Poker Tournament News
The 2015 Aussie Millions, part of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, saw its Main Event get going over the weekend as players from around the world flocked to the Crown Melbourne casino for one of the most prestigious events on the poker calendar outside of Las Vegas. All three Day 1 flights have concluded and,… Read more »
The 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open guaranteed a $3,000,000 prize pool and thanks to an active Day 1B, it just made it past that threshold. After 360 players entered on Day 1A, another 629 registered on Monday, bringing the total field to 989. With the $3,300 buy-in (another $200 fee went… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back in action for 2015 and kicking off the latter portion of Season XIII is the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City (you thought I was going to say “at the Borgata,” didn’t you?). The first of two starting flights ran yesterday; 360 players registered for Day… Read more »
One of the venerable tournaments on the international poker circuit, the 2015 Aussie Millions, is in full swing at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Several events have already been completed as its $10,000 Main Event and two High Roller ($25,000 and $100,000, respectively) prepare to take the stage this weekend. Five events have crowned… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Alpha8 tournament series does not get a lot of attention and to an extent, that is understandable. The high roller series, despite being broadcast on Fox Sports , is not heavily marketed and features tiny fields. Since the players involved have to pony up $100,000 to play, though, those fields… Read more »
Poker has a long history of helping out those that have some of the most difficult challenges in life. This fact will once again be displayed on Sunday as many poker professionals and celebrities will come together in Las Vegas for a poker tournament in support of autism. On Sunday, the 7th Annual Ante4Autism charity… Read more »
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 »
