Poker Tournament News
After three events in the United States, the World Poker Tour is back in Europe this week as WPT Baden kicked off Tuesday with the first of two starting flights. It was a fairly small Day 1A as just 104 players paid the €3,300 to participate. Just over half of them – 54 – made… Read more »
Matt Giannetti became the 19th player to win multiple World Poker Tour (WPT) titles Tuesday, taking the crown at the 2013 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event. Giannetti, who was also a member of the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, placing fourth in the Main Event, previously won WPT Malta in… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event began Day 3 with 36 players situated around four tables and ended with the skilled and fortunate six who made the final table. Matt Giannetti leads the way heading into Tuesday’s action with just over 3 million chips. Nobody has fewer than 20 big… Read more »
The organizers of the International Stadiums Poker Tour (ISPT) had the lofty goal of creating one of the most impressive poker spectacles the world has ever seen. It is starting to look like it might just be a spectacle. Already having reconfigured the tournament because interest has proven to be much lower than what was… Read more »
It’s been a quick tournament at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida, as the field of 369 players was narrowed to 143 after one day and then further whittled to just 36 after Day 2. Coincidentally, 36 was the cutoff for the money, so everyone returning for… Read more »
Wrapping one of the quicker final tables in recent memory, France’s very own Remi Castaignon came to the final day of the European Poker Tour Main Event in Deauville with a huge chip lead and, after momentarily losing that lead, came back to win the latest EPT title. How big was Castaignon’s lead to start… Read more »
Although we are only about six weeks into 2013, the various Player of the Year races in the poker industry are already being hotly contested. With several major events completed in January, there are players who are claiming their stake, albeit quite early, to being major contenders in the year-long battle. On the Bluff Magazine… Read more »
The European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France has reached its penultimate day, with local product Remi Castaignon seizing a huge chip lead for the final table action on Saturday. The 23 players who returned to the felt on Friday, in a stark contrast to the Day Four action the previous day, decided to take… Read more »
It was not a good Thursday to be one of the leaders of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France, as those at the top of the pack at the start of play yesterday found themselves outside looking in for today’s action. The 51 players who came back to action at the Casino Barriere… Read more »
Day Three of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France has wrapped up after bursting the money bubble on Wednesday. 51 players will head back to action this morning (East Coast time) with the relatively-unknown Shahaf Hadaya at the helm of the ship. 154 players stepped back into the tournament battlefield of the Casino… Read more »
Over the years, we have seen our share of online poker cheating scandals. After all, for those who really want to do it, it’s not all that hard to cheat when your opponents can’t see you. Cheating live, however, is another animal entirely. Sure, people have been finding ways to break the rules since the… Read more »
The first day of a unified field in the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event concluded Tuesday, with the starting Day 2 field of 419 players narrowed to 154 by the end of the night. Romania’s Andrei Stoenescu surged to the front, amassing a stack of 485,600 chips, more than 100,000 than Zimnan… Read more »
Monday was Day 1B of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event and, as expected, the registration numbers topped those of Day 1A. 475 players turned out for the second starting flight, more than one and half times the number that paid the €5,000 + €300 entry on Sunday. Sweden’s David Ostrom emerged as… Read more »
The first European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event of 2013 that is actually held in Europe-proper kicked off Sunday as the Casino Barriere at The Deauville International Centre played host to Day 1A of EPT Deauville. It was a solid turnout, as 307 players paid the €5,000 + €300 for their shot at glory. Leading… Read more »
Well, that didn’t take long. After battling for 15 hours, from Saturday afternoon to Sunday morning and seeing the officials suspend final table play until Sunday afternoon, the final three men quickly came to a champion of the Aussie Millions Main Event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Joseph Cabret held over a two million… Read more »
It seems that no one wants the fun to end at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia as the Aussie Millions Main Event was suspended this afternoon (early Sunday morning in the “Land Down Under”) after 15 hours of play was unable to find a victor. The seven person final table started play at 2:30PM… Read more »
In just a few hours, the final table for the 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event will begin, with a strong field in contention for the latest of what many consider one of the “major” championships in the poker world today. On Friday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne (late Thursday evening in North America), the… Read more »
The 2013 Aussie Millions Main Event is working its way through its 629 player field towards its conclusion on Saturday. After Day Three concluded, only one man was above the one million chip mark, Ray Ellis, but 35 other men were in pursuit of his position in first place. Yesterday’s action began with 68 players… Read more »
The 567 survivors from Days 1A and 1B of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event combined on Tuesday for Day 2 and, as expected, the field was trimmed down in a hurry. Just 160 made it to bedtime with chips, led by Scott Herz and Joe DiMartino with 519,300… Read more »
One of the most popular poker festivals outside of North America, the Aussie Millions, is hopping as usual. Already in full swing at the Crown Melbourne Casino, the A$10,000 Main Event of the 2013 Aussie Millions has completed its three opening day starting flights and is now ready for the divided fields to merge into… Read more »
The second starting day of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open was anticipated to be a big one and a big one it was. 645 players shelled out the $3,500 to test their skills in the first WPT Main Event of the year, a sizeable jump from the 397 who showed… Read more »
Super high buy-in poker tournaments have been getting more and more popular over the last couple years as poker festival organizers look for ways to make the fields dense with the world’s strongest players. One of the first and most popular of the mega buy-ins was the Aussie Millions $100,000 Challenge. The 2013 version of… Read more »
The first World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event of 2013 got underway Sunday in Atlantic City, as the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open saw 397 players pay $3,500 to enter the first of two starting days. Leading the remaining field of 209 runners is Luis Vazquez, who will begin Tuesday’s Day 2 with 182,075 chips.… Read more »
It is kind of strange to think of poker players who are in their 40’s as “old timers” or players whose peak of poker fame was just a few years ago as “old school,” but that’s probably would Mike “The Mouth” Matusow and Phil Hellmuth are. Hellmuth has remained relevant since the peak of the… Read more »
After two days of battle amongst the 64 players chosen for the event, the “Elite Eight” have been determined at the 2013 National Heads Up Poker Championship at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. The first-ever winner of the tournament in 2005, Phil Hellmuth, is still in contention to once again make poker history as the… Read more »
