Calling all PartyPoker players – your ...

Well its been a couple of weeks since we last posted, as any of you have had the pleasure of attending the WSOP will know, it takes at least that long to recover from the madness surrounding the tournament. Regular readers will have noticed that the style and design of the blog has changed very recently to incorporate some new features that we hope you will find useful,...

Last PartyPoker.com online qualifier bus...

As reported by PokerNews. Miika Puumalainen Eliminated in 59th Place ($108,047) It took two hands to eliminate Miika Puumalainen from this year’s Main Event, but they came in rapid succession. It was the first hand that was most damaging. Action folded to Puumalainen in the small blind. He limped into the pot in front of big blind Francois Balmigere, who raised to...

Day Six at the WSOP Main Event...

PartyPoker.com still has three runners: Miika Puumalainen 2,894,000 Aaron Coulthard 901,000 Maurizio Saieva 837,000 Maurizio is a member of the Italian Poker Team and with only four Italians left in the event – three of them are on the same table today. Miika starts on the ESPN feature table. Pictures and more information to follow later. All players receive bonuses for...

Bubble bursts at WSOP Main Event...

The bubble has burst at the WSOP Main Event. Sitting pretty sixth in chips is PartyPoker.com qualifier Miika Puumalainen from Finland. London’s James Akenhead, who has played in PartyPoker.com events in London, and is backed by popular British pro Neil Channing, is fourth in chips. Newly signed grassroots team member Remy Biechel makes it through to Day 5 but is short-stacked with...

PartyPoker WSOP – Day 3...

After the luxury of the day off, the remaining 2044 players in the years Main Event will play 5 levels today which should see us get close to the bubble. PartyPoker had 26 players still in the tournament and there was a definite air of nervous excitement in the Mike Sexton Suite this morning as the players arrived for breakfast. Our highest placed player was Miika from Finland who was...

PartyPoker. WSOP Day 2B starts with a hu...

Monster Day 2B has them squeezed into every spare bit of space. A record 2924 players took part in Day 2B and there were players and tables almost in every available bit of floor space. For the first hour of play today they did not let any spectators into the various tournament rooms. Rumour spread that this would continue all day which had many people concerned if they were supporting...

PartyPoker – World Series of Poker Day...

PartyPoker – World Series of Poker Day 2A. July 7th 2009 Day 2A was by far the smaller of the two scheduled Day 2’s with only 1476 players taking their seats this morning. These players made it through the smaller fields from days 1A and 1B. It was been confirmed that tomorrows Day 2B will be at maximum capacity at about 3000 players. Where will they all sit? I have no idea. Anyway,...

PartyPoker – WSOP Day 1 D gets ove...

The big news for Day 1 D was simply the amount of players trying to register themselves for the main event. The tournament organisers were expecting it to be busy, possibly even selling out but they surely could not have expected the scenes that greeted us yesterday as we arrived at The Rio at 10am. There were at least 300 people queuing past The Mike Sexton Suite all the way up to the...

Day 1c Report and Chip Counts...

Despite Phil Hellmuth rather typically brash and tasteless entrance today which managed to attract all the media’s full attention, there was actually a poker tournament going on inside. Day 1 C attracted a total of 1696 players including 5 of last years “November Nine”. This was about double yesterdays number which shows that many players decided not to play on the 4th of July...

Phil Hellmuth makes a dramatic entrance ...

Day 1C The Phil Hellmuth show rolled into town today. The rumour buzzed around quite quickly that Phil and his entourage would soon be arriving so I grabbed a camera and joined the waiting throng. There were lots of camera crews and photographers waiting and yet current WSOP main event champion Peter Eastgate managed to walk in the door and past all of them without anyone recognizing...