EPT Vienna Day 3: Bits and Pieces as Blom, Hansen Bust
Spain's Pablo Gordillo Caballero is the current chip leader with 2,111,000 in chips while Johnny Lodden, Marcel Luske, Jude Ainsworth and Stephen Chidwick hang on in pursuit. Catch up with the day's...
View ArticleSam Trickett Talks Big Vienna Losses, Swaps with Germans and Macau
With a new sponsorship with Everest Poker and the next $1m Big One for One Drop - the tourney that made him the winningest European poker player of all time - looming, everyone's got their eyes on...
View ArticleCrimean Poker: Putin Bets, Europe to Act, Poker Pros Weigh In
Play poker. Watch poker. Talk poker. Travel for poker. Sleep (occasionally). Repeat. And fair enough. If you want to get good at this game these days, you need to put the hours in. If you're playing...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Quads > Quads, 12-Hour Xuan, Marvin Negs Shot Clock
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find a massive $400k bad beat jackpot hit at Playground Poker in Montreal, Xuan Liu...
View ArticleLocal Ghamrawi Snags Final Table Chip Lead in EPT Vienna
Ghamrawi grabbed the overall chip lead with 5.5 million in the waning stages of EPT Vienna Day 5 earlier today. The Vienna-native will have to get by WSOP bracelet winner Simeon Naydenov if he hopes...
View ArticleWhat are the Odds the Chip Leader Wins at EPT Final Tables?
Or is it? And just how big of an advantage does it give you, really? On the verge of the final table at this year's EPT Vienna main event PokerListings Denmark's Thomas Hviid went through all 96 main...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Secrets of Staking, Secrets of Shoving, Scrabble + Poker
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find a piece on poker staking surfacing in the Wall Street Journal, Tony Dunst reveals...
View ArticlePhilipp Gruissem: “I’m Most Useful to the World as a Poker Player”
Or rather Gruissem wants to do more with his money and actually make a difference in the world by contributing to charities. Gruissem is a believer in the philosophy of effective altruism, which...
View ArticleUkrainian Khoroshenin Takes Down EPT Vienna
Khoroshenin entered heads-up play with a commanding 20-6 chip lead against Ghamrawi and didn’t waste his opportunity. After 45-minutes of battle Khoroshenin finally landed the knockout blow when he...
View ArticleNiki Jedlicka: "Everything Less Than $100k Was Like Play Money to Me"
In 2007 he made $3.5 million profit in just five months playing online high stakes under the KaiBuxxe handle on Full Tilt Poker. Despite subsequently losing up to $4.4m playing under his own screen...
View ArticleRant: Help Grassroots UK Poker by Changing Archaic Pub Laws
A full-scale investigation was carried out and Sir Trevor Brooking, the Director of Development at the Football Association, told the world "we need to start earlier. Anybody emerging from the 5-11...
View ArticleCue the Comeback? Gus Hansen Wins $850k on Full Tilt
According to highstakesDB, Hansen crushed the big $2k/$4k 2-7 Triple Draw game on Sunday. First he smashed Dan “jungleman12” Cates for $200,000 in a heads-up match then went on to play an incredibly...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Moneymaker Hobos, Bilzerian Home Life, Pee-Drinking Poker
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find Chris Moneymaker revisiting his early days on the poker circuit, All In Magazine gets...
View ArticleSen. John McCain Confirmed to Play 2014 PokerListings Battle of Malta
The buzz apparently reached all the way to the Capitol as Senator John McCain - "caught" playing poker on his smart phone during a Senate hearing on Syria last year - will be among the participants at...
View ArticleTom “hitthehole” Middleton Wins WCOOP Challenge for $500k
Last September Middleton outlasted 1,234 players to win a staggering $1.2 million at EPT Barcelona. Middleton outlasted even more players last night on PokerStars. He beat out 1,624 and a pro-heavy...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Sofia Moves On, GPI Matchmaker, Magic The Crackening
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find PokerListings fav Sofia Lövgren moving on from her original poker home, the Global...
View ArticleRagen70 Hits $500k Profit in 2-7 TD, Isildur1 Drops $550k
Heinecker shredded the big $2k/$4k 2-7 Triple Draw game that was running on Full Tilt Poker with the likes of Isildur1, Phil “Polarizing” Ivey and thecortster. The German pro raked in a total of...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Stossel Gamble, Chandler Parsons Hustle, ATL Poker Underground
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find FOX TV Host John Stossel ripping government hypocrisy over gambling, Houston Rocket...
View ArticleAnother $5 Million Paid Out to U.S. Full Tilt Players
This round of FTP payments were sent to any players who were approved in the first round but needed to correct their banking information. The funds were sent out on April 1. If any petitioner failed...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Antonio Macks, Macau Plaques, Finding Shannon Shorr
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop a note in the comments and we'll gladly take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find Antonio Esfandiari still wowing crowds with sleight-of-hand on the Las Vegas Strip,...
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