Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 19, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Danish poker pro Frederik Jensen may not be a well-known name in the poker world, but the talented young player from Copenhagen is definitely going to get the attention he deserves now that he is an EPT Champion! Jensen won the PokerStars European Poker Tour Madrid Main EventRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Mar 14, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After a disappointing turnout on Day 1a of the European Poker Tour (EPT) stop in Madrid, Spain, Day 1b of the tournament saw a much larger field take to the poker tables at the Casino Gran Madrid, putting the final attendance tally at 477 players. The turnout wasRead Full Article

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

Entering Day 3 the talk of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Copenhagen Main event was chip-leader Melanie Weisner. Weisner was in search of her first major tournament title, but ran into a few coolers towards the end of Day 3 that saw her fall from the chip-leadRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 22, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After a disappointing turnout on Day 1a of the European Poker Tour’s Season 8 stop in Copenhagen (where a mere 83 players registered for the DKK37,275 (€5,000) buy-in tournament) Day 1b saw over 200 players register for the EPT Copenhagen Main Event, bringing the total number of entrantsRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

It seems like every week I’m writing an article on some new poker pro that is now representing Lock Poker, so I was very happy to see that this would not be the case this week: Instead Lock Poker signed not one but two more poker pros toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 14, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

All of the big names have been eliminated from the World Poker Tour’s inaugural Lucky Hearts Poker Open Championship taking place at the Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, but that doesn’t mean the tournament isn’t on the verge of making history, considering Gigi Gagne is poised toRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Feb 13, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

If you thought Lock Poker was finished adding to their Team LockPRO Elite roster in 2012 after signing a slew of big name talent in 2011 and into 2012 you were sadly mistaken. This past week Lock Poker announced yet another addition to their roster of sponsored pros,Read Full Article

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

Well, it looks like I was dead wrong with my prediction that Day 1c of the 2012 Aussie Million Main Event would attract only 200 entrants, and that attendance would be down some 25% year-over-year! While the Aussie Million Main Event did not reach last year’s attendance totalRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 16, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Throughout the entire Black Friday debacle the Merge Gaming Network’s flagship online poker room, Lock Poker, has continued to add to their talented roster of poker pros, known as Team ELITE, and this weekend they picked-up yet another of poker’s rising stars, Melanie “Callisto” Weisner. Weisner is theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 07, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Just days after the World Poker Tour set an attendance record in Prague for the largest WPT tournament ever held in Europe it was the European Poker Tour’s turn as the 2011 EPT Prague broke its own record for the largest EPT Prague event in the eight yearRead Full Article