When most people think about their first live tournament cash, they have fond memories of a low buy-in tournament, probably at their local casino, when they were able to just eek out a profit. It’s an exciting time, even if the cash is so tiny that the cost of food and drink that night makes [...]
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 [...]
If 2010 started off as the Year of the Woman, than 2011 is shaping up to be the Year of the Home-Grown Champion, considering the Aussie Millions Main Event was won by an Australian; the PokerStars EPT Deauville Main Event was captured by a Frenchman; and now the WPT Venice Main Event has been won [...]
Anytime a popular tourist destination plays host to a major poker tournament you can expect a fairly strong turnout, and this is precisely what occurred at the World Poker Tour’s inaugural stop in Venice, Italy. After two Day 1 flights the WPT Venice Main Event attracted a respectable field of 523 entrants, sending the prize-pool [...]
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 [...]
