Eureka! It's the second event of Season 2, and Eureka wants to give you a seat for free. Well, some of you anyway. The Eureka tour announced this morning that it will kick off Eureka Bulgaria in less than a month at the sunny Golden Sands Resort, near the town of Varna, Bulgaria. The festival runs June 4-10, with the main event slated to begin on June 7. PokerStars will be running qualifiers for both the main event and High Roller. If you make it there, you will be playing alongside Team PokerStars Pro Toni Judet. Eureka will be giving
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North American Poker Tour
Team PokerStars Pro Mercier follows Selbst to defend his Mohegan Sun title
Double double. Repeat repeat. Double double. Repeat repeat. If I hadn't seen this with my own eyes, I would never have believed it. But after Vanessa Selbst successfully defended her NAPT Mohegan Sun title yesterday, her Team PokerStars Pro colleague Jason Mercier has just defended his High Roller Bounty...more
NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout Final: Live updates (2,000-4,000-500)
8:50pm: Double-double! Jason Mercier repeats as NAPT Mohegan Sun Bounty Shootout champion During the dinner break, several of us speculated as to the real, concrete, mathematical odds of not one, but TWO champions repeating here at Mohegan Sun. Whatever they were (help us, math people), Jason Mercier has defied...more
Vanessa Selbst wins back-to-back NAPT Mohegan Sun titles
Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. Vanessa Selbst has won NAPT Mohegan Sun. You read it twice because it has happened twice. Really, she has done it again. This time last year, the Team PokerStars Pro from Brooklyn, New York, bested a field of 716 to win $750,000 and...more
Australia New Zealand Poker Tour
ANZPT Perth: Carlsson shows the "skillz"
After almost eight hours of play on our final table, we have crowned the ANZPT Perth Main Event champion as Mat "Skillz" Carlsson joins the likes of Tony Hachem and Grant Levy, but also becomes the first local to keep the ANZPT Perth title on home soil. Carlsson brought the...more
ANZPT Perth Final Table: Level 26 (blinds 30,000-60,000, ante 10,000)
9:50pm: Anthony Marenko eliminated in 2nd place; Mat Carlsson wins! It's all over as Mat Carlsson has been crowned the ANZPT Perth Main Event champion. It was a scramble to get to the table, but we believe that Anthony Marenko limped the button, Carlsson raised another 150,000 on top before...more
ANZPT Perth Final Table: Levels 24-25 (blinds 25,000-50,000, ante 5,000)
9:05pm: Ten-minute break 8:50pm: The choir is finding some voice In a limped pot, Anthony Marenko checked the flop of 8♠7♠3♣ over to Mat Carlsson who tossed out 80,000. Marenko responded with a check-raise to 250,000 but Carlsson came back with a re-raise of his own to 680,000. After a...more
Latin American Poker Tour
LAPT Viña del Mar: Aliro Diaz keeps the trophy home
It's been said that war is 90 percent boredom, 10 percent fear. The same could be said about poker. We saw one level go by without action, and then the next looked like it was going to bring more of the same, but then it happened. That 10 percent...more
LAPT Viña del Mar: Dealing with the break
Our first level of play brought us two eliminations, the second brought none. While not much was going on, we did manage to see one showdown last level. It was the only one. Javier Venegas raised to 100,000 and Felipe Velasquez called. The flop came 6♠3♥4♥ and both players...more
LAPT Viña del Mar: The final eight, a little late
We're here, the first final table of LAPT Season 5. We saw 672 players sign up, 651 actually showed up (21 no-shows), and they've all been eliminated except for eight. And while majority of the 104 players who've cashed have already been paid out, our remaining eight are fighting...more
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