Category: Poker

Despite clashing with the World Series of Poker Europe, partypoker LIVE and the World Poker Tour attracted 792-entrants to a Montreal Main Event that went the way of Patrick Serda. “If you play well, titles will come,” said Patrick Serda in the aftermath of his 2017 decision to hand William Kassouf the trophy in the […]

A round-up of news from the Aussie Millions in Melbourne with Toby Lewis leading the final five in the AUD 50,000 Challenge, and side event victories for Vincent Huang and Luis Arrilucea. Stretch marks in a fashion magazine. Northerners in a doctor’s surgery. A headmasters’ cane thrashing the hands of a teenager. Three things that […]

Matthias Eibinger wins his third $50k buy-in event after taking down the €50,000 Single-Day High Roller at the PokerStars European Poker Tour in Monte Carlo.   The last of the Single-Day High Rollers is as dead as Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, and the Austrian, Matthias Eibinger, is the man who took the last […]

    Matt Stout, Jeff Gross and Nathan Manuel win at Run It Up Reno, and Rocky “ratedGTO” Guan joins Team Run It Up.    I got married in a drive-through in Las Vegas.   To save $10, I parked the car on the sidewalk, and the pair of us walked to the window to […]

    Deaf Poker Australia (DPA) works to support deaf culture and identity in the country by using poker. It has been around for 10 years and has made a significant impact on the lives of individuals through cards. It recently held its DPA X tournament, also called the 2018 Australian Deaf Poker Championship, at Crown […]

Two snippets from the World Poker Tour including Demo Kiripoulos winning the WPT Fallsview Main Event, and Chris Torina and the team at WPT DeepStacks returning to the Rivers Casino for two more events during 2019.  One of the problems with hosting a poker tournament on the cusp of Niagara Falls is the slight chance […]

  Lee Davy chews the ear of the Global Poker League, Hendon Mob, American Poker Awards and Socios owner, Alex Dreyfus, on his move from dealing with Paris Aviators and Rome Emperors to Juventus and Paris Saint Germain. Sometime in 2015/16 as the paperboy slung the morning rag onto the doorsteps of the damned, the […]

    Three short stories from the world of poker that don’t merit top billing, including Max Silver sitting in a Limit-Hold’em game with $600,000 wishing he didn’t, PokerStars adding a 62nd event to the World Championships of Online Poker schedule, and another appeal from Phil Ivey.    Imagine you win a poker tournament for €600,000. […]

Manju Gera has picked up her first WSOP Circuit gold ring. The California resident participated in the $400 HORSE tournament as part of the WSOP series at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort in California when she wiped out the playing field, taking the top prize of $8,303 and the coveted gold ring. She may not […]

Two whispers from the World Poker Tour including the first tranche of final table dates for the HyperX Esports Arena Las Vegas, and the release of the WPT LA Poker Classic schedule.  It was May when the World Poker Tour (WPT) advised all and sundry of their plans to hold as many Main Event final […]