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In a dramatic, winner-take-all final match that went the distance of its “best of 11” format, the Montreal Nationals’ Pascal Lefrancois defeated the Berlin Bears’ Brian Rast to take down the inaugural Global Poker League World Championship. The eight teams that showed up on Tuesday to determine the champion represented the top squads that survived… Read more »
The World Series of Poker has announced the addition of seven stops to the WSOP International Circuit schedule, bringing the total number of stops on the non-U.S. portion of the Circuit to 14. The first six additions, announced a couple weeks ago, are: Sydney, Australia – November 22 through December 12, 2016 – The Star,… Read more »
The Global Poker League will wrap up their inaugural season beginning on Tuesday. By the end of the week – Thursday, to be precise – the first champion of the fledgling poker league will be crowned, with that champion taking down a $100,000 grand prize as their reward. After playing through a grueling 14-week regular… Read more »
On December 19, the European Poker Tour will close the doors on their stop in Prague, the Czech Republic, and with the end of the event will come the end of an era. Amaya Gaming, the owners of the EPT, have decided to end one of the most successful tournament tours in the existence of… Read more »
In what was a relatively quick final table, Scotland’s Niall Farrell emerged as the champion of the 2016 partypoker World Poker Tour Caribbean stop in Punta Cana on Wednesday night, defeating Troy Quenneville in heads up play. It wasn’t your typical “final day” of action on the WPT as 11 players remained at the start… Read more »
The field of the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Caribbean Main Event was pared from 75 to just 10 on Tuesday as the remaining players are on the brink of the televised final table heading into Day 4. Keven Stammen is the chip leader with 1.764 million chips. From the looks of the chip counts,… Read more »
Troy Quenneville leads the remaining 75 players at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Caribbean Main Event after Day 2; with 302,000 chips, he is the only player to finish Monday’s action above the 300,000 mark. Alexander Denisov is not far behind with 280,500 chips. After Day 1A’s miniscule turnout, about another 210 entries were paid… Read more »
Fortunately for tournament organizers, Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Caribbean Main Event was much larger than Day 1A, though the total Day 1 field of 270 still left WPT Caribbean as one of the smaller stops of the Tour. Jean-Luc Adam emerged as the Day 1B chip leader, finishing with a stack… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has become the epitome of the axiom “There’s no rest for the wicked.” Less than 48 hours after WPT announcer Mike Sexton achieved his personal goal of winning a WPT event (the WPT Montreal at the Playground Poker Club in Quebec), the entirety of the tour shifted WAY south to the… Read more »
After starting the day as the chip leader – and then finding himself in a 10-1 hole during heads up competition – Poker Hall of Famer and World Poker Tour announcer Mike Sexton earned the championship of the partypoker WPT Montreal Main Event early this morning in Quebec. From the start of the day’s action… Read more »
There is a chance at history in Canada this afternoon. After a battle through a 648-entry field, Poker Hall of Famer and World Poker Tour announcer Mike Sexton will come to the final table of the partypoker.com WPT Montreal at the Playground Poker Club with the chip lead. Of the remaining five players, only Ema… Read more »
Yesterday, I irrationally yelled in ALL CAPS about how players get knocked out of major tournaments so quickly on Day 2, only to have eliminations slow to a crawl after that. We’ll see how slow things go today, as just 17 players remain in the partypoker.net World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event. There will… Read more »
Residents of New Jersey voted overwhelmingly against a ballot measure Tuesday that would allow for the construction of two casinos outside of Atlantic City. With over 2.8 million votes cast, the “No’s” destroyed the “Yes’s” 2,201,768 to 633,034. Casino gambling was legalized in New Jersey in 1976, but restricted them to being located only in… Read more »
If you are going to play in the World Series of Poker Main Event for the first time, might as well make it a good one. Qui Nguyen, with only $9,000 in live tournament earnings and a WSOP Main Event rookie, won the 2016 WSOP Main Event early this morning, bagging a gaudiest of diamond… Read more »
Qui Nguyen continued his domination of the 2016 World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table Monday, as the field was given a haircut from five to three. Nguyen began the day as the chip leader with 128.625 million chips, slightly more than the next two players combined. He finished with almost 200 million, significantly more… Read more »
After three and a half months of waiting, the final table of the 2016 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event – the November Nine, if you will – got underway Sunday night. Of course, Sunday night was October 30th, not November, which could be confusing, but that is because the U.S. Presidential Election is… Read more »
OK, we know how we got to this point and we know how the men will line up on the felt. When the cards hit the air this afternoon at the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas, the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event will draw… Read more »
Tomorrow afternoon the men who constitute the “November Nine” will reconvene at the Penn & Teller Theater inside the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to begin the work of determining poker’s next “World Champion.” The World Series of Poker Championship Event is the “holy grail” of anyone who has ever picked up… Read more »
After what has seemed to be an eternity, the World Series of Poker’s Championship Event will resume action on Sunday. The 2016 “November Nine” will be reseated on the stage at the Penn & Teller Theater in the Rio All-Suites Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas just over three months after they all became millionaires… Read more »
Day 4 is history for the European Poker Tour stop in Malta and, after the day was shortened due to the frenetic pace of play, Mats Karlsson has taken the lead of the 14-player pack that will come back for action early Friday morning (U. S. time). 30 players still had chips at the start… Read more »
After hearing evidence from both parties in the complicated case, a judge in U. S. District Court has issued a split decision on the case involving poker professional Phil Ivey and the Borgata in Atlantic City. That split decision has left any final financial decisions completely up in the air as to which party will… Read more »
Sam Panzica and Richard Malone, Jr. started the final table of the 2016 World Poker Tour bestbet Bounty Scramble Main Event in nearly a dead heat for the chip lead, so it only seemed natural that the tournament came down to the two of them. And boy, did it come down to the two of… Read more »
The field of the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble Main Event was narrowed from 25 to the final six yesterday in Jacksonville and the final table is currently underway. It was almost a dead-heat to begin Tuesday’s action as Sam Panzica was the chip leader with 2.97 million chips and Richard Malone, Jr. was but a… Read more »
The two Day Ones for the 2016 WPT bestbet Jacksonville Bounty Scramble are in the books and, as the tournament comes together for Day 2 on Sunday, California pro Jean “Prince” Gaspard is at the top of the leaderboard of the 142 players left. The tournament structure was such that it was going to be… Read more »
In what will certainly be a hotly discussed situation, poker professionals Todd Brunson and Carlos Mortensen have been chosen as the 2016 inductees into the Poker Hall of Fame. On Wednesday, October 26, the induction ceremony will take place at Binion’s Gambling Hall (the original home of the World Series of Poker). The traditional ceremony… Read more »
