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Gold Wheelchairs, Bought Bracelets and a Death Contingency Plan
The grinders, rounders and high rollers cared more about the money. Many bracelets have even reportedly been bought throughout the years when heads-up. In the 90s first prize was usually double the...
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Daily 3-Bet: Masters Drama, Malta Mania, Poker Lovers' Penthouse
Got a tip for a future 3-Bet? Drop us a note in the comments and we'll take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find the inaugural Global Poker Masters getting poker hearts and minds racing, the beautiful...
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Silver, Trickett Lead Massive 600+ Player Day 1b of EPT Malta
England’s Max Silver scored the overall chip lead of the day with 176,100 chips but Noah Vaillancourt (146,100), Moritz Dietrich (135,500) and Sam Trickett (134,900) all made it into the top 10 chip...
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Inglorious Masters Doesn't Dampen Moment for Deadman, Team UK
Coming in as a darkhorse pick to win it all they struggled to chip up in the early stages. The stacked team featuring Simon Deadman, Sam Trickett, Jack Salter, Louis Salter and Oliver Price fell...
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Dzmitry Urbanovich Tops Third EPT Malta Event, Clears €700k
Last night the upstart Polish pro outlasted 55 entries in the €5,000 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo event to win €110,000. Incredibly it was Urbanovich’s third outright victory at the festival. He kicked off...
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888poker LIVE Heads to England, Last Chance to Qualify for Spain
As more and more players jump on the LIVE train, 888poker is proving just how much potential there is in regional live poker tournaments with affordable buy-ins. The Milton Keynes event is right...
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Daily 3-Bet: Westbrook Poker MVP, $500k Mystery, Twitch + GPM
Have something you'd like featured in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet Phil Hellmuth gives the skinny on the best poker players in the NBA, some mystery players appear...
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Chartier, Trickett, Panka Make Push on EPT Malta Day 2
With another seven entries trickling in at the beginning of the day before registration closed a towering €4,340,750 prize pool has accumulated that will pay the top 121 places. An impressive €810,400...
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Battle of Malta Vies for European Poker Award, Plans Big for 2015
There will be a bit less money on the table, yes. But a world-class poker festival in its own right with a very different objective in mind: Fun. With just a €550 buy-in and a €700,000 prize pool the...
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888poker, WSOP Announce Sponsorship Pact for 2015 WSOP, WSOPE
The broad agreement will see 888poker provide above the felt sponsorship for WSOP final tables, exclusive online qualifiers in most parts of the world and be able to provide direct registration for...
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Team Poker Has Arrived and the Reason for Success is Simple
I wrote “first” because it was a success and there will be a second one. I have played a few of those events over the years. The first one was at the Aviation Club in Paris in 1998. Twenty-one teams...
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Nevada, Delaware Open Borders for Shared Poker Player Pools
Nevada and Delaware will officially share their respective player pools for online poker starting today. WSOP.com and three Delaware-based casinos, which also run on 888poker software, are the first...
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Daily 3-Bet: Min-Cash Mitch, Land of Poker Free, Foxwoods Fiend
Got a suggestion for a future 3-Bet? Drop us a note in the comments and we'll take a look. Today in the 3-Bet we find a great piece on the Allen Kessler of England, Ari Engel heads North as America...
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Chartier in Final 56, Trickett Falls Short on EPT Malta Day 3
Gomez, who only has $25,000 in lifetime live tournament earnings, amassed 1.69 million chips, which is over 300,000 more than his closest competitor, Valentin Messina. Messina finished with 1.3...
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Battle of Malta Wins European Poker Award for Low Buy-In Event of the Year!
Awarded live during the ongoing EPT Malta festival tonight, Battle of Malta defeated co-nominees the Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event, the Eureka Poker Tour Prague Main Event and the WPT500...
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RAWA Hearing Moves Bill Along Despite Rhetoric, Biased Witnesses
RAWA has been officially endorsed by Las Vegas Sands Corporation chairman and CEO Sheldon Adelson who’s been on a warpath when it comes to online gambling for the last two years. The hearing featured...
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Palumbo: Italy Will Likely Lose Its EPT Stop, and It Deserves To
At just 27 years old Palumbo is already ensconced in the history books of Italian poker thanks to winning a WSOP bracelet in 2012 and adding a WPT title the following year. In his career he's already...
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Daily 3-Bet: High Times, Urbanovich Climbs, Dating Vicky Coren
Have something you'd like to se in a future 3-Bet? Let us know in the comments. Today in the 3-Bet we find the EPT Malta High Roller taking off like a rocket, an early Polish surge in the GPI POY race...
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Fedor Holz, Dominik Panka Headline Final 23 at EPT Malta
Germany's Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz, currently ranked #1 on PocketFives worldwide ranking, finished second in chips after Day 4 of EPT Malta with 3.1 million. He trails only Czech player Antonin Duda...
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High Rake, Gambling + Protected Fish: Recipe for a Good Game
I have so many other things to do, and quite frankly I lost my love for poker a long time ago. If that happens to you, seriously start planning your exit right away. The sooner the better because one...
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