Poker Tournament News
Wednesday could be quite a fun day for Peter Tran at the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event as he has a massive lead with just twelve players remaining. And since the tournament will play down to the six-handed final table today, Day 5 should be short. Heck, Tran might be… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) L.A. Poker Classic Main Event is in the books and with just 43 players remaining, things should be a bit tense at the Commerce Casino on Tuesday as the final table is within reach. Peter Tran leads the survivors going into Day 4 with 1.369 million… Read more »
The first leg of the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) California Swing kicked off over the weekend as the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event got underway at the Commerce Casino. Two days have already been completed; 538 players registered for the $10,000 tournament and going into Monday’s Day 3, only 120 remain. Brent Hart has… Read more »
In a result that should surprise exactly nobody, Anthony Zinno won the 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event Monday night, claiming about $400,000 in combined prize money and a seat in the WPT Championship at the end of the season. This is Zinno’s second WPT title, the first coming in 2013… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event is today and while it comes with plenty of celebration, a damper was put on the excitement at the beginning of the Classic because of an unusual problem for a poker tournament: ticket scalping. It is not unusual for people to… Read more »
The final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Fallsview Poker Classic Main Event was set yesterday evening as just six players remain from the original 419. Anthony Zinno is the chip leader with 4.73 million chips, a solid 2 million ahead of his closest competitor, Corey Hochman. After Hochman, it is another million down… Read more »
With Day 4 in the books, the six-handed final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open is set. And while there may be six players at the table, it appears, at this point, that it will come down to two: Mark Dube and Brian Altman. The two men, who led the… Read more »
It was a relatively quick day at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event in Hollywood, Florida on Monday as just 60 eliminations were needed to get down to the final 18 players. The tournament still proceeded into the night, but shutting the festivities down before 9:30pm is early compared to… Read more »
With the three starting flights in the books, Sunday saw all of the survivors of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event reconvene for Day 2. 361 players entered Sunday’s play with just 78 remaining to advance to today’s Day 3. It is a close race for the pole position, as… Read more »
After his opponent started the day as the chip leader at the final table, Bulgaria’s Ognyan Dimov outlasted Romania’s Dany Parlafes to capture the title at the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event in France this afternoon (evening in France). Coming to the final table of six players (two players, Massou Cohen and Matas Cimbolas,… Read more »
It was a short Day 4 of action in Deauville, France, as the European Poker Tour determined the final 15 players in its Main Event. The Day 3 action on Wednesday had whittled the field from 138 to the money bubble of 87, but that wasn’t good enough for the contenders in France. They continued… Read more »
Next month the Global Poker Masters, the brainchild of Global Poker Index owner and Chief Executive Officer Alexandre Dreyfus, will take to the stage in Malta. Earlier this week, however, one of the first issues popped up for the Global Poker Masters as two players were removed from the tournament. Team France, which qualified sixth… Read more »
Enough of the separate flights; Tuesday was the time at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event that all of the survivors from Days 1A and 1B came together in a single, unified field for Day 2. 335 of the original 589 made it to Day 2, led by the home country’s Guillaume Darcourt,… Read more »
We’re in the month of February, so that means we are no longer allowed to say, “Happy New Year!” to each other right? It’s hard to believe (for me, anyway), that we are already a month into 2015 and though Punxsutawney Phil says we have six more weeks of winter left, we are getting dangerously close… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) picked up again this week with two starting flights of the €5,300 EPT Deauville Main Event. Nearly half of Day 1A’s 199 players were eliminated at the Casino Barrière as 108 survived to advance to Day 2, while 227 of Day 1B’s 390 players made it to Tuedsay. The top… Read more »
Although there is still one more event left on the schedule, the 2015 Aussie Millions crowned two champions over the past two days. In today’s Main Event final table, Manny Stavropoulos overcame the odds to capture the win and, on Saturday, Richard Yong took his first High Roller championship in the $100,000 Challenge. Aussie Millions… Read more »
The 2015 Aussie Millions is beginning to wind down at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, with two tournaments scheduled for their final table action this weekend. In the Aussie Millions Main Event, James Rann is in command – but will have to contend with Brian Rast at the final table – while the $100,000 Challenge features… Read more »
It is unusual to see a player have the chip lead in consecutive early days of a live poker tournament, so Jan Suchanek’s 2015 Aussie Millions to this point has been quite impressive. Suchanek was the Day 1A chip leader, ending the day with 163,400 chips (ok, so he wasn’t the overall chip leader, but… Read more »
Well, what do you know? Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event got off without a hitch. It was looking a little dicey a couple days ago as the blizzard that was approaching the northeast United States prompted New Jersey Governor Chris Christie to shut down all road… Read more »
The 2015 Aussie Millions, part of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour, saw its Main Event get going over the weekend as players from around the world flocked to the Crown Melbourne casino for one of the most prestigious events on the poker calendar outside of Las Vegas. All three Day 1 flights have concluded and,… Read more »
The 2015 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open guaranteed a $3,000,000 prize pool and thanks to an active Day 1B, it just made it past that threshold. After 360 players entered on Day 1A, another 629 registered on Monday, bringing the total field to 989. With the $3,300 buy-in (another $200 fee went… Read more »
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back in action for 2015 and kicking off the latter portion of Season XIII is the WPT Borgata Winter Poker Open in Atlantic City (you thought I was going to say “at the Borgata,” didn’t you?). The first of two starting flights ran yesterday; 360 players registered for Day… Read more »
One of the venerable tournaments on the international poker circuit, the 2015 Aussie Millions, is in full swing at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Several events have already been completed as its $10,000 Main Event and two High Roller ($25,000 and $100,000, respectively) prepare to take the stage this weekend. Five events have crowned… Read more »
The World Poker Tour’s (WPT) Alpha8 tournament series does not get a lot of attention and to an extent, that is understandable. The high roller series, despite being broadcast on Fox Sports , is not heavily marketed and features tiny fields. Since the players involved have to pony up $100,000 to play, though, those fields… Read more »
Poker has a long history of helping out those that have some of the most difficult challenges in life. This fact will once again be displayed on Sunday as many poker professionals and celebrities will come together in Las Vegas for a poker tournament in support of autism. On Sunday, the 7th Annual Ante4Autism charity… Read more »
