Poker Lifestyle

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) organisers revealed its 2017 WSOP Europe (WSOPE) schedule, saying that the Series would make its way to the Czech Republic for the first time in its history. The WSOP Europe is to feature 11 gold bracelet events which guaranteed prize pools will account to a total of about €17 million. The 2017 edition of the WSOPE poker festival is to be hosted at the largest poker room on the territory of Europe – the King’s Casino Rozvadov. The poker series is to kick off…

After completing the first 15 stops of its 2016/2017 season’s schedule, the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP Circuit) is heading to the next one, which is to be in Atlantic City, a long-standing stop of the series. With only 7 destinations left until the end of the Circuit series, and the sixteenth stop on the schedule to be soon ending, the seventeenth stop of the WSOP Circuit is to be held at Harrah’s Atlantic Casino. A great variety of poker events will be included in the schedule, with the…

The luxury Aria Hotel and Casino Resort, located in Las Vegas, hosts a series of high roller poker tournaments on a monthly basis. March 2017 started off with three scheduled events, namely two $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournaments and a $50,00 Super High-Roller event. The weekend commenced with the first $25,000 Aria High Roller No-Limit Hold’em event which kicked off at 2 pm local time. The tournament attracted a field of 33 entries that contributed to a huge prize pool of $792,000. The final table saw five survivors competing for the…

British player Andrew Hills was crowned champion at the 2017 GUKPT No-Limit Hold’em Main Event collecting a prize of £46,987. The event was held at the Grosvenor Casino, located at Bury New Road, and attracted a field of 268 entries that contributed to the massive prize pool. The event’s final day saw as many as 20 players competing for a first-place prize of £75,550. Several hours later, 11 players busted and only 9 survivors made it to the final table. Ben Jackson was the player with the shortest stack and…

The increasing popularity of online poker has led not only to the game becoming more attractive to people of different age, gender and social status, but also to some not so great “innovations” in the field. One of the latest trends among programmers fascinated by the game of poker is to create a poker bot that would automatically play online poker for them, aimed at winning large prizes. What Is a Poker Bot? A computer poker player, which is also referred to as as poker bot, is a special computer…

American poker pro Ryan Jones claimed the champion title at the 2017 World Series of Poker Circuit Rio $1,675 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event. Jones prevailed over a starting field of 945 entries earning the first-place prize of $269,327 along with his second gold ring. The event took place at the Rio Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas and boasted a prize pool of $1,417,500. The final day of the tournament saw Jones competing for the champion crown against notable opponents like eight-time ring winner Ari Engel, overnight chip leader Jeremy…

The Supreme Court of the UK has granted Phil Ivey with a hearing of his high-stakes baccarat case. As Casino Guardian has previously reported, while playing at the Crockfords Casino London in August 2012, the player won about £7.7 million. At this time, Ivey and a playing partner managed to spot a certain manufacturing defect on the back of the playing cards thanks to which they managed to get an advantage on the casino. After being accused in cheating, Phile Ivey claimed that he had never touched the flawed cards…

One of the fresh additions to the poker world, Tom Haney, emerged victorious from the newest weekly tournament of Dusk Till Dawn – DTD200. The young UK player has managed to climb on top of the list, after finishing at the runner-up position on a previous occasion. Haney won the newest DTD200 event that took place over the weekend at Nottigham’s Dusk Till Dawn casino, which featured a guaranteed prize pool of £100,000. The player scooped for a first-place prize estimated to £20,550. The new weekly tournament, called DTD200, was…

This March offers all poker lovers a great variety of live poker tournaments on the territory of the UK and Ireland they can choose from. The third month of 2017 will see a great variety of tournaments kick off, offering various buy-ins and prize pools to the British and Irish players. First, on February 26th, the 2017 edition of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour – GUKPT Leg 2, Manchester started at the Grosvenor Casino Bury New Road. The tournament offers many satellites and events, and a Main Event which features…

Earlier this month, PokerStars surprised everyone by signing Igor Kurganov up as part of the brand’s Team Pro. This contract provoked a lot of discussions among both poker lovers and professionals and echoed even in the largest online poker community – 2+2, fuelling up serious controversy about the actual meaning and objectives of the deal. Most poker lovers considered the signing as surprising, especially bearing in mind the fact that Kurganov was one of the players who harshly criticised PokeStars on previous occasions. So, what was this all about? PokerStars…