One of the winners at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas has a shocking past–he spent six months in prison for drug trafficking!

Professional poker player Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, known as much for his poker skills as for his non-stop jabber at the poker tables, earlier this month won 2008 WSOP Event #18, a $5,000 buy-in, no-limit 2-7 lowball draw tourney with rebuys. (more…)

The 41st tournament at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas had a distinct international flavor–five different nations were represented among the Top 10 finishers.

Poker players from the USA, Canada, Germany, Sweden and Ireland all finished in the Top 10 in WSOP Event #41, a $1,000 buy-in, mixed-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament that had 731 entrants, 72 payouts and a total prize pool of about $1 million. (more…)

Phan-tastic!

John Phan is the first double-winner at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. (more…)

A 30-year-old immigrant from South Korea who has been playing poker professionally in the USA for five years has beaten out 2,719 other competitors to win Event #39 at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas.

David “The Magnificent” Woo, who now calls Atlanta, Georgia, USA home, will be taking a magnificent $631,656 home to Dixie for winning the event, a $1,500 buy-in, no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament that had 2,720 entrants, 270 payouts and a total prize pool of about $3.7 million. (more…)

A poker pro suspected of murdering his mother and poker pro father is attending the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

As has been reported, poker pro Ernest Scherer III of Brea, California, USA, is the prime suspect in the March murders of his parents, Ernest Scherer Jr., also a professional poker player, and his wife, Charlene. (more…)

Get out the Belgian waffles, it’s time to celebrate!

Belgium has its first-ever winner at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). (more…)

Sacre bleu!

There’s at least one Frenchman who doesn’t know how to surrender! (more…)

When it comes to the world stage, the nation of Denmark has few players.

Danish author Hans Christian Andersen gained international fame by writing fairy tales and Danish socialite Claus von Bulow gained the same by killing his wife, although his fame might be better classified as infamy. (more…)

A 48-year-old poker pro from Las Vegas, who got his start dealing blackjack at the now-defunct Dunes hotel and casino on Vegas’ famed Strip, has won Event #35 at the 2008 World Series of Poker.

Mike Rocco, who was born in Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and moved to Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, 25 years ago to work in the casino industry, collects $135,753 for the victory, and his first career WSOP championship gold bracelet. (more…)

It took five to win six.

Five years after he won his last World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet–the fifth of his career–Layne Flack has won his sixth. (more…)

Hide your children, poker players!

The “Poker Pervert” is on the loose at the 2008 World Series of Poker! (more…)

Germany’s luck is changing.

It lost two world wars, but now it has won two events at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. (more…)

U.S. residents typically dominate most events at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), for the simple reason that the WSOP takes place in the U.S. and is most accessible to those living there.

But that domination was taken to a new level at the 2008 WSOP in Event #32–the top 21 finishers were all from the U.S.! (more…)

When in Rome, do like Dario Minieri.

When in Las Vegas, too. (more…)

The Netherlands, world-famous for windmills, wooden shoes and legal marijuana shops, now has a new claim to fame.

Rob Hollink. (more…)

The Vietnam War has been over for decades.

But now there’s Vietnamese success in another type of war–the one at the poker tables. (more…)

What’s in the water in Madison?

That’s Madison, Wisconsin, USA, long famous as the hometown of poker champ Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr., owner of a world-record 11 World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship gold bracelets. (more…)

Somebody call the Kremlin!

Russia has its first winner at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas. (more…)

Barry Greenstein, the nerdy poker pro who says he gives all his tournament winnings to charity, has won his third career World Series of Poker (WSOP) championship gold bracelet.

Poker’s version of a hat trick came in Event #26 at the 2008 WSOP in Las Vegas, a $1,500 buy-in, razz tournament that had 453 entries, payouts to the Top 48 finishers and a total prize pool of about $600,000. (more…)

Professional golfer Rocco Mediate doesn’t just know how to handle his clubs.

He’s also pretty darn good at handling diamonds, spades and hearts. (more…)

History came close to being made at the 39th annual World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, when the woman who won Event #19 earlier this month almost won Event #25.

Unfortunately for Vanessa Selbst, it was not to be–at least not yet. (more…)

The fisherman has hooked the fish.

ALL the fish. (more…)

For the first time in the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), brothers have won championship gold bracelets at the same WSOP.

Earlier this month it was Grant Hinkle, winning 2008 WSOP Event #2, a $1,500 buy-in, no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament that came with a top prize of $831,462. (more…)

Achtung!

Break out the bratwurst and sauerkraut! (more…)

Veteran poker pro Humberto “El Wacko” Brenes has become just the seventh player in the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to finish in the money in 50 WSOP events in a career.

He finished in 14th place in Event #21 of the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas and won $34,357 for his landmark career WSOP cash. (more…)

Golfers yell “Fore!”

Now poker player Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu can yell “Four!” (more…)

Vanessa Selbst is the first female player at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas to beat out the men for a championship gold bracelet.

She has won Event #19, a $1,500 buy-in, pot-limit Omaha tournament that had 758 entrants, a total prize pool of about $1 million and paid off the Top 72 finishers. (more…)

The second-most-hated player in professional poker has given his critics something else to hate about him–he’s won another championship gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Mike “The Mouth” Matusow, whose non-stop blabber and obnoxious manner (and public scorn) during tournaments is second only to that of Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth Jr., has won Event #18 at the 2008 WSOP in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, a $5,000 buy-in, no-limit 2-7 lowball draw tourney with rebuys. (more…)

A 26-year-old slacker from suburban New York City who hates hard work and thus became a poker player has seen his life plan amazingly work out.

Jason Young of Suffern, New York, USA, has won Event #17 at the 2008 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, a $1,500 buy-in, no-limit Texas hold ‘em shootout tournament that had 1,000 entrants and a total prize pool of about $1.3 million. The Top 100 finishers cashed. (more…)

Imagine a wiley old veteran gunslinger in the Old West, with notches aplenty on his gun barrel, drawing pistols with an upstart young punk who has no notches and who no one has ever heard of.

You’d expect the veteran gunfighter to win, but then, Boot Hill is full of many a gunslinger who thought that way. (more…)