Poker Tournament News
As several top international tournaments – and major High Roller events – have been concluded over the first six weeks of 2014, Mike ‘Timex’ McDonald has emerged as the early leader in the top Player of the Year races in poker. The early part of 2014 has seen major tournaments such as the PokerStars Caribbean… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event wrapped up Tuesday as the six players at the final table competed to see who would take the crown of the year’s first WPT event in Florida. Fittingly, it was Floridian James Calderaro who ended up on top, beating Shannon Shorr heads up… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event’s penultimate day is in the books as the six-handed final table has been determined. 33 players entered Monday’s Day 3, all at least comforted by the fact that they had cash, but it was only six who made it to Day 4. It… Read more »
The survivors from the two starting flights of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event combined for Day 2 on Sunday looking to be rewarded for their hard work with a pay day. Day 2 began with 167 players and just 54 were going to make the money, so Sunday… Read more »
The 2014 Aussie Millions is beginning to come to its conclusion as, on Sunday, the Main Event champion was determined and, back on Saturday night, the $100,000 Challenge came to a conclusion. Aussie Millions Main Event A strong group of contenders came to the final table on Sunday afternoon at the Crown Casino in Melbourne,… Read more »
The 2014 Aussie Millions has once again proven to be one of the elite tournaments in the international poker world. On Friday, a strong final table for the $10,000 Main Event was determined as some of the deepest pocketed pros stepped up for Day 1 play in the $100,000 Challenge. Aussie Millions Main Event 36… Read more »
The news going into the weekend may have been dominated by Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, the Super Bowl, and the fallout from Atlanta’s “Snowpocalypse,” but six poker players in Atlantic City were focused on one thing: $842,379. That was the first prize of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker… Read more »
After leading the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France for the last two days, it wouldn’t have been out of the question for Greece’s Sotirios Koutoupas to succumb to the pressure and come up a bit short. There was no stopping the Greek powerhouse, however, as he stormed his way to the latest EPT… Read more »
It was a quick Day 5 in Deauville, France as the European Poker Tour determined its final table on Friday. Heading into tomorrow’s action, Sotirios Koutoupas holds the lead for a second consecutive day while Eugene Katchalov looks to make poker history. Sixteen men stepped to the felt on Friday afternoon in Deauville and, almost… Read more »
Day 4 of the European Poker Tour’s stop in Deauville, France, is in the books with 16 players remaining in the hunt for the title. Of those men, Sotirios Koutoupas has the best shot as he is one of only two players who have eclipsed the two million chip mark. 41 players came to the… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event is one of the largest tournaments in the history of the Tour, making Laz Hernandez’s performance to this point that much more impressive. In what has become a rarity in major tournament poker, Hernandez ended Day 2 as the chip leader after starting… Read more »
The 385 survivors from the two starting flights of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event gathered together on Tuesday for Day 2. They did not know how far they would need to last to make the money, as registration remained open until the start of play. Thus, the payout schedule was still… Read more »
Things didn’t start too well for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open, but now that the counterfeit chip scandal is at least partially in the rearview mirror, it’s time for bigger and better things. Day 1B of the Main Event concluded Monday as 806 players bellied up to the tables after 423… Read more »
As is almost always the case with the second of two starting flights in a major tournament, Day 1B of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event was expected to be much more crowded than was Day 1A. We also opined that it was very unlikely that the tournament would eclipse last year’s… Read more »
Sunday marked the first day that two major poker tournaments schedules got back into action for their current seasons. In the United States, the World Poker Tour restarted their Season XII schedule at the $3500 buy in Borgata Winter Poker Open and, in France, the European Poker Tour pitched the cards in the air for… Read more »
News late yesterday broke that one of the players in the Borgata Winter Poker Open preliminary event that was canceled – in fact, its chip leader from Day 1B – is now in the hands of Atlantic City and New Jersey gaming authorities for introducing the counterfeit chips that brought about the tournament’s cancelation. According… Read more »
The 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open is in full swing this week, but the excitement of the first major U.S. poker festival of the calendar year has been dampened by scandal. Last week, counterfeit chips were discovered during the Open’s first event, leading to a suspension of the tournament and eventually its cancellation. When the… Read more »
In one of the more honest statements that you’ll find in the poker world, 2004 World Series of Poker Championship Event winner Greg Raymer writes that he is looking for backers for his 2014 tournament efforts. At the start of a post on Two Plus Two’s Staking forum, Raymer recounts the past ten years of… Read more »
What a difference a day makes. Whereas Day 5 of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event was short – just four and a half hours – Day 6, which consisted of just the final table, was long. Very long. Seventeen hours long, counting breaks. The stacks were fairly deep… Read more »
On Friday, the Global Poker Index (GPI) announced that German poker player Ole Schemion had won the 2013 GPI Player of the Year (POY) title, awarded to the years’ most successful live tournament player. Schemion just beat out GPI’s Player of the Decade Daniel Negreanu for the honor. Schemion began the year in style, placing… Read more »
Sunday’s Day 5 at the European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event was a short one, as only a dozen eliminations were needed to hit the next stopping point in the tournament, the final table. Entering the day, 20 players remained in the event, all with the immediate goal of being one… Read more »
Day Four of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event is in the books and, with 20 players remaining, Madis Muur has surged to the lead. There are several notables in contention behind him with one of those contenders looking to make European Poker Tour history. Saturday’s action began with 72 players remaining and the… Read more »
The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event reached the money during action on Friday and, by the time the chips were bagged up for the night, British pro Max Silver had moved into the lead as one of only three players over one million chips. At the start of action on Friday, Pascal Lefrancois was… Read more »
The $10,000,000 Guaranteed PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event has worked its way through Day Two with Pascal Lefrancois leading the remaining 215 players who will look to pop the money bubble on Friday. At the start of yesterday’s action, overall Day One leader Shankar Pillai was ahead of the 632 players who made it out… Read more »
With the $100,000 High Roller Event coming to a close, Tuesday was time for the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event to begin, the first big Main Event of the year. The PCA is always a highly anticipated poker festival, as it not only kicks off the year, but has… Read more »
