One of the most exclusive clubs in the poker world is the Triple Crown –players who have won a World Series of Poker bracelet, a World Poker Tour Championship, and a European Poker Tour Championship. With just four current members, the Triple Crown is one of tournament poker’sRead Full Article

In the olden days of poker –way back, before 2003!—the most prestigious tournament you could win was the World Series of Poker Main Event, and after that it was basically a WSOP bracelet of any kind. The more bracelets you had, the more accolades were heaped upon you.Read Full Article

A total of 50 former European Poker Tour Champions gathered the day after the EPT Grand Finale Main Event concluded to take part in the first-ever Champion of Champions freeroll tournament with $100,000 in EPT Season 8 passports up for grabs. Despite the relatively low dollar amount theRead Full Article

Team PokerStars Pro Bertrand “ElkY” Grosspellier kicked off the EPT Grand Finale tournament series with a win in the €25,000 high-roller tournament, where he picked-up the €525,000 first-place prize-money. Another high-roller tournament closed out the EPT Grand Finale tournament series –this time a €10,000 6-handed NLHE event—and onceRead Full Article

The final table chip-leader at the 2011 PokerStars EPT Grand Finale was the self described poker pro from Venezuela, Ivan Freitez, who despite his solid chip-lead was not the betting-man’s choice to take home the €1.5 million first-place prize-money. But win he did, and Freitez did it onRead Full Article

UK poker pro Jake Cody can now add another title to his growing resume which already included a WPT title and an EPT title, as the young superstar captured his first major online title yesterday by winning the $2,100 No Limit Holdem SCOOP tournament at PokerStars. Cody startedRead Full Article

Even though the final table of the 2011 EPT Grand Finale lacks the star-power of a Daniel Negreanu, Phil Ivey, or Patrik Antonius, the final eight players do possess impressive resumes in their own right, and if their play throughout the tournament is any indication you can expectRead Full Article

Day 3 of the 2011 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Finale saw 104 players return to the poker tables in Madrid, Spain knowing that only 24 players would be proceeding to Day 4 of the tournament with the hopes of taking down the EPT Grand Finale title andRead Full Article

The 2011 EPT Grand Finale may have seen a 20% drop in attendance –thanks a lot US government—but the field is as star-studded as ever – thanks European poker sites -, and with a €1.5 million first-place prize on the line you can bet that every player remainingRead Full Article

After a disappointing turnout that saw attendance shrink from the 848 players who registered in 2010, all the way down to 686 players for the 2011 PokerStars EPT Grand Finale, the poker world (whether live or play poker online; in Europe or the United States) is definitely stillRead Full Article