Poker Tournament News
There is not a much better way to start a poker tournament than to get some of your buy-in back. And the 2014 World Series of Poker sure as hell started in style yesterday. Prior to the traditional first tournament, the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em Event, WSOP Executive Director Ty Stewart made a short… Read more »
The 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) begins today, but one bracelet has already been awarded. Most people probably don’t realize it (I even forget sometimes), but the WSOP National Championship is held on the boardwalk in Atlantic City before the WSOP proper, celebrating the best WSOP Circuit players of the season. This is year,… Read more »
When the World Series of Poker puts the “November Nine” on hiatus in July, the poker world normally goes into a deep slumber that takes a couple of months to come out of. That was rocked in 2013 when the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL, took the chance and guaranteed a… Read more »
Believe it or not, we are ten days from the start of the 2014 World Series of Poker. The seven week festival of poker begins on May 27 and, with 65 bracelets up for grabs, you can expect that some of the biggest names in the game will be looking to take their share of… Read more »
Sure it is a bit early, but it gives people plenty of time to make travel arrangements. PokerStars announced the tentative schedule for the 2014 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) this week, slated to be held at the PokerStarsLIVE poker room at the City of Dreams in Macau. The ACOP is to run 17 days,… Read more »
It may have come up on us without notice, but there are only a little more than two weeks until the 45th Annual World Series of Poker kicks off its summer schedule. Heading towards the start of poker’s preeminent event, the major Player of the Year races in the poker community have little consensus as… Read more »
In what turned out to be a marathon final table, Antonio Buonanno was finally able to derail Jack Salter to take down the championship of the European Poker Tour Grand Final early Saturday morning. Long before Buonanno had captured the championship, Philipp Gruissem added to his legacy as a “high roller” master in winning the… Read more »
After starting Day 4 as one of the shortest stacks left in the tournament, Great Britain’s Jack Salter has been able to rise from the ashes. Using the last two days, Salter will be at the head of the pack for the final table of the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final when play resumes on… Read more »
Day 3 has concluded at the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final, with the field shrinking from 123 players to just 41. Malte Moennig made a move from fifth at the start of the day to first at the end of it, tripling his chip count and going into Day 4 as the only… Read more »
The 347 survivors from the two starting flights plus six late registrants got together in Monte Carlo on Monday for Day 2 of the 2014 European Poker Tour Grand Final. Though almost two-thirds of the field was eliminated yesterday, the tournament didn’t quite make it to the money as 95 players will get paid and… Read more »
The second starting flight of the 2014 European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monaco came and went on Sunday and by the time the day’s numbers were tallied, the Day 1B field, with 427 players, doubled the field of Day 1A. Registration was still open until the start of play today, and as Day 2… Read more »
Even though their “big one” has yet to begin, Caesars Entertainment and World Series of Poker officials have announced the schedule of events for their upcoming WSOP Asia/Pacific later this year. As is becoming more common in the tournament poker world, the schedule will conflict with another popular international tournament that may dilute both fields.… Read more »
Day 1B of the 2014 World Poker Tour World Championship came and went at the Borgata in Atlantic City yesterday and good news! No reports of counterfeit chips! As expected, more players turned out for Tuesday’s action than Monday’s: 223 runners versus 105, creating a total field of 328. Jason Koon emerged from the second… Read more »
The beginning of the end has begun. Monday marked Day 1A of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship, the final tournament of WPT Season XII, one of the most prestigious events on the poker calendar. With a buy-in of $15,000 + $400, it won’t be the largest tournament on the tour, but it… Read more »
It was bound to happen sooner or later. On the verge of the close of their Season Ten schedule, the European Poker Tour – wrapping up their Sanremo Main Event on Sunday – has finally crowned its first two-time champion in the personage of 2006 EPT London Main Event champion Vicky Coren-Mitchell. It was an… Read more »
After a long Day Four that saw the field whittled from 39 to 16, it only took six hours on Day Five to determine the European Poker Tour Sanremo Main Event’s eight-player final table. Starting Day Four with a huge lead, Jordan Westmorland will still be in the lead for tomorrow’s final table, but his… Read more »
In what turned out to be a rather quick day (considering the number of players that were involved), Day Four of the European Poker Tour’s stop in Sanremo, Italy is in the books with Jordan Westmorland holding court over the final two tables in the event. Day Four kicked off on Thursday afternoon (early morning… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is, like its counterpart in the World Poker Tour, also playing out their next to last event of their Season Ten schedule. The 2014 PokerStars.it EPT Sanremo Main Event has completed its Day Three play earlier this afternoon (U. S. time) with Spain’s Raul Mestre holding down the top slot over… Read more »
The Borgata announced Monday the resolution to the counterfeit chip scandal that plagued the first event of the Borgata Winter Poker Open in January. The resolution was initially ordered by the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement (DGE) and will be enacted by the casino. To review, Event #1 of the Borgata Winter Poker Open… Read more »
It was a surprisingly long day at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event on Tuesday, as it took over ten hours to narrow the field from only eighteen to six. But Day 4 did end and the final table has been set with Mukul Pahuja presiding over his… Read more »
After Day 1A of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Sanremo Main Event, we surmised that it would effectively take an act of god for the tournament to end up with a larger field than it did last year. There was no brilliance in this estimation, but still, we were right. It’s not even going to… Read more »
The plan for Monday at the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event was to play down to 27 runners, but if time allowed the option to slice off another nine players was an option. It was the latter situation that presented itself last night, so nearly 100 of the… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) returned to action this month with a stop in Sanremo, Italy, a coastal town near the France border. Monday was the start of the EPT Sanremo Main Event with the first of two starting flights. Of the 172 players who paid the €4,600 + €300 to play yesterday, 103 survived… Read more »
Following an exciting three starting flights in which the largest-ever field was seen for a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, Day 2 of the 2014 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event took place on Sunday. 673 Day 1 survivors took their seats knowing that it was still going to be a long, hard… Read more »
With the end-of-season tournaments on the European Poker Tour and the World Poker Tour lurking on the horizon, there has been a complete reshuffle of the major Player of the Year races in the poker world. That reshuffle has brought out new contenders for the major awards and perhaps offer some insight into who could… Read more »
