Poker Tournament News
Season capper The field for the 2022 PGT (PokerGO Tour) Championship is set and just in time, as the two-day tournament begins today. The invitational, season-ending event for the PokerGO Tour includes the top 21 players on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard. The $500,000 winner-take-all freeroll is unique in that players do not start with equal… Read more »
In one of the shortest World Poker Tour final tables we have seen, Eliot Hudon defeated Benny Glaser heads-up to win the inaugural WPT World Championship and an incredible $4,146,400 first prize. As it would be for most people, it is by far the largest cash of Hudon’s career – he had previously won just… Read more »
The 2022 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas has its final table, but right now, it should be called the “Benny Glaser” show, as Glaser has a sizeable chip lead with just six players remaining. Holding 133.6 million chips, he is about 53 million ahead of his closest competitor, and has almost as many… Read more »
The European Poker Tour’s stop at King’s Casino in Rozvadov turned into a two-day affair over this weekend before Christmas. That didn’t seem to bother Canada’s Jordan Saccucci, however, as he simply finished what he started in the 2022 EPT Prague Main Event. In doing that, Saccucci walked off with the championship in the largest… Read more »
1267 entries have been whittled down to the final nine as the championship of the latest stop for the European Poker Tour is ripe for the taking. The EPT Prague at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov has certainly delivered the goods for the European poker community, and now the final table looms as the final… Read more »
While the World Poker Tour has been drawing attention in the States of America, Europe has been entranced with the European Poker Tour stop in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. The 2022 EPT Prague has seen the largest-ever Main Event come together in the Czech poker capital and, after three days of play, there are still some… Read more »
Smashing records The European Poker Tour is ending 2022 with a bang, as poker players are flocking to EPT Prague. After registration closed on the EPT Prague Main Event this afternoon, the official number of entrants was listed at 1,267, a new record for the tournament and the first time the field broke the 1,200-entry… Read more »
The $15 million guaranteed prize pool for the WPT World Championship was ambitious, hyped as the largest-ever guarantee for a live poker tournament. Tournament organizers needed 1,531 entries in order to avoid overlay, which in certain timelines could be a tough ask. Not many $10,000 ($10,400 in this case) tourneys outside the World Series of… Read more »
As the World Poker Tour begins its final stop in Las Vegas, so does the European Poker Tour in Prague. The €5,300 EPT Main Event began on Monday with the first of two starting flights. There were 402 entries on Day 1A at the Hilton Prague, with Javier Gomez Zapatero emerging as the chip leader… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s final event of 2022 began Monday, as the WPT World Championship kicked off with the first of three starting flights. It promises to be a big one, as Day 1A already saw 615 $10,400 entries. It makes sense, too, as the guaranteed prize pool is $15 million, the largest ever for… Read more »
Christmas (or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or whichever holiday celebration you follow) is just around the corner, but poker isn’t taking any breaks. On both sides of the Atlantic, major tournament schedules are underway. The play in these events should capture the attention of poker’s fandom and keep them entertained up to Santa’s drop down the… Read more »
In one of the fastest versions of the event, high stakes pro Jason Koon blitzed Phil Hellmuth in the made-for-streaming High Stakes Duel. In becoming only the second person to defeat the sixteen-time World Series of Poker Bracelet winner, Koon booked a massive $1.6 million win. Now the question becomes…will this version of High Stakes… Read more »
They might have rolled out slowly after the COVID pandemic, but the European Poker Tour is looking to reignite the engines for 2023. In an announcement this week, the venerable European circuit’s owners, PokerStars, announced the full schedule for the 2023 calendar year. The series will return to several familiar battlegrounds, but they have added… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) is down to its final six players, each hoping to grab the $785,800 first prize. Holding an overwhelming lead heading into Wednesday’s final table is Andrew Wilson, who, with 33.425 million chips, has over 43% of the chips in play. Despite the gap… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) Championship event is into its penultimate day, as just 16 players remain from the original 1,541 entries. Andrew Wilson is the chip leader heading into Tuesday’s action with 12.875 million chips. Just one other player has an eight-figure… Read more »
Three continents, three Platinum Passes The long-awaited return of the PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship (PSPC) is just two months away. And as the January 30 start date rapidly approaches, opportunities to win a Platinum Pass to pay for the pricey $25,000 buy-in are dwindling. On Monday, PokerStars announced several new opportunities for poker players… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) Championship event is into Day 3 and it is Kyle Merron leading the final 80 players with 2.415 million chips. The tournament will play down to 16 players on Monday. There were a total of 1,541 entries across the two starting flights, generating… Read more »
In preparation for the return of the PokerStars Players’ Championship (PSPC) in 2023, PokerStars has come up with a new way for players to earn their way into the tournament. Through what is called the “Chests & Ladders” Promotion, players on the PokerStars international platform will be able to earn one of the $30,000 Platinum… Read more »
Poker has been around since the 1800s when the riverboats went up and down the Mississippi River with the gamblers fleecing the rubes. It exploded during the dismal days of the Civil War when men on both sides of the conflict would pass the time between the horrors of armed combat with a card game.… Read more »
The end of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe has come and, with it, the final stretch run to the finish line for the 2022 Player of the Year races is coming into view. That finish line is bringing some very convoluted standings, however. At this moment, there is no clear consensus as to… Read more »
It wasn’t exactly a wire-to-wire victory, but it was a victory all the same. Omar Eljach began the eight-handed final table of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event on Wednesday as the chip leader, and in the wee hours of Thursday morning, he held all the chips, giving him his first-ever WSOP… Read more »
The final table of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event is set and it is Sweden’s Omar Eljach who enters Wednesday with the chip lead. Eight players remain, battling for the bracelet and the €1,380,129 first prize. Anything can happen at a final table – and anything usually does – but at… Read more »
The money bubble popped at the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) on Monday as just 42 players remain from the original 763 entries. France’s Alexandre Reard is the chip leader heading into Tuesday’s Day 4 with 5.100 million chips, the only player over the 5 million mark. After Reard, just two players have… Read more »
Paul Phua had $26 million in live tournament earnings in his career, but had never won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. Until Wednesday morning. After two days of action, Phua emerged triumphant in the €25,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Platinum High Roller event at the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe, winning €482,433. “It’s… Read more »
Lubos Laska had a significant chip lead entering the final day of the World Series of Poker Europe €550 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Colossus event and though it was not a smooth ride on Monday, he arrived at his destination safely, winning the tournament and €170,568. This was the first WSOP gold bracelet of Laska’s poker… Read more »
