UK poker pro wins Partypoker Live Millions grand final open

April 12, 2018

Scots online and live tournament poker pro Ludovic Geilich scored one of his biggest pay days yet this week in taking down the PartyPoker Live Millions Grand Final Open in Barcelona, besting a field of 1,716 to claim the main prize of Euro 250,000. The Euro 1,100 buy-in competition attracted a number of notable names, […]

Second Barcelona high roller event won by Belgian poker pro

April 11, 2018

Belgian poker pro Davidi Kitai scored a useful dad-to-be prize of Euro 700,000 this week at the second Euro 25,500 buy-in PartyPoker Live Millions High Roller event in Barcelona, besting a field of 90 that generated a prize pool of Euro 2,182,500 and included top players like Steve O’Dwyer, Justin Bonomo, Ryan Riess, Manig Loeser […]

Partypoker to host high roller poker event in the Bahamas

April 11, 2018

The increasingly aggressive and competitive PartyPoker has announced that it is to invest $10 million in a prize pool for a $25,000 buy-in World Millions High Roller event during the popular Caribbean Poker Party (CPP), scheduled for November this year in the Bahamas. The event will be held in the same broad timeframe as the […]

Poker ace Greenwood scores another million dollar plus pay day

April 11, 2018

Canadian poker pro Sam Greenwood has scored another massive pay day – his second this year – by taking down the PartyPoker Live Millions Grand Final High Roller in Barcelona, earning $1,235,000 (Euro 1 million). Earlier this year Greenwood won $1.3 million in the Caribbean Poker Party. The Euro 51,000 buy-in Grand Final High Roller […]

Pokerstars hails success of early payout feature in MTT’s

April 10, 2018

PokerStars’ recently introduced Multi-Table Tournament (MTT) feature – ‘early payout tournaments’ is proving popular, the operator said, having already been implemented in more than half of its MTT’s. Once an MTT reaches a paid position, all eligible players receive an immediate payout of the minimum cash amount specified in that tournament’s prize structure.  Players eliminated […]

Pokerstars and Partypoker compete in May

April 10, 2018

Up-and-coming PartyPoker and market leader PokerStars go head to head next month, offering competing tournaments with total guarantees of $100 million. Rivals PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) and PartyPoker Powerfest products are both scheduled for the 6 – 20 May time slot, with the former offering guarantees up $10 million over last year […]

German ace wins euro 700,000 on Partypoker Super High Roller

April 10, 2018

German poker ace Andreas Eiler is Euro 700,000 richer this week after taking down the Euro 25,000 buy-in PartyPoker Live Millions Super High Roller in Barcelona. In an all-German heads up Eiler clashed with countryman Rainier Kempe, using a significant chip lead to dismiss Kempe within a half hour of intense action and sending the […]

More pay-outs for Absolute Poker players

April 7, 2018

The cheating and shuttering scandal surrounding the now defunct Absolute Poker network (see previous reports) took place many years ago,, but players are still being compensated, with the third round of payments imminent, according to disbursement agency Garden City Group. In a statement this week the company advised that a third round of payments has […]

More European player pool sharing licenses awarded

April 7, 2018

French online gambling regulator ARJEL has announced two more shared player pool licensees, authorising B.E.S. SAS and Pari-Mutuel Urbain (PMU) to offer their services to the shared online poker player pool agreed by France, Spain, Italy and Portugal, although the latter two nations have yet to implement the agreement fully (see previous reports). B.E.S. SAS […]

Pokerstars announces tenth SCOOP

April 5, 2018

The tenth annual Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) makes a return to PokerStars from May 6-21, 2018 with at least one $1 million guaranteed tournament per day, with the action pitched at three levels (Low, Medium and High), with buy-ins ranging from $2.20 to $25,000. “It is an honour to celebrate 10 years of […]