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2011 WSOP ESPN TV Table

Caesar's Entertainment, owner of the WSOP tournament, released the 2012 schedule today along with some new changes in the event.  Seth Palansky, Vice President Corporate Communications, opened the curtains on the largest, most action packed WSOP in the 43 years that the first ever, original poker tournament has been offered to poker players.  Leave your calendar open from May 27 through July 16 when the November Nine of the $10,000 World Series Poker Championship event will head home until the November.

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Wendeen H. Eolis

Ace investigative reporter, Wendeen H. Eolis, has once again returned from the quagmire that is online poker with another breaking story.  This time she's the first to tell the world that PokerStars CEO Gabriel Campos Woslovsky would be leaving the troubled online poker company after a two year hitch.

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As we previewed before, it's now a go!

The poker room at Treasure Island (TI) is now paying people to play poker.

From Saturday at midnight to the following Saturday at midnight, put in your hours and you'll earn money.  And pretty significant money at that.

Play 10 hours, get $50.  20 hours, $125.  30 hours, $200.  40 hours, $300.  50 hours, $500.  And 60 hours, $599 (to avoid IRS forms at the $600 giveaway mark).

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Wendeen H. Eolis

She's back.  Wendeen H. Eolis delivers the third segment in a continuing series of in-depth articles that looks at the big picture of online poker's legal/illegal status.  Included in the analysis of the game is the age old argument of poker's classification of a game of skill or nothing more than a game of chance, no different than buying tickets in a government run lottery.

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Available at Harrah's on the Las Vegas strip

Have you checked out BravoPokerLive?

We’ve been seeing the sign advertising it in more and more poker rooms around town, and we finally downloaded the app to our iPhone (it’s also available on Android).

It’s a marvelous tool to check in on your favorite poker room to see what and how many tables are running (it also lists tournament information).  If you sync to your location, you’ll see how far away the nearest poker room is as well.

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Wendeen H. Eolis

Investigative journalist, Wendeen H. Eolis, is back on Poker Player Newspaper with the third installment of the FTP mess, Tapie,DOJ, and FTP Likely Winners.  Will Players Pay for the Deal?.  The Full Tilt/Tapie/DOJ deal has reignited former Full Tilt player's hopes for return of their monies.

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Wendeen H. Eolis

Wendeen H. Eolis published an article earlier today moments after it went public that GBT has agreed to purchase Full Tilt's assets for $80,000,000.  This unprecedented move by the U.S. government will allow the acquisition of Full Tilt Poker (FTP) by the  Groupe Bernard Tapie (GBT) to progress.

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Wendeen H. Eolis, 2011 WSOP Main Event

A second in a series of articles by Wendeen H. Eolis detailing continuing events of Black Friday, the day the DOJ did a take down of the big three U.S. facing online poker rooms - namely Full Tilt Poker, PokerStars and Absolute Poker - is now available.  Eolis goes in-depth with information surrounding the sale of Full Tilt to Group Bernard Tapie.

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Pius Heinz, 2011 WSOP Main Event Champion

A few minutes after midnight the final hand of the 2011 World Series Of Poker Main Event was dealt to the final two players, Martin Strasko and Pius Heinz.  Betting ended when Pius Heinz said "all-in" and was called by Martin Staszko.

Pius Heinz finished in first place to become the 2011 WSOP Main Event Champion.  He collected $8,715,638 in cash to supplement the coveted gold and diamond 2011 WSOP Championship Bracelet.  Martin Staszko received $5,433,086 for second place.

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Pius Heinz, chip leader with 107,800,000

Sometime in the early morning hours on Wednesday the 2011 WSOP Main Event should finally deal the final hand and crown a world's poker champion.  Three players remain in the quest for poker's most sought after world championship bracelet, $8,715,638 in cash and the bragging rights as the top poker player of 2011.  Second place will receive $5,433,086 and third place will have to settle for $4,021,138.

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