April 5, 2017
Top Chinese high roller poker pro Quan Zhou (32) has claimed the winner’s spoils of US$469,090 in the Pokerstars HK$206,000 buy-in Single-Day High Roller in Macau, besting a star-studded field of 50 to do so. With twelve re-ups, the total field contributing to the prize pool numbered 62. The action unfolded in the Pokerstars Live […]
April 5, 2017
The Poker Central dedicated channel in the United States has agreed a deal that will allow NBCSN to air its content on Monday nights this summer, including the $16.8 million prize pool Super High Roller Bowl and other events. The agreement resurrects an association between the two companies that started in 2015 but was not […]
April 4, 2017
Online poker provider Pokerstars has unveiled details of forthcoming changes to its loyalty program, triggering reactions from some sections of its clientele that are less than enthusiastic. Writing on the company blog, Pokerstars innovation and operations director Severin Rasset outlined some pretty fundamental revisions, indicating that the program will move away from a monthly tiered […]
April 4, 2017
Canadian online and live tourney poker ace Griffin ‘Flush_Entity’ Benger (32) bested a field of 1,029 players this week to claim the honours and a main prize worth Euro 200,000 in the prestigious Irish Open tournament in Dublin, taking his career earnings north of $5 million. Ant Wickert held the top chip count at the […]
April 4, 2017
Described as a clash of the Titans, 34-year-old Steve O’Dwyer has taken down the 2017 PokerStars Championship Macau Super High Roller for $1,099,908. O’Dwyer outplayed a field of 88, comprising sixty-four unique players plus 24 re-entries. At HK$400,000 buy-in, the total prize pool was HK$33,802,560. Ultimately facing Fedor Holz heads up, the two negotiated a […]
April 4, 2017
Americas Cardroom has introduced the “next edition” of the OSS Cub3d online tournament series. The three back-to-back tournament series will run from April 9 to May 7, 2017, featuring around $5.7 million in guaranteed prize money and packages for the Punta Cana Poker Classic. The series, each featuring a Main Event, comprise the MOSS (Mini […]
April 4, 2017
With players across the globe showing an appetite for online poker tournament action, 888Poker has joined Pokerstars, PartyPoker and Winamaxin offering increasingly larger guarantees on multi-event championships. 888 has revealed the schedule for XL Inferno, the latest in its Super XL Series, promising $7.5 million in guaranteed prizes across almost 200 events over two weeks, […]
April 3, 2017
PokerStars reached a landmark moment with the crowing of its 200th poker millionaire after a marathon 15-hour tournament in which Panamanian “Xavi666” won the $10 million Guaranteed Sunday Million 11th Anniversary for $1,093,204. A total of 44,017 unique players totaling 55,835 entries congregated online to challenge for a share of the $11,176,000 prize pool at […]
April 1, 2017
Swedish poker pro Jonas Hagstrom boosted his career winnings by a factor of five this week after winning the Mega Millions XVI at The Bicycle in California following a late decision to invest $4,300 in buying into the game; his previous career earnings of $62,000 were completely eclipsed by the first prize of $311,328 he […]
March 31, 2017
Online poker provider Pokerstars has announced that over the next 10 weeks, ten poker players will win $1 million apiece in the PokerStars Makes Millionaires series, which runs from April 2 to June 4. Players have the chance to win via a variety of routes in both online and live poker events over the period, […]