Poker Tournament News
The European Poker Tour (EPT) is underway again as the EPT Berlin Main Event kicked off Sunday at the Grand Hyatt Berlin. 347 players paid the €5,000 + €300 to participate in the first of two starting flights and after eight levels, about half – 171 – remained. Leading those players waiting for Tuesday’s Day… Read more »
Kevin Eyster led the World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Showdown after Day 3. He led after Day 4. And aside from a few minutes, he led Day 5 all the way through, winning his first World Poker Tour title and $660,395. Eyster, going by the screen name “1SickDisease” (and variants) is a highly respected… Read more »
It was final table or bust Monday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown as the last 21 players in the field looked to make Tuesday’s six-handed final table. It took about nine and a half hours to find 15 eliminations, but the final table was finally set with Louisiana’s Kevin Eyster… Read more »
A few days ago, “Kid Poker” Daniel Negreanu came up just short of a bracelet at the World Series of Poker Asia Pacfic (WSOP APAC), placing fourth in the A$2,200 Mixed Event. Today, he completed the journey, winning the WSOP PAC Main Event, defeating a total field of 405 players. For the victory, Negreanu won… Read more »
While the World Series of Poker Asia/Pacific Championship Event was reaching its final table, two side events (neither awarding a bracelet) were also finished on Sunday. Eleven men returned from the original 37 player field for the penultimate day of the $50,000 High Roller event with Joseph Cheong leading over such names as Jonathan Duhamel,… Read more »
Lost in between the inaugural 2013 World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) event and Phil Ivey’s historic ninth WSOP bracelet was the second event of WSOP APAC, the $1,650 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament. Washington, D.C. native Jim Collopy nabbed the $69,662 top prize, not to mention the first WSOP of his career. Collopy did… Read more »
Day 4 was a fairly short one at the 2013 World Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event; it took only about five hours to whittle the field from thirteen players to the final table of six. Leading the charge is Canada’s Chanracy Khun with 2.393 million chips as the final table looms on Wednesday. The chip… Read more »
Doyle Brunson and Johnny Chan had better take a look in their rear-view mirrors. Phil Ivey is tailgating. Ivey, the man most would probably consider the greatest living poker player, added to his legend Wednesday, winning the World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) $2,200 Mixed Event, earning himself his ninth career WSOP bracelet.… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Barcelona Main Event ground down to just two tables Monday as the Day 3 starting field of 42 was narrowed to just 13. Spain’s Sergio Fernandez has a sizable lead going into Tuesday’s action; with 1.268 million chips, he has more than a 400,000 chip advantage on the next… Read more »
Monday was a landmark day in the poker world as the first-ever World Series of Poker Asia Pacific (WSOP APAC) bracelet was awarded at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. It was perhaps fitting, too, that the inaugural WSOP APAC bracelet was in a tournament format that was also making its initial run: the Accumulator… Read more »
Day Two of the World Poker Tour stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain is in the books with a chance at history looming if Sunday’s action continues its course. 148 players came back on Sunday, with local player Sergio Fernandez holding a 37,000 chip lead over Ognjen Sekularac. Day 1A chip leader Manuel Bevand… Read more »
Last week, the International Federation of Poker announced six of the teams that will compete for the European Nations Cup in just over a week in Paphos, Cyprus. Since that time, three more teams among the fourteen competitors have completed their rosters for the event. As expected, Team Ireland will be throwing some serious players… Read more »
The International Federation of Poker will be hitting the felt again next month with the European Nations Cup event. Scheduled for April 12-15 at the Annabelle Hotel in Paphos, Cyprus, the tournament will feature players from across the European continent vying for the honor of being the inaugural European Nations Cup champion. In playing the… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Venice Grand Prix continued Tuesday as another set of players took their shot at glory in the second of two starting flights. As is usually the case, the field on Day 1B was larger than that of Day 1A, as 108 registered for play, compared to just 65 runners on… Read more »
The World Poker Tour got back to it yesterday as the first of two starting flights of the WPT Venice Grand Prix kicked off at Casino di Venezia Ca Vendramin Calergi in Venice, Italy. As expected, it was a small field, with just 65 players paying the €3,300 to play in the single re-entry event.… Read more »
PartyPoker’s popular live invitation event, the PartyPoker Premier League VI, wrapped up this weekend after several days of opening heats. Holding the championship cup at the conclusion of the final table was Dan Shak, who also received $450,000 for his efforts. Shak has had a fantastic 2013 so far. In January, he finished eighth in… Read more »
With the first foray by the World Series of Poker into the “Land Down Under” at the Crown Casino in Melbourn, Australia, scarcely two weeks away, officials have announced the captains for the three teams that will contest for the Caesars Cup during the run of the schedule. The new team to the competition is… Read more »
With a slight lull before the end of the first quarter of the tournament poker season, Paul Volpe has used two outstanding performances on the World Poker Tour’s stage to surge to the top of the major Player of the Year races. A little over a month ago, there were only a few major events… Read more »
A week of exciting poker wrapped up in London, the United Kingdom on Saturday night with Ruben Visser capturing his first major championship victory at the European Poker Tour Main Event at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino. The final eight men came to the felt on noon Saturday (U. K. time) with Steve O’Dwyer, holding 5.27… Read more »
The final table for the European Poker Tour stop at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino (“The Vic”) was set on Friday, with Steve O’Dwyer fending off challenges to his place atop the ladder to lead the eight men left to the big money. 15 men came to the felt on Friday and, unlike the action on… Read more »
It was expected that Day Four at the European Poker Tour stop in London, the United Kingdom would be a short day and that turned out to be the case. Out of the 32 players who began the action on Thursday, it only took roughly six hours for that field to be cut in half… Read more »
The money bubble will burst today at the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event as just 113 players remain in the field after Day 2. Only 17 players need to be eliminated on Day 3 for the remaining players to cash for at least £8,000. It’s a fairly tight race at the top of… Read more »
Day 1B of the European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event wrapped up Monday and, as expected the tournament room swelled as almost twice as many players were seated for the second starting flight as were in the first. After 236 players registered for Day 1A, 411 signed up for Day 1B, bringing the two-day… Read more »
After over a month away from the action, the European Poker Tour stormed back to life in London, the United Kingdom on Sunday with its latest event on the Season Nine schedule. Although the online Sunday tournaments beckoned, 236 players decided to forego that action for some of the live variety. Right around noon in… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event made history Tuesday as another 365 players bought into the tournament, bringing the total entries for both starting flights to 635, a new record for the northern California tour stop. The previous record was set during Season IV (we’re in Season XI now), when… Read more »
