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Dan Stanway emerged victorious from the 2016 Genting Poker Series’ final leg in Sheffield. The player took home a guaranteed prize pool’s portion of £31,700 after outlasting the rest of the competitors in the £440 Buy-in No Limit Hold’em – Main Event. The event put an end to this year’s Genting Poker Series, gathering a total of 301 participants, who also made it the best-attended poker main event in 2016. A total of 18 stops are scheduled in the 2017 Genting Poker Series championship, but the dates are still to…

Brian Hastings is undoubtedly one of the greatest contemporary poker players, considering his amazing achievements both off- and online. However, the 28-year-old player has recently announced that it intended to quit poker as a full-time activity after spending a decade in the world of professional poker game. Hastings revealed his decision to quit professional poker in a blog post on his website, saying that he planned to concentrate his efforts in a tea startup called UniTea. His three World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets are probably the best the American…

As Casino Guardian reported earlier, the 15th edition of the World Poker Tour (WPT) $10,400 Buy-in Main Event of the Five Diamonds World Poker Classic has gathered a massive players field of 791 entries. The event offers a guaranteed prize pool amounting to $7.673 million and the competition to win the enormous first-place prize of $1.938 million. Now, the Main Event of the tournament heads to Day 4, after Day 3 was filled with fierce competition, fast-paced game and a lot of drama. Not only did the money bubble burst,…

The latest update of the Global Poker Index (GPI) Ranking saw some reshuffle, with a number of players going up and down in their position. The US poker professional Paul “The Main Event” Volpe managed to climb to the 12th position of the ranking. In fact Paul Volpe has already climbed as high as the 4th place in the GPI Ranking, so it remains to be seen if he is to further attack the top 10 places. With all-time winnings amounting to $5,548,843 and live best cash of $654,170, Volpe…

The 15th Season of the World Poker Tour (WPT) $10,400 Buy-in Main Event of the Five Diamonds World Poker Classic kicked off in Las Vegas and has already managed to set a record. The event gathered a record number of entrants, as a total of 791 participants were registered, generating a guaranteed prize pool of $7.673 million. Never has such a large players field been gathered before for the WPT Five Diamond Main Event. Until now, the largest number of players who have joined the event amounted to 664 in…

Ukraine’s Oleg Vasylchenko emerged victor in the partypoker WPT Prague Main Event last night after an action-packed final day and a rather short heads-up match. Vasylchenko’s share of the prize pool totalled €132,200, including a $15,000 package for the season-ending Tournament of Champions. To celebrate his victory, the WPT also added his name to the Champions Cup that contains the names of all Main Tour Main Event winners throughout the tour’s fifteen seasons. Vasylchenko entered into the Main Event’s final day first in chips and maintained a good position until…

The emblematic Hippodrome Casino will kindly host the first PokerStars Festival for 2017, as announced by the poker brand. The PokerStars Festival London event is scheduled to take place from January 22nd to January 29th, 2017, featuring a number of exciting poker (and non-poker) tournaments. Earlier this year, PokerStars revealed that it would merge its regional poker tours into Championship and Festival events to be taking place in different thrilling destinations around the world. The PokerStars Festival New Jersey was the first such event. It ran from October 29th through…

Former world number one tennis player Boris Becker has joined the elite cluster of partypoker ambassadors, the online poker brand has announced. Thus, the German tennis legend has added another important task to his agenda. In addition to mentoring and coaching tennis super star Novak Djokovic, Becker will also be among the active promoters of the partypoker brand. Much is known about the German’s accomplishments on the tennis court but his love for the game of poker is of greater interest here. Becker has played in a number of the…

Stephen Chidwick is a well-recognized player within the international poker community. Over the past several years, he has made a name for himself for both his live and online accomplishments. His regular appearances at final tables of EPT tournaments are particularly worth being paid attention to. Said otherwise, if there has been an EPT poker festival, no matter in which part of Europe, Chidwick has been there and has been gracing at least one or two final tables throughout said festival. Europe’s largest poker tour (as well as other PokerStars-sponsored…

PokerStars’ European Poker Tour (EPT) is heading to Prague for its last stop in its 2016 route. The Czech Republich, and more specifically, its capital city has been known as one of the most interesting stops on the way of the EPT, providing plenty of fun and epic events. Now it seems that the tournament’s organisers intend to make the EPT Season 13 no different, especially considering the fact that the Prague stop is to put an end to one of the most loved tours in the history of poker.…