If it seems like the World Poker Tour (WPT) has an event every week, it’s because it does. At least this month. During the first week of December, we had WPT Prague, won by Andrey Pateychuk. This weekend, James Dempsey won the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic at the Bellagio in Las [...]
The survivors from the two separate flights of Day 1 combined into one field on Sunday at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Jacksonville stop, the first WPT event ever held in the northern Florida city. Day 1A saw 88 of 188 players stay alive for today’s Day 2, while 80 made it through Day 1B [...]
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 [...]
What a summer for Ben Lamb. The Las Vegas poker pro known as “benba” last month followed up a second-place in the ,000 Pot Limit Omaha event by winning his first World Series of Poker bracelet in the ,000 Pot Limit Omaha Championship. He then took eighth place in the ,000 Poker Player’s Championship this [...]
So much for Black Friday negatively impacting the attendance numbers at the 2011 World Series of Poker! Yet another tournament has broken a record in terms of attendance, this time the ,500 No Limit Holdem event which bested the previous mark, set in 2007, by six entries. A total of 3,157 players ended up registering [...]
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 [...]
The seventh annual National Heads-Up Poker Championship will return to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas next month and the excitement began building this week with the announcement of the 64-player field. Defending champion Annie Duke will join the world’s top pros and a handful of celebrities to compete for a record payday when the event [...]
They’re all guaranteed a payday of at least €4,100, but the 43 remaining players in PokerStars IPT Venice have a much bigger figure in mind… …€235,000 That’s the monies on offer for the winner, thanks to a €979,700 prize pool generated by a huge field of 505 in Venice, a record-breaker for the IPT. At [...]
There are few better places in Europe to play poker than Venice. Character, history, beauty, water (plenty of that) and the weather make it very pleasant. One man who enjoyed poker in the city more than anyone yesterday was PokerStars qualifier Loccarini Giacomo, chipleader of Day 1A of IPT Venice, the second stop of season [...]
Leo Tolstoy opens his epic 19th-century novel Anna Karenina by noting that, “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy after its own fashion.” What was true of families in Tolstoy’s day is true of poker players today: the happy ones (the winners) are generally alike, but the unhappy ones — the short-stacks [...]
