Vasillios Hrisafinis Ends 2016 WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Main Event Day 1B as Chip Leader

by September 20, 2016

The WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Main Event is well underway at Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City. The popular gambling venue has been included on the WPT Main Tour schedule for years now and has always turned out to be a great success, attracting players from all ...

Richard Lawlor Wins partypoker WPT National Ireland €1,100 Main Event

by September 19, 2016

The partypoker WPT National Ireland €1,100 Main Event has just been completed after eight days of play at Ireland’s National Event Centre in Killarney. Local player Richard Lawlor emerged as the winner of the major tournament to collect €65,000 for his efforts. Lawlor’s victory w ...

Corey Bierria Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi $365 No-Limit Hold’em (One-Day Event)

by September 18, 2016

The 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi schedule included three turbo-format events and all three have now been completed, with Corey Bierria emerging as the winner of the third such tournament only several hours ago.Bierria topped the field of the $365 No-Limit Hold’em (On ...

David Cossio Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi $580 No-Limit Hold’em

by September 17, 2016

After a year off from IP Biloxi in Biloxi, Mississippi, the WSOP Circuit included the casino in its 2016/17 season schedule. As usual, the stop features 12 gold ring events and several more opportunities for players to face fellow players and to receive a payout or two for their ...

David “Andrew” Hines Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi $365 No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack

by September 16, 2016

David “Andrew” Hines, a 24-year-old former poker dealer turned poker professional, triumphed as the winner of the 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi $365 No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack or Event #8 on the schedule of the poker tour’s IP Biloxi stop. To be celebrated as the tournament’ ...

David Aker Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi $365 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max (1 Re-Entry)

by September 15, 2016

Another event on the schedule of the 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi has been completed. David Aker from Kennesaw, Georgia took down the $365 No-Limit Hold’em Six-Max (1 Re-Entry) to collect a first-place payout of $14,701, his career second gold ring, and a much-wished-for affirm ...

Brady Hinnegan Wins CPPT World Cup of Cards C$1,650 Main Event

by September 14, 2016

Canadian player Brady Hinnegan won the highly anticipated first edition of the Card Player Poker Tour World Cup of Cards C$1,650 Main Event to take home his largest live tournament cash of C$111,000, the tournament trophy, and the accolades every champion deserves.The Card P ...

“bencb789” Wins 2016 WCOOP $102,000 Super High Roller

by September 13, 2016

Since the beginning of 2016, German poker pro Fedor Holz has won almost all major live high roller tournaments that have taken place all over the globe, scooping more than $16.1 million in earnings. Last night, the player was really close to winning the highest buy-in online poke ...

Salman “salfshb” Behbehani Leads 2016 WCOOP $102,000 Super High Roller Final 6

by September 12, 2016

High roller tournaments tend to attract more attention than regular poker events and this hardly surprises anyone. With enormous, sometimes even monstrous, amounts of money at stake, a player really needs to have quite a nerve to enter such tournaments. And the audacious are alwa ...

Dallas Berry Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit IP Biloxi $365 No-Limit Hold’em (Single-Day)

by September 11, 2016

Dallas Berry, a 71-year-old retired truck driver and occasional poker player, won his first WSOP Circuit gold ring last night. The single-day $365 No-Limit Hold’em tournament at IP Biloxi Mississippi was clearly his event to emerge victorious in. Berry collected a first-pla ...

WSOP Announces 2016 Poker Hall of Fame Class

by September 10, 2016

About this time every year, the WSOP announces the ten Poker Hall of Fame finalists who have accumulated the most votes by poker fans within a preliminary designated voting period. The 2016 Class of the Poker Hall of Fame was revealed on Friday and it contains ten well-known play ...

Jason Mercier to Stream WCOOP $102,000 Super High Roller on Twitch

by September 9, 2016

If the WSOP is generally accepted to be the world’s most highly anticipated live poker festival, the World Championship of Online Poker could be said to be its online equivalent. Annually, poker players from around the world enter the numerous WCOOP events on PokerStars to conten ...

Gordon Vayo Wins WinStar River Poker Series $2,500 Main Event

by September 8, 2016

It seems that Gordon Vayo, one of this year’s WSOP Main Event November Niners, has done a little warm-up before returning to Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino towards the end of October. Earlier this week, the player topped the field of the WinStar River Poker Series $2,500 Main E ...

Sean Yu Wins 2016/17 WSOP Circuit Planet Hollywood $1,675 Main Event

by September 7, 2016

Winning a WSOP Circuit Main Event is not an easy task. However, winning such a tournament against and accomplished opponent in possession of three WSOP gold bracelet is indeed a noteworthy feat. Sean Yu completed this difficult task only a few days ago. Playing heads-up against E ...

Types of Poker Players by Table Manners

by September 6, 2016

“Poker is a game of pure chance!” – a poker inexpert would conclude with the definiteness habitual of people that lack in enough experience and can only boast of a smattering of knowledge in a given area, but are nevertheless willing to voice their opinion. A poker connoisseur or ...