived as he was eliminated in the final level of last night.
Michael The Grinder Mizrachi who has won this event THREE times, will not make it a fourth time this year. However, Robert Mizrachi still remains in the field and that could be good news to one lucky Twitter user. Mizrachi is giving 1% of himself in the 50K championship to one lucky RT and follower. You can RT and follow Robert Mizrachi @PokerRob24 on Twitter
Dash Dudley won the $10 Pot Limit Omaha Championship yesterday for just over $1 million
Kevin Gerhart won the $1,500 Razz event for $119,054 and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Gerhart beat out a field of 363 players including Scott Clements and Jennifer Tilly who both made deep runs in this event.
Santiago Soriano wont the $800 No-Limit Hold'em Deepstack Event for $371,203.
The Monster Stack tournament is now down to the final 6 players. The winner of the event will take home a monstrous prize of $1,008,850.
The $600 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack Championship received 6,140 entrants yesterday! This massive field played 17 blind levels yesterday and are already in the money.
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Joseph Cheong Wins First Bracelet at 2019 World Series of Poker
Joseph Cheong ships his first bracelet in the $1K Double Stack for $687,782. He defeated a four-figure field of 6,214 players, putting him at over $6,300,000 in total earnings at the World Series of Poker.
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Daniel Negreanu Final Tables His FIRST 2019 WSOP Event
Legendary poker player Daniel Negreanu announced that he would be putting all his focus and energy in to this year’s World Series of Poker. He announced he wanted to make a dedicated run at World Series of Poker Player of the Year, which would involve playing more low buy-in big field events. Well, Negreanu wasted no time by final tabling the first open WSOP event. Sasha Salinger of PokerNews talks to Negreanu after he busts out of the tournament in 6th place. He tells her his goals for the summer and how he’s going to accomplish them.
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News from the 2019 World Series of Poker: June 23
Sasha Salinger is bringing you the biggest poker headlines from June 23rd.
Stephen Chidwick finally won his first WSOP bracelet yesterday. The Brit won the $25K Pot Limit Omaha Event for $1.618,417. In fact, Chidwick entered this 25K PLO event at the very last minute of late registration on Day 2.
Watch Chidwick’s interview with PokerNews reporter Oliver Biles here:
Luke Schwartz was the second Brit to win a bracelet yesterday. Schwartz won the $10K 2-7 championship for $273,336.
Ari Engel also won HIS first Bracelet and $427,399 in the $2500 No Limit Hold ‘Em event.
Today, one bracelet will be awarded to the winner of the Ladies Event. Only 6 players remain from the 968 entrant field. This will be the first woman to win a bracelet so far this WSOP.
The $2500 Mixed Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better, Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or better returns at 2pm today with 12 players out of the field of 401 entries. Michael Thompson, Andrey Zaichenko and Dan Zack remain.
Registration closes today for the 2019 World Series of Pokerv$10K Pot-limit Omaha Championship. The event has drawn 4more players than last year’s event with notables Ben Lamb, Sasha Liu, Daniel Negreanu Phil Galfond, Robert Mizrachi, and Erik Seidel all still in the mix
Apparently, Tom Dwan “Durrrr” is in Las Vegas. Will he be playing in a World Series of Poker event? We will be the first to tell you if so!
Running Good at Running Bad - Jerald Williamson’s Tale
Oliver managed to catch up with Jerald ‘Otis’ Williamson on a break in the Big 50 tournament that is currently on Day 3. Jerald was Day 2B’s chip leader coming in to today with over 4,000,000 in chips.
Jerald has overcome many adversities to be sat here at the World Series Of Poker today and has a very remarkable story. If you want to read more about Jerald and his journey you can read an article on the PokerNews website here:
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Top 8 Players to Watch for the 2019 World Series of Poker
Sasha Salinger of PokerNews makes her predictions for which notable poker players will have big results at the 2019 World Series of Poker. All 8 players selected already have World Series of Poker bracelets. Who will add to their collection? Who in the group has the most live tournament cashes? Will Shaun Deeb go back to back as the World Series of Poker Player of the Year? Sasha makes some bold predictions. To see if her predictions come true, click below for al the up to the minute live reporting from the 2019 WSOP:
Earthquakes, Disqualifications and More at the 2019 World Series of Poker
Welcome back to the latest daily update from the World Series of Poker after almost 5,000 players entered a ginormous Day 1c field of the Main Event.
