Poker Tournament News
The news going into the weekend may have been dominated by Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address, the Super Bowl, and the fallout from Atlanta’s “Snowpocalypse,” but six poker players in Atlantic City were focused on one thing: $842,379. That was the first prize of the 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker… Read more »
After leading the European Poker Tour stop in Deauville, France for the last two days, it wouldn’t have been out of the question for Greece’s Sotirios Koutoupas to succumb to the pressure and come up a bit short. There was no stopping the Greek powerhouse, however, as he stormed his way to the latest EPT… Read more »
It was a quick Day 5 in Deauville, France as the European Poker Tour determined its final table on Friday. Heading into tomorrow’s action, Sotirios Koutoupas holds the lead for a second consecutive day while Eugene Katchalov looks to make poker history. Sixteen men stepped to the felt on Friday afternoon in Deauville and, almost… Read more »
Day 4 of the European Poker Tour’s stop in Deauville, France, is in the books with 16 players remaining in the hunt for the title. Of those men, Sotirios Koutoupas has the best shot as he is one of only two players who have eclipsed the two million chip mark. 41 players came to the… Read more »
The 2014 World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event is one of the largest tournaments in the history of the Tour, making Laz Hernandez’s performance to this point that much more impressive. In what has become a rarity in major tournament poker, Hernandez ended Day 2 as the chip leader after starting… Read more »
The 385 survivors from the two starting flights of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event gathered together on Tuesday for Day 2. They did not know how far they would need to last to make the money, as registration remained open until the start of play. Thus, the payout schedule was still… Read more »
Things didn’t start too well for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Borgata Winter Poker Open, but now that the counterfeit chip scandal is at least partially in the rearview mirror, it’s time for bigger and better things. Day 1B of the Main Event concluded Monday as 806 players bellied up to the tables after 423… Read more »
As is almost always the case with the second of two starting flights in a major tournament, Day 1B of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville Main Event was expected to be much more crowded than was Day 1A. We also opined that it was very unlikely that the tournament would eclipse last year’s… Read more »
Sunday marked the first day that two major poker tournaments schedules got back into action for their current seasons. In the United States, the World Poker Tour restarted their Season XII schedule at the $3500 buy in Borgata Winter Poker Open and, in France, the European Poker Tour pitched the cards in the air for… Read more »
News late yesterday broke that one of the players in the Borgata Winter Poker Open preliminary event that was canceled – in fact, its chip leader from Day 1B – is now in the hands of Atlantic City and New Jersey gaming authorities for introducing the counterfeit chips that brought about the tournament’s cancelation. According… Read more »
The 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open is in full swing this week, but the excitement of the first major U.S. poker festival of the calendar year has been dampened by scandal. Last week, counterfeit chips were discovered during the Open’s first event, leading to a suspension of the tournament and eventually its cancellation. When the… Read more »
In one of the more honest statements that you’ll find in the poker world, 2004 World Series of Poker Championship Event winner Greg Raymer writes that he is looking for backers for his 2014 tournament efforts. At the start of a post on Two Plus Two’s Staking forum, Raymer recounts the past ten years of… Read more »
What a difference a day makes. Whereas Day 5 of the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event was short – just four and a half hours – Day 6, which consisted of just the final table, was long. Very long. Seventeen hours long, counting breaks. The stacks were fairly deep… Read more »
On Friday, the Global Poker Index (GPI) announced that German poker player Ole Schemion had won the 2013 GPI Player of the Year (POY) title, awarded to the years’ most successful live tournament player. Schemion just beat out GPI’s Player of the Decade Daniel Negreanu for the honor. Schemion began the year in style, placing… Read more »
Sunday’s Day 5 at the European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event was a short one, as only a dozen eliminations were needed to hit the next stopping point in the tournament, the final table. Entering the day, 20 players remained in the event, all with the immediate goal of being one… Read more »
Day Four of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event is in the books and, with 20 players remaining, Madis Muur has surged to the lead. There are several notables in contention behind him with one of those contenders looking to make European Poker Tour history. Saturday’s action began with 72 players remaining and the… Read more »
The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event reached the money during action on Friday and, by the time the chips were bagged up for the night, British pro Max Silver had moved into the lead as one of only three players over one million chips. At the start of action on Friday, Pascal Lefrancois was… Read more »
The $10,000,000 Guaranteed PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event has worked its way through Day Two with Pascal Lefrancois leading the remaining 215 players who will look to pop the money bubble on Friday. At the start of yesterday’s action, overall Day One leader Shankar Pillai was ahead of the 632 players who made it out… Read more »
With the $100,000 High Roller Event coming to a close, Tuesday was time for the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event to begin, the first big Main Event of the year. The PCA is always a highly anticipated poker festival, as it not only kicks off the year, but has… Read more »
The 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 High Roller Event concluded Tuesday as the seven remaining players played their way down to the first big money winner of the new year. Fabian Quoss collected all the chips in the end, cashing for $1,629,940. Going into final table play, the chip stacks… Read more »
Well, that was fast. After starting with 52 entries yesterday, the 2014 European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 High Roller Event has already ground its way down to the final table. Of course, with such a small field (and with that buy-in, it’s to be expected) it should not come as a… Read more »
After a brief holiday layoff, live tournament poker is back and kicking off a busy January is the European Poker Tour (EPT) PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) $100,000 Super High Roller event. Last year, the tournament drew 59 entries, creating a prize pool of nearly five and three-quarters million dollars. Scott Seiver won the first highlight… Read more »
Contrary to what seems to be popular belief, poker wasn’t just invented over the past ten or fifteen years. There is an ever-growing population of players who have been a part of the game for most of their adult life. With this in mind, a new tour will take flight in 2014 that will cater… Read more »
While pretty much the entirety of the United States is blanketed by “Winter Storm Hercules” (really, who thought naming winter storms was a good idea?), poker’s elite and droves of online qualifiers have escaped to the sunny climes of Paradise Island, the Bahamas, for the start of the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure at the Atlantis… Read more »
Although there is still seven years left in the decade of the ‘Teens, the Global Poker Index has taken the step to decide who the “Player of the Decade” is. Now we know that this decade is barely three years old, so the GPI is looking at the “New Age” of poker (and let’s use… Read more »
