Author: Harry Evans

The emblematic Hippodrome Casino will kindly host the first PokerStars Festival for 2017, as announced by the poker brand. The PokerStars Festival London event is scheduled to take place from January 22nd to January 29th, 2017, featuring a number of exciting poker (and non-poker) tournaments. Earlier this year, PokerStars revealed that it would merge its regional poker tours into Championship and Festival events to be taking place in different thrilling destinations around the world. The PokerStars Festival New Jersey was the first such event. It ran from October 29th through…

Former world number one tennis player Boris Becker has joined the elite cluster of partypoker ambassadors, the online poker brand has announced. Thus, the German tennis legend has added another important task to his agenda. In addition to mentoring and coaching tennis super star Novak Djokovic, Becker will also be among the active promoters of the partypoker brand. Much is known about the German’s accomplishments on the tennis court but his love for the game of poker is of greater interest here. Becker has played in a number of the…

Stephen Chidwick is a well-recognized player within the international poker community. Over the past several years, he has made a name for himself for both his live and online accomplishments. His regular appearances at final tables of EPT tournaments are particularly worth being paid attention to. Said otherwise, if there has been an EPT poker festival, no matter in which part of Europe, Chidwick has been there and has been gracing at least one or two final tables throughout said festival. Europe’s largest poker tour (as well as other PokerStars-sponsored…

PokerStars’ European Poker Tour (EPT) is heading to Prague for its last stop in its 2016 route. The Czech Republich, and more specifically, its capital city has been known as one of the most interesting stops on the way of the EPT, providing plenty of fun and epic events. Now it seems that the tournament’s organisers intend to make the EPT Season 13 no different, especially considering the fact that the Prague stop is to put an end to one of the most loved tours in the history of poker.…

Patrick Mahoney emerged victorious from the 2016 edition of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker‘s premier tournament Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open $3,500 Main Event. He became the latest champion in the tournament which drew a total of 760 players and kicked off on November 25th and ended after five days of action. The tournament offered a guaranteed prize pool of $2,432,000 of which the American player scooped a prize of $564,227 as well as the special tournament trophy. This was the largest cash in his career as a professional poker…

This December, poker fans on the territory of the UK and Ireland will be given the chance to choose from a number of live poker tournaments. The variety of tournaments that will kick off this month are to offer great gaming experience, entertainment and of course, solid prizes to everyone who joins. The first tournament to start in December is the Xmas Countdown, which is to take place at the Genting Casino in Luton. The tournament will start on December 1st and will end on December 4th and will offer…

Marc Wright emerged victorious from the Grand Final of the 2016 edition of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT), taking home a massive prize of £132,380 after striking a heads-up deal with his last standing opponent. The event, which featured a buy-in of £2,125, gathered a players field of 276 entries. However, only the top 26 players got paid for their participation, with a minimum cash portion of the guaranteed prize pool equalling £4,420. After emerging as winner of the 2016 GUKPT Grand Final, the UK player, who is also…

The Poker brand of Malta-based online gambling operator Unibet is to roll out its new software called Unibet Poker 2.0 on December 1st, 2016. The second generation of the company’s award-winning software is to be available in all regulated markets on desktop, tablet and mobile devices. Two years ago, in February 2014 the brand launched its own independent poker network enabled by Relax Gaming and decided to give up from the Poker Network provided by Microgaming. The Head of Poker division at Unibet – Andrew West – commented on the…

Hakim Zoufri emerged victorious from the Main Event of the 2016 edition of Master Classics of Poker (MCOP) that took place in Amsterdam. The player managed to win the Silver Edition of the tournament’s Main Event and took home a €275,608 cash portion of the guaranteed prize pool. The winner also got a giant Heineken mug and of course, a unique MCOP plate. He became the latest player to join the impressive list of the tournament’s winners, including some of the most popular contemporary poker players such as Noah Boeker,…

PokerStars officially revealed the dates, schedules and details of its Championship and Festival stops in 2017. Over the first half of the year, the brand’s new tournaments are heading to a number of destinations, including London, Macau, Rozvadov, Panama and Monte Carlo. The Director of Live Events at PokerStars Edgar Stuchly said that the brand had an amazing heritage of live events, especially considering the fact it had hosted over 560 tournament series. Mr. Stuchly also shared that over the years, the companies’ championship and festival events had managed to…