Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 13, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

 The $2,500 6-Max Limit Holdem tournament at the 2011 World Series of Poker is down to the final two tables and will likely play down to a champion on Monday. The 6-Max Limit Holdem event is definitely a specialists’ tournament, and it’s safe to assume that theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 02, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The first tournament of the 2011 World Series of Poker is also the first tournament to call into play the new rule about late nights at the Rio. Scheduled for two days, the $500 Casino Employee tournament saw action called to a stop late last night (about 3AMRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 30, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Navigating his way through a disappointing field of just 216 players at the WPT Spanish Poker Open was 18 year-old Lukas Berglund from Sweden, whose unbelievable trek saw him advance all the way to the final table with a chance to break the record as the youngest WPTRead Full Article

Posted by Gerry Poltorak on May 26, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The main event of the PokerStars Spring Championships of Online Poker concluded last night when Sami Keluporo was crowned the champion. The event had a buy-in of $10,300 and came with a guarantee of $2.5million, but that was blown out of the water when a total of 380Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 08, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Entering the final table of the €25,000 buy-in PokerStars EPT Madrid High-Roller tournament, Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier was way behind the chip-leaders, and somehow managed to hang around until three-handed play began –despite not being involved in any major confrontations—which is when ElkY finally woke-up andRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 02, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

With just three tables of poker players remaining from the nearly 1,000 that began the EPT San Remo Main Event there are a number of top poker players still vying for the title –not to mention the €930,000 first-place prize—but one name definitely stands out amongst all ofRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 22, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Coming into the final table of the World Poker Tour Festa al Lago Randal Flowers shot at the poker record books was overshadowed by his tablemate Andrew Frankenberger who was seeking his second World Poker Tour title of 2010. However, by the end of the day it wasRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 11, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After three days of play at the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne Australia we were left with an Aussie final table that included two female players, in addition to one of poker’s young guns, James Obst. As players began to be eliminated the tournament came down to justRead Full Article