June 2012 Archives

He's 26 years old. He's one of the best tennis players in the world. He's been called everything from El Nino, to the King of Clay, to Spain's Raging Bull. As of today, Rafa Nadal has a new title. He is the newest member of Team PokerStars SportStars. It's only...more

Bulgarian Petar Zografov overcame a six to one heads-up deficit to claim the Eureka Bulgaria title, trophy and €48,745. Going into heads-up play against Algirdas Saveikis he had just 500,000 to the Lithuanian's 3,100,000. But, after nearly three hours of mano-a-mano combat, during which the chiplead changed hands multiple times...more

11.45pm: Petar Zografov wins Eureka Bulgaria; Algirdas Saveikis eliminated in second Something finally had to give in this marathon heads-up battle and just like in Zagreb where there was a Croatian winner, there's a Bulgarian winner here in Varna. Petar Zografov raised to 100,000 pre-flop and Saveikis made the call....more

6.55pm: Break time The six remaining players are now on a 15 minute break, you'll find level 24 updates in a new post. 6.40pm: Two in a row for the chipleader Saveikis Algirdas, who it has just come to my attention is actually called Algirdas Saveikis (it was the wrong...more

His blonde hair and Scandinavian 'look' means that Daniel Karlson is easy to spot at the tables of the Grand International Casino here in Bulgaria. But today there was more than one reason to keep an eye on him as the Swede played a relentless game to bag up 521,500...more

2.20am: End of day chip counts and seat draw After the 10 allotted levels of play were completed 13 players remain, here's their overnight chipcounts by table draw, a wrap of the day's play will follow. It's Sweden's Daniel Karlson who leads the way with 521,500. Play resumes at 2pm...more

11.45pm: Break time Players are now on a 15 minute break, you'll find level 18's updates in a new post. 11.35pm: One exit, one double up Action has, as you would expect, picked up since the bubble has burst. The latest man to bust is Dimitar Yosifov who shoved for...more

6.21pm: Recess Players are now on a 15 minute break. 6.20pm: Chip counts Here's a few chip counts: Petar Zografov (315,000), Ted Stolzenbach (220,000), Michal Misterek (170,000), Dennis Schaefer (180,000), Desislav Velikov (80,000), Tobias Schwecht (145,000) and Nagy Barnabas (170,000). Tournament staff have just broken another table, there are just...more

1.50am: Valentino in pole position, leads Day 1B field After nine levels of action Bulgarian Valentino Konakchiev made a late surge to emerge as the Day 1B chipleader. He bagged 107,600 just edging out Desislav Velikov (106,400) and Roman Kagan (104,200) although all three trail Day 1A chipleader Ted Stolzenbach...more

6.30pm: Break time Four levels are over, players are on a 15 minute break. You'll find level five updates in a new post. 6.30pm: Group Table of death Every major football championship seems to throw up a group of death and every poker tournament has a table of death. Currently...more

If you know your hemispherical science, you know that it's just about wintertime south of the equator. It's time for a break on the Latin American Poker Tour--a two-month slumber by a crackling fire to cuddle up in the winter months or to escape to the summer climes in the...more

1.50am: Flying Dutchman leads Day 1A field As the dust settled on Day 1A action it was Dutchman Ted Stolzenbach who won a closely fought contest with Petar Zografov to end Day 1A as chip leader. The 57-year-old from Amsterdam ended the day on 136,300 as a field of 123...more

6.26pm: Break Four of the nine allotted levels have now been completed and players are on a 15 minute break. You'll find level five updates in a new post shortly. 6.25pm: Two times a lady At the end of Day 1A in last season's event here it was a woman,...more

A ton of people have already figured out their travel arrangements, hotel rooms, and buy-ins for next week's event at Eureka Bulgaria. How? They recently won full packages for the High Roller or main event. Although the event is just about to kick off, you still have the weekend to...more