Heading into Day 4 of the European Poker Tour tournament in Tallinn, Estonia a mere 25 players from the starting field of 420 are still in the hunt for the coveted EPT title, not to mention the €400,000 in first-place prize-money. With the money bubble bursting midway through Day 3, play picked up with the remaining players now setting their eyes on the bigger prize of the final table –and hopefully an EPT win. A total of 56 players madeRead Full Article

The European Poker Tour has made a living setting attendance records in virtually every country they hold a poker tournament in, and this week was no different. This time the record fell in the poker hotbed of Estonia, where a total of 420 players entered the Championship Event over two days. The total prize-pool for the €4,000 buy-in poker tournament eclipsed the €1.5 million mark, and the winner of the tournament will walk away with a hefty €400,000 chunk ofRead Full Article

The daring robbery shocked the poker world back in March, when four armed men entered the Hyatt Grand Hotel in Berlin brandishing machetes/axes and what turned out to be a starter pistol, and were able to escape with some €242,000 of the €1,000,000 prize-money at the European Poker Tour tournament. Two other men have also been arrested and face separate trials for their roles as planners and conspirators. All six men were from Berlins Arabic/Turkish community, and one of theRead Full Article

In all a total of six suspects were arrested in connection with the brazen robbery that occurred in Berlin at a European Poker Tour event back on March 6th. Four of those suspects recently appeared before a German court and admitted to a litany of crimes, but declined to say where the missing €290,000 is located. The four men were the men that stormed the tournament brandishing axes and a starter pistol (reports on the actual weapons have ranged fromRead Full Article

Heading into the final table Nicolas Chouity had a massive chip-lead over the other seven players at the table; Chouity controlled about 40% of the total chips in play, and a nearly 3-to-1 chip advantage over his nearest competitor. Chouity didn’t let up at the final table and managed to dominate the table; knocking out six of the seven other players! The online qualifier from Lebanon will walk away from the European Poker Tour Grand Final Championship with a massiveRead Full Article

Despite the lack of starpower at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo the final table is set to be very explosive, with the entire pack chasing chip-leader, and online qualifier, Nicolas Chouity. The two biggest names remaining flirted with the final table –Nick Schulman finished in 18th place and Sami “LarsLuzak” Kelopuro in 12th place—leaving Andrew Chen, a 22 year-old Canadian Pro as the most well-known player remaining. All that will become moot when the tournamentRead Full Article

It’s hard to believe that this August the European Poker Tour will kick of its 7th season with its first ever tournament in Tallinn Estonia. The upcoming season will once again end in Monte Carlo with the EPT Championship, which will follow two of the most popular stops on the tour, Berlin Germany, which made as much news over the daring robbery that took place as for its huge attendance numbers; and San Remo Italy, which seems to break itsRead Full Article

In the span of a few weeks a woman has won the North American Poker Tour event at Mohegan Sun, and now the European Poker Tour San Remo event! Liv Boeree, a UB sponsored poker pro, earned her way into the PokerStars sponsored EPT San Remo event through a $500 qualifier, and now has €1.25 million to show for it, along with her first major victory. Boeree overcame Jaob Carlsson’s massive final table chip-lead to win the title, saying, “ThisRead Full Article

About a week after Vanessa Selbst captured the NAPT Mohegan Sun title, another major tournament has another female poker pro in contention for the crown. This time it’s Liv Boeree, the UB Poker pro, who has found herself at the final table of the European Poker Tour’s San Remo event. Boeree is looking for her first major win, and she can avoid busting in 8th place will lock up her first 6-figure cash. The €90,000 8th place represents her biggestRead Full Article

With all four armed robbers behind bars, Berlin Police announced they have arrested a 5th suspect in the robbery of a poker tournament in downtown Berlin. Officials are saying that the 28 year-old Lebanese man not only planned the crime, but also drove the getaway car. With all four robbers behind bars, and seemingly spilling the beans on the whole robbery,