25 November 2011
Duhamel riding high at WPT Marrakech
Jonathan Duhamel was the big story at the opening day of the €2,700+€300 World Poker Tour event in Marrakech that got under way yesterday. Last year's WSOP Main Event winner closed the day with a stack of 113,600, good enough for eighth place on the leader board.
Victoria Coren gives 10% of IFP winnings to charity
There are plenty of reasons to admire Victoria Coren. She's won an EPT, penned one of the best poker books ever written and hosts the most fiendish quiz show on TV. She's gone up even further in our estimation after her runner up finish at the IFP World Championship last weekend, not for her performance at the table, impressive though it was, but for what she did with the money.
24 November 2011
Sam Trickett heads to Macau cash game, Ivey plays APPT
Macau is the place to be right now for high stakes poker action – not only is Tom Dwan playing the big game, with Guy LaLiberte rumoured and Sam Trickett confirmed to join him; Phil Ivey is building a stack in the PokerStars APPT.
Ilari Sahamies – seven figures in seven days; Antonius back?
The high stakes action on PokerStars has been really heating up over the past few days with the graph of Ilari “Ilari FIN” Sahamies showcasing this. In the past seven days he has won just a few big blinds shy of a million dollars.
PartyPoker to host $1m guaranteed Winter Million event
PartyPoker have announced that a $1,000,000 guaranteed tournament, the Winter Million, will take place on the site with a buy-in of just $600 + $40. They’ll need a field of 1,667 players to avoid an overlay, but we think they’ll get there.
Five fantastic freerolls this weekend from Intertops Poker
Thanksgiving. A time for families, turkey, the NFL and of course online poker. Intertops Poker is certainly delivering on the latter by hosting no fewer than FIVE freeroll tournaments between now and the weekend.
Genting Casinos buy Fox Poker Club
One of the best poker venues in London is under new ownership after Genting Poker's acquisition of the Fox Poker Club for an undisclosed sum.
23 November 2011
PokerStars 10th Anniversary $1m Ring Game Leaderboards
Yet another PokerStars 10th Anniversary promotion, yet another seven-figure giveaway. This time cash game grinders can benefit without playing the $10m Sunday Million or $1m Sunday Storm… or the $1 entry $250k guaranteed event.
Anthony Ruberto wins WPT Jacksonville for $325,928
Anthony Ruberto has won the WPT Jacksonville event, netting over $300k for beating a field of 393 players. He began the final table as the chip leader by quite some margin and held that lead for almost all of six-handed to heads-up play.
New live tournament series from Genting Poker
The already crowded UK live tournament circuit has got even busier with the launch of new series of events from Genting Poker. A total of seven events are scheduled on the Genting Poker Series, starting at Birmingham's Star City in February. Further stops are scheduled for Southend, Edinburgh, Stoke, Sheffield and London's Palm Beach club as well as an online leg.