Brunson’s Beer Pong Starts Today

The serious business of poker at the WSOP gets underway in a few days time but, perhaps unsurprisingly, not everything that happens in Las Vegas is of a serious nature. Over at Hogs and Heifers, at 201 North Third Street in Las Vegas, the Doyle Brunson sponsored “Brunson Beer Pong” gets started later today.

Some of the top names in poker are expected to turn up (and probably make fools of themselves) to the old frat party game favourite.

If you haven’t played Beer Pong before it involves tossing ping pong balls into plastic cups which are half filled with an alcoholic beverage (usually beer).

World Team Poker begins Tomorrow

40 top poker players representing eight different countries will be arriving at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas tomorrow for their chance to be crowned World Team Poker champions.

They will be participating in five table shootouts for the filmed event comprising rounds of limit Hold’em, pot limit Omaha and no limit Hold’em. The last two players from each shootout will compete in a final table showdown. Each team’s buy-in will be set at $50,000.

An assortment of poker stars are set to play including team captains Phil Hellmuth (Team USA), co-captains Johnny Chan and David Chiu

David Williams Wins WPT Championship

A small field didn’t stop some of poker’s biggest names heading for The Bellagio and the World Poker Tour Championship event last week. A $25,000 buy-in and a volcanic ash cloud may have kept the numbers down but it didn’t stop the likes of Phil Hellmuth, Dave Ulliott and the eventual winner David Williams from taking a shot at the title.

Williams, a former WSOP main event runner up, has been pretty quiet on the tournament results front of late. Despite a few cashes at the 2009 WSOP, there have been few notable results on the Williams resume in the last couple of years. The $1.5 million pay day here, yesterday, just changed all that and proved Williams is still a force to be reckoned with in world poker.

Faraz Jaka Leads WPT Championship

While the dust settles over in Italy at the San Remo EPT, play continues at The Bellagio, in Las Vegas, for the WPT Championship event.

A poor turn out hasn’t deterred some of poker’s biggest names from taking their chances in this $25,000 buy in tournament. A quick glance down the remaining players list confirms that the WPT can still attract high profile poker “celebrities” if nothing else.

Right now it’s Faraz Jaka that leads the pack. Jaka picked up a monster pot in somewhat fortunate circumstances after his beat the of Heather Sue Mercer. Mercer was well stacked at the time so the pot of 3.4 million chips rocketed Faza to the top of the chip counts, much to the disgust of Mercer.

WPT Championship – Buchanan Leads into Day 4

Day 3 of the WPT Championship event ended at Bellagio yesterday with Shawn Buchanan leading the chip counts. The day began with 98 players taking their seats and by the time play ended for the day only 35 remained. Whilst that doesn’t sound like a problem, it does raise the question; “How are the WPT going to stretch the play out over the 4 remaining scheduled days?”

The answer to that one is unclear right now. Perhaps a day will be dropped? Perhaps play will only last a couple of hours on each day? Who knows! One thing is for sure, the WPT is in big trouble with player numbers tumbling rapidly.

World Team Poker heads to Las Vegas

The World Team Poker is set to hit Las Vegas this summer after announcing that its inaugural event will be held at the Golden Nugget, just days before the WSOP begins, on May 19th.

The $50,000 buy-in tournament will feature 40 of the biggest names in poker each representing eight different countries in five man teams.

Each team will have a superstar from their respective country as the captain. Set to wear the captain’s armbands are Phil Hellmuth, Jr. (Team USA), co-captains Johnny Chan and David Chiu (Team China), Men “The Master” Nguyen (Team Vietnam), Eli Elezra (Team Israel) and co-captains Jeff Lisandro and Tony Guoga (Australia).

Mclean Karr wins Bay 101 Shooting Star Event

The Bay 101 Shooting Star tournament concluded last night with Mclean Karr taking the honours. Talk before the final was about Phil Hellmuth’s chances of claiming a WPT crown but it wasn’t to be for the ‘Poker Brat’ once again as he was elimited very early on in 6th place, despite starting the final with a very healthy chip stack.

Hellmuth looked disgusted at his elimination after the chip leader, Andy Seth, rivered an Ace while holding A-J against the pocket Queens of Hellmuth. The $117,000 for 6th place will be scant consolation for the 11-time WSOP winner.

Phil Hellmuth Finals at Bay 101

The ‘poker brat’ is on the verge of yet another big cash result and, maybe, another title. Phil Hellmuth is sitting pretty, second in chips, in the Bay 101 Shooting Star event. Hellmuth is a whisker behind chip leader Andy Seth after leading for the majority of the first three days.

Seth has been in hot form during the final stages of play. The chip leader has already sent Lou Diamond and Scotty Nguyen to the rail and is in confident mood as the remaining six players take to their seats today.

Seth told the WPT; “I’m going to keep trying to do what I’ve been doing.

High Stakes Poker Season 6 Underway

Fans of High Stakes Poker are set for a treat every Sunday from now on as season 6 of the popular show has started on the Game Show Network.

The first episode started on Sunday, Feb. 14 at 8 p.m. EST and will now run each subsequent Sunday. The build up to the new season saw GSN airing an eight hour poker marathon. I Love Poker began at Noon and featured highlights of High Stakes Poker games from the past.

Gabe Kaplan has returned for season 6 with a new co-host in the form of Kara Scott.