Poker Tournament News
Battling through a monstrous field and a quality final table, Blair Hinkle was able to vanquish Justin Bonomo heads up to take down the inaugural championship of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open late last night. Going into the final table yesterday afternoon at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, Hinkle… Read more »
There is just one more day left in the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event as fifteen players were eliminated on Tuesday, leaving just six for Wednesday’s final table. Blair Hinkle jumped one spot from where he started the day to claim the top rung on the leaderboard with 22.8 million chips. The… Read more »
Day 3 is complete at the 2013 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open and with just 21 players remaining, Mukul Pahuja will enter Tuesday with a substantial lead. With 8.125 million chips, he has a 1.6 million chip lead on Blair Hinkle, who himself is enjoying an 800,000 chip gap over Ryan Olisar. Pahuja has a… Read more »
It worked. The bold move by organizers of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open to guarantee a $10 million prize pool for $5,300 Main Event was risky, but it worked. After 634 players bought-in on Day 1A and another 690 did the same on Day 1B, 1,060 more players paid the toll on Day 1C,… Read more »
Day 1B of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is in the books at the namesake casino in Hollywood, FL, as the day’s entries brought the total field within striking distance of making the $10 million guarantee. As the day began on Friday, there were 366 players on the tables but some players used the… Read more »
Looking like the epitome of the statement “if you build it, they will come,” the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s $10 million guaranteed prize pool Main Event seems to have been a huge success on Day 1A as some of poker’s finest professionals turned out in Hollywood, FL, for the first significant action after this… Read more »
Alexey Rybin is right where he has been for the entirety of the 2013 bwin World Poker Tour (WPT) Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event: on top. With 2.698 million chips, he holds the chip lead going into the six-handed final table by more than 1.1 million over his nearest competitor. Just one more day remains… Read more »
In February, one of the most popular “non-poker” poker celebrities, Dr. Jerry Buss, passed away. The former owner of the Los Angeles Lakers had been battling cancer for quite some time, finally losing the battle at the age of 80. This Sunday, August 25th, the World Poker Tour Foundation will hold a tournament in his… Read more »
The first Main Event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XII is winding down as just fourteen players remain after Day 3 of the bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic. Alexey Rybin leads the charge to the final table with 1,736,000 chips, more than half a million more than the closest competitor. With blinds and… Read more »
As the staff prepares for the taping of their first ever production for the new series, Rush Street Productions – the team behind the new poker television program “Poker Night in America” – has announced two people who were chosen from an open casting call to be the focal point of the debut episode. Set… Read more »
If you ever need to provide someone with evidence as to why poker is a great game, look no further than the 2013 Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) Queenstown Main Event, which concluded this weekend. As far as main events go, it was fairly small, with just 126 players paying the NZ$3,000 ($2,700 +… Read more »
As they prepare for their first ever event on their new high roller series Alpha8 later this month, the World Poker Tour has filled out the final slots for their broadcasting team. The WPT announced yesterday that two of the more notable poker commentators in the business today, noted commentator Ali Nejad and poker professional… Read more »
Since the site returned to the online world in November of last year, Full Tilt Poker has only had three poker pros as a part of their sponsorship stable. “The Professionals” – Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan, Viktor ‘Isildur1’ Blom and Gus Hansen – carried the banner for the site as it made its triumphant return to… Read more »
For those of you who have been following the 2013 World Series of Poker and have been eager to view it on television, your time has come. Tonight marks the first of this year’s WSOP broadcasts on ESPN, the revival of “Tuesday is Poker Night” on the Worldwide Leader. Kicking off the schedule is the… Read more »
Back in May, poker professional Paul Volpe was atop the three major Player of the Year races in the poker world. After two months of Las Vegas tournaments – the World Series of Poker and other smaller events – those POY races have been completely changed over, with some new names ascending to the top… Read more »
Online poker room Full Tilt Poker will be hosting a live poker series in the Montreal area this fall. The Full Tilt Poker Montreal Festival will feature 17 events over two weeks beginning September 21st. Unlike the company’s signature online series, the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS), which spreads virtually every game imaginable, the… Read more »
The nine members of the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) final table, otherwise known as the “November Nine,” were determined Tuesday morning and now, just a day later, sports books have begun setting the odds of each player winning. After all, it’s the World Series of Poker. We all need to pile on more… Read more »
When Day 7 of the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event kicked off at around noon Pacific on Monday, 27 players had visions of bricks of money, a gaudy bracelet, and a life-changing title bouncing around in their hands. When play wrapped up at 2:30am this morning, just nine were left holding on those… Read more »
And so it comes down to this. Three tables of nine players. Just a few days ago, it was difficult to see across the poker room at the Rio, to distinguish one table from another. But now, now the tournament can fit into a good sized living room. In some ways, today is the most… Read more »
Tuesday was a bit of an odd-ball day on the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event schedule, as two Day 2’s ran concurrently. Once the Main Event got enormous several years ago, Day 1 was split into four flights with the survivors of two of those flights meeting up for Day 2A and survivors… Read more »
Day 1C of the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event wrapped up Monday night and while it didn’t attract enough players to get the total field over last year’s mark, it was still an impressive draw. The 3,467 players that paid the $10,000 to play made Day 1C the single largest starting day… Read more »
Another week, another bit of history at the 2013 World Series of Poker. Just days after Dana Castenda added her name to the short list of women to ever win a bracelet in an open event at the WSOP, Loni Harwood did the same, winning Event #60, the final $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em event of the… Read more »
The second of three starting flights in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event ran Sunday and, as expected, the turnout was significantly greater than the previous day. Day 1A’s in the Main Event have historically been the small, primarily because players would prefer to not have to wait around multiple days for Day… Read more »
The 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event may be the…well…Main Event this week, but there are still a few events finishing up at the Rio. One that was done in a flash Sunday was Event #58: The Little One for One Drop $1,111 No-Limit Hold’em. Only eight players remained of the original 4,756… Read more »
Tuesday night was a historic night at the 2013 World Series of Poker as Dana Castaneda became one of the few women in the 44 years of the Series to win a bracelet in an open event. She triumphed in Event #54: $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em, beating 2,882 foes and earning $454,207. Castenda joins a who’s… Read more »
