October 26, 2015
PokerStars has crowed its third Spin&Go millionaire in a week, and eighth of all time, after English player ‘prophethicks’ won after just seven minutes of play in a $5 tournament. Second and third runner-up’s Romanian ’BARCA1CRIS’ and Dutchman ’snagon-nl’ both banked $100,000 from a tournament that was over in just 48 hands. On 21 and […]
October 26, 2015
Belarus professional player Natan Chauskin (27) has emerged the winner in the Euro 1,100 buy-in Italian Poker Tour main event in Malta, claiming the first prize of Euro 149,560 after a two way chop in the closing stage of the competition. The Belarus player held the chip lead at the start of final table action […]
October 26, 2015
Mike “Timex” MacDonald bested a field of 74 entrants to win the Euro 25,750 buy-in European Poker Tour Malta High Roller event over the weekend, collecting the first prize of Euro 498,575 for his maiden high roller title. in the final stages of the competition MacDonald faced a formidable final table that comprised Finland’s Juha […]
October 25, 2015
The 2015 World Series of Poker Europe Euro 10,450 buy-in NLHE main event went into the history books over the weekend as a win for Idaho pro Kevin MacPhee, who claimed his second WSOP bracelet and Euro 883,000 after besting a field of 312 other entrants. On the final day of the competition MacPhee faced […]
October 24, 2015
A Canadian federal judge has overturned an Immigration & Refugee Board deportation order on an Israeli citizen, using the words of a popular poker song to advice officials that they should have “folded their cards and walked away from the case.” Israeli Ofer Cohen arrived in Canada in 2013 to visit a friend but was […]
October 24, 2015
On Friday 2010 World Series of Poker main event champion Jonathan Duhamel added another Euro 554,395 to career earnings that now exceed $17.5 million by taking down the $25,000 buy-in High Roller event at WSOP Europe. Almost as importantly as the cash, he also claimed his third World Series of Poker bracelet to enter the […]
October 23, 2015
Reports out of Nevada as the week ends indicate that the partnership between the World Series of Poker and daily fantasy sports operator DraftKings has been put on hold following the Nevada Gaming Control Board’s finding that DFS constitutes gambling and should not continue in the state without the appropriate licence. DraftKings had already announced […]
October 22, 2015
The Philadelphia 76ers US basketball franchise has prematurely ended its partnership with Bwin’s PartyPoker in a move that has left industry observers surprised and puzzled. PartyPoker is not involved in the daily fantasy sports sector which has been under siege for the past three weeks, although US sports teams have been criticised for closer links […]
October 20, 2015
Today (Tuesday) sees the start of the European Poker Tour Malta festival of poker, which will include the inaugural live run of the popular online Pokerstars Spin & Go tournament The Spin & Go live element will feature the three-handed super-turbo event with Euro 50 buy-ins, enabling the fortunate few to win up to Euro […]
October 19, 2015
The Greeks are making an impression at the World Series of Poker Europe currently taking place in Berlin; Georgios Sotiropoulos is the latest Greek national to be awarded a WSOP winner’s bracelet following in the steps of Pavlos Xanthopoulos and Makarios Avramidis earlier this week (see previous reports). Sotiropoulos was part of the 546-strong entry […]