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WSOP 2018: Field converges for bubble day…perhaps

Posted by admin on 07/07/18

Good morning all and welcome back to Las Vegas for Day 3 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. After another punishing Day 2--split over two days--the full field converges for the first time today in the Amazon,...

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WSOP 2018: The rough and tumble of Day 2

Posted by admin on 07/07/18

Purely by chance, I passed by some Team PokerStars Pro's tables earlier today when they happened to be in some pots. And while Aditya Agarwal won three hands in a row to push his stack up through the high 100,000s,...

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2018 WSOP: From the archive: Blood, sweat, other fluids and the World Series

Posted by admin on 07/07/18

This year, PokerStars Blog is attending its 15th consecutive World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. We've been here since Raymer, through Hachem, Eastgate, Cada, Duhamel et al. Periodically through the 2018 renewal, we'll dig out some coverage from yesteryear...

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WSOP 2018: Untangling the cake riddle and finding the formula to Liv Boeree’s heart

Posted by admin on 06/07/18

Back in May--the eighth, to be precise--Liv Boeree tweeted a picture of a birthday cake. On a Twitter stream that is usually a depository of high-level tech and astrophysics conversation (and occasional yoga or alpaca pics), it may have seemed...

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WSOP 2018: Meet Muskan Sethi: India’s presidential poker ambassador

Posted by admin on 06/07/18

Professional poker players get used to the occasional furrowed brow and nonsensical question when they tell people of their chosen career. But it's far worse than that for Muskan Sethi. "They say: 'Why do you want to gamble for a...

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WSOP 2018: A return of the masses for the long slow dance

Posted by admin on 06/07/18

A brief conversation late yesterday with Maria Konnikova focused on the structure of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Though she is only playing this tournament for the second time, Konnikova has spotted something that weirdly escapes many...

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WSOP 2018: Then and Now: Daniel Negreanu

Posted by admin on 06/07/18

Throughout the World Series of Poker Main Event this year, we'll be asking members of Team PokerStars Pro for their memories of their first WSOP visit, and for details of what they've learnt since then. Next up: six-time bracelet winner...

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WSOP 2018: Why this exceptional tournament is actually bang average

Posted by admin on 05/07/18

As has been well documented already, this tournament is exceptional in all the key respects: field size (7,874 runners), prize pool ($74,015,600), first prize ($8.8 million) and number of players paid (1,182). Two of the three starting flights were the...

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WSOP 2018: Records broken and Red Spades flying

Posted by admin on 05/07/18

Here's a really quick update on the morning of Day 2A of the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. It's the morning after tournament organisers revealed details of this enormous prize pool and the news that the winner...

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