Connecticut poker pro Justin Pechie won $167,060 and his first World Series of Poker bracelet by taking down the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout Championship. Pechie finished atop a field of 538 players, including a number of former WSOP champions. In order to w...

Fabrice Soulier had come close to winning a World Series of Poker bracelet several times in his career. He had finished 7th in a 2009 H.O.R.S.E. event, and finished as high as 4th in his five times at a WSOP final table. But victory had always eluded him…until now.

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In the last few years, we’ve seen a lot of crossover gamers turn their experience in other areas into poker success. Whether it be chess, Starcraft, or other games, players from around the world have found poker to be a profitable enterprise.

The last crossover winner...

Mitch Schock became the first ever player from North Dakota to win a World Series of Poker Event, taking down the $2,500 buy-in Mixed Pot Limit Championship. For his efforts, Schock won $310,225. Schock, a 40-year-old professional poker played from Bismarck, continu...

Given the number of gold bracelets awarded at the World Series of Poker in recent years, the prestige that comes with winning one may have been somewhat diminished. However, only an elite group can claim to have won multiple bracelets – and Jason Mercier is most certainl...

Going into this year’s World Series of Poker, there were many who were concerned about what would be seen at the year’s most prestigious poker festival. Due to the aftermath of Black Friday, many online poker players were still unable to retrieve their bankrolls, a...

Several reports have surfaced that Tobey Maguire is among several Hollywood figures that have been named in a lawsuit thanks to their connections to a high-stakes, illegal poker game that was played between 2006 and 2009. The lawsuit was filed in the Los Angeles Division Unite...

Eric Rodawig dominated one of the toughest final tables yet at this year’s World Series of Poker on the way to winning his first ever WSOP gold bracelet. Rodawig won Event #33, the $10,000 buy-in Seven Card Stud Hi/Lo Championship. The final table was one for the ...

Sam Stein has long been respected as a top player, particularly in Omaha. But he had never won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet until he took down Event ##31, a $3,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha tournament at the WSOP. Stein beat out 684 players to win his first ever W...

While poker has increasingly become a game dominated by young players, at least one event at the World Series of Poker guarantees that the old hands will come out on time. The $1,000 buy-in Seniors No-Limit Hold’em Championship brought 3,752 players to the Rio, the l...