David Shallow entered final table play at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Ireland Main Event as the overwhelming chip leader. It is commonplace to see someone with a healthy chip advantage to begin the final day – maybe a couple million chips – but leads like Shallow’s are something to see. Wit [...]
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David Shallow Wins WPT Ireland

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Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom Captures PCA $100,000 Super High Roller Title

After a three day battle with 32 of the deepest pocketed professionals in the poker world, the phenomenon known as ‘Isildur1’ – Viktor Blom – emerged as the champion of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s $100,000 Super High Roller event Saturday evening. The eight man final table feature [...]
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“Live At The Bike” To Broadcast WSOPC Events

Providing something a little extra for the first ever stop by the World Series of Poker Circuit on its grounds, the Bicycle Casino has warmed up their servers to provide coverage of the ring events through its popular “Live At The Bike” internet feed. The Bicycle Casino has been providing this f [...]
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2012 PCA $100K Super High Roller, Day Two: Galen Hall Leads Stacked Final Table

On Friday afternoon, the final table for the first major event of the 2012 tournament poker season was determined in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure’s $100,000 Super High Roller event, with several top players looking to make some significant green. 18 men came back to the tables on Friday, loo [...]
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Heartland Poker Tour To Commemorate 100th Tournament In St. Louis

Since 2005, the Heartland Poker Tour has become one of the significant players in the tournament poker world. Considered one of the preeminent “minor” circuits in the game today, the HPT has been able to have considerable success while providing the opportunities for many players to hone their g [...]
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2012 PCA $100K Super High Roller, Day One: Isaac Haxton Holds Lead Over ‘Isildur1,’ Erik Seidel

The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is underway at the Atlantis Casino and Resort in the Bahamas, with the $100,000 Super High Roller event drawing out some of the biggest (and deepest pocketed) poker professionals to the felt. At the time the tournament started on Thursday afternoon, 24 players [...]
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Live Tournament Action Returns This Week

After a chance to relax with friends and family for the holidays, poker players from around the world are taking to the roads and skies this week as the first major live poker tournaments of 2012 get underway. The big boys – World Poker Tour, European Poker Tour, and World Series of Poker (Circu [...]
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Edoardo Alescio Wins WPT Venice

When most people think about their first live tournament cash, they have fond memories of a low buy-in tournament, probably at their local casino, when they were able to just eek out a profit. It’s an exciting time, even if the cash is so tiny that the cost of food and drink that night makes [...]
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Chris Klodnicki Wins Epic Poker Mix-Max Main Event

The fifth and final day of the Epic Poker League Mix-Max Main Event was a far cry from the days that preceded it. Whereas the players who advanced each night had it easy with short days on Days Three and Four, Sunday night was a true test of stamina. Though only five players were seated [...] [...]
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Epic Poker League $20K “Mix-Max” Day Four: Andrew Lichtenberger Seizes Lead With Five Left, Champion Crowned Today

It was another short day at the Palms Casino Resort for the surviving twelve men in the Epic Poker League’s $20,000 “Mix-Max” event, setting up for the crowning of a new champion on Sunday. With the twelve men already guaranteed a $50,920 payday, all were setting their sights on the top prize [...]
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Epic Poker League $20K “Mix-Max” Day Three: Joe Tehan Leads After Controversial Move Ends Play Early

After what was an expected short Day Three, former World Poker Tour champion Joe Tehan has amassed a tremendous lead at the Epic Poker League‘s $20,000 “Mix-Max” Main Event after one of the most controversial hands seen in a poker tournament in some time. Day Three began innocently [...]
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Epic Poker League $20K “Mix-Max” Day Two – Noah Schwartz Holds Chip Lead With 25 Players Left

Day Two of the Epic Poker League’s $20,000 “Mix-Max” event is in the books, with Noah Schwartz holding down a slim chip lead over two formidable opponents, Faraz “The Toilet” Jaka and David Williams. At the start of play on Thursday, 61 players still held the dream of being one of the twel [...]
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Epic Poker League $20K “Mix-Max” – Erik Seidel Looks To End 2011 As He Started It, Holds Day One Lead

