December 13, 2018
PokerStars is offering two weeks of holiday action this Christmas, investing $85 million across a range of activities and online action. The Winter Series kicks off festivities on December 23, 2018 and runs until January 7, 2019. During that time, the signature Winter Series alone will award a guaranteed $40 million. The 16-day schedule features […]
December 10, 2018
Turkish player Akim Tuna scored his first live tournament win over the weekend, taking home the Euro 125,330 main prize in the Euro 10,300 buy-in 2018 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague NLHE event against a quality field of 38 entries. Despite a final table that included aces like Davidi Kitai and Daniel Dvoress, the Turkish […]
December 8, 2018
The organisers of the Irish Poker Open have released details of the next edition, which is scheduled for 15-22 April 2019 and is to be hosted by the prestigious Dublin hotel, Citywest. The buy-in for this event will remain at Euro 1,025 plus Euro 125, and the festival will once again feature a full schedule […]
December 7, 2018
Portugal’s Manuel “Sheparentao” Ruivo, living in the Netherlands, is the 2018 partypoker MILLIONS Online champion, an accolade that came with a $2,329,943 first-place prize following a heads-up deal with Pim “ForMatherRussia” de Goede. Twenty-nine players returned to the partypoker tables on 5 December, each guaranteed $65,505 for their efforts. Once the eight-handed final table was […]
December 3, 2018
The PokerStars Live Asia Jeju Red Dragon kicked off in Korea this week with French pro Romain Arnaud (33) winning the $54,000 buy-in Super High Roller competition after besting a field of 44 entries that created a prize pool worth $2.25 million…the largest such pool yet for a PokerStars event in Korea. Arnaud’s $668.000 pay […]
December 1, 2018
Dutch journalist, TV host and poker fan Alberto Stegeman showcased his considerable talent for competitive tournament poker Friday by taking down the 27th edition of the Euro 4,300 buy-in Master Classics of Poker Main Event in Amsterdam for Euro 240,183 After some intense three-handed action resulted in the elimination of online cash game expert Teuns […]
November 29, 2018
Pavel Plesuv (30), a poker pro from Moldova now resident in the Czech Republic, continued to enjoy a run of successful action at the $3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open this week, besting a field of 898 to claim the main prize of $504, 820. The big win brings Plesuv’s […]
November 29, 2018
In Europe the shared online poker market has received a boost with the announcement that the iPoker Network has launched French-Spanish shared tables, becoming the fourth major operator to do so. The network received the approval of the French regulator ARJEL back in March this year, and more recently was given the green light by […]
November 26, 2018
Partypoker has re-entered the Czech Republic after exiting the market almost two years ago. The re-entry follows the second International online gambling licence award from the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Finance. In anticipation of its launch the online poker operator has partnered Kings Resort Rozvadov, both of whom hint at ambitious and exciting plans to come. Tom Waters, managing director […]
November 18, 2018
Sunday saw a delighted British professional poker player, Roberto Romanello from Wales, finally best a field of 196 quality players to claim the main prize of $450,000 in the $10,300 buy-in Caribbean Partypoker High Roller event in the Bahamas. 28 survivors returned to the felt on the final day of the competition, twenty-three of whom […]