Poker Tournament News
The final stop of Season IX on the World Poker Tour will kick off on Saturday with the $25,000 WPT World Poker Championship at Bellagio in Las Vegas. The tour’s flagship event begins at noon local time today and runs through Friday, May 20, where a final table of six players will commence at 4… Read more »
The final table of the 2011 European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Madrid was made up of an eclectic group of eight players, with seven different countries being represented and contrasting personalities making for a unique live broadcast on PokerStars.tv on Thursday. Venezuela’s Ivan Freitez entered the day with the chip lead and put… Read more »
Over half the field of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Main Event has been shown the door as both flights of Day 1 are set to merge on Monday. The final Main Event of season seven will end up being one of the richest in EPT history, as 686 players paid the €10,000… Read more »
The newly formed Federated Sports and Gaming (FS&G) released the list of 218 players eligible for the inaugural season of its professional poker league Tuesday, along with the detailed criteria for selection. The league is slated to launch in early August and will feature four rake-free Main Events plus a championship to be held in… Read more »
He’s only 24 years old, but Blair Hinkle has already accomplished more than most poker players dream of. In his brief career as a pro, Hinkle has captured a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, a WSOP circuit ring, and a handful of major online wins, including a $1.1 million score in the FTOPS XIX… Read more »
The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) is in full swing at the Casino San Remo in Italy, the next-to-last stop on its seventh season. With the cards in the air on Saturday, the money bubble had burst and players are taking their share of the €4,786,950 prize pool. At the start of play on Saturday,… Read more »
When the European Poker Tour (EPT) gathers for the final event of its seventh season in Madrid next month, more than just the Grand Final title will be up for grabs. Reflecting on its seven-year history, the EPT has decided to hold its first ever Champion of Champions tournament, an invitation-only event only open to… Read more »
In light of the recent actions by the U.S. Department of Justice against the founders of Full Tilt Poker, Absolute Poker, and PokerStars, the World Team Poker Championship Event scheduled for May 24th to 26th in Las Vegas has been postponed. As far as when the tournament could play out, a press release issued by… Read more »
It was déjà vu all over again Thursday in Uncasville, Connecticut. One day after Vanessa Selbst defended her title of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event, fellow Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier followed suit, winning the $10,000 High Roller Bounty Shootout for the second straight year. Mercier bested a tough field… Read more »
The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) has only been around for 15 months, but it has already played host to an achievement most tours have yet to witness in years of existence. Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst pulled off the unthinkable on Wednesday evening by winning her second straight title in the NAPT Mohegan Sun… Read more »
The final table of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event was set Tuesday evening with some potential history on the horizon. Twenty-one-year-old Tyler Kenney has the chip lead going into Wednesday with just over three million, but all eyes will be on Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst and her attempt at… Read more »
There’s something about Uncasville, Connecticut that makes Vanessa Selbst feel right at home. The PokerStars pro is the chip leader going into Day 4 of the $5,000 North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun Main Event, leaving her one step closer to defending her title from a year ago. Selbst leads a field of 24… Read more »
The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) returned to Mohegan Sun over the weekend for its $5,000 Main Event. Defending champion Vanessa Selbst joined several PokerStars Team Pros in attendance, including Daniel Negreanu, Vanessa Rousso, Victor Ramdin, David Williams, Eugene Katchalov, and Barry Greenstein. But the story on Day 1 was the significant drop in entrants… Read more »
The second annual Borgata Spring Poker Open is just a few days away. The series kicks off from the Atlantic City casino on Wednesday, April 13th and runs until Friday, April 29th. The second cycle of the tournament series is anything but a small affair, as 53 events will pan out including the first ever… Read more »
With the second World Team Poker (WTP) Championship Event just around the corner, Team Canada has finalized its roster with the additions of Peter Jetten and Erik Cajelais. Jetten has proven his skills in both the online and live tournament poker world. After running $75 into a $100,000 bankroll online, Jetten has moved on to… Read more »
In case you missed it, the dates for the Federated Sports and Gaming poker league, run by Annie Duke, have changed. All of the other parameters about each tournament remain the same; however, the dates have been adjusted “out of respect for the poker community at large and to make it easier for the top… Read more »
The full schedule for the 2011 PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Mohegan Sun stop was released this week. The 35-event series will run from April 5 to 15, with the $5,000 Main Event set to take place from April 9 to 13. NAPT Mohegan Sun will kick off with a $300 No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
UB.net, the educational online poker arm of UB.com, is sponsoring Season 7 of the Heartland Poker Tour (HPT). A press release distributed by UB officials this week charges that the new partnership will bring the UB brand into “over 100 million U.S. homes throughout 52 straight weeks of HPT TV programming.” UB.com front man Joe… Read more »
Annie Duke has teamed up with Life Rolls On founder Jesse Billauer to host the First Annual “Night of Poker” on May 7 in Gardena, California. The event will benefit Billauer’s Life Rolls On Foundation, which works to provide the inspirational message of achievement for those with spinal cord injuries. The $225 No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
After a highly successful inaugural event last year, Phil Hellmuth and Robert Williamson III will once again join forces in Kentucky for a charity poker tournament in May. Last year, the first ever Derby Poker Championship was held two days prior to the 137th running of the Kentucky Derby. Hellmuth and Williamson, along with fellow… Read more »
World Team Poker will return for a second year with a Championship Event at the South Point Casino in Las Vegas from May 24th to 26th. The event, which will be filmed for television, will feature the world’s top players from at least 18 countries battling it out in a team-style format. Last year’s field… Read more »
The televised ESPN Bounty Shootout, held as part of the Bicycle Casino’s Big Event, held its final table on Saturday. The $10,000 buy-in tournament featured a winner-take-all top prize of $171,000 and nine players were left standing, including reigning World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel. Every player who reached the final table… Read more »
Victor Ramdin won the Big Event’s Main Event on Thursday at the Bicycle Casino, defeating friend and fellow PokerStars pro Joe Hachem heads-up to collect a first place prize of $500,000. Ramdin bested a field of 417 players and nearly went wire-to-wire for the title after amassing a sizable chip lead on Day 2 and… Read more »
Last year, Full Tilt Poker pro Erik Seidel fell to Annie Duke in the finals of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Despite the loss, the tournament marked a victory of sorts for Seidel, who had entered the 2010 running with a 0-5 record in the made-for-television event. Now, Seidel has won 11 of his last… Read more »
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 »
