Poker Tournament News
With almost six weeks complete in 2017, the two major Player of the Year races in the tournament poker world have begun to take shape. Demonstrating the differences in emphasis between the two rankings, there is no clear frontrunner at this time. The CardPlayer Magazine Player of the Year rankings have a logical person sitting… Read more »
Discussing the game of poker will give you tremendous insight to not only your way of thinking about playing the game but the approaches other players take in the same situation. While you might feel that your thoughts are the way to go, a truly open minded player will consider the advice of others and… Read more »
John Duthie, former PokerStars executive and founder of the European Poker Tour, has made the move over to one of his ex-company’s rivals and has been named President of partypoker LIVE on a five-year deal. Announced in January, partypoker LIVE, as the name implies, is partypoker’s new live poker tournament tour, slated to begin in… Read more »
PokerStars announced a slew of new PokerStars Festival stops on Tuesday, indicating a rapid expansion of the new live poker tour into Latin American and Asia. The first of these stops, Chile, will come after the previously scheduled upcoming stops in Rozvadov. “We are excited to take our PokerStars Championship and PokerStars Festival across the… Read more »
The 2017 World Poker Tour Borgata Winter Poker Open has achieved the largest field in its history as 192 additional entries were made on Day 2 to bring the total to 1,312. That number makes this tournament the fourth-largest in World Poker Tour history, as well. There are now just 168 players remaining heading into… Read more »
The World Poker Tour got back in action over the weekend as the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event saw its two starting days contested on Sunday and Monday. Players are still allowed to register through the first break on Day 2, so we won’t know the official tournament figures for a little while… Read more »
Coming into the final table with a sizeable chip lead, Shurane Vijayaram rode that stack to battle the second biggest chip stack to start the day – that of Ben Heath – for the championship of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event. In the end, that advantageous stack played to Vijayaram’s advantage in his eventual… Read more »
In a rather rapid final table of five hours, Nick Petrangelo got his 2017 tournament poker season off to a good start by outlasting Mike Watson and Fedor Holz to win the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge on Saturday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Steffen Sontheimer was the leader of the event with 451,000 in… Read more »
Six days of competition have taken the Aussie Millions Main Event from its original field of 725 players all the way to the final table and the seven men who will contend for the title. On Sunday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Shurane Vijayaram will come back with a massive lead over a field… Read more »
After a bit of a fitful start, the $100,000 Challenge got off the ground earlier this week at the 2017 Aussie Millions. On Saturday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, the final seven men will return to action to determine a champion in the tournament. This event was supposed to have coincided with the start… Read more »
The 372 survivors from the three starting flights of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event came together on Wednesday for Day 2 at the Crown Melbourne casino. Seven more players registered before the end of the first level, bringing the grand total number of entries to 725, just shy of last year’s 732. Riding the… Read more »
The last of the three starting flights of the 2017 Aussie Millions Main Event was completed early Wednesday morning at Crown Casino Melbourne. With another 322 players taking to the felts, the three-day total is now up to 718 registrants. It does not look like the 2008 record of 780 players, but with registration open… Read more »
I always feel a little odd writing something about a poker tournament that is taking place in Australia. Living on the east coast of the United States, it is currently the middle of the morning on Monday, January 23rd, but in Melbourne, Australia, home of the Aussie Millions, poker players are (hopefully) tucked away in… Read more »
One of the most popular poker events that isn’t the part of a major tournament “tour” or schedule – the Aussie Millions – has been underway for the past few days. On Sunday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, the $10,000 buy in Main Event took to the stage with the first of three-Day Ones… Read more »
Although they have ceased operations as a “cable television station,” Poker Central still exists as a streaming outlet online. With this in mind, the online site is moving forward with their seminal event, the Super High Roller Bowl, which will follow in much the same manner as last year’s tournament. From May 28-31 (just prior… Read more »
After a year in which many voices in the poker world stated there were issues with the status quo, the Global Poker Index announced last week that they were adjusting their scoring system that is used for the Player of the Year competition. In 2016, the number of High Roller and Super High Roller events… Read more »
After wading through a 738-player field to make the final table behind only the chip leader, Christian Harder continued his ferocious attack on his opposition on the way to earning the championship of the inaugural PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event on Saturday. Harder started the run a couple of days previous, working his way into… Read more »
It was a quick day of work for the players left alive at the 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event on Thursday. After only six hours of play, the field was whittled down to the final 16 players as Michael Gentili surged to the lead. Nick Maimone was the chip leader at the start of… Read more »
Just 32 players remain in the PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event as the tournament heads into Day 4 on Thursday. Nick Maimone is the chip leader with 1.750 million chips; Maimone, who will celebrate his 30th birthday tomorrow, also led the field heading into Day 3. A total of 699 players registered on Days 1A… Read more »
The second of the two starting flights of the PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event went down on Monday, as 470 players paid the $5,000 for what used to be the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. Somewhere in the vicinity of 260 players lasted all the way through the night to make it to Tuesday’s Day 2. Coming… Read more »
The Main Event of the inaugural PokerStars Championship stop is underway; Sunday saw the completion of Day 1A of the PokerStars Championship Bahamas Main Event while Day 1B is currently running at Atlantis Paradise Island. A total of 229 players showed up for the first starting flight of the formerly named PokerStars Caribbean Adventure and… Read more »
The final table has been determined at the 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas $100,000 Super High Roller event and, with seven men left, Charlie Carrel is the leader over a stacked final table. Just who is going up against the Brit at the Atlantis Resort and Casino? None other than a group that includes 2105 Player… Read more »
The 2017 PokerStars Championship Bahamas (the artist formerly known as the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure) is underway at Atlantis Resort and Casino and the players have wasted little time in getting to business. The very first tournament of the 92-event schedule, the $100,000 Super High Roller, exploded out of the gates with a sizeable field of… Read more »
After all of a week to rest and recuperate from a successful 2016 (or, for some, worry and lament the losses), poker’s most notable professionals and a horde of talented (and fortunate) online amateurs will be ensconced in the Atlantis Resort and Casino tomorrow to kick off the 2017 tournament poker season. The poker world… Read more »
After leading the two races for Poker Player of the Year pretty much since the World Series of Poker concluded in July, it was assumed that German poker superstar Fedor Holz was a lock to take down those awards come the end of December. Well, you know what they say about “assume?” Instead of reveling… Read more »
