
Daniel Negreanucalled what Joe ‘dude904’ McKeehen did the past three days the most lopsided performance at a Main Event final table since Stu Ungar won his third title in 1997.
When the World Series of Poker Main Event final table reconvened on Sunday night, the buzz around nine-handed play was a new Neil Blumenfield. The amateur from San Fransisco, California came out firing, putting in multiple preflop raises, three-bets and four-bets, easily announcing himself as the most aggressive member of the November Nine.
On Sunday, Joe McKeehen played textbook chip leader poker in eliminating three more players at theWSOP Main Event final table. On Monday, he was still the clear chip leader at the table, but he let some of the other players handle the eliminations – but not all of them.
Max Steinberg came into the 2015 WSOP Main Event final table with the fourth biggest stack, but struggled on Sunday night and with just six players left on Monday, he was still fourth, but actually had fewer chips than when he started play.
Early in Sunday’s opening session of the 2015 WSOP Main Event final table, Pierre Neuville, who was eliminated in 7th place, folded pocket tens pre-flop after Neil Blumenfield put in a sizable three-bet while holding pocket aces. Those two hands ran into each other early in Monday’s session of the World Series of Poker Main […]
The first day of play at the 2015 WSOP Main Event is in the books and Joe ‘dude904’ McKeehen continues to lead. While his chip count – over 90,000,000 – is the probably the most important number heading into Monday night’s action, there are a number of other stats from Day 1 that are worth […]
After the nearly immediate elimination of final table short stack Patrick Chan, the torch was passed to Federico Butteroni. While seemingly everyone else played some pretty sizable pots, with big stacks mixing in three-bets, four-bets, and even some all-in shoves, Butteroni remained quiet and patient, looking for opportunities to get his short stack in the […]
Coming into Sunday night, all eyes were on the short stacks. The shortest of those stacks, Patrick Chan, had his work cut out for him if he were going to make a final table run. After over three months of waiting, Chan’s World Series of Poker Main Event final table run lasted just two hands, […]
The 2015 World Series of Poker is set to kick off its first day of festivities at Noon Pacific Time on Wednesday. Over the span of the next seven weeks and 68 events, dreams will be realized, bankrolls will be crushed, and history will be made.
Officials from the World Series of Poker continually mix up the event to keep it fresh. From the Millionaire Maker to the November Nine, each year has generally featured some sort of new and exciting concept to draw in players and generate buzz. Enter The Colossus, this year’s new kid on the block. The $565 […]