Poker News
Canadian Wins €2 Million at EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo
Glen Chorny, a 22-year-old business student from Ontario, Canada, won the biggest poker tournament ever held in Europe when he took down the €10,000 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Grand Final for a first prize of over €2 million ($3 million).
PokerStars Welcomes Gavin Griffin & Chad Brown
PokerStars.net, the world’s largest online poker site, announced two additions to Team PokerStars Pro by signing pro poker players Gavin Griffin and Chad Brown.
Weekend In Review – Slow Turnout All Around
It was a fairly subdued weekend for most of the major poker rooms, with three of their flagship tournaments still witnessing overlays, and another one taking a tumble.
Erik Seidel Wins First WPT at Foxwoods
Erik Seidel was crowned the winner at the WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic after an epic six handed final table lasted a punishing 12 hours and 229 hands.
Weekend In Review – PokerStars, Party Poker and Bodog
The FTOPS over at Full Tilt was attracting some big numbers but it had little effect on the rest of the big tournaments on Sunday. Most of the sites saw a huge influx of new players that managed to reach the final tables.
FTOPS VI Main Event: Nets The Winner $385K
Full Tilt Online Poker Series main event of this season saw a record number of 4,371 entrants take part in this event. The $500+$35 buy-in main event boasted a stunning $2,000,000 guarantee prize poll, with the top 585 places paid and the winner taking home a staggering $385,937.45.
World Champion Jerry Yang to Play for PokerStars at APPT Macau
PokerStars (www.PokerStars.com), the world’s largest online poker site, today announced that Jerry Yang, poker’s reigning world champion, will join almost 200 of its online qualifiers at the first ever live poker tournament to be held in the People’s Republic of China.
European Poker Rankings Set for Exciting Conclusion
With Christmas just around the corner, the Poker European Rankings are at the final furlong. No change at the top, which has been Soren Konesgaard for the vast majority of the year, but a few household names could make a late challenge for the title.
Student Wins $96K Poker Tournament
Daniel Booth a 19-year-old university student and part-time supermarket shelf-stacker has won $96,000 at a poker tournament in Adelaide.
Bodog Poker Celebrating Billionth Hand Dealt with Cash Giveaways
Bodog Poker is on target to deal its one-billionth hand by the end of November, and to celebrate this huge milestone, the online poker powerhouse is giving away loads of cash and tournament credits to its players all month long.


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