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The World Poker Tour has stepped overseas for their next event, landing in the sunny climes of the Mediterranean at the Merit Crystal Cove Casino for the partypoker WPT Merit Classic North Cyprus. For its Day 1A action on Friday, a decent sized field came out to play and, by the end of the night,… Read more »
Beginning on September 10, cable television’s Discovery Channel will dive into the world of casino gaming with the premiere of three different programs in a block called “All In, All Night.” While two of the programs will feature content that other cable channels have delved into, the third one features two of poker’s most eclectic… Read more »
The Humorless Champ. The Unsmiling Winner. Call Daniel Colman what you want – he is close to unstoppable right now. The 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Big One for One Drop winner, European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo Super High Roller winner, EPT Barcelona High Roller Event runner-up captured another big prize today, winning… Read more »
The world of politics is funny. You never know who is going to get in bed with whom or what is finally going to spark momentum on an issue. It took years for online poker’s proponents to make any sort of headway in legislative circles and we still have not made THAT large of a… Read more »
The overlay party of the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) Championship Event is down to its penultimate day as 62 players were narrowed to just 18 on Monday. Emerging from Day 3 as the chip leader was Martin Hanowski who, with 5.88 million chips, is one of just two players with over 5… Read more »
The headline of the weekend may have been the failure of the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) to come anywhere near its $10 million guaranteed prize pool (read: $2.5 million short), but after the shock of the massive overlay, there was still poker to be played. Sunday’s Day 2 saw 478 of the… Read more »
After a successful debut last year, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, attempted to make lightning strike twice with the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) $10 million guaranteed prize pool Main Event. Unlike last year, however, the final numbers fell far short of the goal with a massive overlay… Read more »
Local favorite Harry Arutyunyan, who calls the Bicycle Casino his home turf, fought off a difficult final table on his way to defeating Mike Eskandari to take home the World Poker Tour’s Legends of Poker championship early Saturday morning. Coming to the final table, Arutyunyan was in good position with his 3.67 million stack good… Read more »
The first official event of Season XIII of the World Poker Tour has reached its penultimate day as Massoud Eskandari leads the final table at the WPT Legends of Poker at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. 16 men returned to action on Thursday, looking to get down to the official WPT final table of… Read more »
Capping what has been a historic stop in the history of the circuit, the European Poker Tour crowned two champions to close out their 100th stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. In the third largest Main Event in EPT history, Andre Lettau battled through a marathon final table to emerge as the champion and,… Read more »
And so here we are. The first final table of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 11. Just eight players remain from the original 1,496 in the EPT Barcelona Main Event; leading the way is Hossein Ensan with 10,295,000 chips, the only play to eclipse 10,000,000. This would be one hell of a score for… Read more »
The first Main Event of the European Poker Tour’s (EPT) Season 11 is in the home stretch. Day 4 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event is in the books and just 25 players remain of the 102 that began Monday’s action. It is an extremely tight race for the number one spot with Bram Haenraets… Read more »
It was payout time at the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event Sunday as 292 players lined up for Day 3 knowing that only 239 of them would make the money. The player best positioned to make much more than the min-cash is Andrei Konopelko, who ended the day as the chip leader… Read more »
The 100th tournament in the history of the European Poker Tour, taking place at the Casino Barcelona in Spain, brought its entire field together for the first time on Saturday. At the end of the day’s festivities, Vojtech Ruzicka utilized his strong Day 1A play to come out on top of the Day 2 field… Read more »
After what was a strong Day 1A field of players, the European Poker Tour might have thought that the Day 1B field numbers would be just icing on the cake. Instead, for the 100th event in the EPT’s history, a massive throng flooded the Casino Barcelona in Spain to eventually create the third-largest field in… Read more »
Celebrating the 100th event in their storied history, the European Poker Tour kicked off its Season 11 schedule on Thursday at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. With a field that would be applicable for the final day of a multi-start day field, poker professional Michael Mizrachi emerged on top at the end of the day.… Read more »
The post-World Series of Poker doldrums are over; major live tournament poker has started back up. Today, the €50,000 High Roller Event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona concluded with Olivier Busquet taking the crown and €896,434. The field was very large for a High Roller Event, with 77 total entries from 58 unique… Read more »
Not long ago, the internet killed the print edition of the once venerable Newsweek magazine. I was a subscriber many years ago, finding it a convenient way to keep up with world happenings when I was in business school. But that was then. In March of this year, Newsweek’s parent company, IBT Media, revived the… Read more »
As PokerStars gets closer to re-entering the United States, it wants to keep its reputation as squeaky clean as possible. The world’s largest online poker room already had to go through a lot and fork over tons of money just to get back into MAYBE the neutral graces of the U.S. government. It doesn’t need… Read more »
It is really getting to the point where I would hesitate to visit Atlantic City just because the mood there has got to be so horrible that I wouldn’t enjoy myself. The latest bad news coming out of the former east coast gambling mecca: the Revel Casino and Hotel will close in a month after… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) announced last week that it has inked a deal with the Global Poker Index (GPI) which will the see the WPT use the GPI’s ranking system for the Season XIII WPT Player of the Year race. In a press release, WPT President Adam Pliska said, “I applaud Alexandre Dreyfus and… Read more »
I can’t say I enjoy looking at him as much as I do Paris Hilton, but then again, maybe he does a better job at drawing my attention to the product he is selling. That “him” is 13-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who is now a pitch man for the sister… Read more »
Scientific Games, one of the world’s leading lottery technology providers, announced Friday that has agreed to acquire Bally Technologies for $5.1 billion. The acquisition comes in the form of a purchase of all of Bally’s outstanding common stock at $83.30 per share, as well as the refinancing of $1.8 billion in Bally debt. In a… Read more »
Keeping the issue of online gaming and poker in the spotlight, three Senators have sent a letter to the U. S. Department of Justice and Attorney General Eric Holder looking to reinstate the previous reading of the Wire Act of 1961. The three Senators – South Carolina’s Lindsey Graham, California’s Diane Feinstein and New Hampshire’s… Read more »
Last year, I had the opportunity to speak with then two-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Dutch Boyd (he would pick up his third during this summer’s retreat to the Rio in Las Vegas) regarding a book that he was in the process of writing. At the time, Boyd stated that the book would… Read more »
