On Monday, poker pro Eli Elezra, came close to win his first major tournament since the 2015 WSOP. Elezra lost the heads-up battle against Sean Yu and finished the circuit in second place. At the beginning of the heads-up play, the Israeli had a small lead, but was unable to hold onto it, with a […]
This Friday, New Jersey’s Julian Sacks redeemed himself at the WSOP Circuit Foxwoods Main Event. In the 2014 World Series of Poker Circuit, Sacks finished runner-up. Two years ago, it was Lucas Picking who left with the coveted gold ring. Last week, however, Sacks found redemption in a big way, the player won the WSOP […]
This week, the 30-year old poker pro James Mackey won the WPT Choctaw, which was the first major poker tournament since the WSOP came to an end last month. With his first career tour victory and the cash prize of $681,758, he joined the WPT Champions Club. In lifetime live poker tournament winnings, the Nevada resident […]
The poker summer camp is near its big conclusion after the 2016 World Series of Poker main event has finally started. The field will once again be huge with a massive turn-up expected for Day 1C, and 2,500 registered players over the first two days. Via main sponsor 888poker an extra 148 players will qualify […]
Over the weekend Ari Engel topped the Aussie Million Main Event. The event took place at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. After a lengthy and tough heads-up battle with Dunst, Engel won the equivalent of $1,120,110; this is the biggest prize of his whole career. The event started with 732 players, the fourth-largest turn out […]
Wynn Las Vegas is hosting a tournament series with $1 million in the guaranteed prize pool The event series will feature 12 tournaments, four of which will have six-figure guaranteed prize pools Players are welcome to join the action from April 26 through May 9 in what is the latest live poker initiative in the […]
With poker slowly returning to Las Vegas, the question that concerned parties bring up is not if the game would return, but rather what would happen to poker rooms that don’t restart their operations soon. Earlier in October, the Press of Atlantic did outline a possible scenario for the restart of the game in New […]
WSOP Online started on July 1 with the $500 Buy-In No-Limit Hold’em Kick-off event A total of 31 bracelet events will be won on WSOP.com available to New Jersey and Nevada players in July The rest of the WSOP bracelet events will be played on GGPoker’s international platform The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online […]
The World Poker Tour and partypoker have partnered up to continue rolling out poker events in the United States and help fill in the vacuum left by the lack of traditional poker events. Partypoker and WPT Team Up to Bring More Poker Events Online The World Poker Tour and partypoker have rekindled an old romance […]
The World Poker Tour has been forced to cancel a string of events across the world and in America, shifting its focus entirely on online events and promoting the ClubWPT. Coronavirus Pandemic Forces WPT to Suspend Events Globally The World Poker Tour (WPT) has had to cancel a string of events across every major market […]
