Canadians Win EPT London High Roller + PokerStars Sunday Million 5o272e
by PokerStars 1r6664
It was a busy week in poker for Canadians, both online and in real life. Both the EPT London High Roller and PokerStars Sunday Millions were taken down by Canada for a nearly $700k. See the results below. Jason Lavallée Wins EPT London High Roller Montreal-native...
The Season 10 London Leg of the PokerStars European Poker Tour has come to an end, and it’s not been short of stories. It ended when Robin “Robihino” Ylitalo beat online qualifier Georgios Karakousis in a fairly short heads up battle. Ylitalo is...
EPT London has its Season 10 Final Table in Place 3i1s
How do you get 604 into just 8? This PokerStars London EPT has managed it, and has pared down the field to the final table of eight title hopefuls. How do you get 604 into just 8? This PokerStars London EPT has managed it, and has pared down the field to the final...
At the age of 20 I was lucky if I managed not to burn the kitchen down by making a piece of toast, but Kiwi David Yan has managed to not only make the last 16 of this year’s PokerStars London leg of the European Poker Tour, he has done so as the Chip Leader. Day...
The PokerStars European Poker Tour is firmly entrenched at the Connaught Rooms in central London, and the main event is preparing to start Day 3 tomorrow. The chip leader going into Day 3 is going to be Tudor Purice, who is going to be coming back with a stack of...
Negreanu Finishes 2nd at EPT Barcelona High Roller 2l5l5z
After a huge run at the €10,300 buy-in EPT Barcelona High Roller Daniel Negreanu has finishing yet another tournament in 2nd place. Despite a massive 8-1 chip lead when heads up play began, the Canadian superstar was defeated by Austria’s Thomas Muhlocker. The final...
Thomas Middleton Wins The EPT10 Barcelona Main Event Title for €942,000 The United Kingdom’s Tom “hitthehole” Middleton defeated a tour stop record 1,234 players on his way $1,067,000 (€942,000). The final table is below: 1st. Thomas Middleton,...
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Altergott wins Grand Final Super High Roller to Bring EPT’s Ninth Season to a Close 5o5o3h
It’s over. Finished. Kaput. Ended. Season 9 of PokerStars’ European Poker Tour has come to an end. The Finale was the €100k Super High Roller that was won by German (Austrian for tax purposes) heads up specialist Max Altergott. He takes away a €1,746,400...
Steve O’Dwyer wins EPT Grand Final in Monaco. 5o4334
The Poker Media has been buzzing about the amazingly stacked final table for this year’s PokerStars EPT Grand Final since last night, and I can point to a dozen examples of what would normally have been extreme hyperbole about this table of poker players. Thing...
EPT Grand Final Table Set, and It’s Stacked! 545u1g
Have you ever dreamed about a final table so awesome it might be a herald of the apocalypse? If you have, stop reading now, or you are never going to sleep tonight. This year’s final table may be a precursor to the end of the universe, as it’s just that...
Have you ever railed a cash game with over €3.5Million on the table? Would you like to? The PokerStars live web stream from the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo is currently showing a €1,000/€2,000 No Limit Hold’Em cash game, involving some of the biggest names in...
PokerStars EPT Season 10 Schedule Announced 2e6a63
Earlier this week, the bigwigs at PokerStars combined with the team running the European Poker Tour announced that schedule for the tenth season of the massively popular tour series. With the action taking place in seven European cities, and the PCA in the Bahamas,...
EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo down to Final Sixteen 112e34
How many PokerStars Team Pros, former EPT Winners, WPT Winner and WSOP Bracelet Winners would we need to see in the final sixteen to start calling it a tough final two days? Whatever that number is, I’m pretty sure we’ve not only ed it, but may have...
The EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo reaches Day 3 6l37
The €10,000 buy in Main Event of the PokerStars EPT Grand Final being held in Monte Carlo has reached Day 3, and our Chip Leader is PokerStars Pro, Johnny Lodden. Lodden has 605200 chips in his multi coloured stack, with more than a hundred thousand chips than the guy...
