September 29, 2017
PokerStars reports that the recently completed 2017 World Championship of Online Poker has been another of its success stories. WCOOP this year ran from September 3rd to September 27th and attracted over 107,000 players, awarding a total of over $90 million in pay-outs. The lower buy-in events this year proved to be especially popular and […]
September 28, 2017
PartyPoker’s currently running Powerfest tournament was the scene of an exciting heads up between two of the game’s foremost and audacious online high stakes players this week when Ben “CowEyed” Tollerene clashed with Viktor “Isildur1” Blom in the $25,000 buy-in Super High Roller competition. The $3 million guarantee on the prize pool was easily overtaken […]
September 27, 2017
Steven “SvZff” van Zadelhoff, a Dutch pro based in Malta, capped a 15-year online and live tournament playing career this week with a $1.6 million win in the main event of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker. The win augments an already impressive career earnings record achieved by van Zadelhoff that includes $3.8 million […]
September 26, 2017
For the tenth year running it appears that the legalisation of online poker in California remains a dream unlikely to be realised. The state Legislature ended its 2017 season on September 15 with no progress or apparent interest on Assemblyman Reggie Jones-Sawyer’s bill AB 1677, introduced in February this year and still languishing in the […]
September 25, 2017
Rachid “SkaiWalkurr” Ben Cherif (27), a Dutch-based hyper turbo and heads up S&G specialist who has been quietly racking up big wins on the internet since 2006, has scored a victory worth $210,813 at the World Championship of Online Poker this week, besting a field of 1,522 in the $1,050 buy-in NLHE 6-Max, Turbo, Progressive […]
September 24, 2017
US poker pro Nick Petrangelo is $624,676 wealthier this weekend after crushing a field of 149 players in the $3 million guaranteed, $25,000 buy-in NLHE [8-Max, High Roller at the World Championship of Online Poker currently in its third week of non-stop action and big money prizes. The field generated a prize pool well over […]
September 24, 2017
The World Poker Tour Borgata Open has concluded with a $789,058 triumph for pro player Guo Liang Chen – by far the biggest cash of his entire career. The $3,500 buy-in NLHE event attracted a field of 1,132, including respected players like Cliff Josephy and Matthew Perry. On the final day of the competition Chen […]
September 23, 2017
Online poker provider PartyPoker has launched its new Monster series of tournaments, scheduled to kick off on October 21 and run through to the end of that month. The tournaments, which have guaranteed prize pools totalling $5 million, will be organised on two levels, dubbed Micro and Mid, with each offering a diversity of competitions […]
September 22, 2017
The 2017 European version of the World Series of Poker will have Euro 18 million in guaranteed prize pools and be hosted by Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, according to a statement this week by WSOPE Director Gregory Chochon. The statement details a diverse series of events and buy-ins, which Chochon says should attract […]
September 22, 2017
The 2017 European version of the World Series of Poker will have Euro 18 million in guaranteed prize pools and be hosted by Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, according to a statement this week by WSOPE Director Gregory Chochon. The statement details a diverse series of events and buy-ins, which Chochon says should attract […]