Bluff Magazine's 2009-wsop Archives

The coming week might seem a little bit Christmas for many poker fans and now BLUFF Media is hoping to play the part of Santa Claus.
With the World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table set to get underway this Saturday BLUFF is proud to announce they will be broadcasting live audio from the first [...]

The 2009 November Nine

Tuesday night’s episodes of the World Series of Poker Main Event on ESPN will continue to introduce poker fans to the November Nine.
Tuesday’s first one hour episode begins with 27 players left in the tournament including BLUFF contributor Antonio Esfandiari and Maryland logger Darvin Moon. Also featured in this episode is the last [...]

BluffMagazine.com is helping poker fans get excited for the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event final table with the launch of a new video player and exclusive content from the 2009 WSOP.
The video player, which is sponsored by UltimateBet, will give fans the chance to see the 24 final tables which were broadcast by [...]

For the second time in two years a player has managed to win a WSOP bracelet on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. J.P. Kelly captured the first event of the 2009 World Series of Poker Europe Monday in London to take home £136,803 and the gold bracelet. Kelly won his earlier bracelet in a $1,500 [...]

Day 1a of Event #1 (£1,000 No Limit Hold’em) is in the books at the Casino at the Empire in London as the 2009 WSOP Europe kicked off with 295 players showing up. By the end of the day however that field was reduced significantly and one name stood atop the leaderboard far from any [...]

On the WSOP broadcast on ESPN on Tuesday night Kent Senter tugged at the heartstrings of every American watching and now the poker community will have a chance to make a difference in the Senter family’s lives.
Fighting Multiple Myelome Cancer, Kent’s dream was to play in the WSOP Main Event. His wife Patty reached out to [...]

Phil Hellmuth had quite the entrance to the 2009 WSOP. This week on ESPN fans will get the chance to see if the Emperor’s new clothes help him on his way to a 12th bracelet.

He’s the biggest name in poker. Just ask him. Phil Hellmuth will be a focal point of the 2009 World Series [...]

It appears that at least one member of the November Nine can’t wait until November to make some waves in the poker world. Steven Begleiter, the former Bear Sterns executive who sits third in chips in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, is leading the World Poker Tour Legends of Poker event after [...]

Online poker room UltimateBet.com announced yesterday that it has added Billy “Patrolman35″ Kopp to its stable of sponsored pros. Kopp, a 23-year-old student at the University of Kentucky, has enjoyed success both online and in major land-based tournaments, winning over $2.6 million in a few short years thanks to his trademark loose-aggressive style.
The last $896,000 [...]

Nearly three weeks have gone by since the Day 8 of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event and the nine players who will take their seats at the Penn and Teller Theater at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in November to wrangle for the bracelet have headed back to their respective homes.
Phil Ivey, Darvin [...]

Online phenomenon Justin “BoostedJ” Smith has a new item to add to his list of accomplishments. After placing third in the 2009 Bellagio Cup and earning five cashes plus two final table appearances at the 2009 World Series of Poker, Smith is now a Full Tilt pro.
Smith was a well known online player but cemented himself as [...]

Tuesday July, 28 will mark the beginning of ESPN’s weekly coverage of the 2009 World Series of Poker. The action will get underway at 8 p.m. ET with the broadcast of the $40,000 No Limit Hold ‘em, an event special to the 2009 WSOP.
The 201 player field made up the biggest non-Main Event prize pool [...]

Phil Ivey has the fourth largest chip stack heading into the Day 8 of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event.

Darvin Moon is doing his best to establish himself as a threat as the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event nears the November Nine pause. The 45 year old hovered in the top [...]

Leo Margets was presented with the Last Woman Standing Cup by WickedChopsPoker.com at the end of Day 6.

At the end of Day 6 of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event 98.4 percent of the field was made up of X and Y chromosomes. The other 1.6 percent, the lone player with two X’s in [...]

Antonio Esfandiari had a solid day on Monday and plans on doing his best on Tuesday to make a November Nine run possible.

Poker fans had a little bit of good news and a little bit of bad news on Monday, Day 6 of the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event. Which do you want [...]