April 10, 2017
Poker pro David Weinman will be trading in his Kia Sportage SUV this week after winning a special add-on prize of an Audi 2018 S5 in addition to his main prize victory in the WPT Champion of Champions event of $381,500. The victory follows Weinman’s first WPT title earlier this year in which he won […]
April 10, 2017
The inaugural PokerStars Championship Macau event created plenty of comment this week, taking just 2 hours to reach the heads up….but a further almost 11 hours to reach a winner despite a chop agreement. The event pulled in a total of 546 players, generating a prize pool worth the equivalent of US$2.6 million. On reaching […]
April 10, 2017
888Poker has developed a high profile magnet to get online poker fans into its satellite qualifiers for the next World Series of Poker…the company has put up the difference between the main event top prize and $10 million dollars as an add-on booster if it is won by a 888Poker satellite qualifier. 888 has dubbed […]
April 7, 2017
Former WSOP champion Ryan Reiss, who won more than $8.3 million for his Main Event victory back in 2013 (see previous InfoPowa reports) has scored another major win, taking down the $10,000 buy-in WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Finale Thursday. He succeeded despite a tough and highly competitive field that included aces like Cliff […]
April 7, 2017
The fifth of the High Roller competitions at the Pokerstars Championship Macau hosted by the City of Dreams is in the record books, with a hard-earned win by German poker pro Oliver Weiss after a tough heads up against Belarus ace Mikita Badziakouski. Weiss collected $402,860 for his win in the HK$ 206,000 buy-in Single […]
April 7, 2017
888poker has guaranteed a $10 million payout to the 888poker qualifier that wins the 2017 WSOP Main Event as part of its “Supersize ME” promotion. 888Poker will top up the regular WSOP winning payout to $10 million if the winner qualified through 888poker’s steps satellites for $0.01 or buy in directly to one of the […]
April 7, 2017
Florida poker professional Jason Mercier has taken down the $25,500 High Roller No Limit Hold’em at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino, besting a field of 116 that generated a prize pool of $2,900,000. Described as the toughest field of the series, Mercier defeated Justin Bonomo heads-up, winning $794,600 and adding another Hard Rock trophy […]
April 7, 2017
Carnegie Mellon University’s (CMU) artificial intelligence computer program Libratus will be showcased during a China exhibition with a Winner-Take-All prize of $290,000. AI computer programmer Libratus exceeded expectation when it convincingly bested its human rivals in the “Brains Vs. Artificial Intelligence: Upping the Ante” 20-day poker contest between four human players (see previous InfoPowa reports) […]
April 7, 2017
Tony Sinishtaj emerged victorious out of heads up play with Darryll Fish in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $3,500 Championship, the first WPT cash of his career. Sinishtaj outplayed a 1,207 entry field winning his first WPT title, a $661,283 paycheck and a $15,000 seat to the Season XV Monster WPT Tournament of […]
April 6, 2017
With online gambling firms like 888 and 32Red already on the way to the exit in Australia following the federal government’s decision to implement the Interactive Gaming Amendment Act 2017 (see previous InfoPowa reports), Pokerstars has advised its players that if the Act is passed when the federal legislature returns from recess next month, it […]