Poker Tournament News
The first ever stop by the European Poker Tour in the coastal city of Loutraki, Greece, is proving to be a popular one – at least for some players – as the second day of play wraps up at the Club Hotel Casino Loutraki. Day Two play began this afternoon (Greek time) with 232 players… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) is in the stretch run of its first-ever trip to Greece with a stop in the east coast resort city of Loutraki, formerly the ancient city of Thermae. The Main Event kicked off this week, with the second of two starting days concluding Wednesday. The €4,400 tournament saw 336 runners… Read more »
The €8,500 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event of the Partouche Poker Tour concluded Saturday after a two-month break and just as he entered the final table with the chip lead, Nottingham, England’s Sam Trickett finished the tournament on top. For his win in the 579-player event at the Palm Beach Casino in Cannes, France, Trickett won… Read more »
Later this week, the International Federation of Poker will put on its inaugural event, the Nations’ Cup, which will take place in London, the United Kingdom, and feature top players from around the world battling in a unique format. Eleven of the twelve teams that will play in the Nations’ Cup beginning on November 17… Read more »
It all came down to Tuesday night. Three men – Germany’s Pius Heinz, America’s Ben Lamb, and the Czech Republic’s Martin Staszko – returned to the Rio to determine who would be the next poker legend, who would be the 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion. It looked like Pius Heinz’s bracelet… Read more »
All the attention during the beginning of this week may be on the final table of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, but let’s not forget there are other major tournaments going on all over the world. One of them, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Amneville stop, concluded over the weekend. The €3200… Read more »
Sunday was the day the poker world had been waiting for almost four months. The 2011 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event resumed after its break in July as the November Nine got together to battle it out for millions of dollars. Play began at 3:30pm ET and was scheduled to go until three… Read more »
It must be a good feeling to almost double your lifetime earnings in a week. That’s just what New York’s Daniel Santoro did, as he won the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals in what turned out to be a final table that was a tale of two halves. For the victory, Santoro… Read more »
Day 5 of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals just goes to show that there are no givens in poker. One hand, one card, and everyone’s predictions can go flying out the window. Going into Monday’s abbreviated day of play, two players were clearly on the ropes, the prohibitive short stacks, but… Read more »
Day Five of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Foxwoods World Poker Finals could turn out to be the shortest day in the history of the Tour. The televised six-handed final table is scheduled for Tuesday, but entering play Monday, there are just eight players remaining. The schedule will not change, though, so only two players… Read more »
Although he had a fight when it went to heads up play, Russia’s Andrey Pateychuk dominated the final table at the European Poker Tour stop in San Remo, Italy, taking home the championship. At the start of play on Thursday afternoon (San Remo time), Australia’s Daniel Neilson was at the head of the leaderboard, but… Read more »
At this point, they can probably smell the multi-colored banknotes. After Day 4 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo Main Event, just 24 players remain out of the original 837 and the final table is just a day away. Continuing his dominance from the previous day, Christopher McClung remains the chip leader, sitting… Read more »
If Sunday was a marathon at the 2011 European Poker Tour (EPT) San Remo Main Event, then Monday was a nice, easy cool down. In an effort to clear the tournament of as many people as possible, tournament officials let the action run from 2:00pm to 2:00am on Sunday’s Day 2. The field was slashed… Read more »
The European Poker Tour’s (EPT) San Remo Main Event is scheduled to run for six days (seven when you count both flights of Day 1), but that doesn’t mean that the tournament’s organizers wanted to spread the action too thin. Running overtime to make sure that enough players were eliminated so that there would be… Read more »
The two Day Ones have been completed at the Casino San Remo as the European Poker Tour’s latest stop in Italy continues action to determine a champion later this week. Between the two Day Ones, a field of 837 players was created, with the €5000 put up by each player creating a prize pool of… Read more »
As the old axiom says, “There’s no rest for the wicked,” which could be said about the tournament poker world as its denizens flood the Italian city of San Remo for the next stop on the European Poker Tour. The EPT San Remo has traditionally been one of the most popular events on the EPT… Read more »
The first Caesars Cup did not go so well for Team Americas in 2009. Losing four matches to one was not exactly the way that year’s Team Americas captain, Daniel Negreanu, wanted to represent his side of the Atlantic. And while it might have been tough to wait two years for another shot, that layoff… Read more »
The 2011 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) completed its third day on Tuesday and with just 25 players remaining, the finish line is now in sight. Topping the leader board is London’s Max Silver, sitting behind a 1,780,000 chip stack. Hot on his heels is fellow Brit Chris Moorman, with 1,769,000. Silver’s live tournament… Read more »
Caesars Interactive Entertainment, owner of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), announced this weekend that it has tweaked the schedule for the upcoming November Nine slightly in order to improve its television coverage. The original schedule for the Main Event, which is still displayed on the WSOP’s official structure sheet, was for the final table… Read more »
Day 2 of a big live tournament is often the one where many players change their mindset from “let’s survive the day” to “let’s get to work.” Day 1 at the World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) Main Event, as was the case for the traditional WSOP in Las Vegas, was split into multiple flights… Read more »
Black Friday has claimed another victim. Originally reported by Wicked Chops Poker late last week, the popular NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) has been cancelled indefinitely. The annual invitational tournament had been a highlight of poker television since 2005. The decision to not hold the tournament in 2012 was not completely unexpected. Both PokerStars… Read more »
Hoping to find a niche on the live tournament circuit and attract young players looking for a game after the obliteration of online poker in the United States, Card Player magazine has announced that it is launching a new poker tour, the Native American Casino Poker Tour (NACPT). As the name implies, the tour stops… Read more »
The second event of the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) concluded Tuesday with Aussie Andrew Hinrichsen emerging victorious, the sixth Australian in history to win a World Series of Poker gold bracelet. The €1,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em tournament was the largest ever at the WSOPE, as its 771 entrants demolished the previous record… Read more »
The World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) kicked off Friday with the first of seven official bracelet events as the Series moves to Cannes, France after four years in London, England. In another first, Guillaume Humbert became the first Swiss national to win a bracelet, taking the 2,500 Six-Handed No-Limit Hold’em event and its €215,999… Read more »
Riding a wave of knockouts at the final table, Germany’s Benny Spindler cruised to the championship at the European Poker Tour’s stop in London, while Philipp Gruissem made EPT history by winning the High Roller event at the Hilton Metropole Hotel. In the Main Event, play was down to five players with Spindler holding a… Read more »
