The WSOP has announced its final schedule for the 51st running of its annual poker championship in Las Vegas, when a record 101 gold bracelets are up for grabs. A total of 87 live bracelets will be held at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas, with another 14 online events awarding poker’s most coveted…
The UK’s 2015 World Series of Poker tally rose to four after event 65, when Gerald Ringe bulldozed his way to victory in the $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 or Better event at the Rio. Ringe, a property investor based out of London, topped the 547-strong field to claim the $180,943 first place prize…
It took 18 events but Britain has its first World Series of Poker triumph of 2015 after John Gale took down the WSOP $1,000 NLHE Turbo event. Gale, from Hertfordshire, pocketed a first prize of US$298,290 after topping a field of 1,791 runners at the Rio. After eliminating Birmingham’s Stuart Rutter in fifth, Gale ran…
The £200 + £20 WSOP Christmas Cracker at the Rendezvous Casino in Brighton from 5-7 December attracted 113 entries, with 31 players returning on Day 2 to battle it out for a share of the £22,600 prize pool. The lion’s share of the loot went to Siamak Siamak, who beat Shah Athar heads-up to take…
Britain’s Jack Salter narrowly missed out on another big title in Australia, finishing runner-up to Canada’s Scott Davies in the World Series of Poker Asia-Pacific main event at the Crown Melbourne resort. Salter, who took down the Aussie Millions Six-Max in February for A$114,000, managed to top that haul at the Crown Melbourne, pocketing A$516,960…
