A large European Poker tournament is currently being planned, and it may well become the biggest Poker tournament to ever take place within Europe. The tournament organisers Poker Ireland are teaming up with Mermaid Poker to organise the International Poker Open to take place in October. The event will last for two days from Saturday the 6th to Sunday the 7th, and will have a buy in of €125+25 (roughly $205 altogether). Read the rest of this entry »

The poker player known as ‘5902838181’ (catchy isn’t it) has won the PokerStars Sunday million, picking up a staggering $196,244 for his efforts. The Sunday million is a very popular online multi-table tournament that attracts numerous online players from across the globe with its high monetary prizes on offer. A number of other large online rooms offer similar tournaments with big prizes for the winners, but nothing quite compares to the Sunday million held at PokerStars. Read the rest of this entry »

Carlos Mortensen managed to beat out his final table opponents and win the 2007 WPT Championship at approximately 3:00 a.m. EST on Saturday morning. The win makes Mortensen the first player to win $5 Million + in tournaments at the Bellagio and his track record is extremely impressive with two WPT wins and a WSOP bracelet. Even more impressive is how Carlos battled at one point from 1,000,000 in chips and a short stack, to the leader and eventual winner of the tournament. Read the rest of this entry »

After a long day of play we are finally down to our last 6 remaining contenders in the 2007 WPT Championship at the Bellagio poker room in Las Vegas. WPT representatives released the official final table names and chip counts at around 3:00 a.m. this morning after the last player (Thomas Wahlroos) was eliminated in the dreaded 7th place, putting him one spot out of the money. Final table action begins today at 5:00 p.m. PST with the top 6 all fighting for the coveted title and the estimated $3.97 Million first place prize. This is also a very important tournament in terms of respect and ability, as it is considered to be one of the toughest field of players if not the toughest in the entire season. Read the rest of this entry »

Day 3 of the 2007 WPT Championship has rapped up and we have a new chip leader, poker player Raymond Davis. Davis managed to work his stack up to 1,710,000 chips on day 3 elimiating a handful of pros including Barny Boatman, Chip Reese and Eric Kesselman. Sadly, hopeful Anna Wroblewski was elminated on day 3 in 70th place, right behind Full Tilt Poker professional Ram Vaswani. The current leaderboard is as follows: Read the rest of this entry »

Day 2 of the WPT Championship at the Bellagio has just finished this past hour with British poker sensation Roland De Wolfe battling through the ranks to gain the unoffical chip lead. De Wolfe sprung to the top of the pack on a missed flush draw by J.C Alvarado leaving Roland’s top two pair the winning hand, and the hand that would take him over the 500k mark in chips. De wolfe ended the day with 505,000 in chips and is poised to command his strong lead going into day 3. With 210 players remaining and a $3.97 Million payout for first place, the rest of the tournament will no doubt be packed with all-ins and skillful bluffs. Here are the unofficial chip counts at the end of day two: Read the rest of this entry »

After a long night of day one action the tables were on fire again with day 1B underway in the Fountain Room at the Bellagio. The second day of play featured considerably more famous names than the first, with the likes of Daniel Negreanu, Erick Lindgren, Joe Hachem, Johnny Chan and Mike Matusow all seated on day two. Read the rest of this entry »

The WPT Championship is officialy under way as day one ran to a close late last night. The hopeful field of 304 players included the likes of Phil Ivey, Jamie Gold, Phil Hellmuth, John Juanda and many others. With an expected first place payout of $4 Million, this WPT Championship event will pay out more than any poker event before (excluding the World Series). Read the rest of this entry »

WPT Enterprises announced yesterday the addition of its 14th official casino member in its growing international roster. The deal involves an expansion agreement with Spanish based Grupo Peralada, the largest casino operator in Spain and owners of the Casino De Barcelona located in Barcelona’s harbour district. The agreement includes the creation of a new stop on the VI season of the World Poker Tour at the Barcelona Casino sometime in October 2007. Read the rest of this entry »

Yesterday, Anna Wroblewski became the first woman ever to win a preliminary event at the Bellagio Five Star World Poker Open winning the $3,000 Buy-in No-Limit event. The tournament featured a field of 324 players and a respectable prize pool of $943,000, Anna’s share representing approx. $337,395. This is a great accomplishment for Anna and women poker players across the nation. Anna, who had just started a $10/hour job to help pay the bills after going on a horrible streak at the tables, seemed determined and relived as she entered the final table of play. Read the rest of this entry »

Watch out WSOP, you’ve got some competition. The Venetian Hotel and Casino recently announced their plans to hold their second annual poker series titled Deep Stack Extravganza, which “coincidentely” runs from June 1st - July 1st roughly along the same timetable of the WSOP. Read the rest of this entry »