Can’t we all just get along? There are places in life where you have a lot of people in close proximity to each other. There are also places were people have a lot of money on the line. A live poker tournament is at the intersection of the Venn diagram, which can sometimes lead to… Read more »
EPT Prague is coming up in a week, but if there was any sort of celebration of last year’s winner planned, it looks like those plans will have to be nixed. On Tuesday, the Halton (Ontario) Regional Police announced that 2022 EPT Prague Main Event champ Jordan Saccucci is one of four men wanted in… Read more »
The European Poker Tour’s stop at King’s Casino in Rozvadov turned into a two-day affair over this weekend before Christmas. That didn’t seem to bother Canada’s Jordan Saccucci, however, as he simply finished what he started in the 2022 EPT Prague Main Event. In doing that, Saccucci walked off with the championship in the largest… Read more »
Smashing records The European Poker Tour is ending 2022 with a bang, as poker players are flocking to EPT Prague. After registration closed on the EPT Prague Main Event this afternoon, the official number of entrants was listed at 1,267, a new record for the tournament and the first time the field broke the 1,200-entry… Read more »
As the World Poker Tour begins its final stop in Las Vegas, so does the European Poker Tour in Prague. The €5,300 EPT Main Event began on Monday with the first of two starting flights. There were 402 entries on Day 1A at the Hilton Prague, with Javier Gomez Zapatero emerging as the chip leader… Read more »
Thomas Wolfe famously once said that you “can’t go home again.” Come 2023, PokerStars is going to test that adage. Last week, PokerStars announced it will resurrect two of its most popular tournaments in 2023, taking them both back to the islands of the Caribbean for action. PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, PokerStars Players Championship Coming Back… Read more »
Grzegorz Glowny won the 2022 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event Wednesday, earning €692,252 in the process. It was his biggest career cash and his first major tournament title. In fact, it was only his second record live tournament cash, the other coming in one of the side events at EPT Prague, where he… Read more »
The European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event is down to its final six players and in a bit of a surprise development, it is Gab Yong Kim who enters Wednesday as the chip leader. With 9.565 million chips, he holds a solid lead over Andrea Cortellazzi, who has 7.930 million, but up and down… Read more »
With just 16 players remaining, the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event heads into its penultimate day with Teun Mulder atop the standings. Holding 8.195 million chips, Mulder has a commanding lead, a stack more than double his closest opponent. Symeon Alexandridis is that opponent, with 4.065 million. After him, it is a logjam,… Read more »
Looking to ramp up their 2022 tournament schedule, PokerStars and the European Poker Tour have been rapidly expanding the list of events for the coming year. After seeing a stop in Russia postponed because of Russian president Vladimir Putin’s aggression against Ukraine, the announcement of the EPT Monte Carlo was a necessary step. In addition… Read more »
Pencil in March 2022 PokerStars has announced new dates for the recently postponed European Poker Tour Prague festival. Originally scheduled to start this week, EPT Prague has officially been moved to next year, March 5-16, 2022, at Hilton Hotel Prague in the Czech Republic. “We know that there is a huge demand from the PokerStars… Read more »
Mikalai Pobal made a bit of poker history on Tuesday, as he became just the second player to win two European Poker Tour titles. Earlier today, he won the 2019 PokerStars EPT Prague €5,300 EPT Main Event, topping a field of 1,154 entries, and cashing for €1,005,600 ($1,121,053). In a refreshing reversal of the sort… Read more »
The final table has been determined at the 2019 European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague Main Event, the final EPT stop of the year (though with two weeks left in the year, perhaps that latter point is obvious). Going into Tuesday’s action, Israel’s Gaby Livshitz is well ahead of the other four players with 11.205 million… Read more »
The 2019 European Poker Tour stop at the Hilton Prague is rolling through its action and, at the end of Day 2, the money bubble has already been popped in the 1154 entry field. With only 141 players left in the field, the battle for first place is a tenacious one as only a single… Read more »
The final European Poker Tour (EPT) stop of the year and the second-to-last of the EPT season is underway. Day 1A of the EPT Prague Main Event took place on Wednesday and it was Pierre Calamusa who lorded over the field, finishing the night with 457,000 chips. His closest competitor, Stefan Egermann, has just 285,600.… Read more »
There’s plenty that people can complain about PokerStars for – their rake increases, the way that they messed up the European Poker Tour (don’t get me started) and other things – but every once in awhile they do get a situation right. Such a time arose recently in a PokerStars promotion which saw a competition… Read more »
