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Our Big Winners of the Week feature has become so wildly popular that we were in a quandary when the World Series hit, because at the WSOP every win is big,

Two more players won WSOP bracelets on Day 16 of the 2021 World Series of Poker, while Chance Kornuth reached back-to-back $10K Short Deck final tables.

The WSOP might be stealing the show right now, but the poker world continues to turn outside of the Rio, and outside of Las Vegas, for that matter. Although

Nate Silver was thrust into the public eye when his U.S. Presidential election model correctly predicted the outcomes in all but one of the 50 states in 2008. The founder and editor-in-chief of data-driven politics and sports website FiveThirtyEight was named one of Time’s ’World’s 100 Most Influential People’ in 2009 and released a New York Times bestselling non-fiction book in 2012. Before Silver built a media empire, however, there was a time when he was a professional poker player. His time grinding the game for a living came to an end a couple of years prior to his rise to promine...

The action continues this week at the WSOP. Some major names scored big over the last week and Phil Hellmuth heads to a third final table Monday.