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

After two starting days the first tournament on Season 8 of the European Poker Tour in Tallin, Estonia attracted a total of 282 players; a far cry from the 420 players who turned out for the same event last year. This marks the second straight major European tournamentRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 27, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Attention all out of work Full Tilt Poker Red Pros: The poker agency Check Raise Management has made an appeal to all European based poker players who have lost their sponsorship deals since Black Friday to contact the agency regarding possible sponsorship deals at other online poker rooms.Read Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jul 19, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

I realize the 2011 World Series of Poker Main Event is currently in progress, and that Slovenia is neither considered a vacation paradise nor a poker hotspot, but with a reasonably priced €3,300 buy-in, tournament officials were likely expecting a far greater turnout than the 46 players thatRead Full Article

Posted by Rich on Jul 09, 2011 Posted in Poker News | Comments Off on Who is Rupert Elder? – Latest EPT Winner

Last week Rupert Elder became the latest winner on the European Poker Tour when he won the EPT San Remo Main Event, and with it a whopping €930,000. But who is Rupert Elder I hear you ask? Well for starters he is British, and he is the fourthRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 16, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

In order to have a full final table of 10 players the World Series of Poker altered the format for Day 2 of the $5k No Limit Holdem Shootout, moving from four tables of 10, to 10 tables of four players. The short-handed format would seem to benefitRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 06, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

On Day 3 of the $10k Pot Limit Holdem Championship at the 2011 World Series of Poker a number of big names hit the rail early on, and somehow the tournament managed to avoid the Hard-Stop rule which has already impacted two other tournaments during the first weekRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Jun 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Day 2 of the $10k Pot Limit Holdem Championship saw play halted shortly after Daniel Negreanu was eliminated in 28th place just one spot shy of cashing in the tournament. The 27 remaining players will now come back to the Rio on Sunday and jockey for position asRead 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 05, 2011 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »
pokerstars ept winner

Prior to the San Remo stop, Season 7 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) had already crowned three champions hailing from the United Kingdom, and for the second year in a row a UK player was crowned champion at the EPT San Remo. The winner of theRead Full Article

Posted by Steve Ruddock on Dec 23, 2010 Posted in Poker News | No Comments »

Head on over to the PokerNewsBoy poker forums to cast your vote for the Best High-Stakes player in poker! Here is the list of nominees our crack research staff has chosen for the honor! Jake Cody – Cody had a monster year in 2010 capturing two major tournamentRead Full Article