Poker Tournament News
There are some days in the life of a poker news writer when it can get overwhelming trying to choose something about which to write. There can be so much happening that you want to write everything and write it now. But there are days like today, the first day of the year 2014, when… Read more »
It’s hard for most to imagine what the tournament poker world looked like only ten years ago. Back before the advent of the World Poker Tour, major high buy-in tournaments (re: $5,000 or more) were quite rare. Outside of the World Series of Poker, there was only a handful that made the grade. Fast forward… Read more »
After holding the lead for much of the last half of 2013, poker professional Daniel Negreanu had to withstand some challenges to his position in the three major Player of the Year races during the month of December. After the smoke cleared, Negreanu captured two of those three POY races but was caught in the… Read more »
Racing through the largest field in the history of the event, Germany’s Julian Track outran a talented final table on the way to taking down the 2013 European Poker Tour Prague Main Event last night in the Czech Republic. Coming to the final table, Track held a decent lead over former EPT champion Max Silver,… Read more »
As expected, Day 1C of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event was much larger than either of the other two starting flights. In fact, it was larger than both combined. Working backwards from the end total and taking into account those who registered prior to the start of Wednesday’s Day 2, it… Read more »
In poker, chip stacks can change in the blink of an eye. One second you can be at the top of the field, the next you can be wallowing as the short stack. As such, we often see significant changes at the top of tournament leaderboards day to day. In the penultimate day of the… Read more »
The 75 survivors from the two starting flights came together in a unified field for Day 2 of the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea Main Event Tuesday as the first official WPT event on the Asian continent moved right along. Those who sat down with chips on Day 2 were hoping to make the… Read more »
Day 1B of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event was almost twice as big as Day 1A, but that’s not saying much as far as major international poker tournaments are concerned. Day 1A saw just 40 players take their seats; the 73 that paid to play Monday were quite the step up on… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event rolled along Monday as the remaining 61 players took their seats for Day 4. With the money bubble having burst the previous day, the goal for the players Monday was to move up the payout ladder and creep closer to the final table. Britain’s Max Silver separated… Read more »
The inaugural World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea Main Event continued Monday as another round of players gathered at the Ramada Plaza Jeju in South Korea, all gunning for a shot to become the first WPT champion to be crowned on the continent of Asia. Emerging from the scrum as the chip leader was Zhu Ya… Read more »
Don’t get confused. There are two major poker tournaments taking place in Prague right now: one is the “E”PT and one the “W”PT, so be sure you read your updates carefully. In this article, we are discussing the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague Main Event, whose Day 1A concluded Sunday. It was a tiny first… Read more »
In golf, it’s called “moving day” when the players look to make their moves towards the top of the leaderboard to contend for a championship. Poker has that itself, especially once the money bubble bursts and the short stacked players look to get the best cash out for their tournament buy-in investment and the big… Read more »
As expected after the sizeable Day 1A field, the European Poker Tour stop in Prague, the Czech Republic, has shattered its previous record in drawing in over 1000 players. Day 1B on Friday saw a massive flood of participants join the fray. While the Thursday numbers of 389 players were quite decent, the 609 that… Read more »
There are still a few tournaments to dust off of the books before we close the 2013 calendar year. One of those is the European Poker Tour stop in Prague, the Czech Republic, which started yesterday and has become one of the more well-attended tournaments on the EPT circuit over the past couple of years.… Read more »
It was another nine hour day at the 2013 World Poker Tour Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event on Tuesday and now we have our television final table. Just 21 players remained after Day 4, but with relatively large chip stacks and players who played cautiously to try to move up on the payout… Read more »
The 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event concluded its fourth day on Monday and after a quick pace at the outset as the short stacks went down after desperation moves to try to move up the ladder, things slowed down considerably. It took nine hours for just 38 eliminations… Read more »
Sunday was a good news, bad news day for the survivors of Day 3 at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event. The good news was, well, they made it to Day 4. The bad news was that they were not able to relax when they retired to their… Read more »
As expected, it was a quick Day 3 at the 2013 World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event Tuesday as it took just six hours to narrow the field from 59 to 18. Today those dozen and a half players will be further whittled to the final table of six. Leading the pack in a… Read more »
We thought there would maybe, possibly be a chance to burst the money bubble during Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event, but we certainly didn’t expect it to be obliterated like it was. 357 runners started Monday’s action after surviving one of the three Day 1 flights and in the… Read more »
The remainder of the starting flights of the 2013 WPT Montreal Main Event wrapped up over the weekend with 357 players surviving to the beginning of the work week. Topping the field is Sebastien Drolet-Poitras, the chip leader after Day 1A, holding 270,800 chips. As expected, each successive Day 1 flight was larger than the… Read more »
With the holiday season upon us, it is also time to remember (along with our families and friends) some of those that can’t fend for themselves. Six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner Layne Flack will be doing that on Saturday and the public is invited to join him. Flack will play host to the… Read more »
Tuesday night at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, saw the finale of the partypoker Premier League VII. 12 of the best (and deep-pocketed) pros in the poker world laid down $125,000 for the chance to play in the Premier League’s latest incarnation last Thursday and, after six heats and one playoff heads up… Read more »
Monday evening saw the wrap of the heat stages of the partypoker Premier League VII at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Quebec, with Scott Seiver earning the victory in Heat 6 and, along with it, a trip to the playoff round of the event. Coming into Monday’s action, Seiver needed to at least earn… Read more »
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced today a major change to its international tournament schedule. Starting in 2014, its two highlight poker festivals outside the United States will take place in alternating years, rather than during the same year, as was the case in 2013. This year, WSOP Asia-Pacific (WSOP APAC) made its debut… Read more »
If this was online poker, conspiracy theorists might think something smelled fishy. But this isn’t online, so let’s nip the “poker is rigged” talk in the bud right now. Tony “Bond18” Dunst, the host of the Raw Deal on World Poker Tour (WPT) broadcasts, won his first WPT event Sunday, taking down the WPT Caribbean… Read more »
