After honing their games online for awhile, many players decide to take the next step and test their skills in a live poker room. For some, the transition comes easily but, for others, the differences between playing at a computer and at a live table can be difficult to overcome. For many online players, one of [...]...

Day 1b of the main event is now complete after 1,157 players started and whittled down to 621 players who would come back for Day 2. There were plenty of high profile eliminations with former champions Greg Reymer, and Jamie Gold going early and Daniel Negreanu, Lee Watkinson, Ted Forrest, Kenny Tran and Irish player Andy [...]...

It has begun! The "main event" of the WSOP - the World Championship No-Limit Texas Hold'em (Event 54) started on Thursday, as Day 1A got underway. It's known as "1A" because there are so many potential entrants that the organisers have split the first day into FOUR seperate sections. So Day 1a finished and Mark Garner leads [...]...

Here's an interesting opinion piece off the Bodog Beat News Ticker: It is now a mere 2 days until the main event of the WSOP begins. Established in 1968, it was originally little more than a home game as the players had to receive the nod before they could attend. Clearly this was against the spirit of [...]...

Thuan "Scotty" Nguyen, the man best-known for the use of the word "baby" in nearly every other sentence, won the prestigious $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. World Championship in the early hours of Monday morning, after a titantic final table. The first five players were eliminated in a little less than six hours – the final two eliminations didn't [...]...