Author: Harry Evans

The Belorussian Aliaksei Boika emerged victorious from the third and final EPT Malta Main Event, taking home the winner’s trophy as well as a cash prize amounting to €355,700. The 28-year-old player managed to beat the Mats Karlsson who was a long-time chip leader in the tournament and got the largest cash portion out of the tournament’s guaranteed prize pool estimated to €2,269,800. On the other hand, the 59-year-old Swedish player Mats Karlsson experienced a personal downfall at the EPT Malta Main Event, especially considering the fact that the became…

The events within the World Poker Tour (WPT) are to be broadcast in the UK on the Front Runner Channel, which is a free-to-air one. With the WPT events available on the channel, WPT lovers will be given the opportunity to watch the latest tournaments directly at home. The fact that the WPT coverage is to be added on Front Runner TV is expected to be well-received by UK-based poker fans, especially due to the fact that they have very limited choice of poker on TV channels up to date.…

The team of PokerStars is to honour Chad Brown in a special Charity Event which is to be released over their live festival in New Jersey. The event is the third Chad Brown Memorial Charity Poker Tournament which is held on annual basis and is to begin on November 3rd. The tournament is aimed at raising some funds for the T.J. Martell Foundation for Leukaemia, Cancer and AIDS Research. The tournament is to take place at the Atlantic City’s Resorts Casino Hotel, with the tournament being hosted by one of…

The WPT 500 UK is to kick off at Dusk Till Dawn on October 28th. The partypoker tournament which features a guaranteed prize of £1,000,000 is to be held in a total of three days, including two play days and a Final Day. Although there were five WPT 500 Online Days from October 23rd to Thursday 27th, the Live Event is to start tomorrow and is to end on October 31st. The WPT 500 UK is part of partypoker’s WPT UK Festival of Poker, which began on October 22nd and…

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe has signed a multi-year agreement with King’s Casino Rozvadov in the Czech Republic. Under the terms of the deal, various poker events that are to be organised under the WSOP brand will be hosted in the above-mentioned casino over the next several years. Under the terms of the agreement, the WSOP brand will be engaged in holding several events at the casino. The World Series of Poker is to organise a minimum of 10 WSOP Europe gold bracelet events at King’s Casino Rozvadov…

The Poland player Jakub “Olorionek” Michalak emerged victorious from the EPT Malta Single-Day High Roller event. Michalak managed to outlast s total of 63 competitors and took home the prize of €178,403 after a three-way deal was made. Single-day EPT High Roller event featured a buy-in of €10,200 and gathered a players base of 64 entrants, of which only the top 11 ones got paid for their participation. Twenty of the entrants, including some of the most successful poker players like Connor Drinan, Nick Petrangelo, Sam Greenwood, Daria Sammartino and…

Ka Him Li managed to emerge victorious from the 888Poker London Live Main Event after a final table full of action and thrill. After a hard heads-up battle against Shah Raza, the 21-year-old player won the event and took home the shiny trophy as well as a prize of £45,300 after striking a deal with his last standing opponent. Ka Him Li and Shah Raza were used to compete for some of the largest prizes in both of their careers, but the final table of the 888Poker London Live Main…

The Cash Game Festival has managed to become a popular poker tournament after it kicked off a few years ago in Tallinn, Estonia. As a matter of fact, the event turned out to be so attractive to players that in 2016 the organisers decided to make an International tour out of it. This year, the Cash Game Festival had several stops in London, Malta and Bulgaria before returning to its home in Tallinn in November. But that is not all. In 2016 poker lovers will see the event go online,…

The latest update of the Global Poker Index ranking saw little change in the top 10 positions, but the US player Thomas “Kingofcards” Marchese climbed in the ranking, reaching the 11th position. After the beginning of his career, the 29-year-old player who currently resides in Las Vegas, NV has all-time winnings estimated to $14,009,777. His best live cash amounted to $1,574,518. This year has brought an amazing poker experience to Marchese, who took part in a number of poker tournaments and events and managed to generate massive winnings. The last…

The popular online festival of Sky Poker called US Online Poker Series (UKOPS) is expected to kick off at the end of the month. The seventeenth edition of the festival which is to feature a total of 43 events with a guaranteed prize pool of over £350,000 will run from October 28th to November 6th. The key word for the latest edition of the US Online Poker Series is “variety”, as the online festival organised by Sky Poker will feature a mixture of events, including deepstacks, feezeouts and rebuys, as…