Sunday at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event saw 344 last-minute registrations put an exclamation point on the second-largest WSOP Main Event of all-time. The 8,569-player field means that sometime next week, one player will walk away with $10,000,000 and the title of World Champion. Day 2C saw the highly-anticipated arrival of Phil… Continue reading WSOP: Milliard Tops Day 2C, Hellmuth Arrives and Leaves Quickly

Hold your thumb and your index finger just far enough apart so that you could be squeezing a grape. That’s how close the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event came to breaking the record for the largest WSOP Main Event ever.

Day 1C of the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event was definitely one for the record books, but it was also one of the strangest days in the 50-year history of the event. As more and more players piled into the Rio, two were escorted out by police and then Mother Nature had her… Continue reading WSOP: Record Turnout, Player DQs, Earthquake Highlight Day 1C

In the eight years since the World Series of Poker Main Event went to a three-starting flight schedule, only once has the Day 1A field reach 1,000 or more players and that was 2012 when they snuck into four-digit territory with 1,066 players. There was no sneaking in on Wednesday. 1,336 players showed up to… Continue reading WSOP: Bryan Campanello Bags Main Event Day 1A Chip Lead