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2012 Aussie Millions $250,000 Super High Roller Won by Phil Ivey
01-28-2012, Linda R. Geenen
The 2012 Aussie Millions $250,000 Super High Roller had Phil Ivey's name on it. Ivey managed to disappear completely from live tournament poker, boycotting the 2011 WSOP, and every fan was hungry for a Phil Ivey sighting. The sighting turned...
PokerStars European Poker Tour Adds Three More Stops
12-23-2011, PokerWorks Staff
PokerStars European Poker Tour Season 8 has added new stops to the schedule and online poker players will be playing for seats in three more exciting locations: Madrid, Spain; Berlin, Germany; and Campione, Italy. All three have €5,000 + €300...
WPT Five Diamond Poker Classic: James Dempsey Wins
12-12-2011, Emilis Pakenas
In the year 2001 a lot of things happened in the poker world – the PokerStars online poker site was launched as well as one of the three major poker tournaments – the World Poker Tour (WPT). Ten years later PokerStars is celebrating their 10...
Andrey Pateychuk Wins the Inaugural WPT Prague Event
12-09-2011, Emilis Pakenas
Just two months ago he won the European Poker Tour San Remo Main Event, finished in 15th place at the WSOP Main Event back in July and now he collected the inaugural World Poker Tour event in Prague honors. The 22-year old poker prodigy, Andrey...
Randy Lew Wins APPT Macau
11-29-2011, Emilis Pakenas
A big name in internet poker – Randy 'nanonoko' Lew has finally scored his first major live event title. On Sunday, November 27, Lew won the 2011 PokerStars.net Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau Main Event collecting HKD$3,772,000 along with...
Raul Mestre Wins IFP's World Championship
11-21-2011, Emilis Pakenas
Raul Mestre from Spain became the first poker player to be crowned the winner of the International Federation of Poker's (IFP) World Championship or “The Table” which took place on Saturday, November 19th in London, England. On his way to the...
Daniel Santoro Wins Foxwoods World Poker Finals
11-03-2011, Emilis Pakenas
Daniel Santoro came out victorious in the recent World Poker Tour Foxwoods World Poker Finals event in Mashantucket, CT on Wednesday, November 2nd. Not only did he score his first career WPT trophy, but also took home the cash prize of $450K...
Team America Defeats Europe in Cannes
10-27-2011, Emilis Pakenas
For those of you who think this is going to be about the 2004 South Park creators' animated movie Team America: World Police – we'll have to disappoint you. This time it's about the all-American poker team consisting of some of the best American...
WPT Borgata Poker Open Hoping to Break Records
09-19-2011, Emilis Pakenas
World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open 2011 expects to beat last year's record; the event gathered the largest player field in WPT history – 1,042 players. This year the WPT hopes to welcome even more attendants as well as break last year's record...
Matt Waxman Wins WPT Grand Prix de Paris
09-13-2011, Emilis Pakenas
Matt Waxman – a name which was probably unknown to most members of the poker public until last Sunday. Not only did he win the World Poker Tour Grand Prix de Paris, he also made it into the WPT history books as the first American poker player to...
Mike "Timex" McDonald; Epic Poker League Main Event #2
09-11-2011, PokerWorks Staff
Play started at the second Epic Poker League (EPL) Main Event eight-handed final table with some of poker's biggest talent: Mike McDonald, Erik Seidel, Dutch Boyd, Fabrice Soulier, Sean Getzwiller, David Steicke, Nam Le, and Isaac Burton. With 97...
Epic Poker Hosts its Second Charity Event
09-08-2011, Emilis Pakenas
The second Epic Poker charity event ended with Phil Hellmuth scoring yet another runner-up finish this year. However, this one probably wasn’t as disappointing as the three he suffered in this year's World Series of Poker where he reached the...
Epic Poker League Main Event Won by David "Chino" Rheem
08-14-2011, PokerWorks Staff
One of the toughest fields in final table history took their seats to battle it out for victory at the inaugural Epic Poker League Main Event held at the Palms Casino, Las Vegas, Nevada. David “Chino” Rheem took down the honors, the $1 million...
Steve O’Dwyer Takes Down Inaugural Epic Poker Event
08-09-2011, PokerHack
The first Epic Poker Pro/Am event at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas wrapped up with a televised final table on August 8th. When the smoke cleared, it was Steve O’Dwyer from Las Vegas who was left standing. Fresh off his $259,452 win in the...
Alan Sternberg wins WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star
03-21-2011, PokerWorks Staff
The final table of the 2011 World Poker Tour Bay 101 Shooting Star Championship found Alan Sternberg walking away with the $1,039,000 in prize money but he had a full-fledged battle on his hands to get to that point. The final table had two...
Erik Seidel Wins NBC National Heads-up Championship
03-07-2011, PokerWorks Staff
The news of Erik Seidel taking down the 2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship isn't startling; it would be more startling if he didn't. Seidel has been on a monster roll since the beginning of the year and even he has mentioned that he's a...
Greg Brooks wins WPT LA Poker Classic
03-05-2011, PokerWorks Staff
"My strategy throughout the entire tournament was really to play aggressively in spite of whether or not my chips allowed me to," said Brooks. "But I was lucky enough to have a lot of chips and I was able to play a lot of hands. I was a little...
Erik Seidel Wins LA Poker Classic High Roller Event
03-03-2011, PokerWorks Staff
A true poker veteran that knows the game of poker from the ground floor up, Erik Seidel has been steamrolling over the poker playing field around the world since 2011 began - justly deserved too! His latest accomplishment was winning the LA Poker...
Michael Tureniec Wins EPT Copenhagen
03-01-2011, PokerWorks Staff
In January of 2009, Full Tilt Poker signed Michael Tureniec to their stable of Full Tilt pros. Full Tilt knew that Michael was a diamond and didn't even need polishing to prove his merit as a poker pro and a winning poker player. Michael did...
Full Tilt Poker pro Alessio Isaia Claims WPT Venice Victory
02-09-2011, PokerWorks Staff
It only took an epic eight-hour heads-up battle for Italian Alessio Isaia to become the first Italian to win a World Poker Tour Championship title. A field of 523 runners entered the €3,300 buy-in event which started on February 3rd and ran through...