The Chinese New Year celebrations are complete and the Year of the Dragon appropriately launches the 2012 Asia Player of the Year race with the Macau Poker Cup: Red Dragon series which takes place from February 18-26 hosted by PokerStars Macau at Casino Grand Lisboa. The 15th installment of Asia's premiere poker series once again features the legendary HKD $11,000 buy-in Red Dragon main event which comes with a HKD $3,000,000 guarantee. In total, 9 Official Asia Player of the Year events will take place ranging from buy-ins of HKD $1,000 to $30,000. Patrick Lee, reigning Red Dragon champion The
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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
Jacks are better for Drake in Darwin
Adelaide...Perth...Sydney...Gold Coast...Canberra...Queenstown...Melbourne...Darwin... The 2011 Australia New Zealand Poker Tour has been an incredible ride as we've ventured to new locations, seen some amazing highlights and unearthed some of the brightest poker talent in the region. From Octavian Voegele's dominant win in Adelaide to Grant Levy's epic victory in Perth. Lee...more
ANZPT Darwin Day 4: Levels 20-21 (blinds 8,000-16,000, ante 2,000)
Jack Drake wins ANZPT Darwin Main Event After four days of intense poker action in the "Top End" it was Queenslander Jack Drake who handled the heat the best in the PokerStars.net ANZPT Darwin Main Event. Drake led the field for the past two days and carried that advantage all...more
ANZPT Darwin Day 4: Levels 18-19 (blinds 5,000-10,000, ante 1,000)
7:00pm: 45-minute dinner break The players are now taking a 45-minute dinner break. Play will recommence at around 7:45pm local time. Here are the approximate chip counts at the break: Brett Dannevig - 380,000 Mark Taylor - 350,000 Jack Drake - 260,000 Fotios Manolakos - 180,000 6:55pm: Dannevig takes momentum...more
Latin American Poker Tour
LAPT announces Grand Final...during Carnival!
The Latin American Poker Tour is an exciting circuit already. There is passion on nearly every flop. There are very few places in the world where one can witness such poker insanity on such a professional level. After nearly four full seasons of running around the region, it seemed impossible...more
LAPT Player of the Year Award race getting tight
In just a few short weeks, the country of Colombia has taken over the Latin American Poker Tour. For three seasons, the country of Colombia barely registered on the LAPT radar. As of last week, it now holds the record for biggest LAPT tournament in history. Now, with one event...more
LAPT Colombia Day 3: Menendez victorious in the land of coffee and poker
A few years from now, when South Americans look back on what they consider the watershed moments for the rise of poker on the continent, someone will invariably point to the 2011 PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour's Colombian National Poker Championship. It was a smaller buy-in event -- only $1,100...more
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