The final day of the 2018 888poker LIVE Festival London £1,100 Main Event kicked off with just 21 players out of a 656-entry strong field still in contention, all aiming to take home the trophy and first-place payout of £121,000. While the field was cut down swiftly in the first two levels, the final table would turn into an endurance challenge…
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Jake Bazeley won the WSOPC Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event for the second time in five years. Back in 2014, he won his first ring by topping a 797-entry field to win the $1,675 Main Event for $239,096, and more recently bested 1,127 entrants to win the $1,700 Main Event for $311,616 and his second ring. “This I was more prepared for. That…
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The PokerStars LIVE Asia Jeju Red Dragon kicked off over the weekend and wrapped the first of three high roller events. The ₩60M ($54,000) buy-in Super High Roller drew 44 runners (30 unique entrants and 14 re-entries), which created a ₩2,508,000,000 (~US$2.23M) prize pool. That set the record for largest ever PokerStars prize pool in Korea. In the end, 33-year-old Frenchman Romain…
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Best German Poker Players: Coming to a Top 5 wasn't an easy task by any means, as players that would be first-picks in many other countries didn't even make the cut with the limitation to just five. 1) Fedor Holz Selecting a top 5 may have been hard, but picking the overall #1 was a…
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Day 3 of the MCOP Event Final Table has come to an end, and the final table is set. Nine players remain in the most prestigious tournament of The Netherlands, and it's a Dutchman leading the international final table. Teun Mulder, an online cash game expert in origin, battled with kings versus ace-king in the last…
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The $3,500 buy-in WPT Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker (RRPO) saw 898 entrants pack the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood, but after five days of play it was 30-year-old Pavel Plesuv, who was born in Moldova but now resides in the Czech Republic, who walked away the victor for $504,820. It was redemption for Plesuv, who in…
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The 2018 Unibet Open Dublin €1,100 Main Event champion has been crowned, and it was UK's Paul Jux Holderness that lifted the check and trophy for winner shots at the Bonnington Hotel in Dublin. The 34-year-old from Bournemouth defeated Frenchman Julien Kron heads-up to claim the top prize of €74,900 ($84,976), capping off a very successful trip to the Irish capital after…
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