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As expected, it was a quick Day 3 at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event Tuesday as it took just six hours to narrow the field from 59 to 18. Today those dozen and a half players will be further whittled to the final table of six. Leading the pack in a… Read more »
We thought there would maybe, possibly be a chance to burst the money bubble during Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event, but we certainly didn’t expect it to be obliterated like it was. 357 runners started Monday’s action after surviving one of the three Day 1 flights and in the… Read more »
The remainder of the starting flights of the 2013 WPT Montreal Main Event wrapped up over the weekend with 357 players surviving to the beginning of the work week. Topping the field is Sebastien Drolet-Poitras, the chip leader after Day 1A, holding 270,800 chips. As expected, each successive Day 1 flight was larger than the… Read more »
The first Day One of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, is in the books with a local man atop the standings and two former WPT champions hot on his heels. The Playground was open for business on Friday and the players wasted little time in taking to… Read more »
After a weeklong visit from the partypoker Premier League (and a day off for the United States’ version of Thanksgiving), the World Poker Tour will be invading the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada this afternoon for the start of the partypoker WPT Montreal. In just a couple of visits to the Playground, the… Read more »
Tuesday night at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, saw the finale of the partypoker Premier League VII. 12 of the best (and deep-pocketed) pros in the poker world laid down $125,000 for the chance to play in the Premier League’s latest incarnation last Thursday and, after six heats and one playoff heads up… Read more »
After five days of furious “soft launch” testing, the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement gave the OK late Monday night for several sites to “go live,” making New Jersey the third state in the U. S. to offer online gaming for its residents. Although there have been grumblings over several issues related to the… Read more »
Monday evening saw the wrap of the heat stages of the partypoker Premier League VII at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, with Scott Seiver earning the victory in Heat 6 and, along with it, a trip to the playoff round of the event. Coming into Monday’s action, Seiver needed to at least earn… Read more »
If this was online poker, conspiracy theorists might think something smelled fishy. But this isn’t online, so let’s nip the “poker is rigged” talk in the bud right now. Tony “Bond18” Dunst, the host of the Raw Deal on World Poker Tour (WPT) broadcasts, won his first WPT event Sunday, taking down the WPT Caribbean… Read more »
Once again, the partypoker Premier League VII saw a relatively speedy heat Sunday, as Heat 5 was completed in fewer than 160 hands. The first three heats were knockdown, drag out affairs, each lasting over 200 hands, but Saturday’s Heat 4 started a new trend, coming in at a nifty 156. It was Brian Rast… Read more »
Compared to its earlier incarnations, Heat 4 of the partypoker Premier League VII was a sprint instead of a marathon. In the end, Dan Colman was able to capture the Heat 4 victory and, with the 14 points for the win, took the top slot in the overall standings. It’s not like Colman had a… Read more »
After another long night of poker at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, on Friday, Sorel Mizzi emerged as the victor in Heat 3 of the partypoker Premier League VII event while Heat 1 winner Jeff Gross stepped back to the top of the heap in the overall standings. The first two heats of… Read more »
In what turned out to be another marathon affair, Jason Koon emerged victorious in Heat 2 of the partypoker Premier League VII last night at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, Canada and also took possession of the overall lead. Heat 1 on Wednesday, at 236 hands, proved to be the longest heat in… Read more »
Ahead of their planned official launch date next Tuesday, several sites in the New Jersey online gaming scene went live tonight at 6PM (Eastern Time) with what is called a “soft test.” Invited players were able to download the software of their choice at that time and, over the next five days (if all goes… Read more »
The partypoker Premier League VII kicked off its festivities yesterday afternoon and, if the rest of the matches are as hotly contested as the opener, then it should be an all-out fight for the championship. Heat 1 of the six-heat opening process featured eight players that mixed outstanding live tournament success with excellence in the… Read more »
Jared Jaffee took a huge chip lead into the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event Tuesday and went virtually wire-to-wire for as easy a victory as one will see on the Tour. For the win, Jaffee cashed a check for $252,749. It was a breakthrough of… Read more »
Could the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Jacksonville Fall Poker Scramble Main Event be a race for second place? It is possible, as Jared Jaffee has a sizeable lead on the rest of the field heading into Day 4. With 3,650,000 chips, he has double the chips of his closest competitor.… Read more »
Philipp Gruissem is having quite the nice autumn this year. Less than a three weeks after winning the World Poker Tour (WPT) Alpha8 London event, he has now won his second straight Alpha8 title, taking down the St. Kitts tournament last night. The million dollar score marks his third significant cash in the span of… Read more »
Now that the process for players to file their claims with the claims administrator has passed (the November 16 deadline was yesterday), what will be the next steps in the procedures in the Full Tilt Poker saga? For most of the players affected by the 2011 shutdown of Full Tilt Poker in the United States,… Read more »
In stunning news from New York City, two of the alleged masterminds of the gambling ring that supposedly had Russian organized crime ties have pleaded guilty in court to a variety of charges. In federal court on Wednesday, poker professional Vadim Trincher reached a plea agreement with prosecutors that will significantly cut any time he… Read more »
Daniel Brits began the final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Emperors Palace Poker Classic Monday a distant second, but he quickly built his stack, took the lead, and cruised through to play heads-up against Eugene Du Plessis. It was a back-and-forth battle, but Brits won the big hands when it counted, eventually… Read more »
The Equity Poker Network (EPN), a new online poker network focused on supporting its member poker rooms, launched Friday. Billed as a “non-profit” network, the Equity Poker Network vows to change the way internet poker networks operate. EPN calls itself a “cooperative,” in that the role of the network is to support the poker rooms,… Read more »
The final table is set for the World Poker Tour stop at the Emperors Palace Poker Classic on Monday, with the overall Day One leader back atop the leaderboard and the defending champion (and Day Two chip leader) still in the hunt for a historic repeat. 27 players came to the tables in Johannesburg, South… Read more »
Day Two of the World Poker Tour’s Emperors Palace Poker Classic in Johannesburg, South Africa, is in the books with the potential for history looming on the horizon. When we left the Day Two action earlier today, Eugene du Plessis was holding a slim lead over Bartolome Gomila Romero, but that changed soon afterwards. On… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has taken a trek to South Africa this weekend, wrapping up two Day Ones of action in the WPT Emperors Palace Poker Classic in Johannesburg on Thursday and yesterday. As the action heads into Day Two, the crème of the South African poker community is atop the leaderboard, but a contingent… Read more »
