This Week In Tournament Poker — Mar. 26th – Apr. 2nd
In this Card Player feature we are looking to provide our readers with a guide to some of the biggest poker events taking place in their area for the upcoming …
PokerStars’ Provisional Schedule Announced For SCOOP 2012
PokerStars have revealed their provisional schedule of events for this year’s Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) – although the poker room are asking for feedback and input on the planned tournaments from their players before the timetable is finalised. The initial schedule includes 38 events – with each comprising three levels of buy-in for a total of 114 tournaments – that will kick off on Sunday, May 6, for 15 days of poker action that ends with the main event on Sunday, May 20.
The Bovada Black Diamond Poker Open Championship Main Event This Sunday
The Bovada Black Diamond Poker Open Championship Series is wrapping up this weekend with a $250,000 guaranteed tournament on Sunday, April 1,, at 4 p.m.
EPT Campione Day 1A: Davide Andreoni Leads the Way
We’re in a good stretch right now in the European Poker Tour (EPT) . March and April are the only consecutive months during Season 8 that both feature two tour stops, so there is pretty action to be had this spring.
2012 Aussie Millions Day Three: Matt Turk Leads Tim O’Shea After Short Day Of Play
After what turned out to be the shortest day of play yet at the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event , Matt Turk holds the lead over Day Two leader Tim O’Shea and a host of top professionals, including Phil Ivey , with Day Three in the books.
Phil Laak’s World Record To Come Under Fire
Englishman Barry ‘Jack 8 Potato’ Denson is aiming to break the Longest Marathon Playing Poker By An Individual world record when he sits down at midnight on Sunday, July 1, this year at the G Casino in his home town of Manchester for what will be five gruelling days. Denson plays the majority of his live poker in The Nuts Poker League – which is a British-based pub tournament – and has teamed up with Help For Heroes, which is a charity that was set up to assist the servicemen and women wounded in Britain’s recent conflicts, to raise funds while hopefully setting a new Guinness World Record
Sam Trickett Player of the Year at European Poker Awards
Englishman Sam Trickett has seen off the challenges from Jake Cody, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Pius Heinz, Eugene Katchalov and Andrey Pateychuk to be crowned Player of the Year at the 2012 European Poker Awards. Titan Poker-sponsored Sam Trickett , who is a high stakes cash games specialist from Nottinghamshire, couldn’t make the ceremony – which was hosted by former European Poker Players Association (EPPA) secretary Nic Szeremeta – at the Aviation Club de France in Paris last night, so sent friend and PokerStrategy blogger Barry Carter to collect his award
2012 European Poker Awards Handed Out, Sam Trickett Takes Player Of The Year
In what might be viewed as a slight upset, the United Kingdom’s Sam Trickett was voted Player of the Year at the 2012 European Poker Awards over poker Triple Crown winner and countryman Jake Cody during awards ceremonies held last night. The 2012 EPAs, held at the famous Aviation Club de Paris in France, honored the best players in the European poker arena for their performance over the 2011 calendar year
Party Poker Premier League V Expected to be ‘Strongest Field Ever’
Party Poker’s fifth staging of their Premier League Poker is to be included on the World Poker Tour (WPT) as a special tournament that promoters believe will attract “ the strongest field ever ” when the pros arrive in Austria in early April. Officially known as the WPT Premier League V presented by Party Poker, the event will take place at the Montesino Casino from April 4 to 10 – essentially as a warm-up to the WPT Vienna, although it will offer a $125,000 buy-in event, so can most certainly be considered a super high roller tournament for the 16-player line-up
Is Chris Ferguson Holding Up Bernard Tapie/Full Tilt Deal?
According to a report from one of the most reliable sources of information regarding the ongoing Full Tilt Poker fiasco, poker professional Chris “Jesus” Ferguson could potentially be holding up the deal between the site and Groupe Bernard Tapie , a deal that may bring the beleaguered online site back online. Subject: Poker , who has provided many of the details regarding the GBT/FTP deal, reports that Ferguson is allegedly holding up any further movement over the deal because of money that he put towards the site following “ Black Friday .” According to S:P, the former World Champion accepted just under $60 million from Full Tilt since 2007, which he put into different bank accounts under the Pocket Kings, Ltd
Report — Nevada Sports Books Could Lose Big If New York Giants Win Super Bowl
The New York Giants have a lot of believers, which is why Nevada casinos could wind up losing big if they manage to upset the New England Patriots next Sunday …
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Nevada Regulators Talk Future of Gaming Industry
Despite not being on the agenda, online gaming had a presence at Thursday’s Nevada Gaming Commission hearing. Last month the state’s top gaming body made history by unanimously approving rules …
Oliver Speidel Wins 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event; Phil Ivey Wins Super High Roller
After a dominant performance over seven hours of final table play, hometown favorite Oliver Speidel crushed the opposition to take down the championship of the 2012 Aussie Millions Main Event . When the seven man final table reported for work on Sunday afternoon in the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia , Bjorn Li held a 1.3 million chip lead over Speidel, but the chip counts of all the players were close enough together that any slight miscalculation would drop the leaders to the bottom of the pack
Oliver Speidel Charges to Aussie Millions Main Event Title
It took almost a week to complete, but home favourite Oliver Speidel triumphed at the $10,600 buy-in Aussie Millions main event at the Crown Casino in Melbourne for what completed an incredible few weeks for the Aussie. The poker pro outlasted 658 other players to leave with $1,647,158 – his biggest cash prize ever – and title, while second placed Ken Wong, of Hong Kong, picked up $1,029,474 for his runner-up spot