22 August 2011
Liv Boeree wins PokerStars.com Womens’ Sunday for $2,300
Usually a $50 tournament with a first prize of $2,300 wouldn’t make headlines on our site (not that we’re elitist or anything) unless one of the editorial staff won it in which case you’d be reading about nothing but for weeks (features editor Philip Conneller still wants to write about his PKR Live victory every day).
Viktor Blom has a $700,000 swing as Phil Galfond wins over $500,000
It’s almost like having Full Tilt Poker back when you look at the pot-limit Omaha action going on at the nosebleed tables online. This time, though, it’s PokerStars hosting the entertainment for the railbirds with $25/$50 to $200/$400 Omaha tables running seemingly around-the-clock.
Poker in the Park 2011 [Editorial]
Between the World Series Of Poker Europe, the London stop of the European Poker Tour and the PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker, September is always a busy month. It all kicks off with Poker In The Park V next week and Matt Perry has the lowdown.
LockPoker.com to take legal action against Jose Macedo
As 2011 went, you could have had a better one than Jose 'girah' Macedo. At the beginning of the year, he was the amazing Portuguese poker prodigy who had turned €30 into over a million and was destroying the highest staked heads-up games on European sites before his 18th birthday.
Edgar Stuchly appointed EPT president
The eighth season of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) is upon us, kicking off with Ronny Kaiser besting a field of 282 in Tallinn, Estonia for a first prize of €275,000, and now it has a new president with Austrian Head of Poker Eric Stuchly a familiar face for many who compete on the EPT.
17 August 2011
Ilari Sahamies and Phil Galfond biggest winners online.
Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies needs a new nickname since Full Tilt Poker closed doors and his name is now “Ilari_FIN” but more pertinently, he continued his major winning streak at the PokerStars Omaha tables alongside Phil “MrSweets28” Galfond.
Seven nations compete in Bahamas at World Cup of Poker VIII
The seventh World Cup of Poker has been announced for the 2012 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January. Last year, Italy took home the title but this time seven nations are competing to take the trophy – and the cash – at the Atlantis Resort and Casino in the Bahamas.
Owen “ocrowe” Crowe wins PokerStars Sunday Warm-Up.
Owen Crowe has flown somewhat under the radar as poker tournament stars go – for the past three years he has made a final table at a WSOP preliminary event and accumulated over $1.7m in cashes since his first live cash in April 2005. This despite no major victories and a biggest single score of a little over $300,000.
Betfair Poker LIVE adds stops in Dublin and London.
The Betfair Poker LIVE tour isn’t the Betfair Poker Twitter account raving and musing upon random things and telling tall anecdotes in a live setting, but rather a poker tournament series that has just gotten bigger and better with new stops announced in Dublin and London.
Black Belt Live to hit Dusk Till Dawn in November.
For the first time, Neil Channing is leaving The Vic. Not only that but he’s bringing Black Belt Live with him and heading north to Nottingham, specifically the Dusk Till Dawn poker club. Richard Ashby, Jamie Burland and Sam Razavi will join Channing for the $125 tournament on November 18-20.