November 22, 2016
Hong Kong-based poker cash game ace and businessman Tom Hall won almost a million dollars in a different style of gambling this week – he picked up $950,000 on a prop bet with an unidentified gambler that he could drop 26 lbs in body weight in under two months. Hall did it and more in […]
November 21, 2016
The PokerStars’ sponsored 7th Edition of the Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) is set to kick off Tuesday at the Sheraton WTC in São Paulo. The tournament schedule comprises thirty-six events, headlined by the R$3,500 Main Event with a guaranteed prize pool of R$5 million, beginning November 25, 2016. “The BSOP Millions has become the […]
November 18, 2016
The highly respected (and always dapper) veteran poker commentator and player Mike Sexton has claimed his first World Poker Tour title after besting a field of 648 in the WPT Montreal event. It was his third WPT final table, and he made this one count. In the early hours of Friday morning local time Sexton […]
November 18, 2016
Caesars Interactive Entertainment, organisers of the World Series of Poker Circuit annual 14-stop international tour, has announced the signing of a hosting agreement for 2017 with Holland Casino in Rotterdam for the Netherlands leg of the circuit in the autumn. WSOP Director of Events Gregory Chochon said in a statement Friday: “As a European, I […]
November 16, 2016
Croatian poker pro Ivan Banic is Euro 232,241 wealthier this week after winning the 2016 WSOP Circuit Rozvadov Main Event against a field of 851 entrants at King’s Casino, Rozvadov in the Czech Republic. Banic also received a free pass to compete in the end-of-season World Series of Poker Global Casino Championship, and a WSOP […]
November 15, 2016
Next year will see three additional World Series of Poker Circuit stops in addition to those already established in Italy, Morocco and France, the organisers announced this week. A spokesman for the organisers explained: “We have been very judicious on which locales and casinos we will work with and believe we have found terrific partners […]
November 15, 2016
Online poker fans with a taste for fast-moving action have welcomed the launch of Pokerstars’ latest innovation, five-minute Sit-&-Go-style games branded Beat the Clock, in which 48 players start with 5,000 chips with blinds at 200/400 with an ante of 80 which increase every minute to a final level being 500/1,000 with a 200 ante. […]
November 11, 2016
The apple does not fall far from the tree in the Yong family, it appears; father Richard Yong is a respected high stakes poker player with millions in cashes, and his son Wai Kin Yong has just triumphed in the $65,000 buy-in Triton Super High Roller main event in Manila, Philippines, claiming a first prize […]
November 9, 2016
Grosvenor Casinos in the UK wound up its sixth Goliath Poker series this week with a GBP 120 buy-in main event that pulled in 5,232 entries (a thousand up on the same event last year) to create a prize pool worth GBP 523,200 London IT consultant and player Vamshi Vandanapu took home the honours and […]
November 8, 2016
The third iteration of the Big One for One Drop charity poker tournament, held as an invitational event in Monte Carlo last month (see previous reports) raised Euro 3,491,000 for the water charity, which aids people in undeveloped nations to access clean water. Twenty-six recreational poker players took to the felt in the largest buy-in […]