For the first time, PokerStars EPT Berlin has it’s first home grown champion in Daniel Pidun, who has beaten out 911 other players to take the title, and €880,000. The final table started very short today, which was due to the 6 hour final table bubble from last...
PokerStars EPT Berlin is down to the final table, and they are down to the final eight players, all vying for the €880,000 prize for first place. Today started with 17 players left in the field, and had seen Roman Herold as the chip leader with 4,485,000 sitting in...
European Poker Tour Berlin Main Event in the Money 1u3hb
The PokerStars EPT Berlin Main Event has played it’s way down to the final 24 players, all of whom are guaranteed to be taking home at least €27,000. The event started with 912 players over 2 starting days, creating a first place prize of €880,000, that all of...
EPT adds “Monaco Cup” to EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo 641l44
Following on from the very successful addition of the Berlin Cup at the German stop, PokerStars are adding a new Event to the Poker festival in Monte Carlo for the EPT Grand Final. The Monaco Cup will be a €1100 buy in event and will be event #26 of the 50 being...
EPT Grand Final’s Cash game to be run by PokerStars! 6a4f3y
PokerStars has just released the plans that they are going to be running the cash games at the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. “So What?” I hear you cry, “Don’t they run all the cash games at the EPT anyway?” Actually, no they...
Full Tilt Poker Professionals Vs PokerStars Team Pro 4q50
We have been covering the recent challenge thrown out by Daniel Negreanu of PokerStars Team Pro to Gus Hansen of the Full Tilt Professionals. We have all the highlights of the event itself direct from the Pokerstars EPT London.
PokerStars has announced their schedule for Season 9 of the European Poker Tour (EPT), and there are some big changes. President of the EPT, Edgar Stuchly, talked about their approach when making the schedule: “We looked at every EPT season up until now and asked...
Over the last few years, PokerStars has been running a tournament series called PokerStars Women Live. As the name implies, it is a series of women-exclusive live tournament events, crowning 5 women over the last two years alone. The tournaments wish to play second...
It’s funny how “bold predictions” usually work. You see sports analysts picking Super Bowl champions before the first week of games, and they’re usually wrong. You see the weatherman guaranteeing rainfall or blue skies on a certain day, and...
The European Poker Tour features some of the most prestigious poker tournaments in the world, and Season 8 is officially underway! Season 7 set the bar high with memorable tournaments, including last year’s epic Grand Final in Madrid, which had a prize pool of...
PokerStars has always been great with coming up with special promotions. From bonuses to help pad bankrolls to promotions to help players win seats to major tournaments, PokerStars has it all. One of the new ones is called the EPT Tallinn Adventure. With the EPT...
Freitez Becomes Latest EPT Champion as Madrid Grand Final Ends 2h515u
Amid much speculation of how Black Friday would affect the live poker scene, live tournaments are still doing extremely well and drawing great crowds. The poker action was heating up in Spain’s capital city of Madrid last week as the conclusion to this latest...
Jason Mercier Crowned EPT’s First Ever Champion of Champions 135b6n
Serving as a further testament to the strength of poker and that the game shall live on in whichever form necessary regardless of attempts to stop it, the European Poker Tour held their inaugural Champion of Champions event. Every single player who has won an EPT...
Elder Ships EPT San Remo, Second Near Miss for Heinzelmann 6v324u
Although a substantial part of the poker world was turned upside down by the events of Black Friday and players both in and outside of the US are feeling at a loss, the live tournament scene is still going strong. The PokerStars EPT is among those tournaments keeping...
Behind the Poker Face: EPT Berlin Champion Ben Wilinofsky 6mft
flopturnriver.casinowinning.net recently had the opportunity to interview Ben Wilinofsky just days after his EPT Berlin 2011 Main Event win. Last week 773 poker players battled it out in Berlin for a first prize of $1.19 Million. It was the 22 year old, Canadian, Ben Wilinofsky,...
Wilinofsky Win EPT Berlin Main Event for $1.1 Million 115o3
Ben Wilinofsky, the 22 year old Canadian with the adventurous spirit, last night won the EPT Berlin Main Event 2011. The win earned Wilinofsky 825,000 Euros ($1.1 Million) and an EPT Title. This win takes Wilinofsky to over $2 Million in lifetime winnings and is his...
