Author: Harry Evans

The partypokerLIVE Nottingham £10,300 buy-in High Roller Tournament kicked off on yesterday and is set to return for its second day of play today. The event, which takes place at the Dusk Till Dawn Casino in Nottingham has brought together a total of 100 entries, eight of which were re-entries. A total of 56 players of these 100 managed to outlast their opponents and survived until the end of Day 1 to get back to the game on April 18th and fight for the £10,300 High Roller’s guaranteed prize of…

Player Andrej Desset was pronounced champion at partypoker’s Grand Prix Austria Main Event. Desset defeated opponent Dan Semenescu from Romania in a heads-up battle for the champion trophy and the sum of €92,530 in first-place prize money. The first ever Grand Prix Austria event attracted a field of 2,594 entries and offered a guaranteed prize pool of €500,000, with a buy-in of €225. The minimum cash amount to be won was set to €400. Poker fans were enabled to qualify and compete in eight different casinos throughout Austria. As many…

American poker pro Daniel Weinman was proclaimed winner at the second annual WPT Tournament of Champions. Weissman succeeded in prevailing over opponent Michael Mizrachi in an intense head-to-head battle which secured him the prestigious champion title and earned him $381,500 in first-place prize money. This year’s WPT Tournament of Champions attracted a field of 66 champions who contributed to the accumulation of a huge $1,090,000 prize pool. Winners from this seat were not required to pay their way into the event while previous seasons champions were allowed to buy-in rake…

Canadian player Elliot Smith prevailed over Chinese local Tianyuan Tang to claim the champion title at the first ever PokerStars Championship Macau tournament series. The 29-year old Canadian went home with the top prize of HK$2,877,5000 after agreeing on a heads-up deal with Tang. Smith joined Kenneth Smaron and Christian Harder to become the third champion in the new PokerStars tournament series. The HK$42,400 PokerStars Championship Macau Main Event attracted a field of 536 hopefuls and took place in the PokerStars LIVE card-room at the City of Dreams, the branded…

American poker player Ryan Riess earned the champion title at the 2017 $10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale. The 26-year old poker pro succeeded in defeating opponent Alan Sternberg in a head-to-head battle for the first-place prize of $716,088. In addition to the hefty payout, Riess was awarded the prestigious WPT Champions Trophy and will have his name added on the WPT Champions Cup, next to the names of all players, who have championed the WPT for the past fifteen seasons. The tournament’s finale, which took place at the…

American poker player Tony Sinishtaj was crowned champion at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $3,500 Championship after defeating opponent Darryll Fish in a head-to-head battle for the first-place prize. This is a first WPT champion title for Sinishtaj, who went home with $661,283 in first-place prize money. The Showdown Championship was held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and the attracted a field of 1,207 players, including notable names like Daniel Colman and Rob Mizrachi. As many as six players joined the tournament’s…

Chinese high-roller regular Quan Zhou emerged victorious at the HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller at the PokerStars Championship in Macau. The 32-year old Chinese player prevailed over nemesis Nick Petrangelo in a 14-hour heads-up battle for the first-place prize of HK$3,645,000. In addition to the impressive payout, the local player went home with the PokerStars Championship trophy. The single-day tournament took place at the PokerStars Live poker room at the City of Dreams Resort & Casino, located on the Cotai Strip in Macau. The field attracted as many as 62 players,…

Canadian poker pro Griffin Benger claimed the champion crown at the 2017 Irish Poker Open €1,150 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event and bagged the first-place prize of €200,000. Benger joined the tournament’s final table at fourth place with a total of 8,010,000 in chips. The event was once again held at the luxurious Citywest Hotel and Resort, located in Dublin, and attracted a record-breaking field that totalled as many as 1,129 players, who contributed to the accumulation of a hefty prize pool of €1,128,294, shared among the first 135 finishers. Paul…

Online poker operator partypoker announced it plans on returning to Russia’s biggest resort city Sochi as a host of the $5 Million Guaranteed partypoker MILLIONS Russia tournament. The event is to take place between September 1 and September 11, 2017 in the multi-season Sochi Casino and Resort, located in Gorky Gorod. The winner is guaranteed to collect a first-place prize of $1 million. Players, interested in participating in the partypoker MILLIONS Russia event, are presented with a variety of ways to book a seat at the tournament tables. Those, who…

With April knocking on the door, poker fans across the UK and Ireland would be given the chance to access a great variety of poker tournaments featuring a variety of buy-ins and guaranteed prize pools. A number of tournaments that are scheduled to end in the first days of April have already started a few days ago, including the Leg 3 of the 2017 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour – GUKPT Edinburgh, as well as Leg 4 and 5 of this year’s edition of the Genting Poker Series Mini. Today, on…