Chad “M8kingmoves” Batista must be on the nice list this year.  He just got an early Christmas present at the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic when Jean Noel Thorel made a play that left a lot of people trying to figure out what just happened and left Chad with a mountain of chips [...]

In deep stack poker it takes a big hand up against another big hand for a large pot to develop.  Most players consider a set to be a big hand and many of the big pots so far today have involved a player holding a set.  Darryll “DFish” Fish was able to eliminate Chino Rheem [...]

With three scheduled starting days, the day 1A players have a couple of days off to enjoy the sights here in Niagara Falls. Okay, maybe that should be singular and sight, since as far as anyone can tell, the Falls are the thing to see here. They are impressive though, and worth taking [...]

Tomorrow’s day 1B players can expect to have a lot of trash hands if things equal out, because the first two levels of day 1A play have seen a lot of aces and kings, quads here and there, full houses all over the place and generally just a lot of big starting hands and made [...]

For those trying to game select WSOP tournaments to play, looking for fields ripe with weak players to enhance their chances, the 5k mixed hold-em event would fail miserably.
The 332-player field read like a who’s who list of poker professionals from both live and online communities.
Multiple tables had four to six recognizable names in poker [...]