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It is Warwick Mirzikinian who managed to emerge as the champion of the 2017 Sydney Championships AU$20,000 High Roller event, generating his best live cash to date. Mirzikinian managed to overcome the fierce competition in the Championship’s High Roller event and took home the champion’s title and a first-place prize of AU$247,000. This is the second first-place win for Mirzikinian in just a few days, after the player took down the 2017 Sydney Championships 6 Max event at the end of July. The Australian managed to keep his steady pace,…

The inaugural Nordic Poker Championships is to be hosted by partypoker LIVE in December 2017. The poker Championship tournament is to take place in the Czech Republic’s capital city from December 14th to 18th, offering a massive guaranteed prize pool of €1 million. The first-ever Nordic Poker Champions is to kick off as part of a series of regional Championship events that are to be hosted by partypoker LIVE. The brand is to also host the German Poker Championships in a few days, at Kings’ Casino Rozvadov as of August…

The popular Powerfest is to return to partypoker at the beginning of September. One of the most-loved online poker festivals is to be held for more than three weeks, featuring a massive number of more than 300 events with overall guaranteed prizes of $35 million. Tom Waters, Managing Director of partypoker, confirmed of the Powerfest return in September, saying that the Powerfest festival kept on getting bigger and more popular as time passed, which was the reason why the overall prize pool was boosted to $35,000,000. Mr. Waters expressed his…

August is just around the corner now, with a great variety of live poker tournaments set to start in the UK and Ireland. The month will see different live poker tournaments, events and festivals start in the region, with them offering various guaranteed prize pools and buy-ins. Several large tournaments are to start over the upcoming month on the territory of the UK and Ireland, with them providing all kinds of poker players join the events. The first one of the poker tournaments that are set to kick off in…

The organisers of the World Poker Tour (WPT) revealed that they have joined forces with Protection Poker in order to bring their Action Clock to all events included in the sixteenth edition of the WPT Main Tour. What is more, the WPT is to work in collaboration with all partners of the WPT Main Tour in order to set a requirement of transitioning to eight-handed tournament play once there are only ten tables left in a WPT Main Tour event. The World Poker Tour’s Executive Tour Director Matt Savage commented…

PokerStars, the biggest poker company in the world, has released the official schedule for this year’s Asia Championship of Poker or ACOP. The biggest annual poker tournament in Asia is to take place between October 13 and October 29, 2017, and is expected to attract some of the best poker players from around the world. This year’s Asia Championship of Poker will be held at the PokerStars LIVE Macau poker room. The latter is located in the City of Dreams resort and casino complex on the Cotai Strip. The 2017…

A South Florida lawyer has taken legal action against US poker pro Maurice Hawkins, claiming the player owns him just a little under the sum of $23,000 after he chose to back out of a staking deal the two of them had made. According to the Tallahassee attorney Hal Lewis, he and Hawkins had agreed on a deal back in 2016 whereupon Lewis staked his personal funds to back the professional player. Hawkins was supposed to use the money to buy his way into various tournaments in 2016. Under the…

Grosvenor UK Poker Tour is expected to break attendance records from previous years for its 2017 Goliath poker tournament series. The event’s organisers released a press statement to announce the number of players who have so far registered for this year’s GUKPT’s Goliath has already surpassed the 5,000 mark. With two more days left to register for the event, the number of entries is expected to swell even further. The 2017 GUKPT Goliath tournament is to take place between July 27 and August 6 at the Grosvenor Casino Coventry in…

English poker player Timothy Chung was crowned champion at the third MPN Poker Tour Manchester Main Event which took place at the Grosvenor Casino, located in the eponymous city, from July 20 to July 23. The event drew the attention of 288 participants who all competed for a share of the £150,000 guaranteed prize pool after contributing with a £550 buy-in. Two days after the start of the MPN Poker Tour Manchester, the 288 field was reduced to nine contestants who took a seat at the final table to compete…

Russian poker player Dmitrii Kovalevskii emerged chip leader at the end of Day 1A of PokerStars Festival Korea Main Event. Day 1A suffered a slow start as only several tables were in operation when the event kicked off at 2 pm local time. Six hours later when registration had already closed, the field had escalated to 54 players who all contributed with an entry fee of ₩1,650,000. The festival is currently taking place at the luxurious Paradise City Integrated Resort in the city of Incheon, which borders the South Korean…