Poker Tournament News
The headline of the weekend may have been the failure of the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) to come anywhere near its $10 million guaranteed prize pool (read: $2.5 million short), but after the shock of the massive overlay, there was still poker to be played. Sunday’s Day 2 saw 478 of the… Read more »
After a successful debut last year, the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, FL, attempted to make lightning strike twice with the 2014 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) $10 million guaranteed prize pool Main Event. Unlike last year, however, the final numbers fell far short of the goal with a massive overlay… Read more »
Capping what has been a historic stop in the history of the circuit, the European Poker Tour crowned two champions to close out their 100th stop at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. In the third largest Main Event in EPT history, Andre Lettau battled through a marathon final table to emerge as the champion and,… Read more »
Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event was the first in which the entire field was playing together at the same time. 223 players came out of the three Day 1’s, but only one of the three chips leaders from the starting flights – Tyler Cornell – made it… Read more »
And so here we are. The first final table of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Season 11. Just eight players remain from the original 1,496 in the EPT Barcelona Main Event; leading the way is Hossein Ensan with 10,295,000 chips, the only play to eclipse 10,000,000. This would be one hell of a score for… Read more »
Tyler Cornell ran away with Day 1C of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends of Poker Main Event Monday, finishing the day with nearly 100,000 more chips than his nearest opponent. As is almost always the case in a multi-starting flight event, Day 1C was the largest of the three flights, with 222 entrants… Read more »
The WPT500 was held during the World Series of Poker Main Event, but the “real” World Poker Tour (WPT) started this weekend with the 2014 WPT Legends of Poker at the legendary Bicycle Casino in California. Days 1A and 1B are in the books with 1C currently running; leading a strong field to this point… Read more »
It was payout time at the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event Sunday as 292 players lined up for Day 3 knowing that only 239 of them would make the money. The player best positioned to make much more than the min-cash is Andrei Konopelko, who ended the day as the chip leader… Read more »
The 100th tournament in the history of the European Poker Tour, taking place at the Casino Barcelona in Spain, brought its entire field together for the first time on Saturday. At the end of the day’s festivities, Vojtech Ruzicka utilized his strong Day 1A play to come out on top of the Day 2 field… Read more »
After what was a strong Day 1A field of players, the European Poker Tour might have thought that the Day 1B field numbers would be just icing on the cake. Instead, for the 100th event in the EPT’s history, a massive throng flooded the Casino Barcelona in Spain to eventually create the third-largest field in… Read more »
Celebrating the 100th event in their storied history, the European Poker Tour kicked off its Season 11 schedule on Thursday at the Casino Barcelona in Spain. With a field that would be applicable for the final day of a multi-start day field, poker professional Michael Mizrachi emerged on top at the end of the day.… Read more »
The Global Poker Index’s (GPI) takeover of the live poker tournament world is in full swing. The latest deal the player ranking site has made is with the European Poker Tour (EPT), as the EPT will now expand its use of the GPI’s ranking formula to determine its Player of the Year (POY). Interestingly, the… Read more »
The post-World Series of Poker doldrums are over; major live tournament poker has started back up. Today, the €50,000 High Roller Event of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona concluded with Olivier Busquet taking the crown and €896,434. The field was very large for a High Roller Event, with 77 total entries from 58 unique… Read more »
The 2015 Aussie Millions Poker Championship schedule has been unveiled by the Crown Melbourne casino, giving poker players around the world a chance to start figuring out their schedules for the upcoming year. The most popular event outside of North America and Europe, the Aussie Millions will feature 21 events spanning almost three weeks, beginning… Read more »
After six weeks of battle on the felt at the 2014 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, the major Player of the Year races in the poker world have been completely readjusted. One thing that hasn’t changed, however, is that all three major rankings have a completely different picture of who is having the… Read more »
Day 3 of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was the first day of the tournament in which all remaining players were competing at the same time, the first without a letter suffix. 1,871 players began the day with their eyes still set on the prize, but only 746 will return Friday… Read more »
The late, great Chad Brown will be honored this weekend at Binion’s Gambling Hall and Hotel in downtown Las Vegas with the Chad Brown Memorial Ceremony and Inaugural Charity Poker Tournament. The ceremony, at which Brown’s life will be reflected upon, will begin at 4:00pm on Sunday, July 13th, while the poker tournament will begin… Read more »
If this keeps up, the audience for the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event final table on ESPN will be tremendous. Day 2C of the Main Event, the largest of the three Day 2’s, took place Wednesday with 2,571 players looking to make it to Thursday. 1,047 survived led by none other than Phil… Read more »
With the three starting flights out of the way and all the registration and prize pool numbers discussed, it is time to make the trek into the meat of the 2014 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event. We’re still not yet at a single, unified field, but we’re getting closer. On Tuesday, the 505… Read more »
If there is a bad time to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) event, it is smack dab in between the million dollar Big One for One Drop and the crown jewel of the WSOP, the $10,000 Main Event. I mean, no time is really a bad time to win a WSOP tournament, what… Read more »
On Sunday, WSOP officials said that registrations for Day 1C of the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event had already surpassed the total registrations for Day 1B, while Day 1B was going on. As such, it was expected that Day 1C would be gigantic. It was. The Day 1C field of 3,968 players set… Read more »
It was no surprise that Day 1A of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event was a little light; the first flight usually is. Pro poker players don’t normally like to have multiple days to wait before Day 2 if they make it through Day 1 and those that flew in just for… Read more »
It was Daniel versus Daniel. One, a young online heads-up specialist, the other one of the greatest live tournament players of the last couple decades. Appropriately, it might seem, it was the heads-up specialist that triumphed heads-up, as Daniel Colman defeated Daniel Negreanu last night to win the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,000,000… Read more »
It was a long, long, long Day 2 at the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,000,000 Big One for One Drop Event as play dragged on into the wee hours of Tuesday morning before it was time to call it a night (or almost day). The plan for Monday was to narrow the field… Read more »
It’s funny how things work out sometimes. David Olson, the winner of the 2014 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Fixed-Limit Hold’em event, originally just planned on playing in the Monster Stack event, but was convinced by his friends to play in the Fixed-Limit Hold’em Championship and he ended up winning the whole thing. Haixia… Read more »
