Chad Batista

The shows will be aired at 8 p.m. each Tuesday starting on July 22. They will be broadcast over the next 17 weeks, for a total of 33 hours of coverage leading up to the footage of the final table of the 2008 WSOP Main Event. The 2008 WSOP was the year of the pros' return to the top ranks, with...  

6,844 players started the 2008 WSOP Championship for the second largest field in WSOP history. After a long and grueling Day 7, there were nine. Dennis Phillips had the lead going into Day 7, and when the last chip was counted...  

Event 53 was the last under card event before the insanity of the World Series of Poker Main Event took center stage. Anybody who thought that the last day of this event would just wilt under the shadow of the WSOP signature competition and that this would be just another day at the office would...  

On July 3rd, the WSOP $10,000 No-Limit Hold'em World Championship began with 6,844 players. Ten days later, only 79 players remained, all focused on the coveted bracelet and $9,111,517 first prize seemingly within their grasp...  

Jeremy Joseph had a slight lead over the field of 189 remaining players going into Day 5 of the WSOP Championship. While Joseph would concede the mantle of chip leader to Mark Ketteringham by the end of the day, Joseph hovered near...  

Day 4 of the WSOP Championship began with 474 players and play was suspended with just 189 players left, or less than three percent of the starting field of 6,844. Jeremy Joseph started the Day 4 as the chip leader, and ended it the...  

If break down the earnings of Richard Lyndaker and Joe Commisso during Event #46, and figure out an hourly rate, they are both still doing pretty well: not quite what Bill Gates makes per hour, but still more than most world leaders. Lyndaker and Commisso started the day as the top two players in...  

All the overflow areas were in play at the Rio for Day 1D of the WSOP Championship Event, as 2,461 players took the field. With registration officially closed for the event, the total number of 2008 WSOP Championship entrants climbed...  

Prior to Harrah's acquisition of the WSOP, the Las Vegas tournament was held in the spring. Harrah's shifted the large-drawing event closer to the summer, a traditionally slow period for the desert gaming locale. But with a sluggish...  

For the first time since the WSOP Championship began on July 3rd, the $64-million-plus prize pool was in sight. The combined field for Day 3 of the WSOP Championship started with 1,307 players, and with payouts starting for 666th place...  

Day 1C of the WSOP Championship event saw 1,928 players take the field, making it the largest Day 1 flight thus far. Amazon Room players were treated to the world-debut performance of 'It's All About the Money' by country recording...  

While most Americans were firing up their grills and gazing skyward at Independence Day fireworks, 1,158 players filtered into the Amazon Room for Day 1B of the WSOP Championship event. In honor of the occasion, country singer Andy...  

David Daneshgar outlasted a field of 2,693 to win the second-to-last no-limit event of the 2008 World Series of Poker, Event #52, $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em. With lifetime earnings in excess of $1.6 million, over 50 tournament cashes...  

David Daneshgar has the sort of resume that most poker players would like for themselves.  

Marty Smyth has plenty of cashes outside of the WSOP, including his 2007 Irish Open and 2008 PartyPoker World Open victories. But going into the final table of the $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha World Championship, Smyth had only one other...