Jon Pill

When great international directors come to America, the results tend to be awkward, yet beautiful.

Many of the players can be seen sat on their chairs cowboy style, with their chins on the backrest and a masseuse with strong, precise hands.

As if the WSOP weren’t big enough a brand, the behind the scenes team have just closed a deal with Tencent for new events in the Eastern hemisphere.

50 players paid the US$1,100 entry fee to compete for the title of Main Event Champion.

Elior Sion won the bracelet, the Chip Reese Memorial cup and $1.4 million dollars in US currency or bank drafts.

30 days into the series, and Daniel Negreanu has been putting out a video on each of them since he bought into the Tag Team event.

For Richer, For Poorer is Coren's poker biography. And in contrast to your average chip-slinger poker is only ever her obsession and addiction, never her day job.

If Boeree's varied career, poker successes and staring literally into space doesn’t seem sufficient to fill her time, she’s also a serious outdoorswoman.

The last few weeks Matusow seems to have popped out of his chrysalis as a gobby butterfly with hundred-dollar bills for wings.

Players begin Event #42 the $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed Championship with 50,000 in chips and blinds starting at 100-200 and no ante.

2015 Main Event Champion Joe McKeehen is now the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Champon as well.

The higher buy-in will probably make for a slightly smaller field than the 959 who showed for the $3k version.

Put on your leather chaps and polish your stirrups, its HORSE time at the WSOP. The $10k HORSE event is the most prestigious of the limit games on the schedule.

Event #27 $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed will start its day one at 11:00 AM PST on 14th June 2017.