Owais Ahmed nursed a short stack of chips through the final table to emerge victorious and take down the World Series of Poker $2,500 Omaha/Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo event. Along with the winner’s bracelet, Ahmed picked up $255,959 for his efforts. Twenty-two players began Day 3, but the number was quickly whittled down, with a [...]
Brazilian Andre Akkari won his first WSOP bracelet after an epic heads up battle with Nachman Berlin. The Sao Paolo man took down the $675,117 first prize for winning the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event. The two had battled for an hour and half on Day 3, and when they resumed Berlin held around a [...]
Online poker suffered a further dramatic jolt today when Full Tilt Poker had its licence to operate revoked by the Alderney Gambling Control Commission (AGCC). In a statement, the AGCC stated: “The decision to suspend these licenses follows a special investigation prompted by the indictments unsealed by US Attorney General’s Office in the Southern District [...]
Ben Lamb became the latest player to win his first World Series of Poker bracelet when he triumphed in the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha event, making up for the second place he had to settle for in the $3,000 event earlier in the series. Lamb, from Las Vegas, is making PLO something of a speciality; [...]
Justin Pechie took down the World Series of Poker winner’s bracelet and the $167,060 first prize in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout. The Connecticut player came through a tough final table to claim the title, defeating Dale Eberle in the heads up. Of the ten final tablers who began the day, Eugene Katchalov was probably [...]
Over the weekend of 25th-26th June 2011 APAT held the latest event in it’s fifth season, sponsored by 888.com, with the UK Pub Poker Team Championships held at the G Casino, Blackpool consisting of 16 eight player teams playing to win team and individual prizes worth £3,200 each. Courtesy of 888.com the individual winner of [...]
Canadian Matt Jarvis wrapped up victory in the World Series of Poker $5,000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em event just five hands into the fourth day. The 2010 Main Event final tabler won his first WSOP bracelet and took down a first prize of $808,538. Runner up Justin Filtz had to be content with the runners [...]
The $5,000 Six-Handed No Limit Hold’em event became the latest World Series of Poker tournament to extend into a fourth day, after more than three hours of heads up play failed to separate the last two contenders, Matt Jarvis and Justin Filtz. Jarvis will have just over 8.6 million chips to Filtz’s 2.3 million when [...]
It took Arkadiy Tsinis around an hour and a half to defeat Michael Blanovsky on Day 4 of the $1,500 No Limit Hold’em event at the World Series of Poker. It meant a first WSOP bracelet, along with a first prize of $540,136, for the player, who is also a chess pro, and has held [...]
It took nearly four hours of heads up play to separate Mitch Schock and Rodney Brown in the World Series of Poker $2,500 Pot Limit Hold’em/Omaha event but eventually Schock triumphed to claim the bracelet and the $310,225 first prize. Twenty-two players remained at the start of the day, and the big names included Carsten [...]
-