September 29, 2018
PokerStars rival PartyPoker has published numbers from its recently concluded Powerfest series, which it claims has been the most successful and largest it has held to date. Across the course of the 22-day series, more than $69 million in prize money was awarded over 669 events, with 20 Championship Event winners crowned and 21 players […]
March 19, 2018
Canadian PartyPoker pro Kristen Bicknell has claimed a HK$2,192,000 ($279,549) pay day after defeating top poker player David Peters in the $10,200 buy-in PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour High Roller in Macau on St. Patrick’s Day. With this victory, Bicknell also becomes the first ever APPT High Roller champion. Bicknell’s first prize for besting a […]
January 25, 2018
PartyPoker’s Euro 12.5 million guaranteed Millions Germany series this year (it actually takes place at Kings Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic thanks to Germany’s confused gambling status) will include the company’s popular Euro 20,000 buy-in Big Game, which this year will for the first time have a Pot Limit Omaha format. The eight-handed game will […]
January 10, 2018
PartyPoker has joined the growing list of online poker providers showing increased interest in the Latin American market, announcing this week that it has scheduled a live tour stop in the region. The poker provider is investing $2 million in prize pool guarantees at its Latin American Poker Championships (LAPC) which will take place Feb. […]
October 30, 2017
Partypoker has released its schedule for the 2018 partypoker MILLIONS series with events in North America, Russia, the Caribbean and Europe as well as online. The series will offer a total guaranteed prize pool of over $100,000,000 until December 2018. In 2018, all events will offer guaranteed prize pools of at least $5,000,000 – with […]
October 30, 2017
Dedicated PartyPoker TV channel will broadcast nightly on Sky Channel 468 and Freesat Channel 250. Monday October 30 is a landmark date for PartyPoker as the company’s UK television channel begins screening nightly poker shows across Sky Channel 468 and Freesat Channel 250 from 11pm. Exact content for the first screening is not yet known, […]
September 23, 2017
Online poker provider PartyPoker has launched its new Monster series of tournaments, scheduled to kick off on October 21 and run through to the end of that month. The tournaments, which have guaranteed prize pools totalling $5 million, will be organised on two levels, dubbed Micro and Mid, with each offering a diversity of competitions […]
August 22, 2017
PartyPoker is the latest online operator to announce its withdrawal from Australia following those of 888 Holdings, PokerStars and 32Red. Tom Waters, managing director of PartyPoker in a press statement said the company will stop operating on August 31, marking the occasion as a regretful decision given Australia’s “strong poker market”. “We will continue to […]
August 2, 2017
party poker LIVE is hosting its inaugural Nordic Poker Championships (NPC), with a Euro 1 million guarantee, in Prague – Czech Republic from 14-18 December 2017. The NPC will be held at the upmarket Grandior Hotel in Prague and accepts only players who have Nordic passports (or residential status in a Nordic country). “Prague is […]
August 1, 2017
PartyPoker is making good on its intentions to offer the biggest online poker tournaments in the business, announcing this week that its next Powerfest series, scheduled for September 3 and running for just over three weeks, will have $35 million in guaranteed prize pools over 330 events. That represents a 75 percent boost to the […]