Poker Lifestyle

Organisers of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) revealed that the global television and digital media rights to the annual summer WSOP tournament held in Las Vegas have been acquired by Poker Central. Thanks to the agreement that have been reached between ESPN and Poker Central, programming from the tournament would be expanded, including the live event coverage as well as the original episodes. The Chief Digital Officer at Poker Central, JR McCabe, commented on the agreement with ESPN, saying they were very glad to add a premium poker brand…

The Cash Game Festival is heading to Gibraltar, after celebrating great success at its previous stops in February, March and April. This time, the Festival is to set foot at Gibraltar’s Sunborn Casino for the first time in its history. The Cash Game Festival is to be held in Gibraltar in the period from May 17th do 21th. The Sunborn Casino’s poker room is currently one of the largest ones in Europe. The Festival is expected to be found attractive by both professional and recreational players. As far as the…

Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady announced that it will host the first Capital Region Classic poker tournament later in May 2017. The tournament will be held as a multi-day event featuring a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000. The Capital Region Classic poker tournament is scheduled to take place from May 24th to 28th in the event centre of the Rivers casino. This will be the first major gambling held at the casino venue since its official opening in February 2017. The gaming floor of the Rivers Casino & Resort Schenectady…

The young Canadian poker player Jean-Pascal Savard was crowned as the winner of the Main Event of partypoker Million North America. To win the Main Event, Savard managed to outlast a field of a total of 1,168 entries who gathered at the Playground Poker Club in Canada for the Main Event of partypoker Million North America. The player also took home a massive guaranteed prize pool portion of CA$956,000 ($696,169), which is also the best live cash ever won by Savard. To date, the Canadian’s total live earnings amount to…

The end of the 2016/2017 season of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit is coming closer, with only one stop to host the tournament left. The current season of the domestic WSOP Circuit kicked off on August 4th 2016 at the Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina, and over the past nine months has been hosted in a number of US states, including Connecticut, Nevada, Illinois, Indiana, Florida, Mississippi, Wisconsin, Oklahoma, Iowa, etc. Now, a total of 21 stops later, Harrah’s New Orleans is to host the last stop of…

The US poker player Mike Cordell emerged victorious from the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Baltimore Main Event. Cordell managed to outlast a players field of a total of 449 entrants to take home the event’s gold ring, the third one in his career so far, as well as a guaranteed prize pool cash portion estimated to $148,141. In addition, the player automatically got a seat at the season-ending Global Casino Championship that is scheduled to be held in August 2017. This is the third time when the 46-year-old professional poker player…

888Live Festival heads to one of the most beautiful European capital cities for its third edition. The Festival is set to kick off at Gran Casino de Barcelona on May 11th and run for eleven days until May 22nd. Over that period of time, it is to feature a great variety of events, which are to attract some of the biggest names among the contemporary poker pros. As mentioned above, a large number of events is to be held over 888Live Festival Barcelona, with a combined guaranteed prize pool which…

German poker player Philipp Gruissem emerged victorious from the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller Event of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlо. The player managed to scoop a cash portion estimated to €485,135 as well as the champion’s title after a two-way deal at the end of the competition. The one-day event which was presented by Monte-Carlo Casino saw a player field of 85 participants, with 58 entries and 27 re-entries for the massive guaranteed prize pool estimated to €2,082,500. Despite Gruissem winning the Single-Day High Roller trophy and being crowned…

Irish poker player Joseph Macari has managed to navigate his way to his first major live poker tournament winning, emerging victorious from the Main Event of the Grand Prix Dublin. As Casino Guardian has earlier reported, the Grand Prix Dublin event was hosted at the Clayton Hotel as part of the 2017 Grand Prix Poker Tour. The tournament provoked the interest of a large number of British and Irish poker players, especially considering the fact that Dublin was only the second stop of this year’s edition of the Grand Prix…

As Casino Guardian reported only a few days ago, the WSOP Circuit came back to the Hoseshoe Casino in Baltimore. As the organisers of the tournament event have already revealed, there were a total of four starting flights for the tournament’s fourth event over the past couple of days. A massive number of 657 entries were gathered to one players field over the starting flights of the $365 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry event, who accounted for a prize pool estimated to $197,100. Now, there are only 79 players left who are…