Author: Harry Evans

Last night, the opening evening of the 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open was completed with a record number of participants. Regardless that it came to a multi-day event, an additional day of play was needed in order for the opening event to be finally closed. Nicholas Mahabee got the first-place trophy after winning the starting flight $360 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em (Re-Entry) event. This is the second Seminole Hard Rock Poker title for Mahabee to date. Apart from the event’s shiny guitar pick tournament trophy, Mahabee also got home…

The Grosvenor Casinos’ Goliath tournament series are having their sixth annual edition, which began on July 28th with the 25/50 Flight A event. Still, players who would like to participate in the tournament and try their luck still have some time to qualify for a seat into the tour’s prestigious £120 Buy-in Main Event. The latter will have its final at the end of the week – on Sunday, August 7th. The main event final will take place at the Grosvenor Casino Goventry. More than 5,000 entrants are currently expected…

The latest update of the Global Poker Index Ranking saw the three leading positions on the board unchanged. Fedor Holz kept his leadership position for seventh week in a row, while Jason Mercier remained as a runner-up for four consecutive weeks. The No.3 player in the GPI Ranking – Nick Petrangelo – managed to keep his position for three straight weeks and does not hide his ambitions to go all the way to top of the list. The 29-year-old Massachusetts-born professional poker player has climbed in the Global Poker Index…

The fantastic one-day $300 Pot-Limit Omaha tournament gathered a field of 77 entries as part of the 2016 Seneca Niagara Fall Summer Slam. The 33-year-old Geoff Saxton won the competition, outlasting all the competitors to win the $5,356 first-place prize and the special trophy of the tournament. The $300 Pot-Limit Hold’em event which ended on Thursday night surpassed its guaranteed prize of $15,000 and created a prize pool that totalled $19,385 and was distributed between the players who finished at the top eight places. The minimum payout granted at the…

All poker players who are looking forward to find an affordable live poker tournament on the territory of the UK and Ireland to join can consider themselves lucky. It seems that August 2016 is to bring not one, not two, but a whole bunch of thrilling poker events you can participate in. What is really convenient is the fact that most of the below-mentioned live poker tour operators feature poker websites which provide players with the opportunity to qualify for their events quickly and easily. The first tournament, which started…

“AlicePoker”, the fantastic poker title of Alice Stars Inc., has managed to make a successful début at the world’s biggest video game convention – E3 2016. The company, which is currently known as the first multi-platform web-based poker room in the world that offers a virtual reality poker experience to its customers, also revealed that it created the AlicePoker Team Pro by signing the poker players Leon Joker and Sunny Jung as the team’s first members. According to the company’s statement, the PC version of AlicePoker is expected to be…

The British poker professional James “Flushy” Dempsey succeeded in getting the trophy of the Grand Prix Poker Tour Brighton Main Event and taking home the big prize of $40,000. Before winning the Grand Prix Poker Tour Brighton Main Event, James Dempsey has already been known for his live achievements in poker play. The Britton is best know for the fact that he won his first gold bracelet in the WSOP $1,500 Pot Limit Hold’em event six years ago. He is also a winner in the 2011 Doyle Brunson World Poker…

Mike Latour, a 31-year-old account executive, won the $200 No-Limit Hold’em Event #2 of the 2016 Seneca Niagara Falls Summer Slam. The tournament, which had a guaranteed prize pool of $50,000, kicked off on July 22nd and ended on July 24th. Over the first two days, four starting flights were featured, and then a third day of play. Latour, who is an occasional online poker player, managed to make his way from the leaderboard’s bottom at the event’s final table to the top, earning the first-place prize. The latter amounted…

Fedor Holz has been confirmed as a participant in the next Celebrity Cash Kings tournament that is to take place in August 2016. The 23-year-old German poker pro who currently occupies the first position in the GIP ranking with a total score of 4,727.63 points is to take part in the latest edition of the tournament regardless of the rumours he could soon step away from professional poker play. The young poker player is not the only participant confirmed at this time. Other players who are expected to be present…

The latest update of the Global Poker Index leaderboard saw Fedor Holz on top for six weeks now with total score of 4,727.64 points. The American poker professional Jason Mercier has taken the runner-up position for a third week in a row now, while Nick Petrangelo has been left third for a second week. This has been the third week when the 29-year-old poker pro has been occupying the second position of the GPI ranking with a total score of 4,339.09 points. Mercier has most recently won the 2016 GPI…