All Entries in the "Poker Tournaments" Category
PCA Main Event and High Roller Event To Feature Live Webcast
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has quickly become one of the most interesting and exciting poker tournaments offered, and they’ve done a little something to make their events even better overall. Fans of the game of poker will get a great opportunity to be able to follow the action throughout the tournaments this upcoming year, with [...]
James Dempsey Takes Down WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic
In what is definitely the longest tournament name out there, James Dempsey prevailed over a field that was star studded at the World Poker Tour’s Doyle Brunson Five Diamond Classic. The final table itself drew some well-known names, featuring players like Antonio Esfandiari, Vanessa Selbst, Andrew Lichtenberger, and 2012 November Niner Soi Nguyen. Esfandiari was [...]
Sam Trickett Continues Hot Streak; Wins Partouche Poker Tour
The Partouche Poker Tour took a two month break before the final table kicked off, and it worked out very similar to how the World Series of Poker Main Event did. While this event didn’t draw in nearly as many entrants as the WSOP Main Event did, its 579 total entrants still created a first [...]
Daniel Santoro Takes Down WPT Foxwoods Event
Daniel Santoro is not the most well-known poker player in the game today, but he definitely made a name for himself after this World Poker Tour Foxwoods event. Before this event, Santoro had a total live tournament earnings of $260,862, and he gave himself quite a bump on that total with his impressive win at [...]
Team Americas Wins Caesars Cup
The 2011 Caesars Cup featured two teams who had star-studded lineups, but one who was looking for redemption after a tough loss back in 2009. Back in 2009, Team Europe took down the event with a score of four to one, but Team Americas was determined to make this years’ Caesars Cup a closer affair. [...]
Elio Fox Takes Down The WSOPE Championship Event Gold Bracelet
The €10,400 buy-in World Series of Poker Europe’s Championship Event drew in an impressive field of 593 players, and a very nice prize pool of €5,692,800. The final table featured some big named players, and a few unknown names as well. Overall though, when play was down to the final eight players, the chip stacks [...]
Tony G Cashes the WSOPE Main Event and Cashes In On a Prop Bet
Cashing at the World Series of Poker Europe’s Main Event is already a huge feat, and one that many players dream of. On that note, some players just dream of playing in the Main Event at all; and cashing is just an added bonus that most players never could even imagine happening. Well, for Tony [...]
Tristan Wade Takes Down WSOPE Shootout Event
The World Series of Poker Europe still has two bracelets to hand out, but one bracelet has now been given out to player who had to beat out one of the toughest final tables in recent history. Tristan Wade took down the WSOPE Event #4, which was a €3000 No Limit Hold’em Shootout event. While it [...]
Steve Billirakis Wins WSOPE Event #3
Event #3 of the World Series of Poker Europe made the switch from No Limit Hold’em to Pot Limit Omaha. The first two events at the WSOPE featured new names to take down gold bracelets, but event number 3 was a different story, as Steve Billirakis now took down his second gold bracelet of his [...]
Andrew Hinrichsen Wins WSOPE Event #2
The World Series of Poker Europe’s second event was a massive hit to say the least. An incredible 771 players bought in to the €1,000 buy-in No Limit Hold’em event; which made it the largest number of entrants to an WSOPE event in history, surpassing the old record of 608 by more than 150 players. The [...]
Guillaume Humbert Takes Down WSOPE Event #1; Denies Hellmuth 12th Bracelet
With Event #1 at the World Series of Poker Europe drawing a ton of interest, one player stood out above all of the other big names. Phil Hellmuth made it into the final 12 of the event, and looked to be on his way to taking down his 12 WSOP bracelet. Mixed with Phil there [...]
888 Poker Introduces A Por Ella Bounty Event
888 Poker has introduced a new event in which players have the chance to take on the Last Woman Standing in the 2009 World Series of Poker Main Event, Leo Margets. Hailing from Spain, the 888 Poker pro finished 27th in a field of 6,000 players to claim a $352,000 payday and now you have [...]
World Series of Poker adding $1 Million Buyin Event for 2012
The World Series of Poker will hold a poker tournament next year with a $1 million buyin. This event is for the really high rollers. Roughly 15 players already have confirmed that they will play in the no-limit Texas Holdem event starting July 1 next year. Some of the players include Cirque du Soleil founder [...]
42nd Annual World Series of Poker Begins
The 42nd annual World Series of Poker officially begins today May 31, 2011 running through July 7 when the November Nine will be set to square off at the final table of the WSOP main event in November. This year’s series marks the most gold bracelet tournament events of any year in WSOP history, with [...]
Register Now for Invade Vegas II
Now is the time to diarize the dates for the second Invade Vegas tournament which is scheduled for June 28th to July 1st. This is one of the premier live poker tournaments to take place in Vegas, and if the success of the first Invade Vegas is anything to go by, this one will be [...]
PokerStars SCOOP is Underway
The Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is an annual online mega tournament hosted by PokerStars, which is a leading poker room. It is modeled after the World Series of Poker (WSOP), which is the biggest land based poker tournament extravaganza. The objective of SCOOP is to give online poker players an experience of a [...]
Merge Poker adds Weekly 100k Guaranteed
The Merge Poker Network has announced that $100,000 will now be the guaranteed prize pool for the Sunday Deepstack every week, including this one. Take your seat this Sunday with a $109 entrance coupon, by buying in for $100 + $9, or by qualifying through the 100 Seats to $100K Freeroll. There are several online [...]
Hero Poker 30k + 30K Freeroll May 15th, 2011
A new age has begun, an age of freedom. And all will know that 300 Spartans gave their last breath to defend it.” Spartan King Leonidas And on that day of April 15 such was the devastation that we called it ‘Black Friday’, but on May 15 Hero Poker answered with our 300… THE 30,000 [...]
888 Poker is Doubling Major Tournament GTD Prizepools
Over the past year 888poker, formerly Pacific Poker, has built new state-of-the art software, launched exclusive PokerCam table technology, released an innovative TV campaign featuring Shane Warne and completely revamped their promotions and offers, including free $8 registration bonus for new customers. 888poker’s continued commitment to the new “we play different” strategy and focus on [...]
Full Tilt Poker Onyx Cup
It has been rumored for weeks now that Full Tilt Poker has been working on venturing into the live tournament market. Today, all of their planning and work has been made available to the general public. Kicking off on May 11, 2011 in fabulous Las Vegas, Full Tilt Poker’s Onyx Cup will bring some of [...]
