Poker Lifestyle

The Foxwoods Casino in Mashantucket, Connecticut is to see the second stop of the 2017/2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit kick off on Thursday. The twelve ring events are to be held from August 17th to August 28th, 2017. The second stop of the tournament is to be held over a period of ten days, featuring a variety of events with different buy-ins and prize pools. Action is to start on August 17th with a $365 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em event with a guaranteed prize pool estimated to $30,000. As…

Last night, John Andress was crowned as the winner of 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $25,500 High Roller event, after him facing fierce competition of a large number of poker professionals. The 2017 SHRPO High Roller Event took place on August 14th and 15th at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino. The event accumulated a players field of 117 entries, who accounted for boosting the guaranteed prize to $2,925,000. At the end of the event’s first day, there were only 17 players remaining, with John Andress being on…

Last night, the American poker player Harut “Harry” Arutyunyan managed to win his first WSOP Circuit gold ring after taking down the WSOP Circuit Cherokee Main Event. The tournament, which took place at Harrah’s Cherokee, accumulated a player field of 1,022 entrants who were there to try winning the Main Event champion’s title and a Circuit ring apart from the first-place monetary prize. The winning comes as the latest success in Harry Arutyunyan in the Cherokee Series, following the titles of two of his friends – Nikhil Gera, who got…

Jack Sinclair conquered the champion’s title in the 2017 partypoker LIVE German Poker Championship Super High Roller that took place over the weekend at King’s Casino Rozvadov in the Czech Republic. The €25,000 buy-in Super High Roller tournament gathered a total players field of 28 entries. The event offered a massive first-place prize, with only the first three players getting paid. Jack Sinclair, whose total live earnings before him emerging victorious from the 2017 partypoker LIVE German Poker Championship Super High Roller amounted to $1,248,857, managed to take down the…

One of the most popular top-tier live events sponsored by PokerStas – the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) – come back to kick off in January 2018. The global poker brand officially revealed that the PCA tournament is to return at the beginning of 2018, bringing much excitement to both organisers and poker fans. Yesterday, PokerStars’ Director of Corporate Communications, Eric Hollreiser, officially revealed that the PCA tournament is to offer not only a $10,300 Main Event, but will also see some changes. Mr. Hollreiser explained that the global poker brand…

American poker pro Nick Schulman managed to conquer the champion’s title of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s $50,000 Super High Roller event, after first leading the final five and then facing Jake Schindler in a fierce heads-up battle. The player emerged not only as the crowned winner of the Super High Roller event of the tournament, but also took home a massive monetary prize estimated to $440,000. The guaranteed prize pool’s portion boosted his total live earnings to $9,246,821. The largest live cash of Schulman to date is…

Yesterday was an important day for the $50,000 Super High Roller event of the 2017 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Series, with the event scheduled to see the second stage of the Super High Roller start today. The US poker pro Nick Schulman is the one who currently leads the final five players who remain in the game. The $50,000 Super High Roller, which is the event featuring the largest buy-in in the Seminole Hard Rock Open this year. The event, which costs $50,000 and offers a guaranteed prize pool…

This year’s edition of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Goliath tournament was brought to its end at Sunday with Elliot Marais taking down the event and emerging victorious. Marais managed to defeat all his opponents at the Ricoh Arena in Coventry, climbing on top of the list to claim the tournament’s title as well as the lion’s share of the guaranteed prize pool. The player, who used a direct buy-in of £120 to enter the tournament and managed to turn it into a monetary prize of £85,760. The 2017 edition…

It seems that the PokerStars brand has increased its popularity in Romania, as things are getting bigger and bigger every time when the international poker brand holds an event in Bucharest, the capital city of the country. After the great success of what happened to be the first and last Eureka Poker Tour in 2016, this year has provided local poker fans with the opportunity to enter the PokerStars Festival 2017 edition, which Main Event at the cost of €1,100 turned out to be the largest live poker tournament that…

Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa has recently filed an appeal for a summery judgement against Gameco, a playing card manufacturer. In case that the appeal is successful, it would oblige to pay $10 million to Borgata Casino, an amount which the latter lost in the legal battle against the professional poker player Phil Ivey. According to Borgata’s claims, Gemaco actually knew about the imperfections on the playing cards’ backs and sold them to the casino anyway. The filing notes also prove indisputably that the cards were “marked” and without the…