Articles by: Paul Oresteen

The World Series of Poker will offer a record-high 62 gold bracelet events this summer. With so many events to choose from, it can be difficult for some players to choose which events to play. BLUFF has broken down the whole WSOP schedule to highlight the events that players shouldn’t miss. Event 2: $5,000 Eight-Handed [...]

It was a quick and easy day for the field of the World Poker Tour $25,000 World Championship after it wrapped for the day needing only two eliminations. The final table of six players is set, they will have a day off tomorrow and then return to play down to a winner on Friday, May [...]

The poker world is full of facts, figures, stats and records. With so many numbers being crunched day in and day out, sometimes it is tough to see what they all add up to. That is why BLUFF brings you some of the more interesting numbers related to the big tournaments, big stories and big [...]

Day 4 of the World Poker Tour $25,000 World Championship has come to a close and just eight players remain of the 24 that began the day. Chino Rheem holds a commanding lead after bagging up 4,839,000. Behind Rheem is Erick Lindgren with 2,518,000, Jonathan Roy (1,987,000) and May Hyman (1,940,000) form the chase pack [...]

The World Series of Poker hustle and bustle can be overwhelming at times, especially on the weekends when more than 7,000 players file into the Rio’s Convention Center to fill the halls. The long lines, the clogged parking and the simple act of finding the correct table in the right room are exponentially harder when [...]

The season-ending World Series of Poker Circuit Harrah’s New Orleans Main Event has wrapped up after four long days of action and Luke Graham walked away with the gold ring, $228,600 and the last automatic seat to the National Championship. The Main Event attracted a New Orleans best 762 players which created a prize pool [...]

Day 3 saw 67 players returned to the felt of the World Poker Tour $25,000 World Championship at the illustrious Bellagio. The field played five levels of action and Amir Babakhani leads the remaining 24 players after bagging up 1,220,000. Just behind Babakhani are Brandon Steven (1,091,000) and Matt Hyman (1,042,000) as the only other [...]

Day 2 of the World Poker Tour $25,000 World Championship Main Event has come to a close and the event attracted 146 of the world’s best poker players. At day’s end Mike Linster leads the remaining 66 players after bagging up 744,000. Coming up behind Linster are Dan Shak (617,300) and Antonio Esfandiari (536,100). Chino Rheem [...]

The world of poker was buzzing again this week after Doyle Brunson tweeted he was going to retire from WSOP tournament play, maybe. Steve O’Dwyer won the EPT Grand Final Main Event in Monte Carlo in one of the best EPT final tables in the tour’s nine year history. The WSOP Circuit schedule was announced [...]

The World Series of Poker has announced the 2013/2014 WSOP Circuit schedule with 22 stops on the tour. The tour will return to many of the same popular locations from seasons’ past and have added two new stops in Ohio plus another stop north of the border in Montreal. Each stop will feature a 12 [...]

The third and final day of the €100,000 European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo  has come to a close and Max Altergott walked away with the title after defeating Jason Mercier in heads up and more importantly, €1,746,000 ($2,244,543 USD). The event fielded 50 players that payed out the top seven finishers with a [...]

On Tuesday, May 14th Poker Hall of Famer Doyle Brunson sent a tweet stating that will not be playing anymore World Series of Poker tournaments due to his age. The 79 year-old ten-time gold bracelet winner has played less and less tournaments over the past couple years because of the long hours and toll it [...]

This week’s Tournament Tracker sees action from all over the globe – San Remo, Monte Carlo, Cebu and beautiful Chester, Pennsylvania. Jason Mercier got back to his winning ways with an Open Face Chinese poker event and Chris Reslock won his record-setting seventh World Series of Poker Circuit ring just days after winning his sixth. [...]

It was a pretty big week in the poker-sphere this week that ended with a Travis Makar dropping on a bomb on Russ Hamilton. Makar released two separate audio recordings, screenshots and documents all releated to the UltimateBet cheating scandal. The tapes have Hamilton openly admitting the cheating, that Annie Duke had access to the [...]