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

The 2012 PokerStars PCA Main Event is down to the final day of play, as just eight of the original 1,071 players are still in the hunt for the title. While the fin al table didn’t produce any big-names, there are two young players who have the chance to breakthrough with a good showing at Friday’s final table. The 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA)Read Full Article

Most people probably didn’t think Faraz Jaka could play any better, or run any hotter at the PokerStars PCA after he jumped out to the Day 1a chip-lead, and then seemingly cruised along on Day 2 of the tournament to once again holding the chip-lead at the end of the day. After an up and down Day 3 he fell all the way toRead Full Article

The 1,000+ player field for the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event has been trimmed to just 8 tables, and a total of 64 players remaining heading into Day 4 of the prestigious tournament. With plenty of the game’s best poker players still alive, like Barry Greenstein, William Reynolds, Faraz Jaka, and 2010 PCA Champ Galen Hall, the 2012 PCA has the potentialRead Full Article

It’s that time of year again; time to pull out my crystal ball for a little poker prognostication, and for 2012 the predictions are very bold! 2012 will finally be the Year of the Woman For the past two years I’ve predicted that a woman would win an open WSOP tournament, so this year I’m going to up the ante despite the cold-spell womenRead Full Article

When we first heard the news earlier this week that John Duthie would no longer be a member of Team PokerStars Pro, we wondered aloud what implications this might have for his relationship with the PokerStars controlled European Poker Tour (EPT) where Duthie –the founder of the EPT—still acted as the CEO. On Wednesday we found out, as Duthie announced he would be resigningRead Full Article

Yet another player has been removed from the Team PokerStars Pro roster as European Poker Tour founder John Duthie confirmed he had parted ways with his longtime sponsor PokerStars on the 2+2 Poker Forum. In addition to founding the EPT, Duthie is also an accomplished poker player in his own right, with over $2.7 million in career tournament earnings according to thehendonmob.com. Duthie postedRead Full Article

Every year I like to take a look at a few of the tournament grinders who have been quite successful over the past few years, but have yet to “breakout” as poker superstars — had a few cards fallen differently they would already be household names in the poker world and received plenty of gambling news headlines. So here is Part 2 of myRead Full Article

Every year I like to take a look at a few of the tournament grinders who have been quite successful over the past few years, but have yet to “breakout” as poker superstars — had a few cards fallen differently they would already be household names in the poker world and received plenty of poker news headlines. So here is Part 1 of myRead Full Article

With just one more day of poker left to be played in the European Poker Tour Prague Main Event it will be Martin Finger and Nicholas Levi who will take commanding chip-leads into Saturday’s final table action. The duo controls roughly 11.5 million of the roughly 22.5 million total chips in play. Trying to take down the chip-leaders will be a seasoned group ofRead Full Article