Poker Tournament News
One of the final major events of the 2011 tournament poker season is underway at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, as the Epic Poker League’s third of five scheduled events began yesterday afternoon. As with the EPL tournaments, every Main Event has a different format. Originally, the scheduled event for this third tournament… Read more »
If it seems like the World Poker Tour (WPT) has an event every week, it’s because it does. At least this month. During the first week of December, we had WPT Prague, won by Andrey Pateychuk. This weekend, James Dempsey won the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las… Read more »
The Epic Poker League, about to start the third tournament series of its first season, has decided to grant the legendary Doyle Brunson its first lifetime player card, which will grant him eligibility for every Epic Poker League event, regardless of whether or not he met the entry requirements. “It’s unnecessary but I guess it’s… Read more »
If you are going to win a World Poker Tour (WPT) event, you might as well do it on a whim. Such was essentially the case for James “Flushy” Dempsey Sunday night, as he won the 2011 WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The Brit was not in Las Vegas specifically to play… Read more »
The final champion for the 2010 calendar year on the European Poker Tour has been determined, with Martin Finger outdueling David Boyaciyan to take home the crown at the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel, the Czech Republic. Of the eight men who came to the felt on Saturday, it was thought… Read more »
The final table for the last event of the European Poker Tour in 2010 is set in Prague, the Czech Republic, as Martin Finger holds a slim lead over Nicolas Levi for tomorrow’s action. 31 players came back to the tables on Friday, looking to get down to the traditional eight handed EPT final table,… Read more »
Prague seems to be the destination of choice for many poker tournament circuits as well as professional poker players. Just days after its last big buy in tournament for the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour pulled into the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel in the Czech Republic and the… Read more »
Remember when a one million dollar first prize in a poker tournament was mind blowing? Well, how about a one million dollar buy-in? It will happen next year, at the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Both a real bracelet event and a charity tournament, the “Big One for One Drop” will run from July… Read more »
The traditional tenth anniversary gift is tin or aluminum. We don’t know about you, but when talking about the tenth anniversary of the first World Poker Tour (WPT) event, referring to it as a recyclable doesn’t sound quite right. Good thing there are “modern” anniversary gifts. Therefore, this week’s running of the Doyle Brunson Five… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) is back in Prague for the fifth time this week as players set their sights on a first prize of more than three-quarters of a million Euros. Held at the Golden Prague Poker Room in the Hilton Prague Hotel, the $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em event started with two Day 1 flights… Read more »
Andrey Pateychuk probably felt extremely lucky to even be at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague final table. This year’s European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo Main Event champ found himself all-in with A-K late on Day 3, only to see his opponent flop a set of 9’s. The poker gods were with him, though,… Read more »
Day 3 has come and gone at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague and we are down to the final table. Entering the day, 62 of the 571 original players still remained, and while it took until the wee hours of the morning, the field was narrowed all the way to just the six players… Read more »
As they prepare for their third event in their inaugural season, the Epic Poker League announced yesterday two new partnership deals that will expand its footprint in the highly competitive tournament poker circuit community. Federated Sports & Gaming, the ownership behind the EPL, announced the two deals, one which will see their innovative Global Poker… Read more »
The organizers of the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) have launched a new women’s poker tour, the US Ladies Poker Championship Circuit Tour (USLPCC). Designed to offer women another circuit of poker tournaments with higher buy-ins and larger prize pools, the USLPCC’s first season is slated for 12 events plus the season ending championship. Each… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Marrakech stop concluded Sunday as Mohamed Ali Houssam triumphed over fellow Moroccan Toufik Ourini at the Casino De Marrakech. It was both Houssam’s first WPT cash and victory, though he had already found success at this very casino, winning the Marrakech Poker Open for $53,518 back… Read more »
This year has been a rough one, to say the least, for online poker players in the United States. It’s about time we had a feel good story, isn’t it? Over the Thanksgiving weekend, American expatriate Randy “nanonoko” Lew won the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau Main Event, an early Christmas present in a… Read more »
After an exciting year of tournament poker, several of the Player of the Year ranking systems are too close to call, making the final month of 2011 the determining factor in who will win those accolades. Bluff Magazine’s ratings only look at the top ten finishes for each player in a calendar year and awards… Read more »
Phil Ivey has been widely considered the best poker player in the world for years. He has won almost $14 million on the live tournament circuit, countless more millions in the highest stakes games both live and online, and owns eight World Series of Poker bracelets. His stoicism at the tables is intimidating, his skill… Read more »
It wasn’t exactly a wire-to-wire victory for Anthony Ruberto, but the final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville stop was about as comfortable as a final table can be for a champion. The man from Everett, Massachusetts was never in any real danger of being eliminated, starting with the top stack at the… Read more »
Like two trains on a collision course on the same stretch of track, the end of the casino day and the 7th place elimination were charging towards each other Tuesday morning at the Jacksonville Poker Room, host of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Jacksonville stop. The goal for Day 3 was to whittle the field… Read more »
The survivors from the two separate flights of Day 1 combined into one field on Sunday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville stop, the first WPT event ever held in the northern Florida city. Day 1A saw 88 of 188 players stay alive for today’s Day 2, while 80 made it through Day 1B… Read more »
The field of 336 may have been on the small side compared to other Main Events on major live poker tours, but the week long competition at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Loutraki stop was fierce. Sunday’s eight-handed final table lasted 13 hours; the three-handed portion alone spanned five hours. Emerging victorious from the grueling… Read more »
In a thrilling heads up battle, Spain’s Raul Mestre defeated the United Kingdom’s Victoria Coren to take down “The Table,” the International Federation of Poker’s first ever World Championship. After eleven hours of play on Saturday, the 135 invited players were whittled down to the nine player final table. Through outstanding performances, three women –… Read more »
Day Four play at the European Poker Tour stop at the Club Hotel Casino Loutraki, Greece, has come to a close with a host of German and Greek players in pursuit of a lone Brit. Coming into Day Four play, Greece’s Charalampos Kapernopoulos was at the head of the 38 players remaining in the event… Read more »
The International Federation of Poker’s weekend of tournaments has reached its halfway point, with a champion crowned in their first ever duplicate poker tournament and “The Table” already in action. On Thursday, twelve countries stepped up to take part in the inaugural Nations’ Cup event, playing duplicate poker, where the decks are preset and players… Read more »