One of the final major events of the 2011 tournament poker season is underway at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, as the Epic Poker League’s third of five scheduled events began yesterday afternoon. As with the EPL tournaments, every Main Event has a different format. Originally, the schedule [...]
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WPT Venice Day 1A: Andrea Dato Heads Small Field

If it seems like the World Poker Tour (WPT) has an event every week, it’s because it does. At least this month. During the first week of December, we had WPT Prague, won by Andrey Pateychuk. This weekend, James Dempsey won the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagi [...]
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Doyle Brunson to Receive Epic Poker League Lifetime Exemption

The Epic Poker League, about to start the third tournament series of its first season, has decided to grant the legendary Doyle Brunson its first lifetime player card, which will grant him eligibility for every Epic Poker League event, regardless of whether or not he met the entry requirements. “I [...]
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James Dempsey Wins 2011 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic

If you are going to win a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you might as well do it on a whim. Such was essentially the case for James “Flushy” Dempsey Sunday night, as he won the 2011 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The Brit was not in Las Vegas specifically to play [...] [...]
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Martin Finger Outlasts David Boyaciyan To Win EPT Prague

The final champion for the 2010 calendar year on the European Poker Tour has been determined, with Martin Finger outdueling David Boyaciyan to take home the crown at the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel, the Czech Republic. Of the eight men who came to the felt on Saturday, it was [...]
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EPT Prague Day Four: Martin Finger Chip Leader, Nicolas Levi Second As Final Table Is Set

The final table for the last event of the European Poker Tour in 2010 is set in Prague, the Czech Republic, as Martin Finger holds a slim lead over Nicolas Levi for tomorrow’s action. 31 players came back to the tables on Friday, looking to get down to the traditional eight handed EPT final table, [...]
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EPT Prague Day Three: Patrick Renkers Seizes Chip Lead As Players Reach The Money

Prague seems to be the destination of choice for many poker tournament circuits as well as professional poker players. Just days after its last big buy in tournament for the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour pulled into the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel in the Czech Rep [...]
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22 Players Confirmed for $1 Million Buy-In WSOP Event

Remember when a one million dollar first prize in a poker tournament was mind blowing? Well, how about a one million dollar buy-in? It will happen next year, at the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Both a real bracelet event and a charity tournament, the “Big One for One Drop” will run f [...]
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WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Day 1: Vanessa Selbst is Early Leader

The traditional tenth anniversary gift is tin or aluminum. We don’t know about you, but when talking about the tenth anniversary of the first World Poker Tour (WPT) event, referring to it as a recyclable doesn’t sound quite right. Good thing there are “modern” anniversary gifts. Theref [...]
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EPT Prague Day 1: Andrey Saenko Leads with 200 Large

The European Poker Tour (EPT) is back in Prague for the fifth time this week as players set their sights on a first prize of more than three-quarters of a million Euros. Held at the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel, the $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em event started with two Day 1 flig [...]
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Andrey Pateychuk Wins WPT Prague

Andrey Pateychuk probably felt extremely lucky to even be at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague final table. This year’s European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo Main Event champ found himself all-in with A-K late on Day 3, only to see his opponent flop a set of 9’s. The poker gods were with him, t [...]
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WPT Prague Day 3: Stanislaw Kretz Looks Dominant

Day 3 has come and gone at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague and we are down to the final table. Entering the day, 62 of the 571 original players still remained, and while it took until the wee hours of the morning, the field was narrowed all the way to just the six players [...] [...]
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Epic Poker League Signs Content Partnership Deals With USA Today, Big Lead Sports

As they prepare for their third event in their inaugural season, the Epic Poker League announced yesterday two new partnership deals that will expand its footprint in the highly competitive tournament poker circuit community. Federated Sports & Gaming, the ownership behind the EPL, announced the [...]

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