Poker Tournament News
John Monnette won the third World Series of Poker bracelet of his career Tuesday, as he took the title in Event #22: the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Lowball Draw Championship. The quarter-million dollar victory was his fourth cash of the 2017 WSOP and brought his lifetime live earnings total to more than $2.6 million. Monnette entered… Read more »
When it first started, the late Benny Binion’s gathering of the greatest “road gamblers” in the world – under the auspices of the “World Series of Poker” – was meant to be a celebration of the game. The very names that are now legend – Moss, Slim, Pearson, Brunson – used the time to rekindle… Read more »
The biggest news out of the 2017 World Series of Poker on Monday (and into Tuesday morning) was arguably Doug Polk’s victory in the $111,111 One Drop High Roller Event, his third WSOP bracelet win in the last four years. Flying under the radar in that tournament, though, was a card controversy that resulted in… Read more »
Doug Polk doesn’t play as much poker as he used to, but the World Series of Poker (WSOP) tends to bring the best out of the world’s best players, no matter how active they are. Such was the case for Polk last night, as he won the $111,111 One Drop High Roller Event, the most… Read more »
There were only 29 players remaining in the 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #4: $1,500 Omaha Hi-Lo Split 8 to begin Saturday’s Day 3, but that didn’t mean that it would be a swift ride to the tournament’s completion. It took 11 hours for Benjamin Zamani to emerge triumphant after 2:30 in the… Read more »
A funny thing happened on Jake Schindler’s path towards decimating the field in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl…he ran into Christoph Vogelsang, who fought back from a monumental chip disadvantage to win the championship of the event on Thursday night. With $12 million of the $16.8 million still on the table from the original… Read more »
After three days of competition in the 2017 Super High Roller Bowl presented by Poker Central, Jake Schindler is atop the standings. Holding well over two-thirds the chips in play with two other competitors, Schindler is the odds-on favorite to take the $6 million prize tonight. Only seven men would take down any money from… Read more »
The World Series of Poker evolves every year; not everybody likes every change that is made, but it does appear that WSOP officials do take player suggestions into account and try to adjust to the times. Case in point: 2015, when the very first online bracelet event was held. It was by all indications a… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has not been content to sit back and cede the summer poker news to the World Series of Poker. After announcing the creation of new tournaments in several locales and broadcast outlets in areas of Europe it previously wasn’t seen, the WPT has finished off (maybe) the month of May by… Read more »
Yes, the 2017 World Series of Poker is just around the corner, but there’s some other business to take care of before the call for players to return to poker’s Mecca. In this case, it is the deep-pocketed pros who populate the High Roller world as they set course for the 2017 Super High Roller… Read more »
Hot off the heels of its announcement that it has acquired the global television and digital media rights to the World Series of Poker (WSOP), Poker Central has revealed that it is launching a subscription streaming video on demand (SVOD) service called PokerGO. PokerGO will cost subscribers $10 per month or $99 for an entire… Read more »
As if the news about the elimination of the November Nine wasn’t news enough just two weeks before the start of the 2017 World Series of Poker, the WSOP has more to announce. Starting this year, a new formula will be used to determine the WSOP Player of the Year. Details have yet to be… Read more »
When it was announced a decade ago that the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table would be moved to November, rather than directly following the preceding days of the tournament, many jaws in the poker community dropped. To many, it was an intriguing idea, meant to allow ESPN to build up the… Read more »
In its previous two seasons, the Super High Roller Bowl presented by Poker Central has had its share of businesspeople (Dan Shak, Kathy Lehne, both accomplished poker players) and poker professionals (too numerous to mention), but it has never had a “celebrity” in the mix. Some might still say that bar hasn’t been crossed but,… Read more »
Up until Sunday, it had been a rumor that had yet to come to fruition. After running its draft for the 12 teams that make up the league, India’s Poker Sports League has gone from just a rumor to preparing for its first ever season. On Sunday at the Playboy Club in Delhi, the 12… Read more »
In what turned out to be a rather quick and dominant final table, PokerStars qualifier Raffaele Sorrentino crushed the opposition to face Andreas Klatt heads up, with the duo brokering a deal for nearly all the money, and Sorrentino continuing his dominant play to take down the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Main Event trophy. Sorrentino… Read more »
The field of the 2017 PokerStars Championship presented by Monte-Carlo Casino Main Event (man, I hate that name) was cut by two-thirds on Tuesday, as the 134 players that began the day are now just 45. France’s Michael Kolkowicz is the chip leader of the first PokerStars Championship Main Event in Europe with 1.445 million… Read more »
The PokerStars Championship is back in action, now in sunny Monte Carlo, Monaco. I am not there, personally, so I cannot guarantee that it is sunny, but I would like to think so because whenever I see anything about Monaco on television or perhaps in a James Bond film, it is always wonderful from a… Read more »
Riding the strength of his start of day chip lead, Bryn Kenney continued to be the “Master of the High Rollers” as he captured the 100,000 Euro Super High Roller at the PokerStars Championships Monte Carlo on Saturday. As Kenney added over 1.7 million more Euros to his bankroll for 2017, the 5000 Euro Main… Read more »
The sun has set on the beautiful Mediterranean coastline of Monte Carlo for another evening and, with the coming of night, another day is in the books for the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo. In the 100,000 Euro Super High Roller, Bryn Kenney heads the list of the final nine players while the remainder of those… Read more »
After mixed results from their two previous stops in the Bahamas and Panama, the PokerStars Championship has churned on to one of the wealthiest places on Earth (the net worth of an average household in the city? $437,031), Monte Carlo, and the Monte Carlo Casino. The €100,000 Super High Roller tournament started on Thursday while… Read more »
Well, we kind of knew this was going to happen going into the final table of the first event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XVI, but Pete Yanhan Chen made it official Wednesday, winning WPT Beijing. Chen entered the six-handed final table with a prohibitive chip lead, holding more chips than his five… Read more »
Season XV of the World Poker Tour (WPT) just finished, but there is no rest for WPT staffers, as Season XVI has already begun. Beijing serves as the host of the kickoff event for the Tour’s sixteenth season, the first time an event on the “main” tour has even been held in China. Miraculously, the… Read more »
We’ve blown by the quarter pole in the various races for poker’s Player of the Year, but both of the major standings are in agreement. As players prepare for the 2017 World Series of Poker (only about six weeks away, everyone!), Bryn Kenney has been able to pull out to the lead in the various… Read more »
Though the next World Poker Tour event is just around the corner, WPT Season XV officially ended Sunday night as Daniel Weinman won the Monster WPT Tournament of Champions at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. Because it is now invitational only, the WPT’s season-ending tournament is small – just 66… Read more »
