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Poker tournament participation has recently been holding steady or, in some cases, even showing a decline in many American casinos. The opening event of this year's L. A. Poker Classic has bucked this trend. Read more »
Iowa poker player William Reynolds took down the $25,000 buy-in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) High Roller Event at the tender age of 21. His victory was worth $576,000. Read more »
Wednesday marked a hectic day of play in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) High Roller event. Entering Thursday's eight-handed final table, Germany's Tobias Reinkemeier leads the way with nearly 1.1 million chips. Read more »
Harrison "gibler123" Gimbel may have garnered the headlines at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) by winning the Main Event and a $2.2 million paycheck, but he wasn't the only one having a good time at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. Read more »
Italian poker pro Dario Minieri leads the pack for the second straight day in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $25,000 buy-in High Roller tournament. Minieri is a member of Team PokerStars Pro. Read more »
Harrison "gibler321" Gimbel outlasted a talented final table in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event to become the youngest winner ever of the $10,000 buy-in poker tournament. He earned a $2.2 million first place prize. Read more »
Eight players remain in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA). Online poker pros Ryan "g0lfa" D'Angelo and Tyler "puffinmypurp" Reiman lead the eight-handed final table by a comfortable margin. Read more »
Today, the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event enters its play down day, as the 24 remaining players will become eight when all is said and done. At stake is a $2.2 million first place prize and the title of 2010 PCA Champion. Read more »
Although attendance at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) out-paced last year's tally by 13.5%, this year's champion will earn a whopping $800,000 less. In 2009, Canadian poker player Poorya Nazari earned $3 million after defeating American Anthony Gregg heads-up. Read more »
A total of 62 players remain out of the 1,529 who began the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event. A host of brand name players survived Day 3, including 2009 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event winner Barry Shulman. Read more »
On Friday night during the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA), a charity poker tournament benefiting amfAR, a foundation for AIDS research, will play out. The field is capped at 39 entrants. Read more »
Like Wayne Bentley on Day 1A, Praz Bansi owns a commanding chip lead in the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) after Day 2. His stack of 960,800 chips is 260,000 more than the next closest competitor. Read more »
Look out, North America! Long absent poker events sponsored by PokerStars, the continent will host the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) beginning on January 20th at the Venetian, with another stop planned for Mohegan Sun. Read more »
The 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) will go down as the largest in history, as 1,529 entrants took to the felts. Anibal Tacla from Curitiba, Brazil, the same hometown as Team PokerStars Pro member Alexandre Gomes, led Day 1B's finishers. Read more »
Day 1A of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) played out on Tuesday, with 668 players taking to the felts inside the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas. Wayne Bentley, a PokerStars qualifier from Britain, leads the way with 329,500 chips. Read more »
Day 1A of the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event attracted a starting grid of 668 entrants. The official number from the world's largest online poker site was passed down around 3:30pm local time in the Bahamas. Read more »
When players who have attended the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) in past years cite their favorite moments from the tournament series, at least one story tends to involve the opening night party hosted by the site. This year, PokerStars is aiming to outdo itself by hosting not one, but two seaside shindigs. Read more »
The European Poker Tour recently decided to change up the back half of its Season Six schedule and in lieu of the stop in Dortmund will instead be traveling to Berlin. The upcoming event promises to be the biggest poker tournament ever held on German soil and has a guaranteed first place prize of €1 million. Read more »
It was a big year for Dream Team Poker. In addition to holding successful events at Caesars Palace and as part of the WSOP festivities, Dream Team ended the year on a high note with a tournament at the Bicycle Casino that awarded its winners a couple thousand dollars and tickets to the 2010 Super Bowl. Read more »
The first six events of Season 2 of the PokerStars-sponsored Australia New Zealand Poker Tour (ANZPT) were announced in recent days, with Adelaide set to host the first event from February 9th to 14th. Read more »
After wearing the Wheeling Island Hotel and Casino logo during his appearance at this year's Main Event final table, Darvin Moon is playing host at an upcoming tournament series at the West Virginia poker room. Read more »
Allen "Chainsaw" Kessler emerged as the champion of the Main Event of the Bayou Poker Challenge at Harrah's New Orleans. A total of 80 players turned out for the $3,120 buy-in tournament and Kessler earned $71,000 after a four-way chop. Read more »
In the coming weeks, players on PartyPoker will not only be trying to satellite their way into the fourth installment of the PartyPoker Premier League tournament, but they are also vying for a sponsorship contract that could be worth $100,000. Read more »
The 2010 Irish Open will be held in Dublin from April 1st to the 5th, continuing its tradition as the oldest poker tournament in Europe. Contested every year since 1980 and created by the late poker legend Terry Rogers, the Irish Open has grown in importance over the years. Read more »
Ever since the popular online poker room PartyPoker signed 2009 Aussie Millions Main Event winner Stewart Scott as one of its sponsored pros, it has gone out of its way to promote both online and brick and mortar poker in Australia. Read more »
