Poker Tournament News
The first day of action is in the books for the Global Poker League and, for the most part, the day has to be viewed as a solid start for the burgeoning poker-as-sports organization. While there were some very good things that came out of the day’s proceedings, there were definitely some things that needed… Read more »
In preparation for the fifteenth annual awards ceremonies, the powers that be with the Global Poker Index have announced the nominees for the 2016 GPI European Poker Awards. Much like their counterpart in the United States that honors the best in the Americas, the European Poker Awards looks to honor the best in European poker… Read more »
As they prepare for Opening Day of their inaugural season, several of the managers of the Global Poker League franchises have decided to announce the players who will be their “wild cards” for the upcoming season. In some cases, the managers have decided to call their own number (AKA put their own name in as… Read more »
Beginning next Tuesday, the brainchild of one of the most powerful men in the poker industry will actually come to fruition. On Tuesday evening, the Global Poker League will begin its inaugural season with its first live matches streamed to fans and later broadcast across the Poker Central channel. The creator of the GPL, Alexandre… Read more »
For the first time in their history, the World Poker Tour won’t be concluding the season by crowning their version of a World Champion. With two events left on the schedule – oddly enough, both at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, with the traditional Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown ($3500… Read more »
More than two months before it is set to take to the felt, the 24/7 streaming network Poker Central and the Aria Resort & Casino’s Super High Roller Bowl tournament – which proved to be such a success in 2015 that it was expanded for this year – has sold out of seats for the… Read more »
The 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event reached its final table last night; just six players remain from the original field of 409. Russell Garrett goes into the final table as the chip leader with 3.686 million chips, followed closely by Harrison Gimbel, who has 3.315 million. The leader going into both… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is moving right along – Day 2 of the tournament was completed Monday night and there are just two days left to go. Once again, Ankush Mandavia has the chip lead and is set up to threaten the final table once again, just days after finishing… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Main Event is in the books at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort, as another 175 players bellied up to the tables to try to make a run to become a member of the WPT Champion’s Club. Ankush Mandavia, who just finished 23rd at the WPT… Read more »
The second starting flight of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event was held Tuesday as 422 more players gave the tournament a whirl. The resulting overall field of 753 is the largest in the tournament’s history. A total of 292 players remaining from both starting flights, led by Ari Engel… Read more »
It was a long Day 1A at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Star Monday, as those who made it all the way through had to slog through eleven 60-minute levels. With two hours for dinner and short breaks, that’s thirteen hours centered around poker, not counting however early the players got to… Read more »
There are just two days left for the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event, as the field has gone from a stout 515 to just 14 players. Today should be a relatively short day; action will conclude when the six-handed final table is concluded, though at this point in major tournaments,… Read more »
Another day is in the books at the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event, as the field was whittled from 111 players to just 43 heading into Tuesday’s Day 4. Germany’s Dietrich Fast is perched at the head of the class with 1.07 million chips, the only player to crack the… Read more »
Day 2 of the 2016 World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic Main Event saw significant chip movement as two-thirds of the field that remained after Day 1 was eliminated, leaving just 111 players to continue the trudge toward the final table on Monday. Sam Soverel is the chip leader with 466,400 chips, followed closely by… Read more »
In what may become an iconic moment in poker history (depending on where we are with it, say, five years from now), the inaugural player draft for the Global Poker League is now history. Twelve teams gathered in front of Commissioner Kara Scott on Thursday and, after a four-plus hour ceremony, left the conference room… Read more »
It was a short day as expected at the 2016 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event Tuesday, as it took less than four hours to eliminate six players and get the tournament down to the six-handed final table. Robert Forbes defied history; it is not often you see the chip leader after… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event has simply been racing along. It started with 423 players on Sunday and nearly 300 were eliminated that first day. Yesterday, the field was narrowed from the 132 Day 1 survivors to just a dozen by the end of Day 2. From 423 to 12… Read more »
The World Poker Tour got back in action this week as the action headed north of the (U.S.) border to the Fallsview Casino Resort, overlooking Niagara Falls, for the WPT Fallsview Main Event. This is the one of the increasingly rare major tournaments with just one starting day; 423 players turned out for the CAD… Read more »
The creators of the popular syndicated poker show Poker Night in America, Rush Street Productions, have received kudos for the work they have done. In an era in which there has been little to no “new” television programming dedicated to poker, Rush Street Productions came out and provided that content for a rabid audience. Now… Read more »
Almost two months into 2016, the battle is already brewing in the different Player of the Year races that are in the tournament poker world…or at least there is for one of them. The champion of the Aussie Millions Main Event, Ari Engel, has been able to move to the top of the CardPlayer Magazine… Read more »
After dominating Day 5 in seizing the chip lead, Poland’s Dzmitry Urbanovich solidified his position as a player to potentially watch for at this year’s World Series of Poker in dominating the final table on his way to the European Poker Tour Dublin Main Event championship earlier on Saturday. The 20-year old Urbanovich’s lead wasn’t… Read more »
Earlier this week, the Global Poker League inched ever closer to reality. In a ceremony broadcast from their studios in Malta, the GPL’s Alexandre Dreyfus and Laura Cornelius hosted the first-ever Draft Lottery for the inaugural season of the league. After the ceremonies were complete, the 12 teams – and poker fans who watched the… Read more »
It might have been thought that Day 3 of the European Poker Tour stop in Dublin, Ireland would have been a leisurely walk in the park on Thursday. If a player thought that, they wouldn’t have been prepared for the level of carnage that saw the 45 remaining players cut down to only 16 in… Read more »
The 341 survivors from the two starting flights met in a unified field Tuesday at the Royal Dublin Society to continue the track toward the final table in the 2016 European Poker Tour (EPT) Dublin Main Event. Croatia’s Ivan Banic takes the lead into Day 3, topping the remaining field of 127 players with 381,200… Read more »
We knew this was going to happen, but it is pretty impressive nonetheless. In a major (or minor, for that matter) live poker tournament with two starting days, the second is ALWAYS bigger – and usually significantly bigger – than the first. Yesterday was no exception. Day 1A of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Dublin… Read more »
