Poker Tournament News
Three events in the 2013 World Series of Poker continue Monday and one more champion will be crowned. Let’s take a look at what is on-tap today. Event #17: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em David “Bakes” Baker heads the final 15 players in Event #17, one of the many $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em events at this year’s World… Read more »
While he has maintained a solid lead on many of the Player of the Year leaderboards since his February/March rush, Paul Volpe is now facing some serious competition as the poker world turns its attention to the World Series of Poker and its seven weeks of competition. On the Bluff Magazine POY, Volpe’s once dominant… Read more »
Last year, Jonathan Hilton finished second a $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at the World Series of Poker (WSOP). As Field of Dream’s Moonlight Graham may have said, “It was like coming this close to your dreams…and then watching them brush past you, like a stranger in a crowd.” Last Friday, Hilton got another shot at… Read more »
As you no doubt already know and we’ve already discussed, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) kicks off this week. Interestingly enough, though, the WSOP is not the only tournament series that will be taking place at the Rio this summer. Caesars Entertainment is resurrecting the Carnivale of Poker, a once popular poker festival that… Read more »
Day 5 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship should be one of the shorter days of a major tournament we have ever seen. Tuesday saw the field of the final Main Event of WPT Season XI narrowed from 24 to just eight, leaving only two more eliminations until the six-handed final table… Read more »
The most important tournament on the World Poker Tour (WPT), and thus the tour itself, is nearing its end. Day 3 of the 2013 WPT World Championship concluded Monday night as the field narrowed from 67 to just 24. It looked like it would be a fairly quick day as the eliminations sped along early… Read more »
After a ten hour final table battle, the top two chip stacks at the start of the day – Steve O’Dwyer and Andrew Pantling – decided the championship of the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, with O’Dwyer emerging as the final champion of the EPT’s Season Nine schedule. O’Dwyer led Pantling by… Read more »
The final table is set for the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo after a short day knocked the contenders in the field down from 16 to eight. Andrew Pantling was the only player over the two million chip mark (2.248 million, to be exact) as the cards hit the air this afternoon… Read more »
The final event of the European Poker Tour’s Season Nine schedule is heating up as the money bubble burst on Thursday at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. After two Day Ones and a Day Two that came up short (in some ways), the final 105 players from the 531 player field came back… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 9 Grand Final is underway in Monaco and the two Day 1 flights have been completed. Victor Sbrissa leads the crown jewel event of the tour at the crown jewel venue with 224,800 chips, one of just two players to go into Day 2 with over 200,000. Noah Schwartz… Read more »
Things are getting serious at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship. Day 3, contrary to our prediction, was a fairly short one for a major tournament, lasting only seven hours before the requisite 26 players were culled to narrow the field to two tables. At the end of the day, two names… Read more »
The survivors from the three starting flights got together for the unified Day 2 Monday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship. The field was culled significantly, as just 44 players remain out of the 294 that started the day. That also means the money bubble burst; Tyler Reiman was knocked out in… Read more »
Day 1C of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Canadian Spring Championship finished up Sunday, thus completing the three starting flights of the second WPT stop in Montreal. Jonathan Driscoll came away as the day’s chip leader, finishing the night with 263,800 chips. Just two other players – Jonathan Roy (218,400 chips) and Jake Toole… Read more »
For a while, it looked like the final table of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event final table would be a quick one, as four of the six players were eliminated within 68 hands. But it took over 100 more hands to get through the heads-up portion of the tournament before… Read more »
Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event started with just 25 players remaining. So, needing just 19 eliminations to reach the six-handed final table, it seemed like Monday would be a fairly short day. It wasn’t. It took about twelve hours to get the field whittled down to final table… Read more »
In tournament poker, there are chip leaders and then there are chip leaders. At the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event, David Diaz was the italicized latter on Sunday. Upon the close of Day 2, he held a monstrous lead on his 24 opponents, holding 1.705 million chips at night’s end. Let’s use… Read more »
The second starting flight of the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Open Main Event concluded Saturday (Sunday morning, to be exact) and, as expected the field was bigger than that of Day 1A. 205 entrants paid the $3,500 to participate, bringing the total field to 351. Prevailing over the 85 survivors from Day 1B was… Read more »
In a shockingly rapid fashion, Daniel-Gai Pidun defeated the start of day chip leader, Robert Haigh, to earn the championship of the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, early Sunday morning (U. S. time). At the start of action on Saturday, Haigh and Pidun were the only two players over the five million mark,… Read more »
What was expected to be a quick Day Five that would determine the final table turned out to be a long battle at the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, on Friday. The final 17 men came to the felt on Friday with Roman Herold holding a decent lead over the field with his… Read more »
While the battle in Berlin, Germany for the latest European Poker Tour championship rages on through the weekend, two tournament circuits will hit the felt on Friday in the United States that will have the attention of the poker world as well. On the East Coast, the World Poker Tour will once again settle its… Read more »
The final stop for the European Poker Tour before its season ending Grand Final reached its crunch point on Thursday with the final 17 players being determined at the Grand Hyatt in Berlin, Germany. At the start of action on Thursday afternoon, 55 players still held out hopes of taking home one of the bigger… Read more »
The money bubble burst Wednesday at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Main Event as the field was narrowed from 168 to just 55. As the payouts started at 136, most of the day was played with the participants feeling comfortable that the tournament was at least a profitable one. The chip leader going into… Read more »
In 2010, Blair Hinkle won the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit – Council Bluffs Main Event to earn the first gold ring of his career. On Monday, he did it again, becoming the first player in WSOP Circuit history to win the same Main Event twice. He triumphed over 367 opponents in the tournament… Read more »
The survivors from both starting flights combined into a single, unified field Tuesday as the 2013 European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Main Event forged ahead. Making a quantum leap on Day 2 was Finland’s Aku Joentausta, who was certainly in good shape to start the day, holding 105,500 chips, but when the night was over,… Read more »
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 »
