Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 25, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

“The Magician” has done it again, as Antonio Esfandiari picked-up his third career WSOP bracelet by winning the €1,100 NLHE Event at the 2012 World Series of Poker Europe. Esfandiari’s win comes in the wake of his historic win in the $1,000,000 buy-in Big One for One DropRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 25, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

The World Poker Tour and the European Poker Tour may not be in action at the moment, but there is still A LOT of tournament action taking place around the globe. The World Series of Poker is double-dipping as the Circuit Series is in Bossier City for aRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Sep 17, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After just 64 players turned out for Day 1a of the World Poker Tour stop on the Island of Malta, Day 1b saw a much larger field take to the poker tables, including some reentries from Day 1a players who were eliminated. In all 105 players registered onRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 11, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

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,Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jan 08, 2012 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Day 1a of the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (better known by the acronym PCA) saw a total of 418 players register for the prestigious tournament, a far cry from the 647 players that registered on Day 1a last year. Despite the attendance decline (which most assuredly had somethingRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 04, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

After two full days of play the inaugural World Poker Tour Prague Main Event is down to just 63 players from the original record-setting starting field of 568. All 63 players have made the money in the tournament, and now the players’ focus will shift to the €450,000Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 03, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On the heels of a terrific turnout of 231 players on Day 1a, the inaugural World Poker Tour Prague Main Event saw the 10-year old poker tour break its European attendance record (set this year in Vienna as 555 players registered for the tournament) after 337 players registeredRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Oct 10, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Phil Hellmuth looked like a serious contender for his 12th World Series of Poker bracelet (it would be his first at the World Series of Poker Europe) after playing near-flawlessly over the first two days of the tournament, and most importantly by keeping his short-temper under wraps. ButRead Full Article

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

On Friday the 2011 World Series of Poker Europe tournament series got underway with the first of seven bracelet events, a €2,500 buy-in Six-Handed NLHE tournament. The stars were out in full force for the first-ever WSOPE to take place in Cannes, France (having moved from its long-timeRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on May 01, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

One of the most coveted titles in poker is the European Poker Tour San Remo Main Event which despite dealing with a post-Black Friday poker world, as well as the WPT and WSOPC holding simultaneous events, just missed surpassing 1,000 entrants for the third straight year drawing anRead Full Article