Poker Tournament News
After a year’s hiatus, the million dollar buy-in Big One for ONE DROP tournament at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) will return in 2014. The WSOP has announced that the event will run June 29th through July 1st and will be televised at Caesars Palace until the final table. The event was the brainchild… Read more »
The 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event started with 375 players and now it is down to just 24. Three tables of players remain in the tournament heading into Wednesday’s Day 4 and two – Adrian Mateos Diaz and Daniel Steinberg – stand above the crowd. Neck and neck at the top… Read more »
Down to 70 players, the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event heads into Day 3 Tuesday. Taking control late was Germany’s Dominik Nitsche, who ended the night with 504,800 chips, the only player over the half-million mark. Ludovic Lacay, the chip leader going into Day 2, had another successful day, finishing in… Read more »
The best shake off frustration and forge ahead. They take a hit, wipe off the dirt, and come back swinging. Such was the case with Ludovic Lacay Sunday as he came back from the disappointment of a runner-up finish in the 2013 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe €3,000 Mixed-Max Pot Limit Omaha Event to… Read more »
Last week, we gave you a quick report on the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) release of the 2014 portion of the Season XII schedule. Well, it looks like there is a bit of a problem. The WPT World Championship, the most prestigious live poker tournament outside of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), overlaps with… Read more »
One of the great things about poker tournaments is that you don’t have to be some sort of seasoned pro to win. You just have to be a good poker player. Sure, experience helps, but if you can play poker well and catch a little luck here and there, you can take down a title… Read more »
Day 2 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Event #3: Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em was an important one on Tuesday, as the field was narrowed from 72 to just 16. That 16-player mark was a milestone in the tournament; it both signaled a shift in table size and marked the beginning of the payouts.… Read more »
The first day of World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Event #3: €5,300 Mixed-Max No-Limit Hold’em got underway yesterday and though it is a small field at just 135 players (five more players then registered before the start of Day 2), it is an extremely competitive one. Ville Mattila leads the 67 survivors with 165,000… Read more »
If we could take today’s poker players and drop them into 2006 or thereabouts, Jackie Glazer would be well on her way to becoming a household name. But with the decline of televised poker and the rise of faceless internet poker players, those who might have otherwise become poker celebs have not garnered the attention… Read more »
After an eight hour battle, Robin Ylitalo emerged as the champion of the European Poker Tour London’s Main Event, banking an impressive payday of £560,980. At the start of action on Saturday at the Grand Connaught Rooms, Jeff Rossiter held a decent lead with his 5.205 million in chips over one of his main nemesis,… Read more »
After a week of competition, the final table for the European Poker Tour London Main Event is now set with Jeff Rossiter leading an international contingent of players to the felt this afternoon. Sixteen men came back to the tables on Friday at the Grand Connaught Rooms in London to work their way down to… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event was held Tuesday as the 230 survivors from Days 1A and 1B got together in a single field at the beautiful grand Grand Connaught Rooms. Just 107 players made it through the day; emerging on top was the only player with over 600,000… Read more »
A new group of players lined up for Day 1B of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event Monday, looking to join the 105 who made it out of Day 1A for Day 2 on Tuesday. As expected, the Day 1B field was larger than that of Day 1A: 389 versus 209. Leading the… Read more »
As the Main Event of the European Poker Tour’s London (EPT) stop got underway, the Season 10 EPT London £50,000 Super High Roller came to a close. With more chips than the next two players combined, Germany’s Martin Finger was a strong favorite going into final table play and he did not disappoint, winning the… Read more »
After a month-long layoff, Season 10 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) resumed Sunday with the opening flight of the EPT London Main Event. A total of 209 players paid the £5,250 to participate. This number should be eclipsed easily on Monday, since many prospective runners may have been spending their day on the computer,… Read more »
In the unofficial kickoff to what will be an exciting month of poker on the Old Continent, the European Poker Tour’s £5000 Main Event kicks off today while wrapping up its £50,000 Super High Roller with a powerful final table. The EPT London (the second stop of the Season 10 EPT schedule) has long been… Read more »
After a week of battling on the tables of the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, Henri Balcazar emerged as the champion of the Full Tilt Poker Montreal tournament, taking home nearly $200,000 in the process. The four days leading up to the tournament (including three Day Ones) saw a number of popular players come… Read more »
After what was, from most appearances, an outstanding debut on the East Coast, the forthcoming television poker program “Poker Night in America” will be heading to the West Coast for taping of their second broadcast. It was announced on Thursday that, instead of going to an already established event, “Poker Night in America” will instead… Read more »
The 591 survivors from the first two starting days came together to battle it out on Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event Tuesday and when the chips were bagged and tagged at the end of the night, just 174 players were left standing (or sitting, as the… Read more »
The second starting flight of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Poker Open Main Event was completed Monday and, as expected, there was a fantastic turnout. 813 players registered for Day 1B, more than double the number of runners the tournament fielded on Day 1A. Paul Volpe bagged the most chips – 231,850 –… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) continues its stint in the States this week with the WPT Borgata Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City. The $3,500 tournament features two starting flights and will run through Friday. Sunday’s Day 1A saw 376 players register and just 166 make it all the way through still holding chips.… Read more »
With a slight lull before the final charge to the end of the calendar year, Daniel Negreanu has made his move towards reclaiming the lead in several Player of the Year rankings that he started the year with. While he’s been able to claim two of them, the third one has still eluded him but… Read more »
The festivities at the first stop for the European Poker Tour’s Season Ten have come to a conclusion, with Tom Middleton finishing off what he started in winning the Main Event and Thomas Muhlocker besting Daniel Negreanu in the €10,000 High Roller. Middleton, who took over the lead in the Main Event on Day Four,… Read more »
The monstrous field that showed up for the European Poker Tour’s first stop of Season Ten in Barcelona, Spain, has been whittled down to only 24 players, but it was the action in the €10,000 High Roller tournament that has drawn a great deal of attention from the poker community. 79 players came back on… Read more »
The money bubble burst in the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event Wednesday as the field narrowed from 235 players to just 79. Thomas Middleton finished as the only player above the million chip mark, though Alejandro Perez Torres (990,000) and Kevin Vandersmissen (970,000) are mere blinds below that line. As was the… Read more »
