March 16, 2017
Uk online and live tournament poker pro Stephen Chidwick has won the $25,500 buy-in PokerStars Championship Panama Single-Day High Roller competition, besting a a field of 33 talented players who, with re-entries, boosted the total registration list to 44 and generated a prize pool of $1,078.000. The field included respected names like Adrian Mateos, Sergio […]
March 16, 2017
Dylan Wilkerson has won the WSOP Circuit main event at Bicycle Casino coming out on top of a 705-entry field and a tough final table. Wilkerson boosted his live tournament earnings to over $2 million following the win in which he pocketed $216,790 and his first circuit ring. “The final table was really tough and […]
March 15, 2017
Online poker provider PokerStars will be making another millionaire on Sunday, April 2 in celebration of the Sunday Million 11th Anniversary. There will be a guaranteed $10 million prize pool and a bumper first prize of at least $1 million is certain for the winner. In a statement Tuesday the company outlines twelve different routes […]
March 14, 2017
Formidable online high stakes poker pro Ben “Bttech86” Tollerene showed off his skills in major live action in Panama this week, taking down the $50,000 buy-in PokerStars Championship Panama Super High Roller in a brilliant display that saw him start with the chip lead and then eliminate every member of a talented final table to […]
March 14, 2017
In a company statement Monday Pokerstars announced that it expects to pay out over Euro 30 million at the upcoming PokerStars Championship hosted by the Monte-Carlo Casino between April 25 – May 5 this year. The total cash winnings across the course of 71 Pokerstars sponsored tournaments at the festival has been boosted by more […]
March 13, 2017
The tug ‘o war litigation between Spartan Poker and Spartan Online, two Indian online poker providers seeking to claim the brand as their own, but with neither able to claim official approval for it (see previous reports) continued this week with a civil case filed in the Calcutta High Court by Spartan Poker chief Rajat […]
March 13, 2017
According to online media and forum reports Full Flush Poker, once the flagship of the Equity Poker Network, has resurfaced with as yet unidentified new owners who claim they bought the domain on auction at an undisclosed cost. InfoPowa readers will recall that Costa Rica-based Full Flush and the EPN both suddenly went dark around […]
March 12, 2017
US poker pro Sam Panzica (24) scored his second World Poker Tour title over the weekend, following a $1,373,000 victory in the $7,500 buy-in WPT Bay 101 main event. In an exciting finish Panzica and runner-up Anthony Spinella agreed a chop before a five-hand heads up concluded the event. 806 hopefuls, many of them respected […]
March 11, 2017
The short-handed, five-minute turbo tournaments dubbed Beat The Clock by poker provider Pokerstars have attracted 900,000 players in the three months since the concept was introduced, a statement from Pokerstars revealed Friday. In taking stock on the popularity of the tournaments, which are favoured by players who prefer quick-fire poker played in bite-sized chunks, Pokerstars […]
March 11, 2017
Pokerstars online casino has released a statement detailing the award of three million-dollar jackpots within 27 days – a total of $4.2 million – with the big wins occurring on the exclusive million dollar slot Millionaires Island, which was hit twice in the period, paying out over $2.9 million to two university students. Two days […]