June 03 2012, Lynn Gilmartin

Each week we will be handpicking our favorite four videos from around the hallways of the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker.

Being that it’s just the first week, not everyone has made it into town yet. If you’re still planning your trip to Sin City, or if you’ve never been and find yourself wondering how exactly the Rio is laid out for the “poker event of the year,” then check out Kristy Arnett and Sarah Grant’s guided tour.

Before the WSOP kicked off, Shaun Deeb was a name on many people’s lips, tweets and thread posts when he accumulated some outstanding PokerStars SCOOP results. A new segment we’ve started on PokerNews is “Explain This,” where players explain various pictures or articles we find after trolling through their Facebook pages, Twitter accounts, etc. Without a doubt, Shaun Deeb was a perfect candidate.

She is super hot, and she’s off to an excellent year in poker, so why wouldn’t Kristy Arnett call the clock on Xuan Liu?

On Friday, myself and Kristy Arnett joined together on the secondary feature table on the stage of the Pavillion at the Rio to bring you all the highlights that came out of the first week of the WSOP. You can check that out in the PokerNews Weekly. Fellas, be sure to wait for the little “gift” at the end.

To view more videos from the 43rd Annual World Series of Poker, check out the PokerNews video page.

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Thu, 08/25/2011 – 06:14 – PokerPages Staff

The World Series of Poker Main Event took center stage for the second week as ESPN continued its coverage of the elite tournament with two new episodes on Tuesday evening.

The action picked up where it had left off on Day 3 with Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu still at the feature table alongside Sami Kelopuro, Max Heinzelmann and six other players hoping to advance to a fourth session at the Rio in Las Vegas.

Negreanu ended Mike Zulker’s run after waking up in the big blind with pocket rockets. Zulker, holding pocket nines, called down a 17,000 pre-flop re-raise, 19,800 turned bet and 36,100 shove from ‘Kid Poker’ before mucking his pair as he headed for the exit door.

Another player who departed was former PokerStars European Poker Tour winner Patrik Antonius. Antonius got the last of his 48,100 chips into the middle with A-9 but the Finn failed to outdraw Christian Kudmore’s pocket sixes.

The second episode featured a classic Phil Hellmuth rant. The ‘Poker Brat’ was dismayed when Chee Kian Chan took down a pot after initially calling down an under the gun raise with A-4os. The 2-A-10-10-6 board locked up a sizable pot for Chan as Hellmuth uttered several expletives and took a brief break from the action.

Amanda Musumeci made one of the most impressive reads featured after picking off a bluff from Kevin Saul. Saul, holding a busted straight draw, had fired bets of 27,800 and 47,700 but Musumeci refused to be forced off her modest pair as she called and snared the 170,800 pot.

Take a look at the PokerPages Tournament Database for all of the results from the 2011 World Series of Poker.