Poker Tournament News
In perhaps one of the more dominant tournament performances you’ll ever see, Germany’s (and the United Kingdom’s, by residency) Rainer Kempe dominated a stacked final table to take down the championship of Poker Central’s 2016 Super High Roller Bowl at Aria in Las Vegas early this morning. The final table of seven men had survived… Read more »
Yesterday, it was Matt Berkey who went into the day’s action at the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) with a prohibitive chip lead. A day later, it is Rainer Kempe in a similar position, though this time it is only with seven players remaining. With 5.545 million chips, Kempe enters the final table on… Read more »
The 2016 World Series of Poker starts this week, but before things really get rolling, there was still one big tournament left to complete: the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB). Hosted by the ARIA Resort & Casino, this is the second year the SHRB has run. The SHRB debuted last year, created by the upstart… Read more »
Here we are. Today, May 31st, is the first day of the 47th Annual World Series of Poker. With 69 events spanning a month and a half (not counting the break for the November Nine), the WSOP should prove once again to be one hell of an experience for all involved. There are no official… Read more »
The first half of the Global Poker League season has come to a close with a couple of surprising teams atop their individual conference standings. In the GPL Eurasia, the London Royals have slowly been grinding it out and now are in the lead, while the GPL Americas has seen the Montreal Nationals ascend to… Read more »
Week 7 of the Global Poker League has concluded and, with one more week before the teams take a slight pause before heading to Las Vegas for the “Summer Series” and the 2016 World Series of Poker, two teams have opened up some space from the rest of the competition in their conferences. In the… Read more »
In what could prove to be a true test of whether their concept could actually work outside of a major gaming metropolis, the Global Poker League announced earlier this week that the inaugural season’s playoff schedule would take place during TwitchCon 2016, which will be held in San Diego, CA, between September 30 and October… Read more »
Poker Central announced last week that the second annual Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) will be broadcast live on the CBS Sports Network. The 24/7 poker network said in January that it would air the SHRB on Poker Central itself; it is unknown if it will now be broadcast on both networks or if it… Read more »
Week 6 of the Global Poker League was a big one for the Moscow Wolverines as they used the variety of matches played throughout the week in the GPL Eurasia to demonstrate one of the most dominant weeks of action we’ve seen yet in the GPL. As the Wolverines opened up some room in their… Read more »
PokerStars announced this week that the live finale of the Americas Cup of Poker (ACP) will be contested at the Resorts Casino Hotel in Atlantic City, New Jersey from June 23rd through June 27th. In what is likely not a coincidence, it will coincide with the Copa America Centenario, the 100th year of the famed… Read more »
After coming into the final table as one of the four “short stacks,” veteran poker professional Jan Bendik was able to come back to defeat a difficult final table to capture the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final Main Event at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Casino in Monaco on Saturday. The six men who… Read more »
With only three weeks to go until the mid-season break in the Global Poker League schedule, two different courses have become evident for the two divisions. In the GPL Eurasia, two teams have pulled away from the pack and seem to be in position to settle the playoff seeds between themselves, while the GPL Americas… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is penning the final chapters to their Season 12 book on the shores of the Mediterranean, Monte Carlo to be exact. The final table has been determined for the Grand Final Main Event, while there are 12 contenders still in the fight for the €25,000 High Roller tournament. EPT Grand Final… Read more »
In advance of the second running of their extremely popular Super High Roller Bowl that begins on May 29, Poker Central is looking to get the fans involved. Their method? Offering a pile of money to a lucky person in a promotion tied in with the event. Poker Central, in coordination with the 2016 Super… Read more »
Poland’s Marcin Chmielewski is having a pretty solid week. Over the weekend, he finished 21st in the France Poker Series High Roller Event (not a huge cash by any means, but still something) and now he is leading the charge to the final table in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final. With just 74… Read more »
The largest European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Main Event in history continued on Monday as the 561 survivors from the two opening flights joined together in a unified field on Day 2 at the Monte-Carlo Bay Hotel & Casino. Only about a third of those players made it through the day; Pierre Calamusa leads… Read more »
With the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final going on as this is being written, the EPT decided now would be the perfect time to announce the initial makings of the Season 13 schedule. Three tour stops have been announced – all familiar locations – as Season 13 gets going at the end of the… Read more »
The finale for its Season 12 schedule, the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final has exceeded expectations on the coast of the Mediterranean. After two Day Ones, the largest EPT Grand Final field of 1068 players had come to the tables in the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco (potentially with more to come), making the EPT… Read more »
After negotiating a deal that basically ensured both would receive the same payday, Ole Schemion defeated Mustapha Kanit in heads up action to take down the championship of the European Poker Tour’s €100,000 Super High Roller event on Saturday night. The final eight men presented one of the more difficult final tables that you’ll see.… Read more »
The season finale for the European Poker Tour, the Grand Final, rolled along on Friday with Day 2 action in their €100,000 Super High Roller event. After firming up the prize pool with the close of late registration to start the day, the end of the night brought the final table into clear view with… Read more »
The final even for the European Poker Tour, its Grand Final festivities, has begun at the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco and they aren’t going small. In fact, not one but two High Roller events – the single re-entry €10,000 High Roller and the rebuy €100,000 Super High Roller – were in action on Thursday,… Read more »
Season XIV of the World Poker Tour (WPT) wrapped up Sunday after a busy couple weeks at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida. With three major WPT events – the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale, and the WPT Tournament of Champions – strung… Read more »
Week 3 of the Global Poker League’s inaugural season is in the books and, despite some early season struggles, the New York Rounders – the preseason pick by many to be in contention for the first GPL World Championship – have surged to the top of the GPL Americas. In the GPL Eurasia, the Paris… Read more »
The second of the three big World Poker Tour events at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida will wrap up tomorrow as the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale has reached its final table. Though the six-handed final table was determined on Tuesday, the players have the day off on Wednesday… Read more »
With three overlapping World Poker Tour (WPT) events being held this week at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, it can be hard to keep track of what exactly is going on. Right now, the focus is on the $10,000 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale, which completed Day 2 on Monday… Read more »
