Ole Schemion Wins 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €10,300 Opening Event

by April 28, 2017

One spade, two spades, three spades… German poker pro Ole Schemion now has nine of the shiny trophies PokerStars awards to its live tournament winners. The player won last night the 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €10,300 Opening No-Limit Hold’em tournament. Apart from t ...

PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo Super High Roller – Reminiscence of EPT’s Glorious Past

by April 27, 2017

Monte Carlo is a dear spot to the international poker community, especially for those who still cannot overcome the bittersweet feeling of nostalgia for the European Poker Tour era. The French Riviera ward was home to 11 of EPT’s 12 Grand Final poker festivals, ending seasons of ...

Jose Montes Wins 2017 WPTDeepStacks Maryland Live! Casino $1,500 Main Event

by April 25, 2017

Jose Montes became on Monday the latest WPTDeepStacks Main Event champion after scoring a victory at Maryland Live! Casino. Montes beat a field of 337 other entries to add another title to his former live poker accomplishments.The player won a WSOP Circuit Main Event in Choct ...

Maria Lampropoulos Wins partypoker MILLIONS at Dusk Till Dawn Casino

by April 24, 2017

partypoker MILLIONS, the largest-ever live tournament presented by the popular poker brand, concluded last night at Dusk Till Dawn Casino Nottingham. The event featured a guaranteed prize pool of £6 million and a guaranteed first-place prize of £1 million.And the first-place ...

US Supreme Court Rejects Phil Ivey Edge-Sorting Partner’s Foxwoods Casino Case

by April 22, 2017

The US Supreme Court rejected earlier this week a case filed by Cheung Yin Sun against Foxwoods Resort Casino. The gambling venue had reportedly refused to pay Ms. Sun and her companion players Zong Yang Li and Long Mei Fang winnings of around $1.1 million.Foxwoods is one of ...

Pete Chen Takes Down the Inaugural WPT Beijing Main Event

Pete Chen Takes Down the Inaugural WPT Beijing Main Event

by April 20, 2017

After several days of action and fierce competition, the inaugural event of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Season XVI came to an end, crowning Pete Yanhan Chen as the WPT Beijing Main Event winner. The player emerged victorious from the first-ever WPT Main Event held in China, taking ...

Bryan Huang Takes the Lead on Day 3 of WPT Beijing Main Event

by April 18, 2017

Professional poker player Bryan Huang from Singapore emerged leader on Day 3 of the WPT Beijing Main Event. This is the first Main Event from the WPT series to take place on Chinese soil and is held at the luxurious NUO Hotel Beijing. The buy-in for the tournament is invitational ...

Biggest WPT Championship Winners over the Years

by April 14, 2017

During its fifteen years of existence, the World Poker Tour has established itself as a favorite poker brand to both players and fans of this thrilling game. The first-ever season of one of the world’s largest live poker tours took place in 2002/2003. That debut season culm ...

Ari Engel Wins MSPT Potawatomi Casino $1,100 Main Event

by April 12, 2017

Poker pro Ari Engel has added another poker title to his hefty collection after winning the Mid-States Poker Tour Milwaukee $1,100 Main Event for $114,876.Engel has had a mad ride around US casinos these past weeks, traveling to Tulsa for the WSOP Circuit Hard Rock Tulsa fes ...

Maurice Hawkins Wins Record 10th WSOP Circuit Gold Ring at Horseshoe Council Bluffs

by April 11, 2017

One particular word pops into WSOP Circuit fans’ minds when they hear the name Maurice Hawkins – unstoppable. Hawkins has indeed been unstoppable since last spring. He has won six WSOP Circuit gold rings since April 2016, capturing the last of them only last night and has become ...

Daniel Weinman Wins 2017 WPT Tournament of Champions

by April 10, 2017

Season XV of the WPT Main Tour was brought to a close in a spectacular manner, with Daniel Weinman fighting fiercely for the Tournament of Champions title and eventually capturing it on Sunday at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida.Weinman received th ...

Daniel Weinman Leads 2017 WPT Tournament of Champions Final Table

by April 9, 2017

The World Poker Tour is several hours away from ticking off yet another season in its fourteen-year history as completed. The popular poker brand has always concluded its Main Tour seasons in style and Season XV comes as no exception to this rule.This year’s Tournament ...

Ryan Riess Wins 2017 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale

by April 7, 2017

Ryan Riess knows the view from the top of the poker world. The player climbed up there when he won the WSOP $10,000 Main Event in 2013. Now, almost four years later, the Michigan-born poker pro has ticked off another poker goal – to win a major WPT Main Tour event.It was only ...

Johnny Lodden Becomes Latest partypoker Brand Ambassador

by April 6, 2017

partypoker’s team of ambassadors has become more and more clustered with poker celebrities recently and Norway’s Johnny Lodden is now joining the poker brand’s team of ambassadors to promote it across the Nordics and the rest of the world.Despite his young age, the 31-year-o ...

Alan Sternberg Leads 2017 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale Final Table

by April 5, 2017

Alan Sternberg is a final table away from his second WPT Main Event title. However, this will not be an easy task to accomplish as the player is set to face some really tough opponents at the final table of the 2017 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale.Sternberg will begin th ...