The European Poker Tour is currently hosting the fifth event in their season six schedule and this time around the event is held in Portugal. The tournament is scheduled to be played out in five days with a winner declared on Sunday. It’s not unusual to spot some of the PokerStars pros and qualifiers at… Read more »
The Full Tilt high stakes tables have been really hot recently, especially with player Isildur1 challenging Red Pros left and right. Yesterday was a session that Patrik Antonius will remember for the rest of his life, as in just 2189 hands he managed to take $2.7 million from Isildur1. But their epic session also broke… Read more »
The name Tom ‘durrrr’ Dwan has long been linked to Full Tilt Poker, but only because the nosebleed stakes cash game player has logged millions of hands on the world’s second largest online poker site. However, all that changed when Full Tilt officially welcomed ‘durrrr’ to their Red Pro Team. Last week, news spread like… Read more »
Cake Poker is among the top ten biggest online poker rooms and it has earned a reputation for having some of the best graphics and features available in online play. The Cake Poker Network is home of more than 40 poker rooms some of which are among the top online poker rooms in the world. … Read more »
Ultimate Bet’s biggest guarantees of the weekend were, of course, reserved for Sunday. The first tournament on the schedule was a $100K tournament that started at 2 pm, the top two players made a deal and at the end the top two finishers were MattGraham and VIETCON01. The biggest tournament of the weekend was the… Read more »
PokerStars attracts thousands of players every weekend, and this Sunday was no exception as The Sunday Million’s prizepool – which had a special $2.5 million guarantee – eventually swelled to $3,656,600. When the tournament started there were 18,283 players and it took ten and a half hours of play until there were only 9 players… Read more »
The most anticipated final table of the year has ended although Full Tilt Pro Phil Ivey was clearly the crowd favorite to take down the $8.5 million first place prize, his competitors had other ideas. Darvin Moon ended Ivey’s run much earlier than anticipated when his A-Q sucked out on Phil’s A-K. Phil Ivey finished… Read more »
Cake Poker will have several big tournaments available for all their customers this weekend. The first big guaranteed tonight will be a $17,500 prize pool that will be starting at 7:30 pm. At 9 pm there will be a $162 $20K tournament, followed an hour later by a $10K guaranteed re-buy tournament. On Sunday, there… Read more »
Party Poker will have hundreds of thousands of dollars up for grabs this weekend and, to warm-up for the big tournaments, players will get a chance to refine their skills with several big guaranteed tournaments. The first tournament with an interesting prize pool will be played at 4 pm and $18K will be the money… Read more »
The FTOPS XIV events started this week and all Full Tilt players will have a chance to win life changing money in some of the biggest online tournaments ever. The first event of the series on Wednesday awarded prizes that exceeded $100K for the top two positions. Yesterday in event #2 RymesWOrange picked-up the win… Read more »
This weekend will be really busy for the poker community worldwide. First of all, the WSOP main event will be played down to a final winner and, on top of that, the Epic Nine promotion will also be played out until a final winner is reached. This is all not to mention Ultimate Bet’s regular… Read more »
PokerStars will have exclusive events for the ladies during their biggest live series of tournaments which will take place in the beautiful Bahamas. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure will start on January 4th and it will run for ten days in which 50 tournaments will award millions of dollars. The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has been held… Read more »
Full Tilt Pro Phil Ivey is well known for gambling on just about anything, and he is always willing to make extra money on the side with interesting prop bets. Some sportbooks have taken important bets on the red pro to win the main event that will be played out in less than 48 hours… Read more »
When Everest Poker created a promotion mainly as an incentive for all their players that qualified to the WSOP main event through one of their satellite events, loyal customers probably thought that it was an impossible task to defeat 6486 players and claim a seat at the 09 final table. Antoine Saout became a very… Read more »
PokerStars is constantly improving their promotions and they have recently decided to beef up their monthly Turbo Takedown tournament. The prize pool is still $1 million but they’ve now added additional prizes. The top finisher will take home an Audi TT on top of the big money prize that will be deposited into his or… Read more »
The FTOPS events have officially kicked-off at Full Tilt and millions of dollars will be on the line in the twenty five events that are scheduled. Event #1 had a one million guaranteed prize pool and there was actually an overlay as Full Tilt ponied up $61K roll over to meet the guaranteed prize pool.… Read more »
The poker world has been expecting a new world champion for the past three months and luckily the wait is almost over. The November Nine will be getting together to play down to a final winner in a few days from now. All the players at the table are experienced enough to win the event,… Read more »
Titan Poker will be offering a unique promotion that will have players participating in a live tournament and a poker reality TV show, and it will all take place in Sin City. There are live satellite tournaments in different casinos around the world as well as online qualifiers to the big tournament in Vegas that… Read more »
The FTOPS events will be starting today at 9 pm ET and the tournament that will start the festivities will be a No Limit Hold’em 6-max with $1 million as the prize pool. After today there will be a minimum of 2 events scheduled per day, and each tourney will have a Full Tilt pro… Read more »
The recently announced schedule that PokerStars has released will have players more exited than ever. The stops added to the European Poker Tour will have players traveling to some really exotic locations, including the EPT Snowfest in Salzburg, Austria. The events will take place at one of the best ski resorts in the world, Saalbach-Hinterglemm. … Read more »
Absolute Poker wants to make their players’ holidays even more special by giving them the opportunity to participate in the biggest guaranteed tournament of the week at a fraction of the cost. On November 26th at 8:30pm a tourney called Turkey Tourney will have players fighting their way into the top positions and earning one… Read more »
Ultimate Bet has been awarding packages to the biggest live tournaments since the year started, and they show no signs of stopping. They have recently announced three different ways in which their players can earn a package to the WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. This monster event will be held at the Bellagio in… Read more »
The third event in the Czech-Slovak Poker Tour, played in Brno, had one hundred and thirty one players and the first place prize was $21K. Among the field were only six PokerStars qualifiers and one of them managed to outplay all his opponents and win the event. Martin Hruby is a local that has been… Read more »
The Full Tilt high stakes tables have been quite busy in the last hours, and a few players managed to take advantage of the downswing that Tom “durrrr” Dwan is having. The red pro Phil Ivey in combination with Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies managed to take around $850K from durrrr at the Pot Limit Omaha tables. … Read more »
This past weekend was special at Full Tilt Poker because besides the regular big prize guarantees there was an additional tournament with a $250K prize pool, meant to get players pumped-up for the FTOPS events starting on November 4th. The FTOPS warm-up tournament was a complete success that brought more than 43,000 players to the… Read more »
