Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 05, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
EPT

After four days of play the 2012 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Deauville is down to just three tables, a total of just 24 competitors. Sitting in the driver’s seat heading into the penultimate day is Team PokerStars Pro and Italian poker legend Luca Pagano who amassed a massive chip-stack of over 3.5 million on Day 4. With a total field size of 889Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 09, 2012 Posted in EPT News, Tournament News | No Comments »
2012-PokerStars-PCA

Yesterday we worried the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure might not reach 1,000 entrants for the first time since 2008, but a solid turnout on Day 1b of the event put those fears to rest. In all 654 players registered on Day 1b of the tournament, which when added to the 418 players from Day 1a produces a total attendance of 1,072 entrants for theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 06, 2010 Posted in Tournament News | No Comments »

In one of the biggest upsets of the first day of the National Heads-Up Poker Championship, 2003 World Series of Poker Champion, Chris Moneymaker, was able to dispatch Patrik Antonius in about 30 minutes. Antonius, who frequently plays heads-up cash games online, was a huge betting favorite in the match, but it was the man who put poker on the map in 2003 whoRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 23, 2010 Posted in Live Poker News | No Comments »

For the second straight week a player on High Stakes Poker has been felted, losing their initial $200,000 buy-in. In week one it was the poker pro everyone loves to hate, Phil Hellmuth who went busto: Week two of the popular television show saw Andreas Hoivold take an early exit from the game. In the most interesting hand of the evening viewers were ableRead Full Article