The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is a poker tournament held annually in Las Vegas. The poker game played is Texas Hold’em.Texas Hold’em poker can be played also online,and named,“Online Texas Hold’em”. The first WSOP in 1970 was an invitational wherein Benny. Binion invited six of the best known poker players to The Horseshoe Casino. [...]

ESPN’s coverage of the 2009 WSOP has decreased by 8% in TV ratings through the past two weeks.
In addition to ratings seeing an 8% slide, household impressions also fell, albeit a modest 5%. The total number of household impressions through two weeks of the 2009 WSOP was 714,904, compared with last year’s tally of 750,315. [...]

The WSOP was one to watch this year and we are only months away from seeing the end result. This years events brought out some of the best card playing we have ever seen and set some pretty amazing records at the same time. We saw several players win multiple gold bracelets and others win [...]

Norman Chad, left, and Lon McEachern are back for another year of WSOP coverage on ESPN.
Other than the 2009 WSOP main event, ESPN is only showing one other bracelet event during its coverage this year, which begins July 28 and continues each Tuesday until the final table featuring the November Nine.
But that doesn’t mean there [...]

Harrah’s Entertainment and the WSOP have released the entire schedule for the 2009-2010 WSOP Circuit series. The coming year’s series travels to eleven different Harrah’s-owned properties across the country, commencing with a return to the well-attended Horseshoe Hammond venue in suburban Chicago in October, 2009, and concluding with the traditional final WSOPC stop in New [...]

After much amusement and exhilaration felt between the different tournaments so far at this year’s WSOP 2009, the wait is over and the Main Event, the world championship of no limit hold em poker with a $10,000 buy-in, has landed. The Tournament began with yesterdays first of four days of first-day play, each group comprising [...]

After three long days of playing, which include am eight hour online hold em game at the final table, event 48 of the 2009 WSOP got itself a new champ, Brandon Cantu. The Pot Limit Omaha Hi/Lo 8 or Better tournament brought out over 761 players with a low buy in of $1,500. Among those [...]

Arbianight entered the final table of the $2,500 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha/Hold em tournament at the 2009 World Series of Poker second in chips. In the end, Arbianight emerged as its champion. PocketFiver Rami arbianight Boukai blasted through a 453 player field en route to a $244,000 payday and his first WSOP gold bracelet. Boukai [...]

Tom McEvoy was one of 20 former main event championship to participate in the WSOP Champions Invitational.
When Grand Rapids native Tom McEvoy won the World Series of Poker main event in 1983, he outlasted just 107 other players. McEvoy’s latest WSOP victory didn’t earn him a bracelet, but it should give him equal satisfaction.
McEvoy [...]

No bracelets were awarded on Tuesday at the WSOP, but there were several big stories that kept people riveted to the tables of the five different bracelet events that were running. The most star-studded field had to be Event #6, the $10,000 World Championship Stud Hi event, which drew only 142 runners at the start [...]