The tournament players were flocking to for the end of last month, as the PokerStars European Poker Tour hit Deauville, bringing some of the biggest names in the game with it. It was a stop filled with intense action, near misses and a lot of fun as the...
The poker world has been abuzz with news of online tournaments over the recent weeks, but live poker is by no means dead either, with major tournaments still being held all around the world. Spain’s second largest city of Barcelona was abuzz with exactly that as...
The European Poker Tour Vienna Main Event has concluded this weekend, with the great stop being an awesome experience for everyone involved, and the main event no exception. As day four came to a close and the final table was set, it was Daniel Negreanu and his...
David Vamplew Wins Back-to-Back Tournaments 4h425m
In an amazing feat, up-and-coming pro David Vamplew took down two tournaments in as many days, winning the PokerStars EPT Main Event in London and the PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Champion of Champions. Vamplew, a successful midstakes grinder on...
PokerStars Hosts EPT Charity Event for Cancer Research 1p4k5y
The European Poker Tour hit London over September and the beginning of October, finding its place amongst the myriad of other poker events also taking place. There were big cash prizes up for grabs, but not everybody was motivated by pure financial gain. As part of...
David Vamplew Takes Down EPT London Main Event h5u5l
London has been abuzz with poker this past month, but the action-packed weeks have finally come to a close with the conclusion of the EPT London Main Event today. As reported on FlopTurnRiver yesterday, only eight players remained at the close of day four, and...
Bowker and Juanda Lead Final 8 at EPT London 431ie
London has been the poker capital of the world for the past month, with more big-name poker series, tournaments and festivals taking place in the city than you can shake a stick at. Among those, the EPT London stop kicked off five days ago and has been a great...
Daniel Negreanu Wins First Ever Fairways and Felts Tournament q2l15
All poker enthusiasts will know that the European Poker Tour stopped in Vilamoura last week, given the players a chance to enjoy the beautiful scenery and play some cards in Portugal’s largest ever poker tournament. A much less well-known event was also taking...
Poker has truly hit Portugal, with the Vilamoura stop of the European Poker Tour taking place this week. It was an exciting week for portuguese poker as this tournament is the largest ever to be held within Portugal, and brings with it the promise of more poker events...
The European Poker Tour has kicked off once again, this time starting in Tallinn, Estonia. This is the first time the EPT has held a stop in Tallinn and it was a great success enjoyed by all, and an especially exciting time for Kevin Stani. The young Norwegian player...
PokerStars.net European Poker Tour to stop in Vienna 1q23t
The PokerStars.net European Poker Tour has become a hit over the recent years, gaining popularity with both players and viewers alike. This is certainly in part due to the beautiful cities through which the EPT travels, and this seems set to continue with the latest...
PokerStars and EPT Announce Mixed Golf and Poker Tournament 72325o
Everyone who has watched poker on TV will have noticed that the top pros all seem to share a love not only for poker, but also for golf. If you happen to also share these ions, then PokerStars and the European Poker Tour have put together a tournament you’re...
PokerStars’ EPT Season 7 Kicks Off in Tallinn 5k391w
After several rich and successful runs, PokerStars.com's European Poker Tour is primed to set out on a week-long romp through a new city. This time, it will be the Tallinn, the capital of the nation of Estonia. Nestled near the waters of the Gulf of Finland, the city provides all visitors with a picturesque view of humanity's past. Thanks to its brilliant blend of modern nightlife and classical, medieval architecture, it's safe to say that none who visit will leave this beautiful settlement without some fond memory or another.
The Mastermind Behind the Berlin Poker Robberies Finally Apprehended 2t195h
the day that the purity of our live poker tournaments got tarnished with a crazy heist (that by-the-way had nothing on Ocean’s 11, but hey), armed to the teeth with revolvers and even old school machetes, finding their way home with some of the prize...
If you had a shot to win at Monte Carlo, a stop on one of Europe's most popular poker circuits, what would it take to make you step away from the table? For Gus Hansen, the answer to the €25,000 question may be simple: €2,000,000.
