Tournaments

WSOPE Berlin Bound for Bumper Bracelet Festival

Since upping anchor and setting sail for new horizons back in 2007, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has handed out bracelets in the UK and France under the WSOPE(urope) banner. In 2015, however, the international tour will set...

Erik Seidel is EPT Grand Final Super High Roller

Veteran Erik Seidel proved once again that he’s more than a match for the new generation of poker player when he took down the $100k EPT Grand Final Super High Roller in Monte Carlo over the weekend. Seidel outlasted 71 of the...

Scott Seiver Moves to Top of GPI Rankings 

Scott Seiver is clearly one of the world’s top poker players, and nobody needs an official ranking list to tell them that. With over $15.1 million in career live tournament earnings, few players have resumes that can match...

Ryan Jones Wins WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event

Ryan Jones earned his first ever World Series of Poker Circuit ring by taking down the Harrah’s Cherokee Main Event in Cherokee, North Carolina. The victory earned Jones $235,804 and a seat in the WSOP National Championship in...

Anthony Zinno Wins WPT Player of the Year Award

Anthony Zinno capped an incredible campaign during Season XIII of the World Poker Tour by being named the WPT Player of the Year. The announcement was made official after the elimination of Darren Elias from the WPT World...

Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Scraps $10 Million Guarantee for 2015

The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) is scaling back its guarantees for 2015. That probably doesn’t come as much of a surprise: after the SHRPO Main Event easily surpassed a $10 million guarantee in 2013, it failed to come...

Michelle Chin Becomes First Woman to Win WSOP Circuit Main Event

Michelle Chin won the 2015 Horseshoe Council Bluffs $1,675 Main Event on Monday, becoming the first woman to win a World Series of Poker Circuit main event in the process. That ended a streak of 156 WSOP Circuit main events...

Nanjing Millions Shutdown is Now Criminal Investigation

The shutdown of the Nanjing Millions poker tournament has become national news in China, and appears to be headed towards a criminal investigation after reports in Chinese media that hosting the tournament was a “criminal...

Former WSOP Champ Jonathan Duhamel and PokerStars Break Up After Long Bromance

The World Series of Poker Main Event 2010 champion, Jonathan Duhamel, has parted ways with his longtime sponsor, PokerStars. The reason for the split is as yet unknown. The lone statement given to PokerNews by PokerStars’...

China’s APPT Nanjing Millions Ends as Police Raid PokerStars Land-Based Tournament Site

The PokerStars-sponsored APPT Nanjing Millions event has been summarily shut down by Chinese police on Friday, four days into the main event. Reports on the ground are thin, due to Chinese restrictions on live media and blogging...