09 July 2011
WSOP 2011 - Ben Lamb leads Main Event Day 1B
What a month it has been for Ben Lamb. The American has already won the the $10k PLO Championship bracelet, was runner up in the $3k PLO event, made the final table of the Players' Championship and finished twelfth in the $10k Six-Max Championship and now holds the chip lead after the second opening day flight of the Main Event.
WSOP 2011 - Alexander Anter seals $1.5k NL HE bracelet with Royal Flush
Amongst all the ballyhoo surrounding the Main Event there was the small matter of two bracelets to be decided. The hard stop rule brought a premature close to the $5k PLO Split 8 or Better event and the final $1.5k No Limit Hold'em tournament.
08 July 2011
WSOP 2011 - Fred Berger heads Main Event Day 1A
Day 1A traditionally attracts the smallest field of the the opening flights of the Main Event but that still meant a very healthy starting line up of 897 players. Comparing that figure with previous years we can expect a Main Event field somewhere in the region of 5,400 but given the way this year's WSOP has played out it could easily be much higher.
07 July 2011
Brian Rast beats Phil Hellmuth to $50k Players' Championship
Phil Hellmuth's quest for bracelet number 12 has once again stalled in second place as Brian Rast staged an incredible comeback to take the $50k Players' Championship.
WSOP 2011 - 42 left in $1,500 NL Hold'em – Gavin Smith leads
The $1,500 No Limit Hold'em event is rapidly heading towards the business end of proceedings with just 42 of the 3,389 starters still in the hunt for the bracelet.
WSOP 2011 - Max Lykov wins final $1k NL Hold'em bracelet
Maxim Lykov is two thirds of the way towards a triple crown after winning the final $1k No Limit Hold'em at the 2011 WSOP. The 2009 EPT Kiev winner went into yesterday's final table as the chip leader and never looked in trouble, working his way through a final nine that included Sebastian Roy, Josh Evans, Stanislav Alekhin and Ren Ho Zhang.
06 July 2011
WSOP 2011 - $50k Players' Championship final table set – Minh Ly leads
After a marathon day (and night) the final table of the $50,000 Players' Championship has been decided. Minh Ly leads the way with 5,215,000, almost double the stack of his closest rival, Brian Rast who has .
WSOP 2011 – Maxim Lykov leads $1,000 NL final table
Day 3 of the $1,000 NL event saw 44 players return to the felt; 35 of them have been eliminated leaving us with a final table lead by PokerStars Pro Maxim Lykov who has had a rollercoaster day leading to a huge chip lead – his 3.9m stack is almost 25 big blinds ahead of second place and represents nearly a quarter of the chips in play.
WSOP 2011 – Ben Volpe leads $1,500 NL into Day 2
The final small buy-in NL donkament of the 2011 WSOP is underway with another gigantic field – this time, 3,389 players signed up for the event which means that one of the 465 players left in contention will be turning their $1,500 into a huge first prize of $777,928. Currently the man most likely to do that is Ben Volpe, but anything can happen.
WSOP 2011 – $5,000 PL Omaha 8 event Day 1 concludes
The final event before Event #58 (the $10,000 No Limit Hold ‘em “Main Event” Championship, naturally) has begun with a field of 352 putting up $5,000 for the Pot Limit Omaha 8 event. After a fast and furious Day 1 (the game is so much better when it’s not fixed limit) just 189 remain.