Author: Harry Evans

The Supreme Court of the UK has granted Phil Ivey with a hearing of his high-stakes baccarat case. As Casino Guardian has previously reported, while playing at the Crockfords Casino London in August 2012, the player won about £7.7 million. At this time, Ivey and a playing partner managed to spot a certain manufacturing defect on the back of the playing cards thanks to which they managed to get an advantage on the casino. After being accused in cheating, Phile Ivey claimed that he had never touched the flawed cards…

One of the fresh additions to the poker world, Tom Haney, emerged victorious from the newest weekly tournament of Dusk Till Dawn – DTD200. The young UK player has managed to climb on top of the list, after finishing at the runner-up position on a previous occasion. Haney won the newest DTD200 event that took place over the weekend at Nottigham’s Dusk Till Dawn casino, which featured a guaranteed prize pool of £100,000. The player scooped for a first-place prize estimated to £20,550. The new weekly tournament, called DTD200, was…

This March offers all poker lovers a great variety of live poker tournaments on the territory of the UK and Ireland they can choose from. The third month of 2017 will see a great variety of tournaments kick off, offering various buy-ins and prize pools to the British and Irish players. First, on February 26th, the 2017 edition of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour – GUKPT Leg 2, Manchester started at the Grosvenor Casino Bury New Road. The tournament offers many satellites and events, and a Main Event which features…

Earlier this month, PokerStars surprised everyone by signing Igor Kurganov up as part of the brand’s Team Pro. This contract provoked a lot of discussions among both poker lovers and professionals and echoed even in the largest online poker community – 2+2, fuelling up serious controversy about the actual meaning and objectives of the deal. Most poker lovers considered the signing as surprising, especially bearing in mind the fact that Kurganov was one of the players who harshly criticised PokeStars on previous occasions. So, what was this all about? PokerStars…

PokerStars revealed that its London Series is to make its first official appearance at The Hippodrome Casino London in the period from March 2ns to March 5th, 2017. PokerStars, which is among the most successful brands of the Canadian gaming and online gambling giant Amaya Inc., announced that the its brand-new PokerStars London Series is to also debut at PokerStars Live. The brand-new London Series of PokerStars will be hosted by one of the most exciting casino facilities in the UK capital – The Hippodrome Casino London, which is also…

The 2017 edition of the Triton Super High Roller Series kicked off on February 17th at the Solaire Resort & Casino in Manila, to end on February 21st with the closure of the HKD 1 Million No-Limit Hold’em Main Event. Two events were featured by this year’s edition of the Triton Super High Roller Series – a HKD 250,000 No-Limit Hold’em and the series’ Main Event, which featured a buy-in of $128,850. The HKD 1-million Main Event gathered a total players field of 39 entrants, who accounted for a guaranteed…

The latest World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Main Event came to an end with Raminder Singh emerging as winner. The player, who won the Circuit Main Event at the Palm Beach Kennel Club (PBKC) after outlasting a total players field of 524 entrants, scooped a first-place prize of $168,995 as well as the first gold ring ever won in his career. Apart from the cash prize and the WSOP Circuit gold ring, Singh was also granted with a seat at this year’s edition of the WSOP Global Casino Championship.…

Participating in glamorous poker tournaments and winning multi-million guaranteed prize pools has always been considered as the main objective for all professional poker players. Currently, there are hundreds of live poker tournament that are held across the world every year. There are even poker series and tournaments which have their series of events held throughout the entire year, featuring various gaming options, buy-ins and guaranteed prize pools. You can check the largest live poker tournaments to be held in 2017 below: WSOP The abbreviation WSOP, which stands for the World…

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit is to get back to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas after a prolonged absence of more than a decade. The tournament is to start on February 17th and will run until February 28th. The Rio Hotel and Casino has been a permanent stop of the WSOP every summer since 2005, gathering thousands of poker players from all over the world. The same is expected to happen in the summer of 2017, too, but until now, the venue is to…

World Poker Tour (WPT) has finally got its first open event’s female winner. The Canadian player Ema Zaimovic managed to break trough and emerge victorious from the CA$3,500 Buy-in WPT Playground Main Event that took place in Montreal from February 10th to February 15th. Nearly nine years have passed since Van Nguyen has become the first female champion in a WPT event, but finally, the festival got Ema Zajmovic, whose winning was a personal achievement. Until now, the young Canadian player had total live earnings amounting to a bit over…