November 8, 2016
Spanish poker ace Luis Rodriguez Cruz went home GBP 200,000 wealthier this week after besting a field of 522 to win the GBP 2,200 buy-in Partypoker WPT UK Main Event. The final table of the competition lasted for five-and-a-half hours as six finalists battled it out Monday for the big money. The action was fast […]
November 8, 2016
Swedish online player Robert Berglund has captured the top prize in the main event of the 888Poker-sponsored 2016 Battle of Malta main event, taking home a record Euro 160,000 after besting a field of 1,813 entries with a heavy Nordic component that generated a prize pool of Euro 900,000. He also packed the attractive and […]
November 7, 2016
PartyPoker has signed a partnership agreement with the Professional Darts Corporation in the United States which will see the company become the official online poker room of the organisation’s US Darts Master’s chapter. The deal includes involvement in the Road to Las Vegas Challenge tournament series scheduled for the Tropicana in Las Vegas mid-2017, in […]
November 6, 2016
Amateur New Jersey player Jason Acosta (30), who mainly plays his poker online, has taken down the $1,100 buy-in main event of the Pokerstars Festival New Jersey, turning his entry from a 5,000 StarsCoins satellite into a $38,220 main prize after getting the better of 207 other players. The win was triple his best previous […]
November 4, 2016
Professional poker player Phil Ivey has commented on losing his civil appeal in a GBP 7.7 million winnings confiscation case against Crockford’s Club in London (see previous report). In a statement Thursday Ivey professed he was confused by the finding of the three-judge appeal panel, saying: “This decision makes no sense to me. The trial […]
November 3, 2016
US professional poker player Phil Ivey (39) suffered another legal setback this week when he lost his appeal against London’s Crockfords Club for winnings of GBP 7.7 million which were withheld on allegations that he and a companion indulged in “edge-sorting” tactics to cheat the casino. Ivey’s appeal this week dates back to a 2014 […]
November 2, 2016
Former nail salon owner Qui Nguyen has taken down the WSOP 2016 Main Event for $8,005,310 and his first ever WSOP bracelet emerging victorious on the other side of an 8-hour heads up match with Gordon Vayo. Nguyen, considered to be relatively inexperienced in terms of his competitors, has only cashed once in the WSOP […]
November 2, 2016
Qui Nguyen and Gordon Vayo were the survivors as the World Series of Poker main event final table entered the heads up stage Tuesday evening Vegas time following the elimination of Cliff Josephy at third for $ 3,453,035 after just over an hour of play on the third day of final table action. Josephy was […]
November 1, 2016
day 2 of the world series of poker main event final table ended monday night with just three players still standing and qui nguyen holding a massive chip lead with 58 percent of the chips in play for the second day running. five players reassembled at the rio in las vegas late monday afternoon for […]
October 31, 2016
Sam Soverel took down the Aria Resort & Casino $100,000 No-Limit Hold’em Super High Roller event this past weekend which culminated in a three-way chop between Soverel, Jake Schindler and Brian Rast. Thirty-four entrants generated a prize pool of $3,332,000 with the top five players rewarded with a minimum payout of $199,920. Final payouts were: […]