Poker Tournament News
Eight-year drought Daniel Negreanu is third on the all-time live tournament earnings list with over $43 million in lifetime winnings. He is enshrined in the Poker Hall of Fame. He is one of the most popular poker players in the history of the game. But entering this week, he had not won an open live… Read more »
Hard to believe that it has been ten years since the Global Poker Index has been utilized in the world of poker. From its humble beginnings in 2011 as a method of ranking players to be eligible for a long since gone poker tour, the Global Poker Index has now become one of the best… Read more »
It looked like it was going to be a two man race for the title at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Venetian final table on Wednesday, and sure enough, that is what it turned out to be. In the end, Chad Eveslage emerged victorious over Mike Liang heads-up to win his first WPT championship and… Read more »
History in the making? The World Poker Tour (WPT) Venetian Main Event is down to its six-handed final table, with Mike Liang entering Wednesday’s action as the chip leader. Holding 18.225 million chips Liang is in a two-man race with Chad Eveslage, who has 17.725 chips. But perhaps “man” is not the correct word to… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is back in Las Vegas this week as the WPT Venetian moves on to Day 3. There are just 39 players remaining heading into Tuesday’s action, with Ari Oxman leading the way with 3.310 million chips. Tim McDermott is close behind with 3.120 million and six more players cracked the 2… Read more »
After two days of battle with 18 extraordinarily difficult competitors, the inaugural Wynn Millions came down to three men. They decided to make a deal between each other, guaranteeing each a million-dollar payday, but saved a little back to play for along with the trophy. In the end, it was Andrew Moreno who emerged as… Read more »
The 2021 Wynn Millions is heading into its next to last day of action, but not before a day of carnage to set it up. Day 4 would see plenty of top pros hit the rail and the field was not able to get down to the final table of players. They did get down… Read more »
The 2021 Wynn Millions continued onward on Wednesday, looking to fill the summertime void in tournament poker with one of the biggest events on the post-COVID calendar. They have done this in spades, smashing a $10 million guaranteed event and bringing the poker world out in droves. On Wednesday, the tournament completed Day 3, popping… Read more »
The inaugural Wynn Millions has certainly made waves over the past few days. Additionally, it is making its way towards crowning its first champion. Two more Day Twos over the past couple of days have taken the field down, but it has yet to crack the money bubble. Someone who is certain of a cash… Read more »
It was certainly an audacious statement. Whether you want to call it a bold commentary on their belief in poker or a risky chance that could blow up in their faces, the Wynn Las Vegas Resort threw down the gauntlet with their latest tournament. The Wynn Millions started last week with its $10,000 buy in… Read more »
Maybe he was just born this good? 15-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth does not have much left to prove when it comes to the game, but he put a cherry on top in the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas on Wednesday night. In Round 3 of his High Stakes Duel II… Read more »
Big event on the down-low? The $25,000 World Poker Tour (WPT) Heads-Up Poker Championship was an odd bird. It was a 32-player invitational with an eclectic mix of poker stars, e-sports athletes, celebrities, and a couple online qualifiers. It was played online, but some players showed up in person at an undisclosed location in Cabo… Read more »
Brian Altman loves the state of Florida. On Tuesday, he won the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Main Event for his third career WPT title. All three of his victories came in the Sunshine State. For his win, Altman banked $613,225. Altman’s other two World Poker Tour titles were also at a Seminole… Read more »
Things move awfully fast during the first two days of a large-field poker tournament. Going into Sunday’s Day 2, just 284 players remained of the original 1,165 entries in the 2021 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Tampa Main Event. At the end of the night, that number was whittled down to only 40… Read more »
Had to wait for Soverel It looked like it was going to happen, but we still had to wait a little while on Tuesday to be sure. David Peters has won the U.S. Poker Open Championship at the U.S. Poker Open for the second year in a row. Despite Peters’ dominance over the past week,… Read more »
Back to live action The World Series of Poker has announced the schedule for its live tournaments this fall, running September 30 through November 23, just in time for Thanksgiving. As always, the $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em event will kick things off. The WSOP traditionally spans late spring and early summer, usually going from… Read more »
My wife fractured and sprained her foot on Sunday, so I guess one might say that David Peters is having a better week than she is. On Monday, Peters won his third title of the 2021 U.S. Poker Open. That’s three wins in five days; he will end up with a quarter of the tournament… Read more »
Big changes occurred on Saturday at the 2021 U. S. Poker Open. News that Ali Imsirovic took down Event #9, a $10,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament, may not be huge, but the victory was important. By winning the event, Imsirovic (and second-place finisher Andrew Lichtenberger) passed Joe McKeehen for the lead in the Overall Championship… Read more »
To say that Jared Bleznick rode a rollercoaster during his time at the final table of Event #8, a $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, at the 2021 U. S. Poker Open would be an understatement. He started off the day as the chip leader and, at one point, found himself as the short stack of… Read more »
The 2021 U. S. Poker Open is steaming towards their Main Event, which will begin this weekend. That does not mean there hasn’t been any action this week, however. In preliminary events at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas, Eli Elezra and the defending champion of the USPO, David Peters, took home the victor’s trophies,… Read more »
Two more events are in the books at the 2021 U. S. Poker Open. In Event #2, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, Sam Soverel finished what he started in leading wire-to-wire to win the championship. In Event #3, the second $10,000 No Limit Hold’em tournament on the schedule, Joe McKeehen made short work of… Read more »
The 2021 U. S. Poker Open is fully into its action for its first Saturday of play, crowning a champion and setting the final table for the highly competitive $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha final table. Up next for those not involved in the PLO tournament will be another $10,000 No Limit Hold’em event on Saturday,… Read more »
“Regular” tournament poker is slowly beginning to make its way back into action (the World Poker Tour’s first event for Season XIX starts in a couple of weeks), but the “high rollers” have been extremely active. The ARIA High Rollers Series has held a few events, but this week marked the start of an entire… Read more »
Good thing they were comfortable at home Christian Rudolph came back from the middle of the final table pack on Wednesday to win the World Poker Tour (WPT) Online Series Main Event on partypoker. After striking a heads-up deal, Rudolph walked away with $487,442.75, about $40,000 less than he would have won without an agreement… Read more »
Out of the house, into the poker room Summer unofficially began this week with the start of June, though it doesn’t officially began for about three weeks. With the United States beginning to emerge from its collective home as COVID-19 numbers keep trending downward, it feels more like the beginning of spring. We break out… Read more »
