Bugsy’s is bugging out.

For good. (more…)

Ex-con Mike “The Mouth” Matusow is the latest professional poker player to write an autobiography.

But unlike some poker pros, whose dull lives made even duller autobios, Matusow’s controversial life makes for an interesting, exciting and yes, controversial, tome. (more…)

Cue up “Finlandia.”

One of the most difficult events at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas has been won by versatile Ville Wahlbeck of Helsinki, Finland. (more…)

What’s bigger news, an unknown poker pro winning a World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament or Phil “Poker Brat” Hellmuth finishing 29th in it?

Both happened at the 2009 WSOP in Las Vegas in Event #11, a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tourney with a $2,000 buy-in, a nearly $3 million prize pool, 1,646 entrants and 171 payouts. (more…)

For the first time in the 39-year history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), a poker player from Saudi Arabia has won a WSOP tournament.

The tourney was 2009 WSOP Event #10, a mixed tournament featuring pot-limit Omaha and pot-limit Texas hold ‘em. (more…)

A 57-year-old high school teacher-turned-auto dealer from rural North Carolina has won the first six-handed, no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament of the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

The tourney, WSOP Event #9, had a $1,500 buy-in, a $1,991,535 prize pool, 144 payouts and 1,459 entrants. (more…)

The poker gods giveth and the poker gods taketh away.

At least online. (more…)

Six of one, half a dozen of the other?

For poker pro Phil “Poison” Ivey, either way is fine by him. (more…)

With the economy in freefall, it hasn’t been a good year for banks, among other entities.

But now there’s at least one bright spot for at least one bank: an employee has won a gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker (WSOP)! (more…)

For just the fifth time in history, a black man has won a gold bracelet at the World Series of Poker (WSOP).

He is 74-year-old Freddie Ellis of New York City, New York, USA, and he has won 2009 WSOP Event #6, a seven-card stud tournament with a $10,000 buy-in, 142 entrants, 16 payouts and a total prize pool of $1,334,800. (more…)

Do the math!

A 22-year-old ex-math teacher from Florida used his skill with numbers to win Event #5 at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (more…)

The largest World Series of Poker (WSOP) tournament ever held–other than a WSOP Main Event–has been won by a 24-year-old Korean immigrant.

Steve Sung, 24, of Torrance, California, USA, has won Event #4 at the 2009 WSOP in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (more…)

Who’s the greatest poker player in the world?

Tom McEvoy, off all people, can now make that claim. (more…)

Can you say instant replay?

For the second year in a row, the World Series of Poker’s (WSOP’s) $1,500 buy-in, Omaha hi-lo 8 or better tournament has been won by Luu “Tiger Luu” Thang of Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. (more…)

The costliest event in the history of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been won by a Russian, Vitaliy Lunkin.

Lunkin, 38, of Moscow, Russia, won Event #2 at the 2009 WSOP in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament that had a buy-in of $40,000, a total prize pool of $7,718,400 and 201 entrants. (more…)

For the second time in a week, a major national news organization has picked up a story from PokerHelper.com–and credited the website.

In an item in the Page Six gossip column in the May 23, 2009 edition of the New York Post (www.nypost.com), columnist Richard Johnson wrote: (more…)

A number of Internet sportsbooks are offering odds and wagering on who will win the Main Event at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

But that’s old hat–and simple stuff–in the 21st-century world of online betting. (more…)

Phil “Poison” Ivey, Daniel “Kid Poker” Negreanu, Gus “The Great Dane” Hansen and Tom Dwan are the co-favorites to win the Main Event at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA.

At least according to one online sportsbook. (more…)

Each of the first three open events at the 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has broken a WSOP record, WSOP officials announced.

WSOP Event #2, a no-limit Texas hold ‘em tournament that is currently underway and had a buy-in of $40,000, set a record for the largest prize pool ever for a non-Main Event tourney. (more…)