All Entries in the "Poker" Category
Poker Stars Looking To Purchase Atlantic City, NJ Casino
It looks as though online poker giant Poker Stars is looking to branch out into land-based poker as well, with the revelation made in The Wall Street Journal last Thursday, December 6, 2012 that the site recently lauded for buying out beleagured former rival Full Tilt Poker and bailing out its debt with players worldwide [...]
Phil Hellmuth wins WSOP Europe Main Event
There was talk that the game of poker had passed by Phil Hellmuth, but this year he showed the world that he was not done with the game and the game was still his to lose. Hellmuth capped his great WSOP performance with a masterful game in the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event. [...]
Phil Ivey Makes Big Splash At 2012 WSOP
The 43rd annual World Series of Poke isn’t even over yet and already the poster boy of poker, Phil Ivey, is making if not a bigger splash than ever, then at least as big a one, with three final tables, including a second place finish. And if that’s any indication, he’s only just warming up. [...]
Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier Wins EPT Berlin High Roller
The EPT Berlin High Roller event finished out with a star-studded heads-up nail-biting climax featuring Bertrand “ElkY” Grospelier ultimately taking the game from tough competitor, and fellow poker star, Chris Moorman. Grospellier stands atop a 57 player field after a two-day battle for the $301,992 grand prize in the $13,610 buy-in event. It happened at [...]
WPT Vienna Champion Crowned
The current season of the World Poker Tour is winding down with just a few more stops on it, but the one that just came to an end featured some big names from the poker world, and also an eventual champion whose win here gave him his first major poker championship. The WPT Vienna event [...]
Numbers for Big One for One Drop Jumping Fast
The Big One for One Drop event is one of the hottest topics in the poker world right now, mainly because of the massive prize pool and the incredibly well-known poker players that this tournament is going to include when all is said and done. The buy-in for it will be the largest of all-time, [...]
2012 Irish Open Goes to Kevin Vandersmissen
Kevin Vandersmissen knew he had his work cut out for him from the start of the final table. He was sitting in last place out of nine players with less than 500k in chips, and was looking up a tough leaderboard ahead of him. He never flinched though, and simply remained patient in picking his [...]
$1 Million Poker Tournament at WSOP Will Feature Satellites
The Big One for One Drop poker tournament is quickly becoming one of the most talked about tournaments that will be ran at the 2012 World Series of Poker, and a lot of it has to do with the fact that it features an incredible $1 million buy-in. While this size tournament is really something [...]
Irish Poker Tour Kicks Off This Weekend
The Irish Poker Tour is the longest running poker tournament in all of Europe currently, and is set to get underway once again this weekend. The anticipation surrounding the event is pretty impressive, and it should draw in quite the prize pool and many well-known players as well. It will be run at the Burlington [...]
PokerStars.net LAPT Chile & ANZPT Sydney Winners
Two big PokerStars poker tours just wrapped up major main events, which means there are two new names to add to the rosters of 2012 tournament champions. This time those names are Aliro Diaz and Gordon Huntly, for winning, respectively, the Latin American Poker Tour Chile Main Event and the Australian New Zealand Poker Tour [...]
