Poker Tournament News
The European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main Event wrapped up over the weekend with the 22-year old Dane Mickey Petersen taking the crown to the tune of 2,515,000 kroner or $444,595. Petersen bested the 70+ year-old Pierre Neuville during the heads-up portion of the final table. Neuville, nicknamed “Serial EPT Qualifier,” as this was his… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic hit the halfway point last night and with three days down and three to go, Virginia’s Tuan Phan leads the remaining field of 54 players. Phan was the first player to eclipse the million chip mark and with 1.14 million bagged and tagged, he is still the… Read more »
In what would prove to be a short day at the Casino Copenhagen, the European Poker Tour’s Main Event has determined its final table. 24 men came back on Friday to decide who would be the eight contenders who would vie for the most recent title on the EPT. Leading the way was veteran Team… Read more »
The European Poker Tour’s stop in Copenhagen, Denmark is entering into the homestretch, with a well-respected Belgian at the top of the leaderboard. 72 players came back on Thursday to whittle the field down to the final 24 contenders. Heading the field at the start of the day was Team LockPro Elite member Melanie Weisner,… Read more »
Things certainly picked up Tuesday at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main Event. Monday’s Day 1A, with just 83 players showing up, looked like your local casino’s Thursday nooner. Fortunately, Day 1B resembled the EPT tournament that it should be, as 216 runners sat down at the tables at the SAS Radisson Hotel to… Read more »
The poker room at the Casino Copenhagen would not have been mistaken for Grand Central Station Monday, but that doesn’t mean things won’t eventually get hopping. Just 83 players paid the 35,000 + 2,250 Danish kroner (approximately $6,200 + $400 U.S. dollars) to play in Day 1A of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main… Read more »
If you were in the poker room at the Sheraton WTC São Paulo on Monday and stepped out for a few moments, you might have missed the entire final table of the Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final. In one of the shortest final tables one will ever see in a major event, Germany’s… Read more »
The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT) Grand Final narrowed its field down to the final table Sunday as just eight players remain out of the original 367. With a buy-in of R$3,700 or about USD $2,155, the total prize pool amounts to USD $1,343,100, with R$324,600 going to the winner. Leading the finalists in Sao… Read more »
While he continues what is the biggest battle of his life, the poker community will come together once again this Sunday for two benefit tournaments to raise money to benefit legendary Scandinavian poker professional Thor Hansen. Hansen, considered by many in his native Norway to be the “Godfather” of Scandinavian poker, was diagnosed with cancer… Read more »
After a hectic first six weeks of 2012, the Global Poker Index has seen a change in the lead while introducing a new ranking system that will crown a GPI Player of the Year. On the overall GPI, which ranks the top 300 tournament poker players, Jason Mercier has been able to overtake former leader… Read more »
The story going into the final day of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open yesterday was the possibility of history in the making, as the chip leader, Gigi Gagne, was in position to become the first female ever to win an open WPT Main Event. In the end, though,… Read more »
Gigi Gagne will attempt to make poker history Tuesday as she aims to become the first woman to win an open Main Event on the World Poker Tour (WPT). Gagne is currently the chip leader heading into the six-handed final table of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Lucky Hearts Poker Open, lording over an impressive… Read more »
Most of the United States has been going through a bit of a cold snap the last few days. Hollywood, Florida is one of the few exceptions, with the daytime high Sunday still a wonderful 61 degrees. It was similarly toasty inside the Seminole Hard Rock Casino and Hotel as the field of the World… Read more »
It is going to be a short day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Venice Grand Prix on Thursday. If this wasn’t the World Poker Tour, the nine players remaining might be going to bed mentally preparing for Day 4’s final table action. But this is, in fact, the WPT, and final tables here are… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is visiting Venice in this week, its second stop in the beautiful Italian city in less than two months. This time, it’s for the WPT Venice Grand Prix, held at Casino di Venezia Ca Vendramin Calergi, the same venue as December’s WPT Venice. After two days, 27 players remain and… Read more »
Paul Guichard and Vadzim Kursevich began final table play in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event very close in chips – Guichard had a 5.955 million to 5.670 million chip lead – and fittingly, it was these same two players who ended up battling it out at the end. After a short but… Read more »
Just three tables were filled with players as the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event headed into its fifth day Sunday. While all 24 players seated were guaranteed at least €23,000, much more was just a few hours away, if they could survive that long. Those three tables had been trimmed to one by… Read more »
After four days of play at the Casino Barriere, Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano surged to the lead of the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France, with 24 players remaining. 54 players came to the felt on Saturday, looking to whittle the field down to the final three tables. Leading the pack was Samphane… Read more »
Day Two at the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France, has come to a close with one of the brighter emerging stars in the poker world, Martins Adeniya, seizing the lead at the end of play on Thursday. After two Day Ones, the field numbered 889 players, of which 546 came back on Thursday… Read more »
As they prepare to open their 2012 season on the high banks of the Daytona International Speedway, stock car racing’s biggest names, as well as one of poker’s biggest stars, will come together for a charity poker event later this month. On February 22 (four days before the 2012 Daytona 500), a charity poker tournament… Read more »
Caesars Entertainment Corporation released the official schedule for the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) today, proudly listing a lineup of 61 bracelet events across 50 days. The festival kicks off Sunday, May 27th with the traditional opening tournament, the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em event, with the first open bracelet event, $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em,… Read more »
From one beach to another. The Bahamas to the “Parisian Riviera.” It has been over two weeks since the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure adjourned, but now it is time for the European Poker Tour’s (EPT) Deauville stop. The Casino Barriere at The Deauville International Centre is the destination this week, as EPT Deauville kicked off Tuesday… Read more »
After a more than two week break following the fun, sun, and hours upon hours in the poker room at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), the European Poker Tour (EPT) will resume Tuesday in Deauville, France. EPT Deauville will be a €5,000 + €300 event with a 1,000 runner cap, slated to run through February… Read more »
After a dominant performance over seven hours of final table play, hometown favorite Oliver Speidel crushed the opposition to take down the championship of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event. When the seven man final table reported for work on Sunday afternoon in the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, Bjorn Li held a 1.3 million… Read more »
After battling through a difficult field of 659 players at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, the final table has been determined in the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event, with Bjorn Li holding a slightly more than 1.3 million chip lead over Oliver Speidel. Saturday’s play brought back the final twelve men in the event,… Read more »
