The 1,251 survivors of day 1a and day 1b returned to battle it in the World Series of Poker 2008 main event, all looking to reach the third day which is when the bubble is expected to burst. The action started at a super fast pace as the short stacks got busy early on […]

Day 1d was the last starting field to take to the felt for the World Series of Poker 2008 Main Event, and as tournament directors predicted this was the largest of the four starting fields. A total of 2461 players entered the final day’s play which meant the total number of entrants at this […]

Day 1c at the World Series of Poker 2008 main event attracted the biggest starting field so far, with 1928 players starting out. This means a total of 4383 players has participated so far with one more starting field to come. This field on the third day was an amateur heavy one with […]

The second field of this years World Series of Poker Main Event, started there heat with the current champion Jerry Yang having the honour of calling out the customary “shuffle up and deal” to get things under way. A total of 1,158 players started out in day 1b being the second field of four.
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The Poker tournament everyone has been waiting for has finally started. The World Series of Poker Main Event, a $10,000 no limit hold’em world championship that every budding poker player dreams of winning. The first part of the event has the field split into four separate fields and the survivors of each field […]

Event 53 at the World Series of Poker 2008 was the last event before the big one, the WSOP main event. This was a $1,500 limit hold’em shootout event. The event was meant to be limited to 720 entrants, but with a huge amount of players wanting to enter we ended up with […]

2,693 entrants turned out for the 52nd event at the World Series of Poker 2008, which was a $1,500 no limit hold’em tournament, the final $1,500 buy in event of this series. The first place prize set was $625,443 and the rest of the $3,675,945 prize pool paid down to 270th place.
The bubble burst […]