Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 24, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

38 players entered the €100,000 Super-High-Roller tournament at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo, and as Day 2 begins a total of 45 entries were sold in the re-entry format. The seven players who decided a single €100,000 bullet was not enough were Gus Hansen, Jason Mercier,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 23, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The $100k buy-in tournaments have not gone the way of the dodo as many expected, despite drastic declines in attendance at both the 2012 PokerStars PCA and the 2012 Aussie millions in January. A recent $100k (actually nearly $120k buy-in) Super-High-Roller attracted 30 people in the Philippines, and theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Apr 04, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final will have a new addition to its schedule this year as the tournament series in Monte Carlo will host the first six-figure buy-in tournament in European poker history. The tournament will be a €100,000 buy-in Super-High-Roller event, and has already attractedRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 22, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
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Attendance in the $100k Challenge at the Aussie Millions was way down from last year’s impressive 38 entrants, with just 22 players registering for the $100k buy-in tournament this time around. Even with the attendance drop the tournament still managed to attract some of the biggest names inRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 15, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With attendance down virtually across the board at poker tournaments around the world since Black Friday, few people were expecting the $25,000 buy-in WPT Championship to be able to match last year’s attendance mark of 195 players. But lo and behold, on Day 1 of the tournament 188Read Full Article