Brian Rast Wins $50,000 Aria Super High Roller 15

by February 7, 2017

It was one of those weekends when Aria Resort & Casino in Las Vegas hosted a handful of high roller tournaments that, just as usual, attracted representatives of poker’s elite. There were three such events to take place at the venue between February 2-4 – two of them feature ...

Borgata Casino Seeks Final Judgment in Phil Ivey Baccarat Case

by February 6, 2017

Atlantic City’s Borgata has recently responded formally to Phil Ivey’s call for a final judgment in a long-standing baccarat edge sorting case. The popular poker pro and his companion player Cheng Yin Sun are sued by the gambling venue for winning close to $10 million by exploiti ...

Biggest World Poker Tour Main Event Winners

by February 5, 2017

Daniel Weinman has just won the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event, the latest such tournament on the tour’s 2016/2017 calendar. The player, a poker professional from Georgia, cashed $892,433 for his triumph. Tradition also dictates that all Main Tour Main Event winne ...

Daniel Weinman Wins 2017 WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Main Event

by February 4, 2017

Daniel Weinman, a poker pro from Alpharetta, Georgia, spoilt himself with the best possible gift for his 29th birthday – a WPT Main Event title. Last night, the player emerged victorious in the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open $3,500 Main Event on the 116th hand into final day play. ...

Jonas Kraft Wins 2017 888Live Rozvadov €5,300 High Roller

by February 3, 2017

The poker room at King’s Casino Rozvadov has gradually become a favorite destination to poker players from all around Europe as well as to some of the biggest live poker tours to be taking place on the continent.Major gambling operator 888 has been the latest to opt for the v ...

The Inaugural PokerStars Festival London in Numbers

by February 2, 2017

Last year, PokerStars announced that it would bid farewell to the live poker tours it has sponsored around the globe for years to replace them with new festival and championship formats. There were mixed reactions to the news from the poker community, yet the old tours held their ...

AI Program Beats Top Poker Pros in Ground-Breaking Research

by February 1, 2017

Artificial intelligence has been a scientific area broadly explored over the past decades. And its application in the game of poker has become the focus of research of two scholars from Carnegie Mellon University. Computer science professor Tuomas Sandholdm and PhD student Noam B ...

Biggest 2017 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Winners

by January 31, 2017

Now, as the PokerStars Championship Bahamas, the PokerStars Festival London, and the Aussie Millions Poker Championship are history, it could be said that the poker year is off to a good start.This year’s edition of the Aussie Millions Poker Championship was concluded yesterd ...

Rehman Kassam Wins 2017 PokerStars Festival London £990 Main Event

by January 30, 2017

There were 24 players to return for Day 3 of the inaugural PokerStars Festival London Main Event on Sunday but only one left the Hippodrome Casino as the big winner some hours later. Rehman Kassam, a 23-year-old law student and occasional poker player, was that lucky one. The pla ...

Alexis Fleur Leads 2017 PokerStars Festival London £990 Main Event Final Day

by January 29, 2017

It could be said today, on the very last day of the inaugural PokerStars Festival London, that the successor of the UKIPT turned out to be a pure success. Hosted by the emblematic Hippodrome Casino in London, the festival attracted players from all around the world to celebrate t ...

Nick Petrangelo Wins 2017 Aussie Millions A$100,000 Challenge

by January 28, 2017

Another event on the 2017 Aussie Millions Poker Championship has just been ticked off as completed. Nick Petrangelo, a well-recognized name in the poker community, won the A$100,000 Challenge mere hours ago after a quick seven-handed final table play. Petrangelo added A$882,000 t ...

Joe Johnson Wins 2017 PokerStars Festival £2,200 High Roller

by January 27, 2017

Joe Johnson won the action-packed PokerStars Festival London £2,200 High Roller event that extended into an unscheduled third day of play to scoop a first-place prize of £59,912 and a PokerStars-stamped trophy for his efforts.Aged 23, Johnson is a frequent visitor at London’s ...

Mike Leah Adds TCOOP Title to Online Poker Record

by January 26, 2017

The 2017 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) is well under way on PokerStars. This year’s edition of the online poker series kicked off on January 18 and is set to run through January 29. Its schedule includes 65 different events with buy-in fees of between $8 and $3,000. ...

Steffen Sontheimer Leads 2017 Aussie Millions A$100,000 Challenge Final 7

by January 25, 2017

As the 2017 edition of the Aussie Millions is progressing toward a conclusion, the champions in several of its highlight tournaments are yet to be determined. Day 1 of the A$100,000 Challenge, the event with the second largest buy-in on the festival’s schedule, was played earlier ...

Nick Georgoulas Wins 2017 Aussie Millions Australian Poker Hall of Fame Classic

by January 24, 2017

Event #14 on the 2017 Aussie Millions schedule was a special one. The Australian Poker Hall of Fame Classic was a A$1,150 buy-in tournament that attracted six local Hall of Famers and a number of other players to generate A$126,075 in prize money. Local player Nick “The Greek” Ge ...