Poker Tournament News
Fingers crossed 2020 was crap for live poker, as it was for nearly everything in our lives. Not a whole heck of a lot has changed so far in 2021. COVID-19 daily news cases, hospitalizations, and deaths have dropped sizably from early January, but the numbers are still bad, even if they are relatively better.… Read more »
One of poker’s greatest attributes is the ability to use the game to raise money for charity. Poker players and fans alike enjoy coming together to raise money for worthy causes, such as an event coming up next week. The poker group Poker League of Nations and The Chicago Lighthouse, a social service agency assisting… Read more »
What’s PokerStars without a COOP? We all knew it was coming, and less than two weeks after PokerStars went live in Michigan, PokerStars confirmed everyone’s expectations, announcing the first Michigan Championship of Online Poker (MICOOP). The Wolverine State’s “COOP” will run February 20 through March 8 and will have $1 million in total guaranteed prize… Read more »
After a three-month battle that, for some, was never in doubt, the “Heads Up Challenge” between Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu and online legend Doug Polk has come to an end. More than 25,000 hands of poker were played and, in the end, both players were complimentary of the other. Compliments aren’t the scoreboard,… Read more »
Sung Joo Hyun came from the bottom half of the final table to win the WPTDeepStacks Venetian Main Event Monday and the $208,335 first prize. The South Korean with the refreshingly non-poker Hendon Mob profile picture upped his lifetime recorded live tournament earnings to over half a million dollars. Going into the eight-handed final table,… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s stop at The Venetian in Las Vegas has drawn the poker world out in droves. After setting a $500,000 guaranteed prize pool for the WPT DeepStacks Venetian, the players stormed the felt over two-Day Ones. The result? More than doubling the prize pool that will see 147 players come back on… Read more »
He wasn’t even supposed to be here today In movies, a common trope is a missed opportunity that turns into an even better opportunity gained. When one window closes, another opens and all that. The main character misses their flight, but meets the woman of his dreams in the airport lounge. You know the drill.… Read more »
The field of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open was slashed by 500 on Sunday, as just 69 players made it through Day 2 from the 567 that began action. Orlando’s Richard Pyne emerged as the chip leader at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino and heads into Day 3 with a stack of… Read more »
Million-dollar performance Paulius Plausinaitis went into the final table of the 2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit $1,700 Main Event as the chip leader and he finished the day with all the chips. Per the definition of a poker tournament, this means he was the winner (if this is your first time… Read more »
After reaching the halfway point of their Heads-Up Duel, Daniel Negreanu faced a difficult decision. Did he cut his losses, take the “L” and back out of the challenge only halfway through the match or did he plunge onward? Negreanu has chosen to continue and, after the end of another week of battle on the… Read more »
The confetti has been swept up, the noisemakers…oh, wait a second. There were no big gatherings for New Year’s Eve this year. It was quite odd looking at an empty Times Square on New Year’s Eve, but it has become the situation we face under the current COVID-19 pandemic. And, especially after the massive cluster…(my… Read more »
Penultimate victory One slot in the 2020 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event heads-up match has been determined. On Tuesday, Damian Salas won the final table of the Main Event’s International Bracket, outlasting seven other players at King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. For his efforts, Salas pocketed $1,550,969. Salas is not quite done… Read more »
The US Bracket final table of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event is set, with Joseph “kolebear” Hebert holding an overwhelming lead. Hebert has 13,052,534 chips, well more than his two closest competitors combined. This online portion of the Main Event was held on WSOP.com over the last two days. 705 players entered… Read more »
It happens to every poker player at some point. You make all the right moves, set all the right traps, have your opposition right where you want them…and they slip off the hook. Usually, the reaction to this is to get irritated and go “on tilt.” Thus, it is somewhat comforting to see it happen… Read more »
Next stop: King’s Casino The final table of the “International Bracket” of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event on GGPoker has been determined, with nine of the original 674 players still standing. Leading the way is Brazil’s Brunno Botteon with 10,317,743 chips. Nobody is within 4,000,000 of him. So ends the online portion… Read more »
When Caesars Entertainment and the World Series of Poker postponed the 2020 WSOP, one of the things that also seemed to be postponed was the induction of new members of the Poker Hall of Fame. Usually held simultaneously beside the final table of the $10,000 Championship Event, the WSOP looked to be bypassing that during… Read more »
International players kick it off The $10,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event kicked off on Sunday with the first of three starting flights on GGPoker. 246 players signed up for Day 1A of the “International Bracket,” with just 62 moving on to Day 2. Julian “VWgunther” Menhardt emerged as the chip leader with… Read more »
Yes, we’re looking ahead to next year, too We have one month before we are out of this piece of crap year. I mean, nothing much is going to change on January 1, but still, psychologically, it will be nice to rip up the calendar, burn it, and then shoot its ashes into orbit. partypoker… Read more »
The last week has been pretty quiet in the Heads-Up Duel between online specialist Doug Polk and Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu. Bill Perkins didn’t raise any ruckus and there were two days where poker was the only thing on the agenda. What has occurred is that Polk is beginning to assert himself on… Read more »
It has been a wild week of action in the heads-up duel between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk. After starting the week with some turmoil that was not the doing of the players involved in the match, the duo has played three consecutive sessions to crack the 10% mark of the match. The results to… Read more »
It has been the case for much of 2020 and it seems that it is going to carry over to 2021 also. Officials at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, have decided that they will postpone one of the venerable stops on the international tournament poker circuit, the Aussie Millions. This postponement is an indefinite… Read more »
With roughly 1500 of the hands played in what was expected to be a fairly easy match, Doug Polk has suffered several setbacks over the past week. In his battle with Daniel Negreanu, Polk had been able to jump out to an early advantage. Over the past few sessions, however, Negreanu has been able to… Read more »
In a stunning announcement this morning out of Las Vegas, Caesars Entertainment and the World Series of Poker have announced that there will be a SINGULAR event to commemorate the 2020 WSOP. The $10,000 WSOP Championship Event will be a hybrid event and will attempt to appease players outside of the U. S. and inside… Read more »
After dropping a short live session against Daniel Negreanu earlier this week, Doug Polk rebounded during an online session on Friday. Polk, back in his familiar milieu of the online game, would trounce Negreanu by more than $200,000 during the session on Friday. This now puts Polk into the lead, but it is still way… Read more »
The monumental showdown between Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu and online heads-up poker master Doug Polk kicked off on Wednesday night. In a live setting at the studios of PokerGO in Las Vegas, Negreanu and Polk squared off over 200 hands of action to whet the appetite of viewers. After more than three hours… Read more »
