Poker Tournament News
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 »
Mark Newhouse accomplished what many in the poker world consider the greatest poker accomplishment of all time: he made back-to-back World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final tables in fields with over 6,000 players. Dan Harrington did it ten years ago, but the fields were much smaller (though not tiny) back then. And Johnny… Read more »
The final table of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event finally gets underway tonight with the first of two days of action. The broadcast will begin on ESPN2 at 8:00pm ET semi-live with just a 30-minute delay and will continue until just two players remain. Those two will return to the Rio… Read more »
We said yesterday that the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Caribbean Main Event was a small tournament and perhaps surprisingly, the second starting flight was not much bigger than the first. On Tuesday, just 61 players paid the $3,500 to try to earn a WPT title, almost exactly the same as the 57 that played… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is back in action this week as the 2014 WPT Caribbean Main Event has gotten underway at Casino Royale in St. Maarten. This is a very small WPT event, as just 57 players registered for Day 1A with 25 advancing to Day 2. It won’t set any records and won’t move… Read more »
As we prepare to head into the final two months of 2014, Dan Colman is looking to make a sweep of the major Player of the Year races in the tournament poker world – unless there is a repeat of a similar situation that occurred last year. On the Bluff Magazine Player of the Year… Read more »
There has been a bit of a lull in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XIII schedule since the WPT Borgata Poker Open, but never fear, the WPT National Events have come to fill the void. On Monday, the WPT National Philippines Main Event wrapped up, as Japan’s Tetsuya Tsuchikawa triumphed over a solid field… Read more »
Although two men came to the table on Saturday afternoon with a shot at becoming only the second two-time winner in European Poker Tour history, Sebastian Pauli denied both of them – including runner-up Kevin MacPhee – en route to taking down the EPT London at the Grand Connaught Rooms in the United Kingdom. Pauli… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) Main Event turned the corner Wednesday as the money bubble burst and the tournament played down to the final 18 players. It almost got down to the desired 16, but the plan was to play to either that number or six 90-minute levels, and the… Read more »
Tuesday saw Day 2 come and go at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) Main Event as the survivors from the two opening flights came together in a unified field for the first time. A total of 182 players came over from Days 1A and 1B, while five more players registered… Read more »
We said it would take a strong Day 1B for the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event to be bigger than last year’s and it happened. 444 players registered for the second starting flight, nearly doubling Day 1A’s field and bringing the total player numbers to 668, easily beating 2013’s field of 604. Topping… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) has returned after a two month hiatus with the £4,250 buy-in EPT London Main Event. Held in the Grand Connaught Rooms in London, the Main Event saw 224 register for Day 1A on Sunday with 135 making it all the way to Day 2. The chip leader for the first… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) AU$10,000 Main Event got going this weekend in Australia as two waves of players started their quest for the final bracelet of the Series (wait, wait…before you say that the High Roller Event is still to be played, I will counter with the fact that… Read more »
When European Poker Tour officials announced their schedule earlier this year, there was a huge gap in the Season 11 roster of events. In that original schedule, there was a lack of any EPT action between a trip to Deauville, France, in January 2015 and the Grand Final in Monaco in April. That gap has… Read more »
After three days and 249 eliminations, the AU$1,650 Terminator No-Limit Hold’em Event crowned a champion on Wednesday at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC). This event was unique in that one-third of each buy-in ($500) was used as a bounty on every player’s head, while the rest went towards the standard… Read more »
Monday was an historic day at the 2014 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) as Aussie Jeff Lisandro won his sixth career WSOP bracelet, taking the title in the AU$1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha Event. In doing so, he defeated fellow Australian Poker Hall of Fame member Jason Gray heads-up, denying him of his first… Read more »
While we wait about another month for the World Series of Poker Main Event to conclude, the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) doled out its first two bracelets of the year over the weekend. First up at the Crown Melbourne casino in Australia was the conclusion of the AU$1,100 Accumulator Event, a… Read more »
The starting flights were sorted out Sunday and Monday, so it was on to Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open on Tuesday. 606 players began the day staring at the long grind to Day 3, but only 150 players made it that far. On the same day the Trump Plaza… Read more »
For a Day 1A, 400 entries was a strong opening act. Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open, though, put the first starting flight to shame. Monday’s field was more than double Sunday’s, an impressive 826 players shelled out the $3,500 to participate. At 1,226 total entries, this is the fourth… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back in the United States this week, setting up shop in one of Atlantic City’s few remaining casinos for the WPT Borgata Poker Open. Yesterday’s Day 1A saw an even 400 players pay the $3,500 to go for the gold with just 172 making it to Day 2. Leading… Read more »
As the tournament poker world prepares to head into the home stretch of the major Player of the Year races, “Big One For One Drop” champion Dan Colman has solidified his lead in two of the three rankings. He has a bit of work to do, however, if he will make it a clean sweep… Read more »
