Author: Harry Evans

Yesterday was an important day for the $50,000 Super High Roller event of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Series, with the event scheduled to see the second stage of the Super High Roller start today. The US poker pro Nick Schulman is the one who currently leads the final five players who remain in the game. The $50,000 Super High Roller, which is the event featuring the largest buy-in in the Seminole Hard Rock Open this year. The event, which costs $50,000 and offers a guaranteed prize pool…

This year’s edition of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath tournament was brought to its end at Sunday with Elliot Marais taking down the event and emerging victorious. Marais managed to defeat all his opponents at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, climbing on top of the list to claim the tournament’s title as well as the lion’s share of the guaranteed prize pool. The player, who used a direct buy-in of £120 to enter the tournament and managed to turn it into a monetary prize of £85,760. The 2017 edition…

It seems that the PokerStars brand has increased its popularity in Romania, as things are getting bigger and bigger every time when the international poker brand holds an event in Bucharest, the capital city of the country. After the great success of what happened to be the first and last Eureka Poker Tour in 2016, this year has provided local poker fans with the opportunity to enter the PokerStars Festival 2017 edition, which Main Event at the cost of €1,100 turned out to be the largest live poker tournament that…

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has recently filed an appeal for a summery judgement against Gameco, a playing card manufacturer. In case that the appeal is successful, it would oblige to pay $10 million to Borgata Casino, an amount which the latter lost in the legal battle against the professional poker player Phil Ivey. According to Borgata’s claims, Gemaco actually knew about the imperfections on the playing cards’ backs and sold them to the casino anyway. The filing notes also prove indisputably that the cards were “marked” and without the…

It is Warwick Mirzikinian who managed to emerge as the champion of the 2017 Sydney Championships AU$20,000 High Roller event, generating his best live cash to date. Mirzikinian managed to overcome the fierce competition in the Championship’s High Roller event and took home the champion’s title and a first-place prize of AU$247,000. This is the second first-place win for Mirzikinian in just a few days, after the player took down the 2017 Sydney Championships 6 Max event at the end of July. The Australian managed to keep his steady pace,…

The inaugural Nordic Poker Championships is to be hosted by partypoker LIVE in December 2017. The poker Championship tournament is to take place in the Czech Republic’s capital city from December 14th to 18th, offering a massive guaranteed prize pool of €1 million. The first-ever Nordic Poker Champions is to kick off as part of a series of regional Championship events that are to be hosted by partypoker LIVE. The brand is to also host the German Poker Championships in a few days, at Kings’ Casino Rozvadov as of August…

The popular Powerfest is to return to partypoker at the beginning of September. One of the most-loved online poker festivals is to be held for more than three weeks, featuring a massive number of more than 300 events with overall guaranteed prizes of $35 million. Tom Waters, Managing Director of partypoker, confirmed of the Powerfest return in September, saying that the Powerfest festival kept on getting bigger and more popular as time passed, which was the reason why the overall prize pool was boosted to $35,000,000. Mr. Waters expressed his…

August is just around the corner now, with a great variety of live poker tournaments set to start in the UK and Ireland. The month will see different live poker tournaments, events and festivals start in the region, with them offering various guaranteed prize pools and buy-ins. Several large tournaments are to start over the upcoming month on the territory of the UK and Ireland, with them providing all kinds of poker players join the events. The first one of the poker tournaments that are set to kick off in…

The organisers of the World Poker Tour (WPT) revealed that they have joined forces with Protection Poker in order to bring their Action Clock to all events included in the sixteenth edition of the WPT Main Tour. What is more, the WPT is to work in collaboration with all partners of the WPT Main Tour in order to set a requirement of transitioning to eight-handed tournament play once there are only ten tables left in a WPT Main Tour event. The World Poker Tour’s Executive Tour Director Matt Savage commented…

PokerStars, the biggest poker company in the world, has released the official schedule for this year’s Asia Championship of Poker or ACOP. The biggest annual poker tournament in Asia is to take place between October 13 and October 29, 2017, and is expected to attract some of the best poker players from around the world. This year’s Asia Championship of Poker will be held at the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room. The latter is located in the City of Dreams resort and casino complex on the Cotai Strip. The 2017…