LuvYouLongTime wins Full Tilt Poker FTOPS XVI Event 7 4n4q3n
Full Tilt Poker is the king of knockout tournaments. This was apparent on Sunday when nearly 9,000 runners turned up for FTOPS XVI Event 7, No Limit Hold ‘Em with bounties. Each player had a $20 bounty on their head, and the remainder of their buy-in formed a...
A group of six armed robbers halted play this morning at the 2010 PokerStars.net EPT event in Berlin. The break in occurred around 2:30 PM local time inside the city's Grand Hyatt Hotel.
RedKings German Poker Players Prepare for Live Battle in Berlin 1z5g2b
27th February 2010: Popular online poker room RedKings.com is sending three German speaking poker pros to Berlin for the next stage of the Pokerstars European Poker Tour. A total of six of the RedKings Live Poker Team will be there to fight it out with the...
Second Half of EPT Season 6 Schedule Announced 6f5u5w
PokerStars are the most popular online poker site in the world, and many credit this success to their UIGEA resistance. Along with Full Tilt, they have reaped the rewards of continuing to accept U.S. players. However, what has helped keep PokerStars in such a...
The 2009 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT) London Poker Festival 5x3qg
You Brits sure have an easy time with PokerStars. I can honestly say I’m jealous. the promotion awhile back in which PokerStars would simply make anyone who made PlatinumStar for the month an instant SuperNova for a whole year? We, as in the guys from...
Sandra “Black Mamba” Naujoks makes history by becoming the second ever woman to win an EPT live event. And she did not walk an easy path. The German beauty walked home with about €917,000 in her pockets, after defeating everybody in a very very tough final...
EPT San Remo Italy, home of several of the most crazily aggressive poker pros like Dario Minieri, Luca Pagano and Jeff Lisandro, will once again be host to one of the most prestigious EPT stops – the EPT San Remo. This will be your chance to go to the land of...
Red-Kings Poker Sends Stellar Team to EPT Dortmund 292t67
Top class online poker site RedKings Poker have announced that they are sending a team of 11 players to the European Poker Tour event in Dortmund, . Team RK will include six German speaking players, emblematic of RedKings’ recent efforts to become the online...
Mortiz Kranich Takes Down European Poker Tour Deauville 3u701p
The European Poker Tour Season 5 Deauville came to a close today as 28-year-old Moritz Kranich of walked away with the €851,400 first place prize. Kranich beat out a field of 644 other players, also looking for their slice of the €3,096,000 prize pool. It...
Red-Kings Ramzi Jelassi Takes down EPT's 2000Euro Event 2ju64
This year’s EPT tour came to a close at its final destination of 2008 in Prague. Seeing the tour through its last final table of the year were two RedKings Swedish pros in the 2000Euro side event. That’s right, while Ramzi Jelassi was the eventual victor...
Red-Kings Ramzi Jelassi Takes down EPT’s 2000Euro Event 3f4b5e
This year’s EPT tour came to a close at its final destination of 2008 in Prague. Seeing the tour through its last final table of the year were two RedKings Swedish pros in the 2000Euro side event. That’s right, while Ramzi Jelassi was the eventual victor...
Information on how to qualify for the following events can be found on the PokerStars website. It is possible to qualify for as little as $2,22 or 100 FPP. It is also possible, of course, to buy in direct. All you really need is hope, a dream, and some luck, and you...
One of the many prestigious poker tournaments springing up across Europe, the EPT Season 5 Polish Open, concluded yesterday. Held in Warsaw at the Hyatt Regency, the event hosted a modest 217 player field crammed full of the continent’s finest players. No less...
European Poker Tour Premieres in Budapest Today 1w4j6
For the first time in its five year history, the European Poker Tour will make a stop in Hungary at the Las Vegas Casino in Budapest’s Sofitel Hotel. The buy-in for the No-Limit Hold’em event is €4,000 + €350. There is a 500 player cap, but the EPT has been...
