He held the lead after Day Four of the 2023 European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event. He maintained that edge in the Casino Barcelona for Day Five on Friday. And, on Saturday, Simon Wiciak continued to dominate the field as the EPT Barcelona Main Event reached its final table, with the championship set to be… Read more »
The Casino Barcelona has been a more than hospitable host for the European Poker Tour’s traditional stop in Spain. The 2023 EPT Barcelona has battled down from the second-largest tournament in EPT history (2120 entries) to only four tables remaining. Familiar names are few on the leaderboard, but that is something that Simon Wiciak hasn’t… Read more »
The money bubble burst at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event Tuesday, leaving just 303 players with chips going into Wednesday’s Day 3. Russia’s Eduard Barsegyan is the leader with 835,000 chips, while Ioannis Zachmanidis has 802,000, the only other player with over 800,000. Lurking in third place is Antoine Labat, who finished… Read more »
Day 2 of the €5,300 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event is underway at Casino Barcelona, as the 698 survivors from the two Day 1 flights merge to continue the contest. There was a total of 2,053 entries between the two flights, leaving the field 242 entries short of breaking last year’s tournament record…for… Read more »
Phil Hellmuth has done it again. In one of the top moments of the 2023 World Series of Poker, the 1989 World Champion once again etched his name into the record books, winning his seventeenth WSOP bracelet in Event #72, the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No Limit Hold’em tournament. At a table that included another… Read more »
It was a historic cap to what has been a historic event. Tying the record for the largest-ever Monte Carlo Main Event, the European Poker Tour’s stop at the Monte Carlo Casino was finished with another name joining the shortlist that has won two stops on the EPT circuit. When the last card fell, Canada’s… Read more »
If playing poker is the lifestyle that many want to pursue, how about pursuing that lifestyle on the French Riviera? The European Poker Tour has been doing that for the past week with the EPT Monte Carlo at the Monte Carlo Casino in Monaco. What was a record field for the tournament is now down… Read more »
We are only a month away from the 2023 World Series of Poker, so it is only natural that the two major tournament poker circuits get in their last action before everyone goes to “Summer Camp” in Las Vegas. On Friday, the World Poker Tour will open action on their latest trek to Florida. Later… Read more »
Poker is a game, much like golf, where the players uphold the integrity of the rules themselves. Dating back to the age of the riverboat gamblers of the 1800s, those who plied their trade often would settle any disagreements with fisticuffs and, on extreme occasions, with a weapon. It led to the game of poker… Read more »
In a dizzying display of poker, Romania’s Razvan Belea dominated the field of the European Poker Tour Paris Main Event on Sunday. Holding the lead from Day Four onward, Belea defeated Sweden’s Peter Jorgne in heads-up action to capture the million-plus Euro payday. For Belea, it was even more special because he had qualified for… Read more »
Four days are in the books for the 2023 European Poker Tour Paris Main Event and we’ve come down to crunch time. Only fifteen players remain in the field, including Day Three chip leader Konstantin Held and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Harry Lodge. They will be looking up at the chip leader Razvan… Read more »
The European Poker Tour is in Paris for the first time and the €5,300 is underway. After the full slate of Day 1 flights – of which there were two – Teun Mulder out of Day 1B is the overall chip leader, going into Wednesday’s Day 2 with 347,000 chips. Though this is the first… Read more »
Everyone’s had their rest…now it’s time to get back in the pool! The 2022 tournament poker season seems to have just ended a couple of weeks ago as Father Time strolled out the door. With the arrival of the Baby New Year comes a brand-new fleet of tournaments and a few surprises on the major… Read more »
While the World Poker Tour has been drawing attention in the States of America, Europe has been entranced with the European Poker Tour stop in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. The 2022 EPT Prague has seen the largest-ever Main Event come together in the Czech poker capital and, after three days of play, there are still some… Read more »
As the World Poker Tour begins its final stop in Las Vegas, so does the European Poker Tour in Prague. The €5,300 EPT Main Event began on Monday with the first of two starting flights. There were 402 entries on Day 1A at the Hilton Prague, with Javier Gomez Zapatero emerging as the chip leader… Read more »
Christmas (or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or whichever holiday celebration you follow) is just around the corner, but poker isn’t taking any breaks. On both sides of the Atlantic, major tournament schedules are underway. The play in these events should capture the attention of poker’s fandom and keep them entertained up to Santa’s drop down the… Read more »
They might have rolled out slowly after the COVID pandemic, but the European Poker Tour is looking to reignite the engines for 2023. In an announcement this week, the venerable European circuit’s owners, PokerStars, announced the full schedule for the 2023 calendar year. The series will return to several familiar battlegrounds, but they have added… Read more »
The end of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe has come and, with it, the final stretch run to the finish line for the 2022 Player of the Year races is coming into view. That finish line is bringing some very convoluted standings, however. At this moment, there is no clear consensus as to… Read more »
Taking a journey back into its history, the European Poker Tour has wrapped up action in London on Friday evening (UK Time). In the £5000 Main Event, it came down to a “Battle of Britain,” with the final two players representing the Union Jack. In the £10,000 “High Roller,” the U. S.’s Adam Miller reigned… Read more »
It had long been rumored, but on Friday it became official. In a brief announcement, officials with the PokerGO Tour, the creation of the streaming channel of the same name, announced that two players had been suspended. “High Rollers” Ali Imsirovic and Jake Schindler, who at one point were 1-2 in the PokerGO Tour Player… Read more »
Note: This article was originally published 8/22/22, but technical issues required it to be re-posted. We’re going to start this out with a potent poker cliché: “a chip and a chair.” And even though it’s a cliché, it can be a wise mantra for any poker player. You are not out of a tournament until… Read more »
Live poker continues to thrive Amidst the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour, the European Poker Tour (EPT) sometimes gets ignored. Some of that is because it doesn’t have as many events and some of that is because, by definition, it doesn’t have the exposure in the United States that the other… Read more »
It seems like it has been ages since we’ve been able to say this, because it has. For the first time in three years, the European Poker Tour has journeyed to Barcelona, Spain, for one of its most popular stops. One thing that may be an issue, however, is that a predominance of the 2022… Read more »
It has been an issue in poker overall – and in online poker especially – for decades. How do you ensure that those who cheat in the game are punished fully for the transgressions that a person, a team, or a group has committed? Long there has been discussion about the subject, but not much… Read more »
The 2022 World Series of Poker might have been dominating the headlines, but it is not like the planet stopped rotating. There has been some other news that has penetrated the WSOP bubble, which we will look at here in today’s version of “In Case You Missed It!” PokerStars Bans Players Who Cheat Online It… Read more »
