Tournaments

Stephen Graner Steamrolls EPT Prague Main Event

Stephen Garner, a US poker pro based in Henderson, NV, has won a record-field PokerStars EPT Prague, steamrolling the final table in the process. Garner, who we last saw on the final table of the Millionaire Maker event at this...

New Jersey Online Poker Revenues Continue to Flounder

New Jersey online poker revenues hit an all-time low in November, marking the third straight monthly decline for the state’s Internet poker market. Overall, the state’s remaining sites took in $1,877,603 million,...

Winning Poker Network $1 Million Guaranteed Disrupted by Hackers

The Winning Poker Network’s (WPN) bold attempt to stage the biggest online poker tournament available to US players since the departure of PokerStars and Full Tilt lay in ruins on Sunday night and may have been derailed by a...

Jennifer Shahade Wins World’s Biggest Open-Face Chinese Poker Tournament

Jennifer Shahade beat back a strong field to win the €10,000 ($12,400) Open-Face Chinese Poker World Championship High Roller tournament held at the King’s Casino in Prague. The tournament was the richest tournament...

Irish Poker Open Schedule 2015 Released by Paddy Power

The world-famous Irish Poker Open will pick up where it left off in 2014 and host yet another festival in Dublin next April. Known for being one of the liveliest poker events of the year, the Irish Poker Open 2015 is expected...

PokerStars Begins Play Money World Cup of Poker

The PokerStars World Cup of Poker (WCP) is being held in a play money format this year, eliminating the live final and any cash prizes. The move may be a result of the delays in Amaya Gaming’s efforts to bring PokerStars to...

Rafa Nadal Sweeps Ronaldo in Celebrity PokerStars Duel

Rafa Nadal and Ronaldo (the elder), those titans of clay and turf, clashed across the felt this week at the Hippodrome Casino in London, for a celebrity heads-up showdown organized by PokerStars. Dubbed the “The Duel” by the...

Norway’s Felix Stephensen Will Pay 50 Percent in Tax on WSOP Winnings

Felix Stephensen might still be celebrating his second place finish at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event this month, but it’s likely that his home nation of Norway is celebrating just as much. Part of that is due...

Jose Canseco Finger Fallout More Hand Information Than Wanted in Poker Tournament

Jose Canseco might be a good poker player, or he may be a total fish; we’re not really sure. But one thing is certain: you’ll never want to lose a hand in the same way he has. Canseco told the world that he lost a...

Mark Newhouse Makes His Peace with Back-to-Back WSOP Ninth Place Finishes

Pity poor Mark Newhouse: not once, but twice, he’s gotten so close but yet so far to winning the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, only to be pushed out in ninth place both times. To be honest, finishing ninth would...