Sebastian Ruthenberg Takes Down EPT Barcelona Open 253z5k
The European Poker Tour kicked off with the Barcelona Open, taking place September 10 through September 14. Six hundred nineteen players turned out for this year’s event, even though there was a supposed 600 cap. With a buy-in of €8,000, this brought the prize...
Season 5 European Poker Tour Schedule Released 5f2a22
In all the commotion and hype over the 2008 World Series of Poker, Europe is now getting excited about its own PokerStars European Poker Tour. Europe’s most prominent poker tour has just released its Season 5 schedule. The tour kicks off September 10, 2008 at...
EPT Monte-Carlo Grand Final — Final Table report 1n322m
The EPT’s 4th season has come to a close, and it has been a raging success. With its end, was the Grand Final in Monte Carlo. The final able wrapped up Thursday, and after 13 hours at the final table, a winner was crowned. As to be expected with the amazingly talented...
The European Poker Tour Grand Final just reached its final 10; unfortunately FTR’s Ben Sulsky, aka Sauce123 is not one of them. Day four started out with 39 players who were all guaranteed a good payday but a difference of over $200,000 between 39th and 9th...
Relative unknown, Jason Mercier from Fort Lauderdale, Florida, captured the title of the European Poker Tour San Remo on Saturday, outlasting 700 other players for the biggest win of his young career. In the biggest poker tournament to be ever held in Italy, each...
Continuing from courtiebee’s summary of Days 1 and 2 of the EPT stop in San Remo, I’ll be bringing you Days 3 and 4. The action was hot and heavy in Italy yesterday, as the final table was set for today. They played down from 31 to 8 yesterday, and the players didn’t...
Apparently Italians love poker because they came out in droves for the European Poker Tour’s first ever event in Italy. The registration line was so long that people were waiting in the streets as people itched to become part of the action that was the EPT San...
On The Tournament Trail — March 31st, 2008. 485q5g
The past few days have been a bit of a holding pattern for live tournaments, as we’ve just put the WPT World Poker Challenge behind us, and are gearing up for an enormous April, ushering in the Spring with millions of dollars in payouts, and new faces made famous...
As usual, in the months leading up to the World Series of Poker, there are a ton of big money tournaments leading up to the biggest tournament series of the year. The Winter can be a bit of a slow time for poker, but as Spring, the tournaments increase, and players...
The EPT Polish Open has come and gone as the EPT Season 4 nears its end. The Poker Stars sponsored poker circuit has gained a great deal of popularity this year, and shows no signs of stopping as there’s only one more tournament to go before the illustrious EPT Grand...
We’re nearly midway through March, and as we lead up to the 2008 World Series of Poker, we have a great deal of exciting tournaments underway, and coming up. There’s yet another EPT event looming, a WSOP Circuit Main Event in three days, and a unique WPT event just...
On the tournament trail — February 25th, 2008. 17116r
With tournament numbers swelling to sizes of amazing proportions both online, and live, it comes as no surprise that the PokerStars sponsored European Poker Tour has been not only attracting tons of players in their fourth season, but handing out million dollar...
On the tournament trail — February 18th, 2008 az2g
Amidst the flurry of huge money being doled out online, there haven’t been many huge tournaments going down live, save for some of the side events at the L.A. Poker Classic series. However, there are many shots at big money in the weeks, as the World Series...
Mike McDonald's Win in Sets a Good Example for Everyone 3r4k2k
A blessing and a curse for the Responsible Gambling Council, and a step for poker, came this last weekend in the form of Mike McDonald’s win at the 2008 EPT Open. The 18 year old, who according to PokerListings calls himself “Timex”, is an...
Mike McDonald’s Win in Sets a Good Example for Everyone 5b3x12
A blessing and a curse for the Responsible Gambling Council, and a step for poker, came this last weekend in the form of Mike McDonald’s win at the 2008 EPT Open. The 18 year old, who according to PokerListings calls himself “Timex”, is an...
Barely even able to drive, and often not even able to legally buy alcohol, players no older than high school graduates are sweeping the tournament scene. They are constantly feasting upon tournaments in countries other than the United States, a country where they...
