Over 21 hours is what it took for John Juanda to overcome Stanilav Alekhin and the other players at the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair. Epic is a pretty hefty word, often overused in situations not so grandiose, but the heads up battle between Alekhin and Juanda fully qualifies as an [...]

At 10 minutes after 7am local time the heads up battle between John Juanda and Stanislav Alekhin continues on.  The two are playing at a reasonable pace considering the momentus stage title they are fighting for.  So far over 370 hands have been played at the final table and it has been some 18 hours [...]

As heads up play goes on, the trend so far has been for John Juanda to chip away and then for Stanislav Alekhin to get a big double up.  Juanda started the heads up play with a decent chip lead and was able to add to it until he had enough to take a shot at [...]

The buzz around Ivan Demidov in the last 48 hours has been tremendous.  Ever since it became likely he would make the final table at the World Series of Poker Europe, presented by Betfair, people have been talking about the amazing, historical (poker history at least) accomplishment of making both WSOP Main Event final tables [...]

As the night wears on the crowd has that was overflowing has started to fall off a little bit.  In the section of seating just in front of the media are one group broke out their own deck of cards to play a few hands while keeping the corner of their eye on the final [...]