Author: Harry Evans

Art Papazyan managed to take possession of his second World Poker Tour title in 2017, by emerging victorious from the WPT Maryland Main Event. The victory is one of Papazyan’s best achievements so far in his career, boosting his total live earnings to over a million dollars. The first WPT title came to Papazyan in less than two months for him winning the WPT Legends of Poker $4,000 NLHE Main Event. Now, a few weeks later, he managed to become a WPT champion for the second time – something that…

The WPT Maryland Main Event has already seen its official final table set at the Live! Casino after a heated Day 3 gameplay which resulted in the elimination of 23 players. Now, with the final table of six set to kick off tomorrow, it is Tom Reynolds who is on top of the pack, emerging as chip leader. Day 3 of the Main Event saw a total of 29 players return, with Grigoriy Shvarts on top of the pack as a chip leader. This year’s edition of the WPT Maryland…

The second day of the Season XVI WPT Maryland which is currently taking place at the Live! Casino has come to an end, with only 29 players to return for the third day of the event, and Grigoriy Shvarts leading the way as a chip leader, holding a chip stack of over 1.5 million in chips. The WPT Maryland Main Event kicked off on September 30th, offering two starting flights to the players. Day 3 of the tournament is to be held today, on October 3rd, while the final table…

Yesterday, the Irish poker player Gary McGinty managed to emerge from the pack of remaining player at the Final Day of the €1,100 PokerStars Festival Dublin Main Event and kept his pace to the very end, finishing as a winner. The 29-year-old player took the lead around 5:00 PM yesterday, and a little after 10:00 PM reached the victory, taking home the tournament’s trophy as well as a prize pool cash portion worth €91,808. A total of 16 players returned for the last day of the event, each of them…

With October right behind the corner now, all poker fans in the UK and Ireland should be prepared for a lot of entertainment and fun over the month, thanks to the great number of live poker tournaments that are to be held. Various live poker events, festivals and tournaments offering different rules, buy-ins and prize pools are scheduled to kick off over the upcoming month, so that players with different preferences and bankrolls will be able to find the ones that suit them best. Here are the upcoming live poker…

On Wednesday night, two online poker legends – Viktor Blom and Ben Tollerene – faced each other in a heads-up battle for winning partypoker’s Powerfest #254: Championship Event: $3M Gtd Super High Roller. The Super High Roller tournament of the partypoker’s online Powerfest series started on Tuesday, to end with a spectacular heads-up clash between two of the best contemporary online poker players, with Ben Tollerene winning the event. The Super High Roller event of the online Powerfest series of partypoker gathered a total players field of 127 entries who…

The beginning of the week saw the WPT Korea kick off at Grand Jeju Paradise Casino. Apart from the Main Event which is traditionally the centrepiece of the series, WPT Korea offers a number of side tournaments, including Head Hunter, High Roller, Monster Stack, NLH, PLO, etc. The tournaments included in the WPT Korea schedule are to qualify players for the Season XVI of the WPT Asia-Pacific Player of the Year competition. A number of events have already come to an end, such as the WPT Korea High Roller tournament…

Bill Donnelly managed to overcome a total players field of 241 entries and defeated his opponents at a five-hour long final table to emerge as the champion of the WPTDeepStacks Oklahoma $1,100 Main Event. The tournament, which featured three game days and two starting flights, kicked off on September 22nd at the Downstream Casino Resort. As mentioned above, the $1,100 buy-in Main Event gathered a players field of 241 entrants and offered a guaranteed prize pool estimated to $200,000, which was exceeded by the participants and reached a total of…

This year’s edition of Winamax Poker Open Dublin Main Event has already seen its third and final day ending, with Otto Richard emerging as winner from the competition. The 2017 Main Event also accumulated the second-largest players field in the Winamax Poker Open history. This year, a total of 1,069 entrants entered the competition for the first-place prize of €92,000 as well as the special tournament trophy. This year’s edition of 2017 Winamax Poker Open kicked a few days ago at the Citywest luxury resort in Ireland. This is the…

At the time when the second day of the Poker Masters Event #5 $100,000 NLHE ended, all eyes were set on young Fedor Holz who emerged as the chip leader of the final table. The attention towards him, however, was quickly distracted by what ended up as a verbal war between Daniel “KidPoker” Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth on Twitter. The fifth event of the inaugural Poker Masters series gathered a total players field of 36 entrants. Only 15 of these players returned to action on the second day of the…