26 August 2011
PokerStars APPT Queenstown Snowfest now down to 21 players
The small field at the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Snowfest event from the Sky City Casino in Queenstown, New Zealand, is now even smaller with 21 of the 71 opening flight survivors returning for Day 3.
Matt Berkey leads WPT Legends Of Poker event
The World Poker Tour (WPT) Legends Of Poker event at the Bicycle Casino has begun with a new incarnation as a $3,500 re-entry event and after Day 1a, there will be 148 players returning from the huge starting field of 322.
Isildur1 swings and misses as Ilari Sahamies wins big
Amazingly, Ilari 'The PLO specialist formerly known as Ziigmund' Sahamies is almost out of the $800,000 hole he found himself in after first joining the high stakes games on PokerStars as 'Ilari_FIN'.
25 August 2011
Watch GUKPT Goliath €100,000 guaranteed here
The GUKPT Goliath event is setting out to prove that Grosvenor still has the best UK tournaments out there. The £120 buy-in event from Coventry's Ricoh Arena expects 1,600 players and carries a £100,000 guarantee, which means the winner will walk away with upwards of £20,000.
Alicia Sale leads PokerStars APPT Queenstown Snowfest into Day 2
The third and final opening flight of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) from the Sky City Casino in Queenstown, New Zealand, has ended and tomorrow's Day 2 is now set to see 66 runners.
McLean Karr wins over $70,000 at Parx Poker Room $2,000 event
McLean Karr took down the $2,000 buy-in Parx Poker Room event last week scoring nearly $75,000 and going home to Tatjana Pasalic afterwards. Some guys have all the luck.
Negreanu returns to online poker
Daniel Negreanu logged onto PokerStars for the first time since 'Black Friday' last night and, although it only took him five hands to get felted with an open-ended straight flush draw that didn’t get there, he revealed that he had missed playing poker online a lot.
24 August 2011
CalvinAyre.com confirmed as media sponsor for Poker In The Park V
We keep saying it, but the fifth annual Poker In The Park free poker festival, which is set to take place next Friday and Saturday, is going to be bigger and better than ever.
PokerStars APPT Queenstown Snowfest Day 1b complete
The second opening flight of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) from the Sky City Casino in Queenstown, New Zealand, concluded in the wee small hours of this morning and saw a further 28 players join the 20 that made it through via yesterday's Day 1a.
Bellagio Biker Bandit sentenced for heist
Anthony Carleo, the man most poker players know as the Bellagio Biker Bandit, was yesterday sentenced to three to eleven years in prison for his theft of $1.5 million in chips from the high-stakes tables at the Bellagio.