Poker Tournament News
The 2021 Poker Masters is heading into its homestretch, with the dollar value associated with the tournaments ramping up. Wednesday and Thursday final table action saw two $25,000 tournaments determine champions, with one event crowning a newcomer. It is all going down ahead of the $100,000 Main Event, which will take place over the weekend.… Read more »
Rok Gostisa won the 2021 WPT World Online Championships Main Event on Tuesday, using a huge bluff and getting some blessings from the poker gods heads-up to beat out 1,178 players and cash for $959,493. The Main Event was spread over more than two weeks using a structure we have seen more and more of… Read more »
Stephen Chidwick won his first live tournament of 2021 on Tuesday, taking the crown in the Poker Masters Event #7: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em. For outlasting 67 opponents, Chidwick added $183,600 to his more than $36 million in lifetime earnings. Chidwick entered the second day of the tournament in the chip lead with just five players… Read more »
With the 2021 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas just around the corner, there was still the little matter of the WSOP Online to finish up this weekend. Highlighting the closing festivities was Aleksei “Ha KoJleHu” Vandyshev, who won the $5,000 Main Event Online Championship on GGPoker and the $2,543,073 first prize. GGPoker guaranteed… Read more »
Might as well clinch it with Aces Daniel Negreanu kept his hot summer going over the weekend, winning Event #5: $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2021 Poker Masters, pocketing $178,200. With the victory, Negreanu has vaulted into the top spot on the Poker Masters leaderboard. As is the case with these high buy-in PokerGO tournaments,… Read more »
It was a big Saturday night for Brock Wilson in the PokerGO Studios. Battling through some new names that had entered the fray, Wilson would defeat Elio Fox to take the championship in Event #4, another $10,000 No Limit Hold’em event on the schedule. With his victory, Wilson would also take over the lead in… Read more »
It was a change of pace at the 2021 Poker Masters as, for the first time, a game other than No Limit Texas Hold’em hit the felt. In Event #3, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha match, Adam Hendrix would reign supreme over the 69 entries that the tournament received. In an interesting sidelight to the… Read more »
After coming up short of the final table in Event #1 of the 2021 Poker Masters, Sean Perry completed the job on Thursday afternoon. He would emerge victorious in Event #2, another $10,000 No Limit Hold’em event on the schedule, defeating Jeremy Ausmus in heads up action. The victory allowed Perry to take an early… Read more »
The battle for the Purple Jacket has begun! Wednesday marked the first final table of the 2021 Poker Masters, the “made for streaming” poker schedule created four years ago by PokerGO. While the numbers were slightly down for the first of a series of $10,000 No Limit Hold’em events (82 entries), the outcome was one… Read more »
Following state guidelines The World Series of Poker announced Tuesday that players will be permitted to go maskless while seated at their tables. The decision, says the WSOP, is in line with Nevada Emergency Directive 050, signed by Governor Steve Sisolak on September 2. Whenever players are away from the table, even a step, they… Read more »
Looking for redemption Phil Hellmuth and Tom Dwan are almost set for another heads-up battle. Over the weekend, Hellmuth tweeted that he has formally challenged Dwan to a High Stakes Duel III rematch: The gauntlet throw-down comes about a week and a half after Dwan dispatched Hellmuth in Round 2 of PokerGO’s High Stakes Duel… Read more »
After going with an online format in 2020 due to the COVID pandemic, the “powers that be” at PokerGO have announced that the 2021 Poker Masters will return to a live format for this year’s tournament. The 2021 Poker Masters is scheduled to start this Monday, September 7, and run through September 18. The 12-event… Read more »
When you defeat 40 players in a poker tournament, you don’t normally expect to win $3,690,000, but not every tournament is the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Europe. On Wednesday, Wiktor “Limitless” Malinowski, a high stakes cash game specialist, finished off the six-handed final table for by far the most lucrative live tournament win of… Read more »
The PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) is currently underway, but that does little good for players in the United States, who cannot play on the dot com version of the poker room. Good news, though, as Stars just announced that its sites in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and New Jersey will all have “COOPs” of… Read more »
It had to happen at some point. After defeating some of the toughest players in the game – and an amateur who took his shot – Phil Hellmuth’s streak in the made for streaming poker show High Stakes Duel ended. In the resumption of High Stakes Duel III, poker professional Tom Dwan was able to… Read more »
If Phil Ivey is officially back, that is some amazing news and terrible news for the poker world. Amazing because he’s arguably the best poker player of all time, so naturally getting to watch him play is a treat. Terrible because now other poker players are going to have to get past him in tournaments.… Read more »
In a pretty quick turnaround, the 2021 U. S. Poker Open has been picked up for broadcast by one of the major sports channels in the States. NBC Sports Network, which has past background in airing poker, will be the television outlet for the USPO. There are three days that are being set aside for… Read more »
Dimitri Vorbe, an amateur poker player, won the $5,250 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) Championship Tuesday night, overcoming an 1,180-entry field and winning $929,365. It was only the second recorded live tournament cash for the man who typically just plays home games with his buddies. His only other score was for just over $2,000… Read more »
The 2021 World Series of Poker is about a month and a half away and players from around the United States are finalizing plans to finally get back to Las Vegas after the WSOP – in its traditional form – was cancelled last year. I say US players, specifically, because right now, the US is… Read more »
With the return of tournament poker to the poker community, the different Player of the Year races have also sprung back to life. One thing has remained the same, however. The different “High Roller” events have made for an unbalanced leaderboard, as evidenced by high roller regular Ali Imsirovic’s ascension to the top of both… Read more »
Running it back If there was a silver lining to all the cancellations of live poker tournaments and festivals because of the COVID-19 pandemic, it was that they led to the birth of many successful online events. One of these was the WPT World Online Championships, hosted by partypoker, which returns again this year. Scheduled… Read more »
No-go for now, hopefully not for good It’s happening again. On Monday, the bestbet Jacksonville casino announced that it has postponed the World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble because of yet another strong wave of the COVID-19 virus. The Main Event was originally scheduled for August 27-31, while the entire festival was to begin next… Read more »
Dapo Ajayi had come painfully close to winning multiple big tourneys in his poker career, but always fell short. That all changed on Tuesday when he won the World Poker Tour Choctaw Main Event for his first WPT title, collecting $558,610 for his efforts. “It’s difficult to articulate. It’s been a really interesting week. I… Read more »
In news from the High Roller Poker World, PokerGO owner Cary Katz emerged as the champion from the inaugural running of the PokerGO Cup $100,000 main event. That was not enough to give him the overall championship, however. That would go to another person who won only one event on the schedule, Daniel Negreanu, who… Read more »
Building on 2020 The complete schedule is still to come, but poker players around the world can start moving things around on their work and social calendars, as PokerStars has announced the dates for the 2021 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Running August 22 through September 15, this year’s WCOOP comes with $100 million… Read more »
