Denoking Trips Up Isaac Haxton in Massive High-Stakes Pot
While each player had some compelling sessions we’re going to focus on one of the biggest hands that Ike Haxton played, this time against online powerhouse Denoking. Neither Ike Haxton nor his...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: T-Shirt Tempest, Atruism Groundswell, Battle for SNL
Have something you think should be featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find the bluster over Olivier Busquet and Dan Colman's SHR T-shirts reaching fever...
View ArticleWin a €1.3k 2014 Battle of Malta Package in Competition of the Month
Every month PokerListings asks a simple trivia question and then gives away prizes like tickets to concerts or headphones or Spotify memberships but this Competition of the Month contest is arguably...
View ArticleLuca Pagano: It's Time to Bring Entertainment, Fun Back Into Poker
Maybe most notably: #1 on the all-time EPT Leaderboard with 5,550 points - almost 1,000 clear of second-place Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. When it comes to understanding great poker tournaments - and...
View ArticleFedor Holz: The Secret Life of a Major Poker Backer
This past week in Barcelona, however, his name is on everyone's lips for winning a side event, the Super High Roller satellite and coming 4th in another side event. Holz has won almost $100k in live...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Report: Hansen Sinks Ever Closer to $20m in Losses
On top of all the hurt he's suffered over the last few years Hansen lost another $600k in the high-stakes games online last week and is now closing in on -$20 million for his FTP account. Meanwhile,...
View ArticleDominik Panka: “I Don’t Really Care About the Money Much”
The Polish pro was just another poker player less than a year ago. Then he reached the final table of the EPT PCA, dominated the final table in impressive fashion and three weeks later went on to win...
View ArticleShannon Shorr: “Winning in Poker is Only Half the Battle”
Such is the life of poker pro and world traveler Shannon Shorr. Shorr is an idol for countless poker players. He's also a professional player in the traditional sense, meaning he pays for his own...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: WSOP Mute Madness, BCN Monster, Burning Philbort
Have something you want featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find an "unheard of" WSOP Main Event strategy failing to deliver, the EPT100 High Roller in...
View ArticleDato, Panka Survive to Final 25 of EPT100 in Barcelona
Day 4 of the gargantuan EPT Barcelona began with 102 players (of the original 1,496!) returning to battle it out for a spot in the penultimate day of action in Spain. Haenraets was a force to be...
View ArticleDan Shak: "Stock Trading Prepared Me for Poker”
After a short absence from high roller tournaments Shak returned to Barcelona to play a hat-trick of events including the main, the high roller and the super high roller. We caught up with Shak to...
View ArticleLeo Margets: "EPT100 Doesn't Have Number of Spanish Players It Deserves"
Not only is she a member of the elite Team PokerStars, and recently starred in the Spanish version of Survivor, she’s also had a finished novel ready to go for 13 years. Leading the Spanish contingent...
View ArticleThor Hansen, Pierre Neuville Find Way Back to Life and Poker
They are the grand seigneurs of European poker that, up until recently, had completely different stories. Then, like most of our lives have or will, their stories took an unexpected turn. Both found...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Princess Shredded, "Sleazy" Poker World, Breaking BCN
Have something you want featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find poker scribe James McManus skewering Poker Princess Molly Bloom's "tell-all" book, another...
View ArticleEnsan, Barer Lead as EPT100 Barrels to Finish in Barcelona
In the €5,300 Main Event, which fielded an astounding 1,496 entries, German Hossein Ensan will take the chip lead into the final table. He'll stack up 10,300,000 chips when things start up tomorrow...
View ArticleKonstantin Puchkov Called His Shot Before Shattering WSOP Record
Puchkov takes part in horse races in Russia and actually owns a horse named “Freeroll” and another named “Full Tilt Poker”. Christian Henkel caught up with the 62-year-old Puchkov at EPT Barcelona to...
View ArticleAndrea Dato: "As an Italian Player You Have No Choice But to Move"
With just eight players left in the EPT Barcelona main event right now, he's the only one with any previous international acclaim with a WPT title in his pocket. Even after losing a big pot yesterday...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Life After Poker, House of Negreanu, Poker Meets Uber
Have something you'd like featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Terrence Chan and former Limit Hold'em kingpin Matt "Hoss_TBF" Hawriilenko talking life...
View ArticleLettau Wins EPT100, Mercier Scores 2nd in High Roller
Lettau entered the final table of EPT100 as one of the middle stacks but deftly dodged a surging Samuel Phillips while building a considerable stack of his own. Noted Italian pro Andrea Dato was...
View ArticleDaily 3-Bet: Galfond Iced, Gus v. Isildur, Prahlad v. Almonds
Got a tip for a future edition of the 3-Bet? Drop us a note in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find Phil Galfond taking a break from the high-stakes games online to get iced, Gus Hansen and Viktor...
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