As the 43rd World Series of Poker gets underway, the specially designed poker bracelet of 2012 has finally been revealed. The bracelet is brilliantly encrusted with white and black diamonds, set in 14k gold. Jason...
One lucky player in Montreal has won a million dollar sponsored seat in poker's priciest tournament, the World Series of Poker Big One for One Drop. Carlos Nahas went up against 57 other players in the $25,000 Grand Tournoi de Poker Loto-Quebec satellite tournament. He took the place of a friend who won the satellite buy-in...
It’s a do over of last year as online high stakes poker pro Dan "Jungleman" Cates, (22, is set to give back in the form of a WSOP seat. He is prepared to pay the $10,000 buy-in for the World Series of Poker main event in addition to expenses including air fare and hotel accommodation for one lucky good deed doer. Hopefuls should detail the...
Tapie’s Wembley poker tournament project to be held in May 2013 An announcement came this week from Groupe Bernard Tapie that it is postponing its International Stadium Poker Tour Wembley project until the end of May next year. The tourn...
The World Series of Poker will make it possible for viewers to catch the 2012 WSOP in Las Vegas online by streaming 60 final tables. A maximum of 3 final tables will be streamed per day with a 5 minute delay including commentary from David Tuchman and a whole host of player analysts. Live streams will not pick up on hole cards. “It does...
The Big Game match lucrative for the poker ace These days will be remembered by Tom 'durrrr' Dwan as one of the most lucrative in his poker playing career, as he has seen extremely big succes...
Brit organizer seeks to set new record for longest poker session Rumors reappeared this week that Brit poker organiser Barry Denson will attempt to break the world record for longest continuous poker playing session, first set by Paul Zimbler who in 2009 played for 78 hours, 25 minutes, and 45 seconds straight against 183 opponents and raised GB...
In Las Vegas, the Bellagio Hotel and Casino is preparing to kick off the Five Star World Poker Classic poker series, home of the season-ending $25,000 World Poker Tour Championship main event. The series begins with the first of 34 events on Friday, May 4th. Tournaments to accommodate many levels of players will be featured with buy-ins from $33...
Monte Carlo hosts an epic tournament This week saw the end of the big PokerStars Euro 25,000 buy-in European Poker Tour Grand Final High Roller which was finalized with a glorious heads-up...
Two South Africans present formidable skill, reaching heads up This week’s Asia Poker Tour Philippines ended in a very interesting and intense way when two South Africans confronted one another in the heads up of this $2,700 buy-in tournament. Namely, the grand finale of the event belonged to Divan Le Roux and Conrad Coetzer who outplay...
The official count of participants and the prize pool numbers are in from the 2012 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final main event. On day 1a, 271 posted the €10,000 buy-in and day 1b drew in 394 participants. A total of 665 players have created an amazing prize pool of €6,650,000 to be won by 96 players with major attention...
From 13 going to 8 stops next year This week, online poker giant PokerStars announced that it will reduce the number of the European Poker Tour stops in season 9 next year, from the current 13 to just 8 stops. Also, it stated that it has entered partnerships with the Estrellas Poker and the UK and Ireland Poker Tours. Furthermore, the announc...
Young pro wins Euro 1.64 million Apr. 25 was a largely good day for internet and live tourney poker pro Justin Bonomo (26) who on the very date took down the Pokerstars and Monte Carlo European Poker Tour Super High Roller tourney, where he outplayed some impressive opposition. Thanks to the fact that he invested Euro 200,000 in re-entries, h...
A lucrative take-home of Euro 231,000 This past week was a really good one for online and live tournament poker ace Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier who bested the field of 57 players and won his third European Poker Tour High Roller event and claimed the Euro 231,000 main prize at EPT Berlin. Some of the names he outplayed at the tournament were...
American Cancer Society to benefit from this poker-related action A special navigation exercise was held this weekend by 21 pilots at the Jim Hamilton-L.B. Owens Airport in Columbia with an aim to help the American Cancer Society. The exercise saw the pilots spend the day flying around the state, landing at set points to pick up the component...
Davidi Kitai takes home his biggest career win yet This weekend saw the end of the new European Poker Tour Berlin, where the triumph was scooped by 32-year-old Davidi Kitai of Belgium, who beat 745 entry field to the Euro 712,000 main prize, achieving his biggest career win yet. Apart from the money, he won a seat at the season-ending Euro 100,0...
Allan Le takes the honors The Asian Poker Tour Manila Millions Super High Roller saw its grand finale this week, with lots of big names remaining in the game until the very end when the big main prize went to a Californian pro Allan Le, who scored his biggest win yet. The prize he took home was also the biggest one in the region yet, and amou...
Last year PartyPoker launched the first ever Pokerfest which was a great success and received rave reviews. This weekend marks year two of Pokerfest and the festivities begin this Sunday, April 22, 2012. Pokerfest II will be jam packed with 47 exciting tournaments offering...
25 players so far It appears that the $129,000 buy-in is one of the most attractive features of the Asian Poker Tour’s Manila Millions Super High Roller tourney, as it will create a prize pool worth $3 million. This is also the biggest buy-in yet for an Asian live tournament, and it has already attracted 25 players, a number of big name...
GBP 210,400 main prize the biggest one at the UKIPT Apart from the record-setting main prize, this season’s Pokerstars UK and Ireland Poker Tournament held in Nottingham, England saw another remarkable number – 1,625 players who entered the competition. The record paycheck went to a 60-year-old landlord from Leicestershire, Robert...
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