Poker Tournament News
With the Federated Sports and Gaming League set to kick off in August, organizers Annie Duke and Jeffrey Pollack are making some impressive hires to make sure Season I goes smoothly. Matt Savage, who currently serves as the Executive Tour Director of the World Poker Tour (WPT) and Tournament Director at the Commerce Casino, will… Read more »
Sunday marks the final day of the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, which is being housed at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Eight players remain including last year’s runner-up, Erik Seidel. The eight-time bracelet winner fell to Annie Duke in the best-of-three finale in 2010 and now has his sights set on revenge. After getting… Read more »
Last week, it was revealed that the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) stop at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles would lose its title sponsor. The show must go on, however, as the series is currently taking place and has become known as the Big Event. Poker News Daily sat down with Bicycle Casino’s… Read more »
Trying to pick the lead story of Friday’s first round action in the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship is no easy task. Upsets-a-plenty characterized the day, the biggest of which came after Pro Football Hall of Famer Emmitt Smith defeated PokerStars pro David Williams in the first round. The tournament is emanating from Caesars Palace… Read more »
Although the action on the tables at Caesars Palace for the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC) doesn’t begin until Noon Pacific Time today, the draw party on Thursday night provided some surprises. The combatants for this year’s NHUPC gathered at the Pure nightclub at Caesars Palace last night to determine the starting brackets for… Read more »
The bracket is set in the 2011 National Heads-Up Poker Championship, whose pairings were determined last night at a drawing at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Recent World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic final tablist Carlos Mortensen was a late addition to the field and will face off against heralded young gun Sam Trickett… Read more »
Later this month, several top names from the poker community will be in attendance for two tournaments in Colorado to benefit charitable causes. Leading the list of poker players who will journey to Fort Collins, Colorado are the leading ladies for UB.com, Tiffany Michelle and Maria Ho. Recent Poker Pro Network signee Jennifer “Jennicide” Leigh,… Read more »
In breaking news from California, the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) has pulled its branding from this weekend’s event at the Bicycle Casino. A representative of the world’s largest online poker site posted on TwoPlusTwo earlier today, “The North American Poker Tour L.A. event scheduled for March 5th to 12th at the Bicycle Casino… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth, Howard Lederer, Annie Duke, Johnny Chan, and several of poker’s biggest names joined a host of celebrities and NFL players for a charity poker tournament at the Golden Nugget Casino in Las Vegas over the weekend. The tournament was set up to raise money for the Starkey Hearing Foundation and Pros for Africa,… Read more »
The Latin American Poker Tour (LAPT), sponsored by PokerStars, debuted in 2008 with three $2,500 + $200 events spanning three different countries. The second event of that inaugural season, the San Jose, Costa Rica stop, attracted a field of 398 players, creating a prize pool of close to $1 million. Through the next three seasons,… Read more »
There’s a major change in the offing for the PokerStars-backed European Poker Tour (EPT). The tournament series’ Grand Final, which has been held in Monte Carlo for the past six seasons, will pick up and head to Madrid, Spain. The Casino Gran Madrid will serve as the host venue for the Season 7 EPT Grand… Read more »
Natalia Nikitina became the latest woman to win a major title this week when she took down the World Poker Tour (WPT) Paris National Series event at the Aviation Club de Paris. Nikitina bested 188 players, including the scorching hot Sam Trickett at the final table, to earn €243,830 ($330,500) in prize money. The €5,000… Read more »
Federated Sports and Gaming has announced the schedule for its first season. The league, which features former UB.com pro Annie Duke as its Commissioner, will hold four preliminary tournaments along with a high-stakes $20,000 buy-in, rake-free Main Event. Yes, rake-free. The tournaments will run during the last four months of the year, with the Championship… Read more »
Coming up later this month, Phil Hellmuth will lend his talents to co-host a charity poker tournament in Las Vegas benefiting the Starkey Hearing Foundation. The Raise Your Hand for Africa event will take place on February 18th and 19th at the Golden Nugget in Downtown Las Vegas. Hellmuth will join two professional football players,… Read more »
The European poker community once again was shaken by the appearance of one of the alleged conspirators of a cheating scandal that rocked the tournament world last year. Over the weekend at the Holland Casino Dom Classic, the Main Event was in full swing. According to reports from PokerCity.nl, the €1,500 buy-in event was late… Read more »
Shortly after Midnight on Sunday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia, veteran poker pro David Gorr defeated a solid final table to take home the championship of the 2011 Aussie Millions Main Event. The tournament began a week ago, drawing 721 players that included much of the Full Tilt Poker stable of pros along… Read more »
Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel won the largest buy-in tournament in poker history late Thursday night at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. The newest member of the Poker Hall of Fame took down a prize of AUD $2.5 million for winning the Aussie Millions Super High Roller event, which sported a hard-hitting field… Read more »
The Aussie Millions wrapped up one of its premiere events, the AUD $100,000 Challenge, on Sunday, with England’s Sam Trickett taking down the prestigious title over a stacked field. Saturday saw the event begin with perhaps one of the most difficult fields ever assembled. With the AUD $100,000 buy-in, only the crème of the poker… Read more »
The Borgata Winter Poker Open’s first event, a $500 No Limit Hold’em Deep Stack tournament, drew an astounding 1,472 players on Wednesday. This was an all-time attendance record for a Borgata tournament and marks one of the largest events ever held on the East Coast of the United States. The humongous field also set another… Read more »
PokerStars, the world’s largest online poker site, has announced plans for a live poker tour to land in Eastern Europe in 2011. The site confirmed this week that the Eureka Poker Tour will launch in March and offer affordable buy-ins to players residing in the Eastern Hemisphere and online qualifiers from around the world. The… Read more »
The Minnesota Vikings might have fallen woefully short of the Super Bowl, but the team’s star running back, Adrian Peterson, is hosting a celebrity poker tournament two days prior to the “Big Game” in Dallas. The proceeds from Adrian Peterson’s All-In Celebrity Poker Tournament on Friday, February 4th will benefit Peterson’s All Day Foundation, which,… Read more »
With the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) behind us, the industry’s attention shifted to another one of the year’s most popular tournament destinations last week. The 2011 Aussie Millions kicked off last Thursday at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia and a whopping 762 players showed up for the opening event, an AUD $1,000 buy-in No… Read more »
A new professional poker league is set to launch in late 2011 and several prominent names in the community have taken significant roles in the organization. The formation of the yet-to-be-titled poker league was announced this morning by an organization called Federated Sports and Gaming, which was organized last year and is headed by former… Read more »
While wrapping up the proceedings in the Bahamas, PokerStars announced several new stops on its range of global tours, including the North American Poker Tour (NAPT). According to CardPlayer Magazine, the NAPT will return to two locations from its inaugural season, the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles (scheduled for March 5th through 10th) and the… Read more »
In 2009, Canadian Will Molson was the runner-up to Bertrand “Elky” Grospellier in the $25,000 buy-in High Roller Event at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). In 2010, he once again played second fiddle in the prestigious tournament, this time to William Reynolds. Over the weekend, Molson finally broke through and took down the High Roller… Read more »
