Dan 'djk123' Kelly should think about renaming himself 'ATM123' because the 6-COOP winner has been a human cash machine this World Series of Poker. While 400,000 of you battled away for $1,000,000 on PokerStars last night, Kelly notched up his sixth cash of the series. Tenth in Event #21: $3,000...more

Main Event Passport satellites are live today. They're your versatile way to playing the biggest events in the world, whether it's the WSOP in Las Vegas, the PCA in the Caribbean or an EPT, APPT or LAPT Main Event. Want to get a starting stack in the Big One for...more

After nearly two weeks of marathon play, the 2012 World Series of Poker has come down to the final nine. A little after midnight in Las Vegas, the nine top players bagged up their chips and said goodbye to them until late October. After a few months to rest up...more

It was back to work for Jan Heitmann today, to a job he'd made look so easy up to now. Each morning Heitmann has taken his seat and unbagged his chips looking like a player having the time of his life, enjoying the experience, getting increasingly excited as each day...more

The final 27 players of the World Series of Poker have just sat down in the Rio's Amazon Room. When the doors on the room close tonight, only nine survivors will remain. Team PokerStars Pro Jan Heitmann hopes to be one of them. As play begins today, Heitmann is in...more

PokerStars seems to have a remarkable talent for picking winners. On Nov. 8, Pius Heinz became the fourth straight PokerStars-sponsored player to win the World Series of Poker Main Event, following Jonathan Duhamel, Joe Cada and Peter Eastgate into the record books. Not only that, PokerStars recruited Chris Moneymaker, Greg...more

Chris Moneymaker, Greg Raymer, Joe Hachem, Peter Eastgate, Joe Cada, Jonathan Duhamel. Now you can add Pius Heinz to the list of PokerStars players to win the World Series of Poker Main Event since 2003. This morning, the young Team PokerStars Pro lifted the WSOP crown in Las Vegas, winning...more

We've come to expect a show at the World Series of Poker final table. Frozen in ice since July, the November Nine format is then thawed out to return months later for an explosive showdown. It's still held in Las Vegas at the Rio, but action shifts to the Penn...more

Jonathan Duhamel had faced countless opponents in his long march to the World Series of Poker Final table and the heads-up battle that would decide the 2010 world champion, but none so insistent and unforgiving as the expectation he foisted upon himself. He said at every turn that he would...more

Analyzing heads up poker without access to hole cards is even more pointless than analyzing full ring poker without access to any poker knowledge whatsoever. But as we have done that for getting on six years now, we'll give this other game a stab. It was plain in the pre-match...more

And so we've reached the moment at which Jonathan Duhamel and John Racener sit down eye to eye. In the moments leading up to the match, Duhamel came off the Rio's Ipanema Tower elevator flanked by an entourage of two burly fans. Duhamel's ears were stuffed with white buds. He...more

At close to 1.45am Tuesday, in the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio Hotel and Casino, Las Vegas, Joe Cada, from Shelby Township, MI, was crowned the youngest World Series of Poker champion in the event's 40-year history. Once the bracelet was wrapped around his wrist and the whooping...more

There are people who cannot succeed without adversity. They need pressure. They require potential disaster to force them beyond even their own expectations. The poker world is just getting to know Joe Cada, but it's clear the new World Series of Poker champion thrives on the edge. In a heads-up...more

This hour began shortly after a 20-minute break, and Darvin Moon seemed by far the more refreshed. He was the aggressor in all of the early pots and took most of them down, regularly making reraises of about five million, which was consistently too rich for Cada. The Team...more

They called them the Million Dollar Men, the November Nine and the PokerStars Six. But everyone knew that when the smoke cleared there could only be one of them left standing. And now we know his name. The 2008 World Series Main Event champion is 22-year-old Peter Eastgate, from Odense,...more

Peter Eastgate wins 2008 World Series of Poker Peter Eastgate has just become the youngest ever winner of the World Series of Poker Main Event at age 22. The players saw a flop of 2d-Ks-3h. Ivan Demidov checked and then called a bet of 1,250,000 from Eastgate. The 4c fell...more

Eastgate opens biggest lead yet In one hour, we saw one big hand, and that's all it took to put Peter Eastgate in dangerous lead. It was a min-raise to 2 million from Demidov and a call from Eastgate that dropped the Td-Kd-7c flop. Both players checked and saw the...more

PokerStars qualifiers rake in $6 million at WSOP final tableby the members of Team BlogWhen the PokerStars qualifiers rolled into Las Vegas, a little basic math could've predicted the presence of one or two qualifiers at the final table. After all, PokerStars sent more than 1,600 people to the biggest...more

8:16pm--Doug Kim: PostscriptTeam Blog's Craig Cunningham has been covering Doug Kim since Day 1 of the WSOP. He offer this post-script of Kim's stellar WSOP performanceDoug Kim desparately wanted to play in the World Series Main Event, spening over $3,000 in a variety of qualifiers on PokerStars for the chance...more

For the last month, the Amazon room has been the largest tournament poker room in the world, and today, it's been transformed into the most important television studio in poker.With a few platforms, some bleachers, lots of indirect lighting and creative use of their signature black drapes, ESPN has built...more

I suppose it's now time to put the World Series of Poker to bed. Although it was quite a ride and a fantastic time, there are several things on the horizon that will be filling this space. Keep your eyes here for breaking news on the World Championship of Online...more

Note: One of the greatest PokerStars stories to come from the World Series of Poker was that of Bernard "Dogger9" Lee, a Frequent Player Point qualifier who caught everybody's eye as the real deal. Lee has agreed to chronicle his journey for the Official PokerStars Blog. His trip report will...more

Note: One of the greatest PokerStars stories to come from the World Series of Poker was that of Bernard "Dogger9" Lee, a Frequent Player Point qualifier who caught everybody's eye as the real deal. Lee has agreed to chronicle his journey for the Official PokerStars Blog. His trip report will...more