Author: Harry Evans

After its massive success in 2015, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit is to return to the largest poker room on the territory of Europe – King’s Casino Rozvadov – in the period from October 27th to November 14th, 2016. The casino has been known as a destination which hosts a large number of prestigious poker events and attracts thousands of players from all over the world. Now the casino is to once again host the WSOP Circuit festival, after last year’s edition had epic success among poker players.…

Neil Sillick emerged victorious in the £250,000 Dusk Till Dawn (DTD) Deepstack poker tournament, taking home a prize of £50,000 after a heads-up battle with his last standing opponent. The player demonstrated excellent qualities over the game and secured his first place in the event, winning the top prize which turned out to be the biggest cash stack ever generated in his career up to date. The tournament, which took place at the Dusk Till Dawn casino venue in Nottingham, featured a buy-in of £550 and a guaranteed prize of…

Dominik Nitsche, who has once been fourth in the Global Poker Index Ranking, climbed to the 11th position over the GPI Ranking’s latest update. The best live cash of the Germany-born player amounts to $654,797, and his all-time money winnings are estimated to $6,587,651. The 25-year-old player who currently resides in London, UK, has taken part in a large number of poker tournaments in 2016 to date. The last tournament he has taken part in was the EPT-13-ESPT-7-Barcelona, and more specifically in its €10,300 Buy-in No-Limit Hold’em – High Roller…

As long as live poker tournaments are concerned, residents of the UK and Ireland would be given the chance to prove their qualities as poker players in October, since a number of key poker tours will have their events hosted in the region this month. The first event to take place in the region in October is the 2016 Grosvenor series’ seventh leg. The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is to take place in Luton in the period between October 2nd and October 5th, at the Grosvenor Casino. The Grosvenor…

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) is heading to Luton where the seventh leg of the tournament’s 2016 edition is expected to take place in the period from October 2nd to October 9th. Although Luton is not a particularly large city in the UK, it is known as one of the places where poker has been flourishing lately. It is exactly the Main Event of GUKPT in Luton where some of the most popular and gifted poker players in the UK have had glamorous performances. This season’s GUKPT Festival in…

As reported by Casino Guardian earlier this month, 888poker is to launch the 888Live Festival at the Aspers Casino in London from October 13th to October 23rd. The brand has planned to launch the Festival in order to complement the 888Live Events series on one hand and to provide poker players with exclusive live poker experience. The 888Live Festival is to last for eleven days and includes seventeen tournaments plus a number of satellites which provide players with the chance to make their choice among various events featuring different buy-ins.…

PokerStars made some amendments in the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona payouts after some players made some pretty negative responses on this matter. In August 2016 the brand officially announced its intentions to revise the payout structure of the events of its European Poker Tour. The Chief of Live Poker Operations at PokerStars Neil Johnson revealed that the entire team of the online poker brand was fully devoted to the idea of providing the players with the best poker experience ever and improve their already existing events in order to…

Players who would like to try their luck in an attempt to become a millionaire will be given such a chance in April 2017, when partypoker is to release its MILLIONS tournament. The latter is a no-limit hold’em poker tournament and offers an enormous overall prize of £5 million, with £1 million guaranteed for the player who gets to the first place. Every player who wants to join the exclusive partypoker MILLIONS tournament is given the chance to do that in return to a £550 buy-in. The tournament is to…

After a total of three Cash Game Festival events have been hosted in 2014 and 2015, the organisers of the events decided to start an international tour. In 2016, the Cash Game Festival took place in several cities in Europe, starting from London’s Aspers Casino in March. Then, in June, the organisers scheduled an event in Malta. The third stop of the festival was Platinum Casino at Sunny Beach, Bulgaria in August 2016. Now it is time for the fourth stop of the tour, which will see it return to…

The 56-year-old Erik Seidel from the US occupied the 11th position of the Global Poker Index Ranking after its latest update. The professional poker player, who is also a member of the Poker Hall of Fame, has all-time winnings of $29,547,515. his live best cash amounts to $2,472,555. The first live event cash of Seidel was in 1988. Since then, the player is known for cashing almost 200 times, making it to 133 final tables and winning 27 events and 8 gold bracelets. He also has one World Poker Tour…