Event #12 of the GSOP 8 series would add a slight curveball to the mix, with Pot Limit Hold’em the name of the game and a $108 freezeout format. A smallish field of 297 entries would take their seats to kick off the action, offering a chance to take down a GSOP 8 crown without [...]
GSOP 8 action would return to one of its most popular formats, with a $54 rebuy event getting things off to a fast start, especially given the shorthanded format which would guarantee tons of action from the get-go. A field of 757 players and plenty of rebuys and add-ons would see the total prizepool eclipse [...]
Every poker player needs to blow off steam sometimes, with GSOP #10 offering the perfect excuse to go nuts and shove all-in constantly — close to the correct play in the Mad Tilt structure that sees players start with just 100 chips. 546 players would tackle GSOP #10, with all the rebuys and add-ons eventually [...]
Sunday would feature two different GSOP 8 events on the schedule, headlined by the massive $400K Guaranteed GSOP #9 event that would replace the usual ChampionChip tourney that runs each Sunday. 2,160 runners would turn out for GSOP #9, which meant a whopping $410,400 would be up for grabs with the winner taking down more [...]
The GSOP 7 series ending with a final last hurrah on Sunday, with both the $5,000 Grand Slam Final and the $525 Mini Grand Slam Final crushing their guarantees and providing top finishers some monster paydays. The $200K guarantee for the Mini Grand Slam Final ballooned to over $300K when it was all said and [...]
The GSOP 7 series wrapped up on Sunday with the Grand Slam and Mini Grand Slam finals, which both shattered records with huge turnouts. While it’s easy to look at a field of 144 runners for the Grand Slam Final and not be impressed (compared to 2000+ fields for some other GSOP events) you have [...]
The GSOP 7 main events may get the headlines but the Mini versions of each are providing increasingly popular, with very large fields that mean substantial paydays to the winners despite the smaller buy-in. Plenty of players are doubling dipping and playing both, with some of the top online players also taking a seat in [...]
Players barely had a chance to catch their breath from the kick-off of GSOP 7 before it was right back to the tables yesterday for GSOP Event #2, a $108 rebuy format that generated plenty of action and excitement from the first hand dealt. With a prizepool of $165,100, players had plenty of reasons to [...]
The GSOP 7 got started on Sunday with a big double-up as not only was GSOP Event #1 — a huge $500,000 guaranteed NLHE deepstack event — getting underway but GSOP Event #2 kicked off as well, which featured a $54 NLHE rebuy format. 724 runners turned out for GSOP Event #2, and when all [...]
Sunday would be a big day for the GSOP 7 online series, as bwin players would have two different GSOP events to tackle, as well as two of the smaller GSOP Mini events as well which use the same format as the main events but at 1/10th the cost as far as a reduced buy-in. [...]