November 13, 2015
Alexandre Dreyfus’ Global Poker Index (GPI) has clinched a multi-year content deal with USA TODAY Sports Media Group for a competitive poker-themed destination page expected to launch in the first quarter of 2016. Owned by Mediarex Sports and Entertainment, Global Poker Index’s goal is to “sportify poker,” through its rankings of the world’s top players […]
November 11, 2015
24-year-old Joe McKeehen has won the much anticipated 2015 WSOP Main Event Championship dominating the final nine-man table from the start. McKeehen earned his first WSOP bracelet and a princely $7,683,346 million in prize money after he beat Josh Beckley in heads up play. The finale played out in just 183 hands, the shortest of […]
November 10, 2015
Polish poker pro Mateusz Dziewondski emerged victorious out of heads up play against Irishman Andrew King in the 2015 WSOP Circuit Rozvadov Main Event. Dziewonski pocketed a tidy Euro 206,927 and the title after besting 31 players from an original field of 715 after 14 hours of play. Final results of the final table: Mateusz […]
November 10, 2015
A record breaking entry field of 1,804 entered the Euro 550 buy-in Battle of Malta poker tournament, which concluded on Monday in a victory for French poker pro and former tennis coach Nicolas Proust (29). Proust picked up Euro 110,000 and a handsome knight statuette trophy for the win after a hard-fought heads up against […]
November 10, 2015
The second day of play in the 2015 World Series of Poker main event started Monday with Joe McKeehen still holding a massive chip lead on 91.3 million, and Israeli businessman Ofer Zvi Stern (37) in second place on 32.5 million. Other players still in contention for the $7.6 million main prize at that point […]
November 9, 2015
UK poker pro Iaron Lightbourne emerged victorious in the 2015 PartyPoker WPT UK Main event besting a field of 450 and ultimately Craig McCorkell in heads-up. Lightbourne took home the title and a his biggest career pay check to date of GBP 200 000. Final Table : Iaron Lightbourne – GBP 200,000 Craig McCorkell […]
November 9, 2015
The oldest man at the World Series of Poker Series main event final table, 72-year-old Belgian businessman Pierre Neuville, is out of the competition, eliminated at seventh by the steam-rollering chip leader, Joe McKeehen. Neuville came into the final table fourth in chips, and his dwindling stack proved no match for the massive resources held […]
November 9, 2015
Pennsylvanian poker pro Joe McKeehen (24) made an aggressive start at the World Series of Poker Main Event final table Sunday, ruthlessly eliminating the two lowest stacks at the table, Patrick Chan (26) at ninth and Federico Butteroni (25) at eighth, in the first three hours. Earlier, the November Nine finalists had reconvened at the […]
November 8, 2015
Rozvadov in the Czech Republic, and specifically the Kings Casino, was the focus over the weekend as the World Series of Poker Circuit Euro 25,000 buy-in Super High Roller concluded in victory – and a Euro 256,025 payday – for Croatian poker pro Stipo Vladic. Entries and re-entries totalled just 22 in this competition, but […]
November 7, 2015
Amateur and professional poker players have been flying into the charming and historic Mediterranean island of Malta this week to compete in the Battle of Malta poker tournament, and the invasion can be measured by the record number of entries. The organisers reported Friday that 1,803 registrations for the Battle of Malta have been received […]