Poker Tournament News
2023 has been good to Justin Saliba so far. In the first week of the year, he finished fifth in the $5,300 buy-in “The Return” event at the Borgata, cashing for over $300,000. And just yesterday, he won PokerGo Cup Event #4: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em after beginning the final table with the second-smallest chip stack.… Read more »
In an announcement that should excite many a poker player as live tournament poker continues to boom, PokerStars has revived the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT). The first stop will be in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, the first-ever location for the tour back in 2008, March 2-6, 2023. It will be a busy few days… Read more »
Lon McEachern is not in the Poker Hall of Fame. He and his long time World Series of Poker broadcast partner Norman Chad have been finalists together, but they have yet to make it. When and if McEachern is enshrined, it will be for his contributions to the game in the broadcast booth, not at… Read more »
The 2023 PokerGO Cup took a well-deserved day off on Sunday, but that does not mean that Saturday was free of action. In Event #3, veteran Ed Sebesta surprised a smattering of pros at the table to capture the title, while the final table was determined in Event #4. Both tournaments were $10,000 buy-in events,… Read more »
The game is easy when you start with the lead! Aram Zobian was in the lead at the start of the final day of Event #2, a $10,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em tournament, at this year’s PokerGO Cup and he did not waste it. He would outlast Kristen Foxen and Punnat Punsri to capture the… Read more »
The 2023 tournament poker season is still in its infancy, but there have already been some big events. Bin Weng’s victory last weekend at The Borgata’s “The Return” in Atlantic City crowned him the first million-dollar champion of 2023. Now, the PokerGO Tour steps into the breech with the 2023 PokerGO Cup, where Sean Winter… Read more »
Stakes got too rich High Stakes Duel has a new champion. On Monday, PokerGO announced that nobody wanted to challenge Jason Koon, thus allowing him to keep the title belt and to forever be known as the High Stakes Duel III champ. A month ago, Koon defeated Phil Hellmuth in High Stakes Duel III Round… Read more »
After a tough four-day rumble on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, Bin Weng has emerged as the champion of The Borgata’s “The Return” $5000 Main Event. Along the way, Weng, the leader after Day Two, had to defeat final table chip leader Joseph McKeehen and a resilient Sundiata Devore to take the title. Weng will… Read more »
For an inaugural tournament, it is going to go down in history. Marking their return to the tournament poker arena, the Borgata’s “The Return” series has turned out to be a phenomenally successful way to kick off the 2023 tournament poker season. The guarantee was crushed as the final total came to over $5 million… Read more »
One of the premiere locations on the East Coast for poker has rejoined the game, and it has been an enormous success. After more than two years out of action, the Borgata in Atlantic City has opened back up its poker operations, celebrated with its brand-new tournament schedule. “The Return” has been all that, with… Read more »
Everyone’s had their rest…now it’s time to get back in the pool! The 2022 tournament poker season seems to have just ended a couple of weeks ago as Father Time strolled out the door. With the arrival of the Baby New Year comes a brand-new fleet of tournaments and a few surprises on the major… Read more »
It’s been a long twelve months since the start of the 2022 tournament poker season. There have been some stirring runs – and some controversy – and there will probably be more after we’re into the New Year. For 2022, however, Stephen Chidwick looks to be the victor in one Player of the Year race,… Read more »
The inaugural PokerGO Tour Championship is in the books and, after the first day, they probably should have stopped the action on the mercy rule. Jason Koon ravaged the field on Day One, amassing a stack that approached two million chips (while everyone else was nearly 1.5 million behind). Koon would ride that chip stack… Read more »
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 »