€ 933,600 awarded to first place in Dortmund 6d2u2c
Hohensyburg Casino in Dortmund, hosted the PokerStars European Poker Tour German Open, the second EPT event of 2008. Long lines and high interest saw the tournament start delayed by an hour, and in the end there were 411 entrants for € 7,700 each, good for a €...
On the tournament trail — January 28th, 2008 6267q
The Borgata Winter Poker Open is coming to a close as the Main Event is heading into Day 3, with the L.A. Poker Classic starting, the EPT in Dortmund looming, as well as the World Series of Poker Circuit stop in Rincon just beginning. Despite having a great structure,...
Another exciting week of tournaments are in the books, with many stories emerging. The Poker Stars Caribbean Adventure has come and gone, the WSOP Circuit Event and WPT World Poker Open preliminaries are underway, and the Aussie Millions Main Event has started up....
How is it that some tournament players seem to never be bitten by the variance bug? Granted, these days we live in a “What have you done for me lately?” world when it comes to results in tourneys. So when someone has the kind of year that David “The Dragon” Pham has...
Another year has started, and that means there’s a boatload of money to be won this year in live tournaments. 2008 has just begun, but no time has been wasted as the World Poker Tour World Poker Open preliminary, the Aussie Millions preliminary events, the World...
Another year of poker is in the books, and despite many fears that have arisen in the last fourteen months over the future of the game we all love, but this year has shown that our game is still strong. It has been another historic year for poker, as the game still...
EPT Season 4 Dublin – Day 4 Final Table Results 294i35
The Epic heads up battle began with Annette Obrestad out chipping Reuben Peters about 4:1 – 2,800,000 to 600,000. The blinds begin at 8,000/16,000/2,000 and are set to go up soon. Even being outchipped 4:1 there is still plenty of room for play and I expect a...
EPT Season 4 Dublin – Day 4 Final Table Update 60z35
We come back to the final table in EPT Dublin with 4 left. It seemed as if no one could stop Annette, until Peters finally put a dent in her chip stack. Peters raised to 35,000 UTG and Annette re-raised to 92,000 from the button. The blinds folded and Peters quickly...
EPT Season 4 Dublin – Day 4 Final Table Begins 411615
The final table has begun play at the EPT Season 4 in Dublin! Here again are the players seated at the final table and their chip counts: Seat 1 Thierry Van Den Berg – 274,000 Seat 2 Daan Ruiters – 646,000 Seat 3 Reuben Peters – 176,000 Seat 4...
EPT Season 4 Dublin – Day 3 Final Table Update 32246x
Day 3 was filled with incredible action, most at the hands of Andrew Black and Annette Obrestad. Just a few hands after the table redraw, Annette had found another victim, Arshad Hussain. This made him the 16th place finisher, the first to win €15,320. After his...
Day 3 at Season 4 EPT Dublin started with 24 players and two superstars sitting atop of the mountain. Here is how the chip counts were at the start: Andy Black – 350,300 Annette Obrestad – 284,700 Simon Munoz – 278,100 Casper Hansen – 241,800...
Day 2 of the EPT Season 4 Dublin Event has stopped for the night. The players battled through 8 levels of play, and had 98 casualties, dropping from 122 to 24. The final 24 players are now in the money and gauranteed to take home at least €10,210. However, everyone...
EPT Season 4 Dublin – Day 2 In the Money Update 18l6o
As of 7:45 PM EST, the players are down to the final 24 on 4 tables. The final casualty that will not be making money was Dave Colclough better known as “El Blondie.” Here was the hand that ended El Blondie’s day, and also made 24 people richer:...
EPT Season 4 Dublin – Start of Day 2 Update 694n5a
Well Day 1A and 1B have gone by, and the total field of 221 players has now be reduced to 122. The total prize pool this year is €1,701,700, giving the first place winner a pretty nice payday of €532,620 (~$769,476). Some of the notable players who have made it...
The European Poker Tour kicked off its next stop today on October 30, 2007 in Dublin, Ireland. This event has a buyin of €7,700 + 300 and is expected to run from October 30 – November 3. This is a great stop on the tour and is played in the beautiful Merrion...
