Author: Harry Evans

Igor Kurganov was crowned as the winner of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller. This is the 12th trophy of the player, who also took home a monetary prize estimated to €1,078,106 after he agreed on a deal with his last standing opponent Bartlomiej Machon. Kurganov, who is a member of PokerStars Team Pro, has won his 12th tournament title so far. The title is also the first one he has won in Europe. The PokerStars Championship Barcelona started on August 15th at Casino Barcelona. Its €50,000…

The unofficial final table of the PokerStars Championship Barcelona €50,000 Super High Roller has finally been reached at the end of the event’s Day 2, with some of the biggest names in contemporary poker industry getting to the last nine standing opponents. The PokerStars Championship Barcelona kicked off on August 15th at Casino Barcelona. The event, $50,000 Super High Roller Event, which managed to gather a total of 86 entries, started on August 19th and is set to be brought to an end tonight. The players who entered the event…

Apart for being known as one of the most beautiful cities in a global scale as well as a preferred tourist destination visited by thousands of people every year, London is also among the European capital cities offering a large variety of high-class casinos. Despite that tourists rarely notice this aspect of London’s everyday life, the capital of the UK hosts some exclusive gambling destinations, with some of these casinos being emblematic for the city. The Hippodrome Casino Situated in a beautiful five-floor building that dates back from 1900, the…

The organisers of the World Poker Tour officially revealed that Phil “The Poker Brat” Hellmuth has become part of the WPT Talent Team. The player, who apart from being one of the most recognizable and popular poker players, is also a 14-time world champion, has joined the team of the World Poker Tour in order to become the new WPT Raw Deal analyst. Adam Pliska, Chief Executive Officer of the WPT, welcomed Phil Hellmuth as the new WPT Raw Deal analyst, saying it was a great pleasure for the organisers…

The Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut is to see the second stop of the 2017/2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit kick off on Thursday. The twelve ring events are to be held from August 17th to August 28th, 2017. The second stop of the tournament is to be held over a period of ten days, featuring a variety of events with different buy-ins and prize pools. Action is to start on August 17th with a $365 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event with a guaranteed prize pool estimated to $30,000. As…

Last night, John Andress was crowned as the winner of 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $25,500 High Roller event, after him facing fierce competition of a large number of poker professionals. The 2017 SHRPO High Roller Event took place on August 14th and 15th at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The event accumulated a players field of 117 entries, who accounted for boosting the guaranteed prize to $2,925,000. At the end of the event’s first day, there were only 17 players remaining, with John Andress being on…

Last night, the American poker player Harut “Harry” Arutyunyan managed to win his first WSOP Circuit gold ring after taking down the WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event. The tournament, which took place at Harrah’s Cherokee, accumulated a player field of 1,022 entrants who were there to try winning the Main Event champion’s title and a Circuit ring apart from the first-place monetary prize. The winning comes as the latest success in Harry Arutyunyan in the Cherokee Series, following the titles of two of his friends – Nikhil Gera, who got…

Jack Sinclair conquered the champion’s title in the 2017 partypoker LIVE German Poker Championship Super High Roller that took place over the weekend at King’s Casino Rozvadov in the Czech Republic. The €25,000 buy-in Super High Roller tournament gathered a total players field of 28 entries. The event offered a massive first-place prize, with only the first three players getting paid. Jack Sinclair, whose total live earnings before him emerging victorious from the 2017 partypoker LIVE German Poker Championship Super High Roller amounted to $1,248,857, managed to take down the…

One of the most popular top-tier live events sponsored by PokerStas – the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) – come back to kick off in January 2018. The global poker brand officially revealed that the PCA tournament is to return at the beginning of 2018, bringing much excitement to both organisers and poker fans. Yesterday, PokerStars’ Director of Corporate Communications, Eric Hollreiser, officially revealed that the PCA tournament is to offer not only a $10,300 Main Event, but will also see some changes. Mr. Hollreiser explained that the global poker brand…

American poker pro Nick Schulman managed to conquer the champion’s title of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s $50,000 Super High Roller event, after first leading the final five and then facing Jake Schindler in a fierce heads-up battle. The player emerged not only as the crowned winner of the Super High Roller event of the tournament, but also took home a massive monetary prize estimated to $440,000. The guaranteed prize pool’s portion boosted his total live earnings to $9,246,821. The largest live cash of Schulman to date is…