June 16, 2018
Philadelphia poker pro John Hennigan (47) claimed the victory, a fifth World Series of Poker bracelet and $414,692 in prize money Friday in taking down the $10,000 buy-in HORSE Championship event, besting a stellar field of 166 entries in the mixed games competition which generated a prize pool of $1,560,400, enabling 25 players to cash. […]
June 15, 2018
German poker pro Arne Kern has emerged as the winner of the World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Millionaire Maker event, earning a cool $1,173,223 and a WSOP bracelet after besting a large field of 7,361 that included many top players. The field generated a prize pool worth $9,937,350, and Kern’s lion’s share […]
June 15, 2018
Poker legend Doyle “Texas Dolly” Brunson (85) played his last World Series of Poker tournament this week, finishing sixth in the $10,000 buy-in No Limit 2-7 Single Draw event after announcing his retirement from the game, and departing the Amazon Room at the Rio to a standing ovation. The event was captured on the PokerGo […]
June 15, 2018
Irish social mobile poker games developer KamaGames announced Thursday that it has launched a significant update to its flagship title Pokerist, along with a brand new game, Split Bet Poker, and the addition of the popular Multi-Table Tournaments (MTT). MTT is the latest tournament type available to KamaGames’ 530,000 daily active players. Particularly suited to […]
June 14, 2018
Brian Rast won the WSOP $10,000 NO-LIMIT 2-7 SINGLE DRAW event, his fourth bracelet and over a quarter of a million Dollars in prize money. Rast graciously bowed to the star of the show despite winning the event, it being ten-time bracelet winner Doyle Brunson’s swan song, a historical event in WSOP history. Brunson left the table in sixth place, […]
June 13, 2018
The schedule for the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe, which will again be staged at the King’s Casino Rozvadov in the Czech Republic, has been released. It includes ten bracelet events and guarantees totalling Euro 13 million across the tourneys, which will take place between October 9 through November 2. The full schedule is […]
June 13, 2018
One of the most financially successful and popular players in international poker, Daniel Negreanu, has joined the instructor’s roster on the MasterClass project, an online learning facility where the public can access the expertise of globally successful individuals like film director Martin Scorsese, singer Christina Aguilera and celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay. Negreanu holds six prestigious […]
June 13, 2018
New York derivatives Jeremy Wein won his first World Series of Poker bracelet and the main prize of $537,710 in Las Vegas this week, taking down the $5,000 buy-in NLHE big blind ante event after besting a field of 518. Wein played a strong event, entering the final day’s action second in chips only to […]
June 13, 2018
PokerStars gave an indication of its ambitions in the relatively new Indian poker market this week by announcing significant increases in the guarantees on its weekly tournaments – up to 40 percent. The move appears to be a restructuring, and includes reductions in the buy-ins for certain events to bring more players to the tables…and […]
June 12, 2018
Latest results in from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) saw local Las Vegas pro Craig Varnell (43) top a 2,419-entry field in Event 19, $565 Pot-Limit Omaha, ultimately defeating Seth Zimmerman in a ping-pong-style heads-up duel. Varnell pocketed $181,790 for his trouble and a coveted WSOP bracelet. Zimmerman earned a $112,347 payday for his second-place finish and Omar Mehmood, came in third […]