28 October 2009
Monstrous durrrr Challenge Session Last Night
Tom “durrr” Dwan played a lengthy series of challenge sessions last night, with big rollercoastering in results before eventually durrrr had to quit after falling asleep mid-hand.
Negreanu bets his left testicle on an improved tournament structure?!?
As we reported yesterday, Daniel Negreanu has been giving his views on who he considers to be the top 10 players on the World Poker Tour. It’s not just the players that have given Kid Poker pause for thought though. The WSOPE runner up was vexed at the blind structure used in the recent WPT event at the Bellagio.
Join ElkY, Marcel Luske and Marc Naalden at this year’s Belgium Open
Satellites are currently under way for next month’s Belgium Open in Namur. Buy in for the main event is €1,500+€200 but online qualifiers start from just $5 on PokerStars. Each $5 winner will go through to a $25+$2 second level qualifier. Winners from this stage will qualify for $200+$15 monthly final where one package will be awarded for each $4,000 in the prize pool.
London Poker Circuit mark two gets off to a flying start
The second incarnation of the London Poker Circuit got off to an excellent start last Friday. A total of 81 players bought in for the Friday Fifty, creating a massive prize pool of £9,250, easily outmatching the £5,000 guarantee. In the end 13 players chopped the first prize!
27 October 2009
“Stats Geek” Negreanu Lists Top 10 WPT Players
One of Daniel Negreanu’s recent blog posts has seen him analyse data from World Poker Tour events to determine who on the circuit can lay claim to the title of “best WPT player.”
Michael O’Sullivan Wins IWF For €143,000
As the dust from 397 players hitting the rail cleared, one man remained – Michael O’Sullivan outlasted a huge field in the €1,650 buy-in Paddy Power Irish Winter Festival to take down an awesome first-place prize of €143,000.
Tommy Vedes wins WPT Festa al Lago
Tommy Vedes put the disappointment of just missing out on the final table of this year’s WSOP behind him by winning WPT Festa al Lago. The New Yorker, who also had a deep run at EPT London, picked up a first prize of over $1.2m.
Gardner digs deep for victory in Bristol
John Gardner outlasted a bumper field of 150-runners to win the sixth and final leg of the British Masters Of Poker Tour at Bristol’s Harbourside Casino over the weekend.
Party Poker World Open V TV Coverage starts on Five tomorrow night
If your idea of a good night in after playing poker all day is to watch poker then you’re spoilt for choice this week with another top tournament hitting the screens. Coverage of the PartyPoker.com World Open V begins on Wednesday 28th October/Thursday 29th October at 12.10am on Five.
26 October 2009
Bluff Europe Weekend Round-Up
We don't know what's happened to all the action online recently - the biggest pot on Full Tilt Poker has barely topped $250k for weeks - but live poker is absolutely booming. EPTs, WPTs, Poker Millions, WSOP Circuits: it's all kicking off in the live arena. Sure, PokerStars got 8,242 players out for the Sunday Million but it can't quite compare.