As always there was a field of star-studded players rubbing shoulders with amateurs and qualifiers alike, but that didn't stop Phil Ivey being eliminated from the 2019 Main Event in the first level.
Also heading to the exit were not one, but two players who were disqualified.
And to top it all of, play was suspended briefly late in the evening due to an earthquake!
Fingers crossed nothing as chaotic befalls the remainder of the tournament!
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I’m going to put everyone in that is going to come- Jack Effel on the Big 50
Jack Eiffel discusses the popularity, hits and misses of the 2019 World Series of Poker “Big 50” Event. With Day 1a hitting over 6000 entries, comparable numbers on Day 1b, and Day 1c sold out, players have only one flight left to play this historic event. However, no need to panic. Effel encourages anyone who wants to come on out and play Day 1d. He tells PokerNews’ Sasha Salinger “I’m going to put everyone in that is going to come.” While there was some chaos, all in all Eiffel is proud of his staff and how they’ve handled these massive numbers at the World Series of Poker opening weekend. The World Series of Poker “Big 50” Event is a $500 buy-in event with a guaranteed first place prize of $1 million.
Check Out What's Happening on Day 13 of the 2019 WSOP
There's plenty of action happening around the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino on Day 13 of the 2019 World Series of Poker!
The $1,500 Seven Card Stud is down to a final six with three-time bracelet winner Eli Elezra leading the way from Anthony Zinno by just 2,000 chips. Watch our interview with him here:
The Millionaire Maker is down to just 309 players from a starting field of 8,817. Yesterday the money bubble burst and now the remaining field will play ten more levels all hoping to remain in with a shot of winning the $1.3m top prize.
Leading the way ahead of Day 3 is Sam Cosby with over three million chips, but there is a star-studded field behind him with former Main Event champion Joe McKeehen still in the hunt for his third bracelet.
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Daniel Strelitz wins $442,385 in the $5,000 NL WSOP Event
Daniel Strelitz is the newest bracelet holder here at the 2019 World Series Of Poker as he was the last man standing out of 400 players in the $5,000 No Limit Holdem event. Daniel came in to the final table as one of the shorter stacks but after a relatively quick final table he found himself calling Shannon Shorr Heads up when Shannon shoved over his open for 10 big blinds. Strelitz snap called with Pocket 10’s and was up against the Q4 of clubs of Shorr, a safe run out meant that he was able to capture the title. It was always going to be a tough ask of anyone at this final table to win other than Shorr. He came in to the final 6 with over 50% of the total chips in play. Strelitz didn’t give up though and battled his way through a stacked final table including Ali Imsiorvic and Maria Ho to earn himself $442,385 and his first ever WSOP bracelet.
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News from the 2019 World Series of Poker: June 20
Several more events are in the books at the 2019 World Series of Poker as Ismael Bojang was crowned champion of Event #40: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha after beating 1,206 entries. Bojang beat James Little heads-up and took home his first WSOP gold bracelet and a top prize of almost $300K
If you watched the live streamed LFG podcast yesterday for Ladies week you got to see Katie Stone and Jamie Kerstetter playing LIVE in the $500 WSOP.com ONLINE No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack It took only a little over seven hours to play down to a winner
And it was Dan 'centrefieldr' Lupo that had all the chips at the end of play and about one hundred and forty five K.
Joseph Cheong won the first bracelet of his career in Event #34: $1K Double Stack. Cheong takes home the first-place prize of almost $700k for his victory after defeating a four-figure field putting him at over $6,300,000 in total earnings at the World Series of Poker.
The big bracelet event going down on the main stage yesterday with all the attention featured Daniel Negreanu, Frank Kasella, John Hennigan and David “ODB” Baker. John Hennigan topped a field of 88 of the world’s best in Event #41: $10,000 Seven Card Stud Championship to earn a first place prize of two hundred and forty five k and his 6th wsop bracelet. If there was any question as to his status as one of the worlds best 7 card stud players, the questions should remain no longer.
A bracelet has already been distributed today in Event #42: $600 Mixed No-Limit Hold'em / Pot-Limit Omaha Deepstack Having performed an extraordinary chip-and-chair comeback from under one big blind, the champion of the $600 NLH/PLO is Aris Moschonas,
Five players remain in Event #43: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet leading the pack is Ryan Hughes. Hughes missed out on his third bracelet after finishing runner-up in this exact event last year. Have a look at the leaderboard.
