Author: Harry Evans

Gary Miller managed to emerge victorious from the 888poker WPT500 London, by overcoming the competition of the 1,810 player field and taking home the first-place prize of £114,000. The victory at the WPT500 London event, which featured a $1,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, brought him his first WPT cash since he finished on the second place in a £200 buy-in side event at the WPT National in Newcastle in 2015. At the time he took the runner-up position, he scooped a cash prize of £14,000. In addition, the WPT500 London brought…

April is just around the corner now, with new plethora of live poker tournaments set to kick off on the territory of the UK and Ireland. The variety of events feature many different formats, buy-ins and guaranteed prize pools in order to meet the players’ preferences and expectations. Here are the biggest and most significant live poker events that are scheduled to be held in April 2018: APAT World Championship of Amateur Poker The last day of March will see Manchester’s Grosvenor Casino Bury New Road host the APAT World…

The beginning of the week saw the WPTDeepStacks Maryland Main Event find its winner, with Jason Eisele taking over the title. Eisele managed to top the overall player field of 389 entries in order to take home the first-place prize, estimated to $108,921. The winner’s monetary prize also includes a $3,000 package to the season-ending championship event of the WPTDeepStacks. The latest tournament event winning has helped Eisele boost his overall live earnings to $258,508. Apart from that, the first-place monetary prize of $108,921 has become the best live cash…

One of the largest online poker card rooms on a global scale – partypoker – revealed that the widely-popular Monster Series online festival is to kick off in April. As announced by partypoker, the series, which is known for its low to middle stakes available, is set to begin on April 29th and to run through May 6th. This would be the second edition of the online festival. This year’s Monster Series promises to be an exciting one, with it being set to feature a total of 41 numbered events…

Craig Norals emerged as the winner of the first-ever RunGood Bossier City Main Event, taking home a first-place prize amounting to $43,057. That was the final tournament in the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) in Bossier City. The inaugural RunGood Main Event which took place at the Bossier City’s Horseshoe Casino featured three starting flights which attracted a total player field of 392 entrants. Norals managed to overcome their competition to win the largest monetary prize as well as the RunGood Cup. By winning the RunGood Main Event, the American also…

American player Hermilo Vargas was crowned winner at the WSOP Circuit $365 No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack event last night and was awarded his second champion ring. In addition to the champion title and his ring, Vargas went home with $86,270 in prize money for his first-place finish. The local player who resides in Bell Gardens, California, joined a huge field comprising 1,317 contenders at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. The entries competed for a share of the $522,600 prizepool, but only the first 171 finishers were paid out, with…

The WSOP Circuit Monster Stack event is drawing to its end, with American poker player Hermilo Vargas in the chip lead. The tournament is taking place at the Bicycle Casino in the City of Angels and attracted a field of 1,315 players who contributed to the accumulation of the huge $522,600 prizepool. The prize money is to be divided among the top 171 finishers. The minimum payout winners can collect is capped at $600 but it is the first-place prize of $86,270 that all remaining contenders are hoping to walk…

Romanian player Andrei Racolta won the trophy at the 888pokerLIVE Festival Bucharest Main Event and a payday of €71,042. The three-day tournament was the first 888pokerLIVE tour event ever to be held in Bucharest and it saw a strong attendance of 469 participants that contributed to a prize pool of €360,192. The festival started Friday, 2 March at the Grand Ballroom of the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel and it attracted top poker players from Romania and the region. It was the first time the tournament came to the city…

French poker player Kalidou Sow won the Winamax Poker Tour Paris High Roller taking home €100,000 in cash prize. This is the third big tournament win for Sow in just a few months after taking first-place trophies and six-figure prizes in London and Prague. The three-day Winamax Poker Tour Paris High Roller is the latest event won by the Frenchman. It was held on Thursday, 1 March as part of the 2017/2018 Winamax Poker Tour Series which started on 15 February at Cercle Clichy Montmartre in Paris. Satellites ran every…

Every two years, the Women in Poker Hall of Fame awards the most prominent female poker players and industry leaders who have made important contributions to the world of poker. This year, the panel accepts nominations by 15 March and poker fans have the opportunity to propose the names of those who they consider most deserving. Although the poker industry is still dominated by men, there are many women whose accomplishments should receive recognition. The Women in Poker Hall of Fame honours all women who have acquired prominence or have…