Poker Tournament News
After nearly seven months of action (counting delays), the Global Poker League has reached its playoffs. While one conference had nearly set its four-team roster for the postseason, the other conference had plenty of jostling for position with none of the six teams eliminated as of the start of the final week of the regular… Read more »
Guillaume Diaz leads the 2016 European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta Main Event after Day 2. Holding 583,500 chips, Diaz is just one of two players – joined by Gianfranco Visalli with 518,000 – who has eclipsed the half-million chip plateau. Of the 233 players who began Day 2 (plus eight late entrants), just 90 players… Read more »
As expected, the second starting flight of the 2016 European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta Main Event was significantly larger than the first. 134 players competed in Sunday’s Day 1A, fewer than the number of players who survived Day 1B to make it to Day 2. Day 1B’s player total was 326, nearly two and a… Read more »
It is hard for me to believe that we are just slightly over two months away from 2017. Save for a change in digit, I probably say something to that effect every year, but I don’t know – this year has seemed to just whiz by for me. And when this year ends, so will… Read more »
With one week left in the season, the seats are being grabbed by teams for the Global Poker League’s inaugural Championship Playoff. In one conference, there is only one slot left to be filled while, in the other conference, literally everyone is still alive. In the GPL Americas, two of the playoff seats had been… Read more »
Sam Panzica and Richard Malone, Jr. started the final table of the 2016 World Poker Tour bestbet Bounty Scramble Main Event in nearly a dead heat for the chip lead, so it only seemed natural that the tournament came down to the two of them. And boy, did it come down to the two of… Read more »
The field of the WPT bestbet Bounty Scramble Main Event was narrowed from 25 to the final six yesterday in Jacksonville and the final table is currently underway. It was almost a dead-heat to begin Tuesday’s action as Sam Panzica was the chip leader with 2.97 million chips and Richard Malone, Jr. was but a… Read more »
The plan for Sunday’s Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Bounty Scramble was to play through the money bubble, meaning the field would be shaved from 142 players to fewer than 48. That was no problem, apparently, as at the end of the night, just 25 players remained. Noah Schwartz is leading… Read more »
In what had to be a severe disappointment for fans, players and organizers alike, Elton Tsang emerged as the champion of the €1,000,000 buy in “Big One for One Drop Extravaganza” in Monte Carlo earlier today. When this year’s version of the “Big One” was announced, founder Guy Laliberte decided to make a couple of… Read more »
The final table is set at the 2016 World Poker Tour Maryland Live! Main Event as just six players remain from the original 554 entries. Ryan Belz goes into Wednesday’s action with the biggest chip stack at the table, holding 4.865 million chips. The final table is divided into three distinct tiers. Belz and Darren… Read more »
The goal was to play ten levels or get down to 27 players on Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Maryland Live! Main Event on Monday and it turned out to be the former that occurred. After ten levels, just 40 of the 554 original entrants remain with Jake Schwartz the head of… Read more »
The Big One for One Drop Invitational announced last week that it has locked up 35 players to participate in the €1 million blockbuster poker tournament. The Invitational is part of a week-long Big One for One Drop Extravaganza taking place October 13th through October 17th at the Casino de Monte-Carlo in Monaco; the Big… Read more »
John Sargent lords over the field of the World Poker Tour Maryland Live! Main Event, as the second of two starting flights concluded on Sunday. With 324,300 chips, he is the only player over the 300,000 mark. In fact, only a few players made it over 200,000 and barely did so at that; Sargent’s lead… Read more »
While it may not be as prevalent as it was even just a few years ago, tournament poker is still a powerful draw for many in the poker community. The number of casinos and card rooms offering tournaments remains high across the country, in many cases driven by several poker tours that have a set… Read more »
Season XIII of the European Poker Tour (EPT) began in August and at that time, a change to the payout structure of the tournaments was announced. It was decided that it would best for the players and the poker economy to increase the number of players in each tournament that cashed, expanding the payout positions… Read more »
After a rather lengthy hiatus that saw more turmoil that surely planned, the Global Poker League has surged back into action with the second half of their season. While one conference’s leader seems to be pulling away from the pack, it looks to be at least a two-team battle in the other conference. In the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has shifted its focus to the east coast of the United States this week as the 2016 WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event got underway on Sunday. The tournament will span the rest of this week; the second of two starting flights is today and the final table will be held… Read more »
One of the most enjoyable things about tournament poker is that there are myriad of ways to approach playing the game. For example, you can come out of the gates firing chips, playing lots of pots – what I like to call a “splash and dash” style – or you can sit back and look… Read more »
As the tournament poker world moves into the fourth quarter of the calendar year, Germany’s Fedor Holz is still in command of the major Player of the Year races. Holz has been able to extend his lead on one of the tables, but has seen his lead shrink on another. Holz has not been resting… Read more »
When PokerStars announced last week the elimination of the European Poker Tour (EPT) and creation of the PokerStars Championship (the new home for most of the EPT tour stops) and PokerStars Festival, many assumed that the Aussie Millions was not going to be included in the new tours because the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT),… Read more »
Just thirteen players remain from the original field of 687 as the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event moves into its penultimate day. Day 3 moved along swiftly; the plan was to play through Level 24 or until there were eighteen players remaining, whichever was sooner – we can see how quickly… Read more »
The survivors of the two Day 1 flights came together on Monday (along with some late additions) for Day 2 of the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event. The field just made it into the money yesterday, so most of the 67 remaining players should have slept fairly peacefully, knowing that… Read more »
The World Poker Tour Legends of Poker Main Event got underway this weekend at the famed Bicycle Casino in Bell Gardens, California (you thought I was going to double-dip and call it legendary, didn’t you?). Two Day 1 flights are in the books and leading the charge into Day 2 is Reuben Hoang with 232,300… Read more »
The thirteenth season of the European Poker Tour (EPT) has started and fans better enjoy it while it lasts, as starting next year, the EPT, at least in name, will be gone. PokerStars announced this morning the creation of two new poker tours, the PokerStars Championship and the PokerStars Festival. The EPT is not so… Read more »
Yesterday, I made the understatement of the week when predicting the Day 1B turnout at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event: “The total field should climb well over 1,000 runners; the first starting flight is almost always the smallest.” AS IT TURNED OUT…Day 1B eclipsed the 1,000 player mark all by itself, drawing… Read more »
