Poker Tournament News
The week of High Roller poker action in Las Vegas has been an entertaining one in that new players have come to the fore at the 2018 Poker Masters. One of those newcomers, Ali Imsirovic, was able to capture the championship of Event #5, but it was a player who had some earlier success, Brandon… Read more »
The second running of the made for streaming (on PokerGO) event Poker Masters is off and running, with one tournament already in the books and a second tournament at its final table. This is just the start, however, as a week of high stakes tournament poker action awaits poker fans. David Peters Takes First $10,000… Read more »
It was a busy Sunday around the Casino Barcelona in Spain as the European Poker Tour concluded its stop on the sunny shores of the Mediterranean. In the €5000 Main Event, an online qualifier from Poland, Piotr Nurzynski, captured the championship while, on another patch of baize in the tournament arena, high stakes player Max… Read more »
The World Poker Tour announced on Wednesday that it has inked a partnership with partypoker LIVE to host as many as seven events in Europe and Canada for the next four years. The first event in the series will be at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal in October 2018 in conjunction with the WPT… Read more »
With 1,305 registrations on Day 1B (unique entries plus single re-entries), the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event has reached 1,903 total entries through both Day 1 flights, already eviscerating the record for the tournament. The now-former largest field for the WPT Barcelona Main Event was 1,785, set in 2016. And registration is open… Read more »
After a layoff since early May, the European Poker Tour (EPT) is finally back in action with EPT Barcelona. The Main Event kicked off Monday with 554 players registering for Day 1A and 44 paying for one re-entry (this is a single re-entry event). Ben Wilinofsky is the chip leader of the 202 remaining players… Read more »
Attempting to build on the success of its inaugural running, the schedule for the 2018 Poker Masters events has been announced. As a part of the roster of tournaments, the 2018 Poker Masters will also bring to the poker audience a new version of poker – Short Deck Texas Hold’em – which will be one… Read more »
After a lengthy slumber, the European Poker Tour is back into action at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. Holding their first events since their stop in Monte Carlo back in May, the EPT has wasted little time in getting to business, holding the first of two High Roller tournaments. There is plenty left on the… Read more »
Heading into the last quarter of 2018, the United Kingdom’s Stephen Chidwick still has his leads in the major Player of the Year races. In one of them, however, his lead has been reduced to a single point and, in the other, the heat is on from a player who has said he will not… Read more »
When the Big Blind Ante concept was introduced at the ARIA last year, famed World Poker Tour Tournament Director Matt Savage was admittedly a skeptic. Making the player in the big blind pay all of the antes for the table? That seemed blasphemous. But as he said in a recent blog post, he wouldn’t be… Read more »
Brandon Eisen nabbed his first recorded live tournament win since 2013 on Monday, emerging victorious in the $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship Event. He began as the chip leader at the final table and ended up defeating Jeremy Ausmus heads-up to win $771,444. Here is a look at the chip counts to begin… Read more »
The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $5000 Main Event is in the books and officials are elated. For the first time in a few years, there will be no overlay in the tournament, with the players crushing the $3 million guarantee with ease. Afte3r the carnage of Day 1B concluded on Saturday, there was a… Read more »
The weekend of the 2018 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s “Big 4” is upon us, coming from the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL. The $5000 Main Event (with a $3 million guaranteed prize pool) opened up action on Friday, with Nick Pupillo pulling out to the lead over the field and… Read more »
Brady Holiman went wire-to-wire as the chip leader at the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event Tuesday to win his first-ever WPT title as well as a first prize of nearly half a million dollars. Going into the six-handed final table, Holiman had a tremendous chip lead, more than the… Read more »
They are down to the final table in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event, as just six players remain from the original 755 player field. Going into Tuesday’s deciding day, Brady Holiman will be in Seat 1 with a significant chip lead. His 10.840 million chips are more than the next two players… Read more »
With the 78 tournaments that made up the 2018 World Series of Poker, it had to be expected that there would be some major shifts atop the different Player of the Year races. And while many may think that the run by Justin Bonomo – winning before the start of the WSOP the Super High… Read more »
Justin Bonomo won his second bracelet of the 2018 World Series of Poker, taking the crown in the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop. In defeating Fedor Holz heads-up, Bonomo won $10 million. The Big One for One Drop capped what has been a fantasy year for Bonomo. Then again, the way things… Read more »
Joe Cada scoffs at fatigue. Fatigue isn’t even a word in Joe Cada’s vocabulary. On Friday night, he was eliminated in fifth place in the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event. One would think someone would want at least a short break after that, but no, Cada proceeded to enter the Event #75: The… Read more »
They’re getting down to it now at the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event. Day 6 is in the books and there are now just 26 players – three tables – remaining of the initial 7,874 who began the tournament a week and a half ago. Aram Zobian, a professional poker player from Rhode… Read more »
The 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event is into rarified air as just 109 players remain from the original 7,874 after Day 5. Michael Dyer has a significant lead, holding 12.180 million chips; his closest competitor, Brian Yoon, has just 8.395 million. One other player has over 8 million and two have eclipsed the… Read more »
Sometimes I think its nuts how quickly the field of the World Series of Poker Main Event shrinks in the first few days. Case in point: Day 3 went from 2,786 to 1,182 players and Sunday’s Day 4 saw the field narrow from 1,182 to just 310. I mean, that’s just how tournament poker works,… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event is in the books with 2,378 players showing up for the second of the three starting flights. Smain Mamouni held the largest sum of chips of the 1,794 survivors at the end of the night with 311,000, just barely beating Samuel Bernabeu (309,500) and… Read more »
PokerStars announced on Tuesday the launch of a new live poker tour, but unlike most live tours, this one will be affordable for just about everybody. And I’m not talking “affordable” as in “poker affordable” like $565 buy-ins. No, the newly created Moneymaker PSPC Tour will feature headlining tournaments with buy-ins of just $86. The… Read more »
For all of you poker dreamers out there, this is the week you have been waiting for all year: the 2018 World Series of Poker Main Event is upon us. And for those of you like me who don’t have $10,000 to probably waste and didn’t win a satellite, now is the time to live… Read more »
Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi capped off several days of dominance on Tuesday as he won the 2018 World Series of Poker $50,000 Poker Players Championship for an astounding third time in only the thirteenth year of the tournament’s existence. Defeating John Hennigan, another previously winner of the event, heads-up, Mizrachi cashed for $1,239,126. Mizrachi previously… Read more »
