LAS VEGAS -- Watch out, online poker whizzes and leisure players with deep pockets.

Watch out, online poker whizzes and leisure players with deep pockets. The pros are coming, and they want their top crown back.

Blogs * heavy pedal: NASCAR restricts plates; NHRA restricts tracks. * vegas voice: Ice-pop martinis to keep you cool.

DAY: 3 . BIG NEWS: Several professional rounders at the World Series of Poker say they feel like this could be the year a professional wins the main event amid a crush of amateur and so-so online players.

The main event of the 39th World Series of Poker started yesterday, with almost 1,300 players taking part in the $10,000 buy-in No-Limit Texas Hold'em tournament.

It's wonderful when a plan comes together. Just ask Jon Duppler. The former Larkin golfing standout reaped the rewards of some hard work last Monday, tying for the championship of the Balmoral Woods Country ...

Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu was on hand this afternoon in the Rio to sign autographs and meet the public.

It is the end of the third of four days ones here at the World Series of Poker and this tournament is almost beginning to take shape.