Event #39: $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em is coming back for an extra day to determine the winner and there are just 3 players left as we speak. the most recognizable name left in the field is two-time WSOP bracelet winner Barry Shulman and we spoke to his wife Allyn on the break of the ladies event.
Speaking of the Ladies event…In a week which is traditionally known as 'Ladies Week' in Las Vegas, there are many events running that cater for female poker players especially. But the headline has and always will be the Ladies Championship here at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Last year’s tournament attracted 696 entries and the 2018 winner, Jessica Dawley, will be defending her title this year.
There are two other days ones today, event 48 is the 2500 no limit hold em, It already has almost as many entries as the ladies this is sure to create a big prize pool.
And at just about at the halfway point the mixed-game portion of the docket is in full swing. Just a week after the $1,500 version of this variant took place, it's time for the world championship of Limit 2-7 Lowball Triple Draw to take center stage.
We will of course be with you every step of the way as we crown champions in all these events and more so keep your cursor locked firmly on PokerNews.com.
News From 2019 World Series Of Poker: June 28
Here is everything you need to know from today at the 2019 World Series Of Poker thanks to our sponsors at 888poker.
228 players will return for Day 2 of the $1,500 Omaha Mix event. Yesterday saw 717 players enter this event and some familiar faces that are returning today include bracelet winners Jeff Lisandro and 2013 WSOP Main Event Champion Ryan Riess. This event also sees recent Monster Stack final tablist, Bart Hanson coming in to the day as one of the chip leaders.
The $400 Colossus continues today as both starting flights are now combining together for Day 2. There were a colossal 13,109 entries into this event with 1,948 players returning today. Both Day 1 flights were played down until they just reached the money so we expect the pace to be very fast at the start with lots of short stacks flying around. First place has now been confirmed to be $450,000 which is a pretty incredible score for the lowest buyin WSOP event this summer.
The $10,000 Razz event is due to play down to the final 6 today. Chris Ferguson comes in to the final 12 as the chip leader and he will be looking to win his 7th bracelet as well as the $301,421 up top. In fact from the remaining 12 players there are only two that do NOT have a bracelet. Between these 12 players they actually have an incredible 26 WSOP bracelets so the competition is still extremely tough. Daniel Negreanu, Scott Seiver and reigning champion Calvin Anderson are all still with a chance at adding some WSOP jewelry to their cabinet.
The prestigious $50,000 Players Championship Event will find it’s winner today. 5 days ago 74 players started in this event but now only 6 players remain that will return to battle it out for the bracelet and 1st place prize which is $1,099,311. Josh Arieh is leading the final six which also include Shaun Deeb and Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates. According to Joey Ingram if Jungleman wins this event then he will take a photo with Joey and 75 beautiful women. Now, if Jungleman's last video was anything to go by then I’m sure this will probably be one of the most famous bracelet winners photos of all time.
The $600 Deepstack will find it’s winner today with just 5 people returning to take their seats. Over 6,000 players entered this event in one single day which saw players playing literally anywhere there was space in the Rio. Even Daniel Negreanu found himself playing in El Burro in which he spent the best part of a level trying to locate. The only remaining bracelet winner in this event is Will Givens who is actually also the chip leader coming into the final table. Givens won his bracelet back in 2014 in a $1,000 No Limit Hold’em Event and if he were to win this it would be his biggest cash at just shy of $400,000 as well as a Main Event seat that the WSOP have added as an extra prize.
The $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better event begins today. Last year saw 237 players enter with Phil Galfond taking down his third bracelet and the first place prize of $567,788. With today being a fairly quiet today for larger buy in’s we expect this field to have lots of big names taking their seat.
The $888 Crazy Eights event also kicks off today. Day 1A is already underway with Day 1B actually starting later this afternoon. There will be two more starting flights over the next couple of days so we are expecting another big turn out for this event. Last year's event had 8,597 players with Galen Hall taking down his first bracelet and $888,888 for his efforts.
With two flights of the Crazy Eights tournament today and a huge Colossus Day 2 we are expecting another busy day here at the 2019 World Series Of Poker.
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A Closer Look at the 2019 WSOP Tag Team Event
The 2019 WSOP $1K Tag Team Event is a favorite amongst professional and recreational poker players alike. What sets this event apart from other World Series of Poker events? Sasha Salinger talked to poker vlogger Brad Owen (who partnered with fellow poker vlogger Andrew Neeme), poker player Craig Chait, and poker player Brandon Shack-Harris about the tag team event.
Click below for live updates from the 2019 Tag Team Event: