Poker Tournament News
It wasn’t quite the historic moment we were waiting for, but the final table of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event was pretty great, nonetheless. After nearly 150 hands and about eight hours, Ravee Mathi Sundar had his name engraved on the WPT Champions Cup as the latest WPT winner. For… Read more »
Just one more day remains in the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event, as the original field of 379 players has been cut to just six. Harrison Gimbel is the chip leader going into Wednesday with 3.135 million chips in what should be an extremely competitive final table. This final table is… Read more »
It was carnage on Monday as the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event was narrowed from 151 players* to just 18. The money bubble clearly burst – the top 45 players were paid – and Taylor Paur emerged as the top dog with 1,400,000 chips. If Paur can keep this going, he… Read more »
The third leg of the World Poker Tour’s California Swing was in full…swing…this weekend with the 2015 WPT Rolling Thunder Main Event at the Thunder Valley Casino in the Sacramento, California area. A total of 379 players have entered the tournament – 181 on Saturday and 198 on Sunday – making it easily the smallest… Read more »
Both starting flights of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event are in the books as Day 1B wrapped up last night. Haixia Zhang ended up bagging the most chips at the end of the day, collecting 281,000. 389 players entered Tuesday’s action, making it an even 700 for the… Read more »
One of the most popular events on the World Poker Tour (WPT), the Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event, kicked off on Monday as 311 players bought-in to Day 1A of the tournament hoping to become the next member of the Champion’s Club. Just 106 made it to Day 2 with Bay 101 defending champ,… Read more »
Wednesday could be quite a fun day for Peter Tran at the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event as he has a massive lead with just twelve players remaining. And since the tournament will play down to the six-handed final table today, Day 5 should be short. Heck, Tran might be… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event is in the books and with just 43 players remaining, things should be a bit tense at the Commerce Casino on Tuesday as the final table is within reach. Peter Tran leads the survivors going into Day 4 with 1.369 million… Read more »
The first leg of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) California Swing kicked off over the weekend as the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event got underway at the Commerce Casino. Two days have already been completed; 538 players registered for the $10,000 tournament and going into Monday’s Day 3, only 120 remain. Brent Hart has… Read more »
In a result that should surprise exactly nobody, Anthony Zinno won the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event Monday night, claiming about $400,000 in combined prize money and a seat in the WPT Championship at the end of the season. This is Zinno’s second WPT title, the first coming in 2013… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event is today and while it comes with plenty of celebration, a damper was put on the excitement at the beginning of the Classic because of an unusual problem for a poker tournament: ticket scalping. It is not unusual for people to… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event was set yesterday evening as just six players remain from the original 419. Anthony Zinno is the chip leader with 4.73 million chips, a solid 2 million ahead of his closest competitor, Corey Hochman. After Hochman, it is another million down… Read more »
With Day 4 in the books, the six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open is set. And while there may be six players at the table, it appears, at this point, that it will come down to two: Mark Dube and Brian Altman. The two men, who led the… Read more »
It was a relatively quick day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida on Monday as just 60 eliminations were needed to get down to the final 18 players. The tournament still proceeded into the night, but shutting the festivities down before 9:30pm is early compared to… Read more »
With the three starting flights in the books, Sunday saw all of the survivors of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event reconvene for Day 2. 361 players entered Sunday’s play with just 78 remaining to advance to today’s Day 3. It is a close race for the pole position, as… Read more »
After his opponent started the day as the chip leader at the final table, Bulgaria’s Ognyan Dimov outlasted Romania’s Dany Parlafes to capture the title at the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event in France this afternoon (evening in France). Coming to the final table of six players (two players, Massou Cohen and Matas Cimbolas,… Read more »
It was a short Day 4 of action in Deauville, France, as the European Poker Tour determined the final 15 players in its Main Event. The Day 3 action on Wednesday had whittled the field from 138 to the money bubble of 87, but that wasn’t good enough for the contenders in France. They continued… Read more »
Next month the Global Poker Masters, the brainchild of Global Poker Index owner and Chief Executive Officer Alexandre Dreyfus, will take to the stage in Malta. Earlier this week, however, one of the first issues popped up for the Global Poker Masters as two players were removed from the tournament. Team France, which qualified sixth… Read more »
Enough of the separate flights; Tuesday was the time at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event that all of the survivors from Days 1A and 1B came together in a single, unified field for Day 2. 335 of the original 589 made it to Day 2, led by the home country’s Guillaume Darcourt,… Read more »
We’re in the month of February, so that means we are no longer allowed to say, “Happy New Year!” to each other right? It’s hard to believe (for me, anyway), that we are already a month into 2015 and though Punxsutawney Phil says we have six more weeks of winter left, we are getting dangerously close… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) picked up again this week with two starting flights of the €5,300 EPT Deauville Main Event. Nearly half of Day 1A’s 199 players were eliminated at the Casino Barrière as 108 survived to advance to Day 2, while 227 of Day 1B’s 390 players made it to Tuedsay. The top… Read more »
Although there is still one more event left on the schedule, the 2015 Aussie Millions crowned two champions over the past two days. In today’s Main Event final table, Manny Stavropoulos overcame the odds to capture the win and, on Saturday, Richard Yong took his first High Roller championship in the $100,000 Challenge. Aussie Millions… Read more »
The 2015 Aussie Millions is beginning to wind down at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, with two tournaments scheduled for their final table action this weekend. In the Aussie Millions Main Event, James Rann is in command – but will have to contend with Brian Rast at the final table – while the $100,000 Challenge features… Read more »
It is unusual to see a player have the chip lead in consecutive early days of a live poker tournament, so Jan Suchanek’s 2015 Aussie Millions to this point has been quite impressive. Suchanek was the Day 1A chip leader, ending the day with 163,400 chips (ok, so he wasn’t the overall chip leader, but… Read more »
Well, what do you know? Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event got off without a hitch. It was looking a little dicey a couple days ago as the blizzard that was approaching the northeast United States prompted New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to shut down all road… Read more »
