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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’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
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
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
The 2012 Aussie Millions Poker Championship Main Event was a global affair, with a field of 659 entrants from all around the world turning up at the Crown Casino in …
On his way to the upcoming Aussie Millions, Gus Hansen stopped off in Macau to play cash poker in Macau’s Big Game, finishing his third 24-hour marathon session with a huge profit of $3.8 million.
The end of 2011 was a bad one for 2010 WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Duhamel. He was the victim of an assault and robbery that left him without his …
The Epic Poker League (EPL) organisers are reportedly negotiating the sale of the series, but what is certain is poker fans throughout Europe now have the chance to watch the action on television. While negotiations continue between Pinnacle Entertainment – which operates casinos in Reno in Nevada, Ohio, Indiana, Louisiana and Missouri – and the EPL, the league has agreed a deal with The Poker Channel Europe to show upwards of 70 hours of the league in over 30 million homes throughout the continent, as well as the rest of the world via the internet.
The World Series of Poker Circuit stop at Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma is underway, and will conclude with the $1,600 buy-in championship event starting on Saturday, Jan.
I suppose if I was beaten and tied-up in my house, and over the course of the next few weeks won over $1.2 million I might go out looking for trouble –trying to replicate my beat-down run-good—which is precisely what Jonathan Duhamel seems to have done after a second place finish in the PCA High-Roller tournament – although we still haven’t gotten Duhamel’s version Read Full Article Related posts: Germany’s Finger takes down EPT Prague Main Event Chalk up yet another tournament victory for the German’s, as… Martin Staszko joins Team PokerStars Pro Martin Staszko’s life has changed a great deal over the…
Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier continues to lead the way on the Global Poker Index (GPI).
John Dibella got into the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event by winning a $1,000 buy-in satellite. He survived five days to enter the final table as one of three …
The line-up for the upcoming World Poker Tour (WPT) Bay 101 Shooting Stars championship has been announced – and it’s one heck of a stellar-packed list. Already confirmed for this year’s $9,500+$500 buy-in event are reigning champion Alan Sternberg, as well as the likes of Team PokerStars Pros Daniel Negreanu, Liv Boeree, Joe Hachem, Bertrand ‘ElkY’ Grospellier, Jonathan Duhamel, David Williams, Barry Greenstein and Jason Mercier
It seems like the Super-High-Roller tournaments may be here to stay as the $100k buy-in tournament that kicked off the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) came very close to last year’s mark of 38 entrants on Thursday, with a total of 34 players registering for the event. As would be expected for a tournament with a six-figure buy-in the participants in the event were Read Full Article Related posts: Jason Mercier victorious at WPT Super-High-Roller While the 2011 World Poker Tour Doyle Brunson Five Diamond..
Despite a five-handed final table, it took nearly 15 hours of play on Sunday for the Epic Poker League to crown its third champion of Season 1, and in the end it came down to two poker pros searching for their first major tournament title of their career. The final table began with a lineup of Scott Clements, Mike “The Grinder” Mizrachi, Chris Klodnicki, Read Full Article Related posts: Epic Poker League qualifier DQ’ed from Main Event After finishing the Epic Poker League Pro/Am in 8th place,…
Every year I like to take a look at a few of the tournament grinders who have been quite successful over the past few years, but have yet to “breakout” as poker superstars — had a few cards fallen differently they would already be household names in the poker world and received plenty of gambling news headlines. So here is Part 2 of my Read Full Article Related posts: 10 poker players to watch in 2012 Part 1 Every year I like to take a look at a..