Poker Tournament News
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) starts in less than four weeks. That’s this month. But before the main course arrives, Series officials would like to give poker fans a bit of an appetizer. On Tuesday, it was announced that the WSOP would dip its toes into international waters for a second time, creating a… Read more »
All in all, it did not seem like the most difficult of days for Mohsin Charania. The Illinois resident began final table play at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in the middle of the pack and stayed comfortably in contention until finding the right time to make his move. In the end, he… Read more »
The survivors from Days 1A and 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville BestBet Open combined into a single field Sunday, with half of the original 320 players sitting down for the start of Day 2. The field was trimmed almost exactly in half again, with 55 players making the cut for today’s Day… Read more »
Season 8 of the European Poker Tour is about to come to a close as the EPT Grand Final Main Event is ready to crown a champion in Monaco. The final table was determined Sunday and taking a substantial chip lead into the final day is Bernard Guigon with 4.9 million chips, 2 million more… Read more »
The end is near for the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final, playing out at the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel & Casino, as the final 26 players have been determined who will contend for the final championship of the EPT’s Season Eight schedule. 130 players came back on Saturday with the unpleasant task (for some of… Read more »
The second day of play for the European Poker Tour Grand Final has concluded, short of the money bubble and with a member of the Team PokerStars Pro roster sitting atop the leaderboard. 394 runners returned to the felt in Monte Carlo on Friday with Nicolas Yunis holding onto the lead over fellow Day 1B… Read more »
The second Day One of the European Poker Tour’s penultimate event of Season Eight, the EPT Grand Final, is in the books, with player numbers coming in right around the field size drawn for the 2011 version of the tournament. After Day 1A brought in a nice sized field of 271 players (of which 165… Read more »
This week marks the beginning of the end of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 8 as the EPT Grand Final Main Event gets underway. The best players in the world are flocking to the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel and Resort in Monaco, paying €10,000 + €600 to try to follow in Ivan Freitez’s footsteps… Read more »
The game of poker, especially tournament poker, requires a lot of patience. As much as one might want action, a player can’t just throw out bets willy-nilly and hope to win. It often requires orbit after orbit of waiting for the right moment and the ability to take advantage of that moment to win a… Read more »
It was a relatively short day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Showdown on Sunday, as it took less than seven hours to determine the composition of the final table. Sure, seven hours to eliminate nine players may seem like an awful high average time between knockouts, but at this stage of… Read more »
After coming to the final table with a sizeable chip lead, Belgium’s Davidi Kitai was able to fend off the challenges of his opponents to capture the championship of the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, Saturday night. Kitai came to the final table with 5.695 million in chips with his closest pursuer, Bahadir… Read more »
The European Poker Tour stop in the historic city of Berlin, Germany, has reached its penultimate moment, determining the final table of this event before its last tournament of its Season Eight schedule. 24 men came to the tables on Friday, looking to become the latest champion on the EPT and gain some momentum heading… Read more »
The 320 survivors from the two starting flights of European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin came together in a combined field for Day 2 on Wednesday, each looking to possibly show a profit for the tournament by night’s end. All 102 runners who bagged chips when play came to a close were happy, as they all… Read more »
With a crowd that was more than double the number of players of Day 1A, the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Day 1B allowed the tournament to come oh so close to beating last year’s player totals. The 502 players on Tuesday added to the 243 on Monday made a total field of 745 runners,… Read more »
The European Poker Tour’s (EPT) annual tournament in Germany kicked off Monday with the first of two starting flights at EPT Berlin. Day 1A saw 243 people lay out the €5,000 + €300 required to participate and less than half – 110 – survived to tomorrow’s Day 2. Topping the leader board well ahead of… Read more »
Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberté, along with the World Series of Poker (WSOP), announced Thursday that this summer’s $1,000,000 buy-in WSOP event has added eight more entrants, increasing the field to a stout 30 players. The tournament, called the Big One for ONE DROP, is now on pace to feature the largest first prize… Read more »
After a month layoff, the next World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event kicked off this week at the Montesino Casino in Vienna, Austria. The second of the two Day 1 flights wrapped up Wednesday with Darko Stojanovic holding a massive chip lead over the rest of the field. His 320,000 chips are over 50 percent… Read more »
Going into the final table of the PartyPoker Premier League V, many in the poker community were hoping the Mathew Frankland’s Cinderella story would continue for one more day. Frankland, one of two players in the field who had to qualify to get into the game, began Tuesday with the largest chip stack, a reward… Read more »
The 2012 Irish Open came to a close Monday at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin as Kevin Vandersmissen came all the way back from the bottom of the pile to take the championship. Vandersmissen won €420,000 for his triumph in the longest running No-Limit Hold’em tournament in Europe. It was going to be a long… Read more »
The preliminary heats of the PartyPoker Premier League V have all been completed and the eight final table participants are now set at the Montesino Casino in Vienna. In what would have to be considered one of the bigger surprises in recent memory, qualifier Mathew Frankland was the top points earner in the prelims and… Read more »
The 2012 Irish Open final table was determined yesterday as just nine players remain out of the original 502 at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin. Leading the way in the chase for the €420,000 first prize is Irishman Ian Simpson with just over 2 million chips, but nipping at his heels is Brit David “Dixie”… Read more »
Defying those that said it couldn’t happen, the money bubble popped during Day Two action at the 2012 Irish Poker Open as the field continues on to crowning its champion on Monday. 277 players returned for play on Saturday at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin with the audacious task of bringing the field to a… Read more »
Day One of the 2012 Irish Poker Open is in the books, with Canada’s Samuel Chartier taking the honors of the chip lead over the sizeable field in Dublin. The tournament room at the Burlington Hotel was replete with the green colors of tournament sponsors PaddyPowerPoker as the cards hit the air on Friday afternoon.… Read more »
Over a protracted ten hour battle, British poker pro James “Flushy” Dempsey defeated fellow Brit David “Devilfish” Ulliott to take down the inaugural event for “iSeriesLIVE” early Friday morning. The innovative new experimental poker series, which is expected to feature different tournaments and top players in the game, debut its first event yesterday afternoon in… Read more »
With a slight lull in the tournament poker world prior to the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final, the World Poker Tour’s World Championship and the beginning of the World Series of Poker, the major Player of the Year races seem to have a bit of consensus as to who the best player has been to… Read more »
