Poker Lifestyle

American poker player Ryan Riess earned the champion title at the 2017 $10,000 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Finale. The 26-year old poker pro succeeded in defeating opponent Alan Sternberg in a head-to-head battle for the first-place prize of $716,088. In addition to the hefty payout, Riess was awarded the prestigious WPT Champions Trophy and will have his name added on the WPT Champions Cup, next to the names of all players, who have championed the WPT for the past fifteen seasons. The tournament’s finale, which took place at the…

American poker player Tony Sinishtaj was crowned champion at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown $3,500 Championship after defeating opponent Darryll Fish in a head-to-head battle for the first-place prize. This is a first WPT champion title for Sinishtaj, who went home with $661,283 in first-place prize money. The Showdown Championship was held at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, and the attracted a field of 1,207 players, including notable names like Daniel Colman and Rob Mizrachi. As many as six players joined the tournament’s…

Chinese high-roller regular Quan Zhou emerged victorious at the HK$206,000 Single-Day High Roller at the PokerStars Championship in Macau. The 32-year old Chinese player prevailed over nemesis Nick Petrangelo in a 14-hour heads-up battle for the first-place prize of HK$3,645,000. In addition to the impressive payout, the local player went home with the PokerStars Championship trophy. The single-day tournament took place at the PokerStars Live poker room at the City of Dreams Resort & Casino, located on the Cotai Strip in Macau. The field attracted as many as 62 players,…

Canadian poker pro Griffin Benger claimed the champion crown at the 2017 Irish Poker Open €1,150 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event and bagged the first-place prize of €200,000. Benger joined the tournament’s final table at fourth place with a total of 8,010,000 in chips. The event was once again held at the luxurious Citywest Hotel and Resort, located in Dublin, and attracted a record-breaking field that totalled as many as 1,129 players, who contributed to the accumulation of a hefty prize pool of €1,128,294, shared among the first 135 finishers. Paul…

Online poker operator partypoker announced it plans on returning to Russia’s biggest resort city Sochi as a host of the $5 Million Guaranteed partypoker MILLIONS Russia tournament. The event is to take place between September 1 and September 11, 2017 in the multi-season Sochi Casino and Resort, located in Gorky Gorod. The winner is guaranteed to collect a first-place prize of $1 million. Players, interested in participating in the partypoker MILLIONS Russia event, are presented with a variety of ways to book a seat at the tournament tables. Those, who…

With April knocking on the door, poker fans across the UK and Ireland would be given the chance to access a great variety of poker tournaments featuring a variety of buy-ins and guaranteed prize pools. A number of tournaments that are scheduled to end in the first days of April have already started a few days ago, including the Leg 3 of the 2017 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour – GUKPT Edinburgh, as well as Leg 4 and 5 of this year’s edition of the Genting Poker Series Mini. Today, on…

King’s Casino has announced that its first €111,111 Buy-in One Drop High Roller event is to kick off as part of the World Series of Poker Europe that is to be held in November. The casino also revealed that more than 50 players had already paid the required deposit to join the event. Currently, the One Drop is among the poker tournaments which feature the largest buy-ins on a global scale. Since its first event, which took place in 2012, the two organisers of the event – the One Drop…

PokerStars Championship will see its inaugural event in Asia start at the end of March. The event is to start at the City of Dreams in Macau on March 30th and will run for a total of 11 days until April 9th. This is the first-ever global Championship event sponsored by PokerStars that is to be held in the lavishest entertainment venue in Macau – the City of Dreams, which has previously been home to the widely-popular Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) events. The 11-day Championship tournament will bring together…

The WSOP Circuit Main Event which takes place at the Hard Rock Tulsa has seen its Day 2 end with only nine players remaining to reach the final table of the event. At this stage, it is Daniel Lowery who got the chip lead after the end of Day 2, with a total of 2,120,000 in chips, followed by David Brown who is not so much behind him, with a stack valued at 2,100,000 in chips. Daniel Lowery is well-known to the poker lovers as a four-time gold ring winner.…

The organisers of the World Poker Tour (WPT) revealed that it is to host a WPT500 event in California for the first time in its history. The event, called WPT500 Los Angeles is to take place at The Gardens starting on May 21st and lasting until May 31st. The event features a massive guaranteed prize pool estimated to $1 million. Ron Sarabi, the General Manager of The Gardens – the casino facility that is to host the event – revealed that the entire team and staff of the casino was…