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The 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Main Event is off and running, breaking the post-World Series of Poker doldrums and kicking tournament poker back into action for the second half of the year. Although the tournament failed to meet its guarantee, a quality field still turned out for Day 1, ensuring an entertaining tournament… Read more »
In a press release on Friday morning, the powerhouse online gaming company Amaya Gaming – the owners of PokerStars, among other things – released their pertinent financial data for the second quarter of 2016. At the same time, the company quietly announced a change at the top of the company, removing the ‘interim’ title from… Read more »
Well that was fast. Less than a week after we posted an article about the fourth iteration of a tentative schedule for the 2016 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), PokerStars has unveiled the final, official schedule for the massive tournament series, set to run September 4th through September 26th. And massive is an… Read more »
After more than 30 months of wrangling over the case, a court in New Jersey has denied the appeal of a group of players who took part in the “Chipgate,” reaffirming the decision by the casino and state gaming regulators as to how to settle the tournament. In a hearing in front of the Appeals… Read more »
An administrative law judge in Florida ruled earlier this week that one of the top destinations in Florida for poker tournaments, bestbet Jacksonville, has been violating state laws in running certain games on their floor. The case was a challenge by the Jacksonville Kennel Club, the owners of bestbet Jacksonville, and was heard by Administrative… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event came to a close on Tuesday as James Mackey advanced all the way from bottom stack to a dominant end-game to win his first WPT title. For the victory, Mackey won $681,758, which includes a $15,000 entry into the season-ending Tournament of Champions. Mackey began the six-handed… Read more »
The televised final table has been set for the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event as the field was narrowed from 40 to just six on Monday. Bastian Fischer leads the sextet with 8.780 million chips. It looks to be a good battle on Tuesday, with three players holding healthy chip stacks. After… Read more »
The first major live poker tournament post-World Series of Poker is well underway now as the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event has completed Day 2. 330 players entered Sunday’s action from the two Day 1 flights and just 40 remain as Monday’s Day 3 looms. Randi Lister holds court as the chip leader,… Read more »
The two Day Ones for the World Poker Tour’s Season XV stop at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Oklahoma are in the books. Coming through the larger of the two, Michael Hahn ended Day 1B with a sizeable chip stack of 370,000 chips to pace the field heading to Sunday’s Day 2 action. With more… Read more »
After a few weeks off with the conclusion of the 2016 World Series of Poker – that is, everything but the “November Nine” – the tournament poker world is swinging back into gear as the month of July comes to a close. One tournament in Florida has become the de facto kickoff to the second… Read more »
After more than five years of travel through the courts in the United States, the final settlements regarding Full Tilt Poker were quietly reached earlier this year, ending the saga of the now-defunct twice over online poker site and putting it into the history books. The issues that Full Tilt faced were directly related to… Read more »
After a two-month span that saw him earn almost $10 million, Germany’s Fedor Holz has emerged from the orgy of poker in Las Vegas as the overall leader of the two major Player of the Year leaderboards in the industry. Holz’s play has simply been mind-boggling since Memorial Day in the United States. Coming over… Read more »
Day 7 of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event began with 27 players filling three tables and finally ended at around midnight Pacific time as the nine member of the final table – best known in the poker world as the “November Nine” – were determined. Leading the way is New York’s Cliff… Read more »
Here we are. The 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event field was whittled from 80 players down to just 27 on Sunday. The next step: determine the November Nine. Those 27 remaining players will get together at noon Pacific time on Monday and will play as long as it takes to get down to… Read more »
Two days from now, the “November Nine” will be determined for the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event. As for Saturday, the 251 players who came back for Day 5 action had their minds set just on making it through another day. 80 men were able to keep the dream alive after another grinding… Read more »
The tension is beginning to mount in the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino’s Amazon Room in Las Vegas as the final days of the 2016 World Series of Poker’s Championship Event are in action. With only 251 players remaining from the monstrous 6737 player field, WSOP bracelet winner Bryan Piccioli is the player that… Read more »
The 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event saw the entirety of the field come together for the first time. The 2186 players who had been fortunate enough to battle through the alphabet soup mix of Day Ones and Twos were now faced with the challenge of surviving another large field and actually making it… Read more »
The final Day Two is in the books at the 2016 World Series of Poker Championship Event and, although he would emerge with the day’s largest stack, Day 2C chip leader Gustavo Lopes wasn’t able to catch the man who is the overall chip leader, Valentin Vornicu. A massive throng of 3252 players – larger… Read more »
As the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event rolls on, we are still in that weird-feeling portion of the tournament in which the field is carved into pieces. We already had the three starting flights, but the Main Event is so big that even on Day 2, the field has to be split… Read more »
As my colleague Earl Burton reported yesterday, the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Championship Event, better known as the Main Event, needed nearly 4,000 players to belly up to the tables on Monday’s final starting flight in order for the total field to eclipse last year’s number of 6,420 entrants. Not a… Read more »
As the 2016 World Series of Poker’s $10,000 Championship Event played out its second Day 1 on Sunday, two tournaments were looking to crown champions. The “Big One High Roller” concluded its action late Sunday night, while the Ladies’ Champion was crowned in rapid fashion on Sunday afternoon. Event #65 – $10,000 Ladies’ No Limit… Read more »
Saturday marked the beginning of the 2016 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event, but there was still some unfinished business around the Rio All Suites Hotel and Casino to take care of first. In fact, one of the final “big money” tournaments of the WSOP was extended a day to determine its championship, among… Read more »
The 2016 World Series of Poker crept closer to its Championship Event with the conclusion of the inaugural Tag Team event on Friday. With several top-notch pros entered into the event, it was the duo of Doug Polk and Ryan Fee who walked away as champions. Event #61 – $1000 Tag Team No Limit Hold’em… Read more »
The 2016 World Series of Poker is lumbering to its featured tournament – the $10,000 Championship Event – but there’s still some work left to do with the preliminary events. The final table is set in the inaugural Tag Team tournament, while the $25,000 Pot Limit Omaha field has been whittled down to the final… Read more »
In one of the best battles so far at this year’s World Series of Poker, Brian Rast was able to outlast a strong Justin Bonomo to make history in winning his second $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship. When the final table for the PPC began on Wednesday, Rast wasn’t the only person with a shot at… Read more »
