Poker news tagged with 'czech republic'

Get ready to play for a share of €500,000 guaranteed prize pool at one of the best poker venues in the world - the third partypoker Championship event will take place at King's Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic.

Read more » partypoker Championship Czech Republic features €500,000 Guaranteed Main Event for just a €330 Buy-in!

This February, the World Poker Tour (WPT) goes to King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic for the second big event of the year in the tour's Season XVIII calendar.

WPT Germany

• Schedule: February 9 to 23, 2020
• Venue: King's Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic
• Prize pool: €2,500,000 GTD
• No. of Events: 19

Event #10 of the 2019 WSOP Europe has crowned its latest winner, and this time it is Besim Hot, who has become the second Swiss champion to take down the said event.

2019 WSOP Europe

• Event #10: €25,500 Mixed Games Championship
• Entrants: 45
• Venue: King's Resort, Rozvadov, Czech Republic
• Prize pool: €1,068,750

King's Resort owner Leon Tsoukernik (pictured left in above picture) defeated Phil Ivey (right) at a heads-up match in the King's Short Deck €100K Super High Roller at the 2019 WSOP Europe.

WSOP Europe

• Venue: King's Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic
• Schedule: October 13 to November 4, 2019
• Event: King's Short Deck €100K Super High Roller
• Entries: 29
• Prize pool: €2,755,000

In partnership with King's Resort, partypoker.cz has now officially become the second international online poker company to enter the country, right after PokerStars.

GVC Holdings' brand partypoker has now officially landed in the Czech Republic online poker market via a partnership with regional casino operator King's Resort in Rozvadov.

Read more » partypoker goes live in Czech Republic via King's Resort

Antanas Gouga, better known in the poker community as Tony G, will celebrate his 45th birthday on December 17, and partypoker honors the Lithuanian poker pro by hosting a €200,000 guaranteed PLO tournament held at King's Casino, Rozvadov, Czech Republic on December 15 and 16.

Poker players will have the chance to both wish Tony G a happy birthday as well as have the chance to play against him.

Read more » partypoker honors Tony G's Birthday with €200K PLO Event at King's Casino

With Artur Rudziankov's triumph at the 2017 WSOP Event #58 of $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em, he now became the second Czech national to have ever won the coveted WSOP gold bracelet.

Read more » 2017 WSOP: Czech Republic's Artur Rudziankov Wins $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Event

High-stakes poker pro Matthew Kirk last week has filed a lawsuit over unpaid loans made in a heads-up poker game in May at the Aria Resort and Casino located on the Las Vegas Strip.

Read more » High Stakes: Aussie Pro Sues For Over $3M In Loans Given In Heads-up Game

King's Casino (Rozvadov, Czech Republic) will host its first World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) One Drop High Roller along with a Little One for One Drop tourney in November. The flagship tournament has a massive €10,000,000 guarantee and 50 players have already committed to play it by forking out a €11,000 non-refundable deposit each.

Read more » King's Casino To Host WSOPE One Drop Tourney (€10,000,000 Guarantee)

The Eureka3 Prague Main Event drew a field of 1,315 players - who have battled it out for the past few days and become a final table of 8. The finalists will return at noon local time and fight for a first prize of €226,400!

Read more » Eureka3 Prague: PokerStars Qualifier Leads Final Table!

On Monday, Tony G blogged about an insane cash game at Kings Club in Prague, Czech Republic. According to himself, he lost about €500,000 in a €2k/€4k cash game the first day. The same day as that cash game took place he also played a €10,000 High Roller (rebuy) event, but he decided to skip Day 2 and let his average stack get blinded off.

Read more » Tony G Wins €1.85 Million Pot?

Both starting days at EPT Prague are in the books now. A total of 864 entrants make it the richest poker tournament in Czech history! Iosif Beskrovny will lead the remaining 318-players into Day 2 with 239,000 chips! Todd Terry is the most well-known player among the top 10 players (162,400 chips). Terry has over $2 million in live tournament earnings, including some great results at the World Series of Poker and the World Poker Tour.

Official Payouts:
128 of the remaining 318 players will be guaranteed a min-cash of €8,000. A final table appearance is worth €75,000, and the winner will take home an impressive €835,000! We will be back with a Day 2 recap tomorrow morning. Stay tuned!

23-year-old Tomas Junek from Czech Republic is the latest gold bracelet winner after defeating, for example, the 2008 Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate on the final table in Event #56: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (2,798 players participants) earlier today. Apart the gold coveted bracelet, Junek received $661,022 in prize money.

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