Poker Tournament News
After fighting his way through a final table that took more than 16 hours to complete, the United State’s Kevin Schulz was able to come out on top to take down the 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on Wednesday night. Instead of the usual EPT eight-handed final table, the PCA combatants had played… Read more »
We are down to the last six players in the 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event as the first major live poker tournament of the year draws to a close today. Chance Kornuth has a solid lead, holding 7,860,000 chips, compared to Kevin Schulz’s 6,155,000. Though the next closest player… Read more »
Just three tables remain filled at the 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event as Day 4 wrapped up last night. Three players – Eugenio Mattar, Emrah Cakmak, and Chance Komuth – have eclipsed the 2,000,000 chip mark, but it is Mattar who sits atop the field alone with 2,673,000. One… Read more »
Sunday was the day of the 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event during which many players had to make the decision on whether to go for the gold or just try to grab a couple pieces of silver. Day 3 was the day the money bubble burst during the first… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is in the books as several lesser-known players in the tournament poker world ascended to the top of the leaderboard. 507 players stepped back to the felt on Paradise Island in the Bahamas on Saturday with a great deal of work yet to be… Read more »
A busy Friday at the 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure wrapped up late last night with a new champion crowned on the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) and the conclusion of the second Day One in the PCA Main Event. $3000 LAPT Bahamas Main Event – Final Day 11 players came back to… Read more »
The 2015 European Poker Tour PokerStars Caribbean Adventure rolled along on Thursday, with the champion determined in the $100,000 Super High Roller tournament as the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Bahamas and PCA Main Events both came to the felt. $100,000 Super High Roller Continuing what has been a great run for him of late,… Read more »
The inaugural countries and the preliminary teams have been determined for March’s Global Poker Masters 2015, the tournament envisioned by its founder, Global Poker Index (GPI) Chief Executive Officer Alexandre Dreyfus, to be poker’s version of soccer’s (football’s) World Cup. The eight countries that have qualified for the Global Poker Masters were determined by the… Read more »
The final table is set for the first Super High Roller event of the year, but perhaps a bigger story of the opening days of the 2015 EPT PokerStars Caribbean Adventure is the turnout for one of PokerStars’ regional tours, the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) that is holding a Main Event during the proceedings… Read more »
The Global Poker Index (GPI) announced this week a partial player roster for the upcoming inaugural Global Poker Masters event. The competition, which the GPI has nicknamed poker’s World Cup, is scheduled for March 21st and March 22nd at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Malta festival. This scheduling was carefully planned, as most of the… Read more »
There’s nothing like ranking things in a convoluted standing system to bring out the discussion in people. Whether it is tennis or golf rankings, where the Premier League teams are on their ladder (or, for U. S. citizens, the National Football League) or even NASCAR or Formula One drivers, people like to know who are… Read more »
Aside from his outstanding poker play and myriad of poker tournament achievements (as if those weren’t enough), Daniel Negreanu is perhaps best known for his willingness to speak his mind. Lucky for us, he has a poker blog on his site, FullContactPoker.com. This week, he chimed in on an issue that has been getting more… Read more »
Despite some late charges by those pursuing him, Daniel Colman – who ran roughshod over the High Roller circuit this year – swept the major Player of the Year races in the tournament poker world. On the Bluff Magazine countdown, Colman was virtually untouchable coming into the final month of the year. Despite not earning… Read more »
In October, the European Poker Tour (EPT) announced that Malta has been added as a stop on this year’s tour. Though the March dates for the poker festival had been set, no formal schedule had yet to be published. Last week, the complete schedule for EPT Malta was, in fact, release, and it is a… Read more »
Stephen Graner entered the final table of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event with a commanding chip lead and in something of a surprise, led wire-to-wire to capture his first-ever EPT crown. The surprise is not that Graner won, it is that he never even came close to relinquishing his lead. We… Read more »
For the second day in a row, the targeted number of remaining players in the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event was a bit off from reality. On Day 4, the goal was to get down to 24 players, but the field was whittled by two extra players by the end of the… Read more »
The plan for Day 4 of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event was to play down to 24 players, but…BONUS POKER! The festivities went so quickly that when the chips were bagged and tagged, just 22 players remained, with Germany’s Fabio Sperling on top with 4,357,000 chips. In second place is the… Read more »
The 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event has sped through three days and more than one thousand eliminations as the tournament heads into Monday’s Day 4. Leading the way after Day 3 is Sweden’s Simon Mattsson with 1,790,000 chips, but American Stephen Graner is nipping on his heels with 1,713,000 chips of his… Read more »
The final stop on the 2014 calendar for the European Poker Tour is in full swing this weekend, with Leonid Markin taking down the €50,000 Super High Roller and the €5,000 Main Event in full swing. €50,000 Super High Roller 51 players took up the challenge of the €50,000 Super High Roller tournament, which started… Read more »
With the Thanksgiving holiday tomorrow in the United States, six people, in particular, have a lot for which to be thankful. At least 90,000 things, that is (I’m so witty). The final table of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event was determined Tuesday and today, the six remaining players will battle it… Read more »
It was a quick day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event Monday – an unusual occurrence in a major tournament – as the field was whittled down to just 18 players from the 49 that began Day 3. Jonathan Jaffe emerged as the chip leader with 2.5 million chips, one of four… Read more »
The World Poker Tour has an up and down schedule. Parts of it are slow, with wide gaps between events. Those would be the down parts of the schedule (see how this works?). Right now, we’re in an upswing, with events coming back-to-back and overlapping. While the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event was… Read more »
The remaining players in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event can see the prize. There are just 49 players left after Sunday’s Day 2, so a final table appearance and possible title is clearly possible for most of them. Maduka Meragal will enter Monday’s action at the Playground Poker Club with the chip… Read more »
Martin Jacobson’s run at the final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was at the same time stunningly unlikely and not at all surprising. The Swedish poker pro overcame long odds to even make it to the second day of the November Nine, but after treating viewers and (to their… Read more »
We were supposed to have just two players left to battle heads-up for the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event Championship on Tuesday, but after twelve hours of play Monday and on into Tuesday morning, it was time to call it quits with three players remaining. It will be an all-European fight to the… Read more »
