Author: Harry Evans

Monday saw the ending of the second starting flight of Season XVI WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship, with Guy Smith emerging as chip leader of the pack, with a chip stack estimated to 210,800. Day 1B of the WPT Borgata Poker Open $3,500 Championship gathered an overall players field of 682 entries, of whom it was Smith who managed to get the biggest chip stack at the end of the day. Still, he did not even get near the stack of 327,300 in chips that the chip leader of…

The game of poker, and more specifically live poker tournaments, have always been associated with glamorous atmosphere, high stakes and of course, massive cash prizes. Most of 2017 is already behind our backs, with hundreds of live poker tournaments and events being held and massive amount of cash prizes being distributed on a global scale. And still, who have been the UK’s most profitable poker players over the first eight and half months of the current year? You can check below: John Hesp Beyond any doubt, John Hesp has been…

The first event of the inaugural high-stakes poker tournament series Poker Masters came to an end only a few hours ago, seeing the American poker pro Nick Schulman as the crowned winner. The Poker Masters series, which is held for the first time ever, kicked off at the ARIA Resort and Casino on September 13th and is to be held until until September 20th. The poker series is to feature four $50,000 buy-in two-day events, as well as a $100,000 buy-in three-day event. All tournaments of the high-stakes poker series…

The first-ever high-stakes poker tournament series Poker Masters already started at the ARIA Resort and Casino this Wednesday, with the first of the four No-Limit Hold’em events featuring a buy-in of $50,000. The inaugural Poker Masters series is to be held from September 13th to September 20th at the ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Apart from the four 50,000 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em events, all of which take place in two game days, there will also be a single $100,000 NL Hold’em event that is to feature a…

The WCOOP Event #32-H already came to an end, with nsmirnov from Russia taking down the online poker tournament and getting all the glory. The player managed to not only outlast a massive players field, but also to deal with a heads-up deficit to win the event. PokerStars’ 2017 WCOOP Event #32-H, which was a No-Limit 6-Max event offering a buy-in of $530, attracted a massive number of players, who accounted for a prize pool which surpassed the $250,000 guarantee, reaching an overall amount of $365,500. A total of 731…

Haroldo Silva emerged victorious from the 888Live São Paulo Main Event, after keeping a low profile for most of the third, and final, day of the event. He outlasted the entire players field to be finally crowned as the winner of the tournament’s Main Event and take home a monetary prize pool portion of R$200,000. This year’s 888Live Festival in São Paulo offered six days of qualitative poker experience thanks to a number of tournaments. The 888Live São Paulo Main Event took place between September 6th and 11th at the…

The 2017 partypoker LIVE Grand Prix Killarney Main Event was brought to an end last night, with the Irish poker player Thomas Gallagher conquering the event. Gallagher was crowned as the winner of this year’s partypoker LIVE Grand Prix Killarney Main Event after he managed to outlast a player field of 906 entrants. After a Live Satellite and a large number of online Day 1s, the Main Event kicked off with a number of Live Day 1s held on September 7th and 8th 2017 in return to a buy-in of…

With two stops of the 2017/2018 edition of the World Series of Poker Circuit already down, the beginning of September saw the current tour of the series get to the IP Casino Resort and Spa in Biloxi, Mississippi for another round of thrilling poker entertainment. After the first stops of the WSOP Circuit 2017/2018 tour at Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina and at Fooxwoods in Connecticut have been brought to an end, the series reached its third stop to see two events kick off on September 7th. The IP Casino…

Over the last few months, one of the largest poker brands in the world – partypoker – has managed to add a number of poker professionals to its ambassadors list. For some time now, the global poker brand has been looking to make new additions to its partypoker Team in order to expand its presence worldwide. The new sponsorship deals would be beneficial for the brand to become more popular as it would boost its popularity among poker players in various regions and attract more players to the fascinating world…

With eight months of the year already behind our backs and four more yet to come, the global poker area will be literally packed with a number of glamorous poker series around the world. Hundreds of live poker tournaments are being held across the world on an annual basis, and thousands of poker players are gathered at one place aiming to win their fair share of the sometimes multi-million prize pools. Despite some of the largest live poker series have already been brought to an end, a large part of…