Poker Tournament News
Yesterday, I referred to the Day 1A field of the 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event as “solid,” with 459 runners. Yeah…solid. Well, Tuesday’s Day 1B was just a *smidge* better than solid, coming in at a staggering 1,214 entries. The total field of 1,673 players set a new European Poker Tour record,… Read more »
Unlike the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour (EPT) doesn’t have a major event seemingly every other week. EPT stops are spaced out over the year, so there is actually some anticipation when they arrive. The EPT Barcelona Main Event was the latest to get underway, beginning with the first of two starting flights… Read more »
After a slight siesta following the completion of the World Series of Poker Championship Event in Las Vegas (OK, the determination of the “November Nine”), the tournament poker world is coming back with a vengeance. Following the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open earlier this month, the European Poker Tour is getting back to action with… Read more »
The 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship (SHRPO) concluded late last night after a long heads-up battle between Omar Zazay and Brian Phillis. Zazay came out on top, notching just his second recorded live tournament win and perhaps more importantly, his first million dollar payday. This was the third year for the SHRPO and,… Read more »
The 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO), one of the few major live poker tournaments not associated with a poker tour, is on to Day 3 Monday with just 43 players remaining. Topping the leader board by a significant margin is the only player above the 2 million chip plateau, Rick Alvarado, with 2.011… Read more »
Kicking the tournament poker season back into gear, the 2015 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open will start play in its Main Event at noon today in Hollywood, FL. In just its third year in existence, the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open has had a significant impact on the tournament poker world. The inaugural event in… Read more »
The six-handed final table of the inaugural 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event had the following: • A member of the WPT Champions Club with a sizable chip lead • The runner-up in last season’s WPT Player of the Year race who also won consecutive WPT titles • A man with $4 million… Read more »
The first World Poker Tour Champions Cup post-World Series of Poker is on the line today as the final six players from a field of 1,175 battle it out for the WPT Choctaw title. It is a strong final table with two past Champions Cup winners, with the additional benefit of being potentially history-making. Andy… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back after a two and a half month hiatus with its third stop of Season XIV, WPT Choctaw at Oklahoma’s Choctaw Casino Resort. The Main Event, which began on Friday, July 31st with the first of two starting flights, is a $3,500 + $200 tournament with a $2 million… Read more »
When is a guarantee not a guarantee? When it isn’t…um…guaranteed, I guess. Over the weekend, tempers flared at the Golden Vegas Poker Club in Bratislava, Slovakia when the exact definition of the word “guarantee” came into question. The story of the controversy was relayed to the poker community on Two Plus Two by poster “Scarmaker.”… Read more »
Using his outstanding run during the 2015 World Series of Poker that saw him win a bracelet and finish at the final table four other times, Anthony Zinno has upended the various Player of the Year races in the poker industry. While he wasn’t in tough position previously in some of the rankings, Zinno’s run… Read more »
After a week of poker, a week of long, mental exhausting days, the final table of the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event has been reached. We have our November Nine. Day 7 began with just 27 players remaining, spread across three tables and did not end until around 1:30am, when Alex Turyansky… Read more »
This is it. Today is the day that the November Nine of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event will be determined. Just 27 players remain at three tables all trying to position themselves for both the climb up the payout ladder and the opportunity to be in the poker spotlight for the next… Read more »
The end is near. If the players remaining in the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event couldn’t visualize the final table before, they should most definitely be able to now. There are just 69 players left after Sunday’s Day 5 of the Main Event and virtually all of them have a reasonable shot… Read more »
The field is still divided, but the preliminary festivities of the 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event are complete, as the three starting flights are now in the books. The chip leader coming out of Day 1C, John Gorsuch, now also has the distinction of being the overall chip leader going into Day… Read more »
The opening flights of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event are always the most exciting; everyone in the tournament room is at the beginning of what could be a life-changing journey, everyone is so hopeful. There is a buzz in the air. So let’s enjoy the first three days of this week because… Read more »
While everyone thinks that the game of poker is about taking someone’s money away from them, some of poker’s best professionals and people with big hearts gathered late this week in Las Vegas instead with other motives in mind. During the run of events at the World Series of Poker, these people gathered together to… Read more »
When Jonathan Duhamel wins a World Series of Poker bracelet, he certainly makes the most of the situation. Early this morning, Duhamel won the second gold bracelet of his career, taking the title in the 2015 WSOP $111,111 High Roller for ONE DROP Event, winning $3,989,985. Duhamel, of course, won the 2010 World Series of… Read more »
The Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino may be the property that is hopping right now in Las Vegas, what with the 2015 World Series of Poker going on, but ARIA Resort & Casino is doing its very best to get poker players over to its venue. The WPT500 is currently being held there as a… Read more »
Brian Hastings is making a case for WSOP Player of the Year, as he has become the first player this year to win two bracelets at the 2015 World Series of Poker. The 26-year old who is better known for his online poker prowess won Event #39: $1,500 Ten-Game Mix, earning $133,403. Hastings certainly seems… Read more »
When one looks back on the poker boom era of the World Series of Poker, one of the distinct themes was the changing of the guard from the old school players who became instant television stars in the mid-aughts to the new-age, brash, young internet players who learned the game by grinding out thousands of… Read more »
OMG. Phil Galfond won the $10,000 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball Championship Monday at the 2015 World Series of Poker, earning his second career bracelet and his first since 2008. For the win, Galfond won $224,383. As is always the case with high buy-in specialty events like 2-7 Draw Lowball, the field was very small, just… Read more »
In this latest (and first) edition of “truth in advertising,” the 2015 World Series of Poker’s sixteenth event, the $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker did actually create a millionaire (or technically, multiple ones, depending on the net worth of the individual players going into the tournament…but I digress). Tuesday night, Adrian Buckley won the third… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth continues to prove that poker is a game of skill with an element of chance, not the other way around. In fact, when Hellmuth plays at the World Series of Poker (WSOP), it seems that it takes bad luck for him NOT to make a deep run in a tournament. Already the most… Read more »
With the World Series of Poker – and its 64 event schedule – set to begin next week, the players have completed essentially the first half of the tournament poker “season.” As players prepare to descend on the “Oasis in the Desert” two men, Dzmitry Urbanovich and Anthony Zinno, will be at the top of… Read more »
