Asia Pacific Poker Tour announces schedule for Macau
The Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) today unveiled the Season 9 schedule for APPT Macau which takes place at the 'PokerStars LIVE Macau' poker room. The poker festival will now be held from May 20-31, 2015 moving the dates one week back from the dates announced earlier in the yea...more
Eureka Poker Tour returns to Rozvadov to kick-off fifth season
For a third time the Eureka Poker Tour stopped in the King's Casino, Rozvadov. This time it was to kick-off the tour's fifth season, with a nine day festival containing 22 tournaments. It all started with the €1,100 Main Event, which once again has a €500,000 guaranteed prize poo...more
MPC22: The Preview
Happy Chinese New Year! Kung Hei Fat Choy!The Year of the Goat is upon us and while you're probably busy with red envelopes, turnip cakes, and fireworks the good people at 'PokerStars LIVE Macau' are putting the finishing touches for the 22nd edition of the Macau Poker Cup (MPC2...more
EPT11 Deauville: Impossible is nothing for Ognyan Dimov, hauls in Parlafes t
The history of mankind has been defined by triumph over adversity. Nobody ever thought you could reach the South Pole, scale Everest or put a man on the moon. All of those "impossible" feats were relatively easy, however, compared with the task facing five poker players in Norman...more
Weekend brings two new Spin & Go millionaires
There is a scene in the movie Casino in which Sam Rothstein corners his slots manager at The Tangiers casino. Rothestein demands to know why the slots manager didn't call him when three people hit jackpots in twenty minutes."It happened so quick!" the slots manager protested."Thr...more
2015 PokerStars Asia-Pacific Q1 Review
Happy New Year! Now that the winter festivities are done it's time to take a look at the first quarter of 2015 in the Asia-Pacific which promises to be the biggest poker tournaments ever in the region.JANUARYManila Megastack (Jan 14-18)'PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams Mani...more
LAPT8 Bahamas: Josh Kay carries the day, wins Main Event, $367K
"I just pretty much let everybody else battle," said Josh Kay, winner of the first ever LAPT Bahamas Main Event, explaining his plan to "hang out until the end."Kay was referring to the situation of coming to the final table with the chip lead versus a formidable group of some of...more
LAPT8 Bahamas: Kay breaks Finger's momentum, wins heads-up
With a better than 2-to-1 chip lead to start heads-up play, Martin Finger appeared primed to add a Latin American Poker Tour title -- in one of the biggest LAPT Main Events ever -- to his EPT Main Event and Super High Roller wins and WSOP bracelet. And after chipping up further ...more
LAPT8 Bahamas: Paur, Garcia out in back-to-back hands; Finger leads final 3
The final five continued on toward the end of Level 27 with Martin Finger continuing to enjoy a chip lead by a wide margin. Then in a flash came two eliminations within two hands to conclude the level.Both hands involved hands pitting players holding a single ace, although in on...more
LAPT8 Bahamas: Finger targets another; Danchev down in sixth
Pocket aces worked well for chip leader Martin Finger earlier this afternoon -- enabling him to knock out both Mustapha Kanit in eighth and then Jonathan Borenstein in seventh. Then came a hand in which Stefan Jedlicka picked up the rockets, although after an intriguing hand wit...more
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