November 13, 2014
In an interesting footnote to this year’s World Series of Poker main event finale (see previous reports), media reports have acknowledged the key role played by technical support teams deployed by at least one of the three top finalists, winner Martin Jacobson and runners up Felix Stephsen and Jorryt Van Hoof. In Van Hoof’s case […]
November 12, 2014
Less than two hours into the second day’s play in the World Series of Poker main event final table, Dutch player Jorryt Van Hoof has suffered a remarkable reversal of fortunes and was the short stack at three-handed play stage when we went to press this morning. The tall Dutchman started the final day of […]
November 12, 2014
The California alliance of Pokerstars, the Morongo tribe and three major land card room operators lobbying for unrestricted online poker legalisation in the Sunshine State (see previous reports) has been strengthened following a decision by the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians to join the coalition. The decision by the San Manuel tribe represents a […]
November 12, 2014
A European player will emerge the 2014 World Series of Poker Main Event Champion, as the table whittled down to three, Tuesday. The final three players still in contention comprise Dutch poker pro Jorryt van Hoof, Martin Jacobson from Sweden and Norwegian Felix Stephenson. van Hoof, who will become the first Dutch world poker champion […]
November 11, 2014
The success of this week’s 2014 Battle of Malta poker tournament can be gauged by the impressive 1,447 entries for the main event, which was effectively a heads up draw in a finale ultimately terminated by the clock…the tourney simply ran out of time at 5am the next day. Local player James Brincat and Bulgarian […]
November 11, 2014
German poker pro Fabian Quoss is the Pokerstars Macau high roller king after besting 82 other players in the 2014 Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) High Roller event. Opposing Quoss on the internationally talented final table following elimination of luminaries like Phil Ivey, Sam Trickett, and Sorel Mizzi, were Yiang Lu (chip leader), Rono Lo, […]
November 11, 2014
Dutch poker pro Jorryt Van Hoof entered this year’s World Series of Poker final table as the chip leader, and has a track record that should attract the most demanding sponsor, yet spectators have wondered about the absence of sponsorship patches on his clothing. Fellow countryman and poker journalist Remko Rinkema explained why in an […]
November 11, 2014
The final table for the 2014 World Series of Poker main event is in progress, after nine players returned to the felt Monday afternoon Vegas-time in pursuit of the really big money. Each player has already banked $730,725 for surviving an original field of 6,683, but six and seven-figure wins are possible as the remaining […]
November 10, 2014
After a four-month break the 2014 World Series of Poker main event final table reconvenes today (Monday) with the November Nine raring to go at it in a bid to win the $10 million first price, a very expensive WSOP winner’s bracelet and the prestige of ultimately besting an original entry field of 6,683 poker […]
November 9, 2014
American player Darren Elias is enjoying a spectacularly rewarding year, having won the WPT Borgata Poker Open for $843,744 in September, and this weekend the WPT Caribbean main event for a further $128,680 despite having to overcome a 4 to 1 chip disadvantage in the heads up. Two back-to-back wins in such a major event […]