Author: Harry Evans

King’s Casino has announced that its first €111,111 Buy-in One Drop High Roller event is to kick off as part of the World Series of Poker Europe that is to be held in November. The casino also revealed that more than 50 players had already paid the required deposit to join the event. Currently, the One Drop is among the poker tournaments which feature the largest buy-ins on a global scale. Since its first event, which took place in 2012, the two organisers of the event – the One Drop…

PokerStars Championship will see its inaugural event in Asia start at the end of March. The event is to start at the City of Dreams in Macau on March 30th and will run for a total of 11 days until April 9th. This is the first-ever global Championship event sponsored by PokerStars that is to be held in the lavishest entertainment venue in Macau – the City of Dreams, which has previously been home to the widely-popular Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) events. The 11-day Championship tournament will bring together…

The WSOP Circuit Main Event which takes place at the Hard Rock Tulsa has seen its Day 2 end with only nine players remaining to reach the final table of the event. At this stage, it is Daniel Lowery who got the chip lead after the end of Day 2, with a total of 2,120,000 in chips, followed by David Brown who is not so much behind him, with a stack valued at 2,100,000 in chips. Daniel Lowery is well-known to the poker lovers as a four-time gold ring winner.…

The organisers of the World Poker Tour (WPT) revealed that it is to host a WPT500 event in California for the first time in its history. The event, called WPT500 Los Angeles is to take place at The Gardens starting on May 21st and lasting until May 31st. The event features a massive guaranteed prize pool estimated to $1 million. Ron Sarabi, the General Manager of The Gardens – the casino facility that is to host the event – revealed that the entire team and staff of the casino was…

Leg 3 of the 2017 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is to kick off at the Grosvenor Casino Maybury in Edinburgh in only a few days, on Sunday, March 26th. The festival’s Leg 3 is scheduled to end a week later, on April 2nd. This would be the fourth straight season of the competition which is to be hosted in the Scottish capital. Undoubtedly, it is the Main Event of the festival that is most-expected by the players, but apart from it, a variety of events are to be featured…

Abraham Korotki emerged as victor from WSOP Circuit Main Event at Harrah’s Atlantic City for the second time in his career so far. Korotki managed to outlast a massive players field to be finally crowned as winner, with the victory bringing him his second gold ring. The latest Harrah’s Atlantic City Circuit Main Event brought together a total of 341 players. The $1,675 Buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Main Event finally saw its winner after three days of play, with Korotki himself saying he had enjoyed the tournament very much. The first…

PokerStars Championship Panama has brought three cash prizes for Steve O’Dwyer. First, it was the $50,000 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em Super High Roller Event, in which O’Dwyer finished fourth. At this time, O’Dwyer finished fourth, scooping a guaranteed prize portion estimated to $182,220. Then, the player ranked 48th in the $5,300 No Limit Hold’em Main Event of the Championship, winning $7,720. And now, it was Steve O’Dwyer who emerged as victor from the PokerStars Championship Panama High Roller event, taking home a massive prize of $240,451 after a two-way deal…

The PokerStars Championship Panama High Roller event proceeded to its final table with Steve O’Dwyer on top of the list with the remaining competitors, finishing the day with a total of 1,849,000 in chips. The second day of the High Roller event brought back 52 players, only to see their number narrowing to five after a few hours and 10 levels of play. Now, with only five players who are to compete for the event’s title, some of the greatest names in contemporary poker such as David Peters, Eric Seidel,…

The multi-day event partypoker MILLIONS is to kick off in Nottingham’s Dusk Till Dawn casino in April to bring poker players from across the country to the tournament which features a massive amount in guaranteed prize pools. The tournament was officially announced last year in September, as an event featuring a guaranteed prize pool of £5 million, with a prize of no less than £1 million that is to be granted to the eventual champion. Then, in October, partypoker made a new announcement, increasing the guaranteed prize pool to £6…

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit is coming to a new home where the series is to be hosted for a week. For the first time in its history, the WSOP Circuit is to come to the Hard Rock Casino Tulsa, where it is to run from March 16th to March 27th. The beginning of the tournament was set for 11:00 AM on March 16th with one of the most popular events of the series – the $365 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack event, which will bring a Gold…