When it comes to poker success stories, we notice that many who were able to make it to the top come from different types of people from various walks of life; however, it seems like individuals who had the highest success rate are the ones who are analytically-minded and highly-knowledgeable with numbers.
In the old days, conventional belief considers it "unladylike" for any woman to be seen at a poker table, since poker has been a man's game for so long that most people have assumed that naturally it is only for men. That stereotyping perspective has been shattered long ago and has since paved the way to an ever-increasing generation of female card players, and not only can some of them be very good at playing poker, the guys can't seem to take their eyes off of them as well because of their feminine beauty, of course.
The PokerStars Festival London continues, with the Main Event looming close and the High Roller playing down to a winner, who will also get to be crowned as the newest Platinum Pass winner.
The €25,000 High Roller event (a single-day event that required two days to be completed) resumed on Thursday at Casino Barcelona after a one-day break. The returning players were former Main Event winners Martin Finger, Liv Boeree and Mark Teltscher, all of whom had survived 115 entrants on the first day to secure a payday of at least €391,000 each!
One day of play wasn't enough to decide a winner of the single-day €25,000 High Roller event. That's right, three players of 152 entrants still remained after nearly 17 hours of play (around 5 in the morning) when tournament staff were forced to close the exhibition centre (which hosts the EPT) due to casino rules.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, 30, is a lady with many irons in the fire. She has modelled in mainstream magazines, co-hosted a show on Discovery Channel, and much more off the poker felt. On Sunday, she had her own political opinions published in The Independent newspaper.
Curious to know what it's like to win millions of dollars playing poker and to be sponsored by the world's largest poker site? You can stop wondering because BankrollMob is now giving you the unique opportunity to ask five members of Team PokerStars Pro (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel) yourself!
Post your questions below (no more than 3 questions per pro) by no later than Friday, August 24th. We will then select 5 questions for each pro and forward them to PokerStars.
British Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, 30, has earned an incredible 2.4 million dollars playing live poker since 2007, including her victory at the 2010 EPT San Remo for $1.6 million - which probably was one of the reasons PokerStars signed her a few months later.
Curious to know what it's like to win millions of dollars playing poker and to be sponsored by the world's largest poker site? You can stop wondering because BankrollMob is now giving you the unique opportunity to ask five members of Team PokerStars Pro (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel) yourself!
Post your questions below (no more than 3 questions per pro) by no later than Friday, August 15th. We will then select 5 questions for each pro and forward them to PokerStars.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree has already won $130k in three major tournaments this year, and in total she has an incredible $2.4 million in live tournament earnings since 2007!
Being sponsored by the world's largest poker site and winning lots of money playing poker while getting to travel all over the globe sure sounds like a dream to many poker fans. Well, it sure is an incredible way of spending the short time we have on planet earth, however, according to Liv Boeree's latest blog, 'Great Expectations', it's not always a bed of roses to be a poker pro...
Another day of play has come to an end at Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. A field of 668 entrants has been narrowed down to 36 players after three days of intensive play. The player with the largest stack heading into Day 4 is Sal Fazzino of Australia. Fazzino, who's been around the live scene for several years but still has no major score to his name, took the chip lead in the last hand of the day...
Dean Hutchison is the champion of the 2014 PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour Edinburgh Main Event after defeating Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree heads-up! It was a very thrilling battle for the title and the first prize of £93,900, and the fact is Boeree was only one card away from the title at the beginning of the match...
After three action-packed days of poker at the UK and Ireland Poker Tour Edinburgh Main Event, a field of 427 entries has become a final table (will be played today) of 8 players! The chip leader is Jason Beazley (UK) with 2.3 million chips and Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree is not far behind with 2.2 million!
There are 234 of 1031 players remaining in the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event after Day 1A and B and Day 2. The current chip leader is Pascal Lefrancois with 412,000 chips. The French-Canadian pro won a World Series of Poker bracelet in 2010 and finished 11th in the main event the same year. It will be interesting to follow him on the leader board during Day 3!
The 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) Main Event is underway and the two starting days are already in the books. 184 of 295 players (Dylan Hortin topped leader board with 160k) survived Day 1A and 475 of 710 players (Shankar Pillai came out on top with 173k) made it through Day 1B, which means that 659 players will return to play today! The overall chip leader is Shankar Pillai (picture) with 173,900 chips and there are lots of big names left in the competition, including PokerStars Pros Vanessa Selbst, Eugene Katchalov, Marcel Luske and Liv Boeree.
We will be back with another report tomorrow morning. The prize pool and payout structure should be announced by then. Stay tuned!
The 2013 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (September 8-29 - $40 Million Guaranteed Across 66 Events) is underway since Sunday and already a big name has won an event!
Finnish poker player Aku Joentausta didn't let go of his lead during Day 3 of the Main Event when the field was narrowed down from 170 to 56 players. The young Finn played extremely well and it almost seemed like he took home every single pot. He will bring 1,039,000 chips today, ahead of the only other player with a seven figure stack: Emil Ohlsson, from Sweden, with 1,011,000.
Many big names were lost during the second day of the EPT Berlin main event: Max Lykov, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Eugene Katchalov, Jeff Hakim, Tobias Reinkemeier, Mattias De Meulder, Benny Spindler, Jake Cody, Vanessa Selbst, and a few others. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi, the Day 1B chip leader, also failed to make it through the day. Mizrachi was sent packing during the fourth level with the nut flush against the turned full house of Khiem Nguyen, a young German player.
Boris Becker is the most familiar name among the 175 players who will return to play in a few hours. The former German tennis pro will bring 113,000 chips to the tables, which is about average. He will be joined by notables such as Theo Jorgensen (171,600), Olivier Busquet (170,000), Alex Kravchenko (135,000) and Liv Boeree (85,400). The money bubble will burst when 136 players remain (€8,000 minimum cash) and the winner will take home an incredible €880,000!
The first starting day of the European Poker Tour Berlin main event attracted 347 runners who could afford the buy-in of €5,300. After eight levels of play, Day 1A concluded with 250 survivors and Ronny Voth (picture) out in front with 196,100 chips. Many well known players will join him for Day 2 tomorrow, including Boris Becker, Mattias de Meulder, Liv Boeree, among others.
The second starting day (Day 1B) kicks off in a few hours and a greater field of players is expected to show up, so there should be a very nice prize pool up for grabs! We will be back with another brief update tomorrow morning.
The plan for Day 2 was to play six 90-minute levels of poker, but the tournament director had to stop the action earlier when only 36-players remained. Ludovic Lacay (2012 EPT San Remo winner) finished day with the chip lead (351,400) and Mike Sexton (241,500) and Marvin Rettenmaier (187,700) also made it through the day with big stacks. Besides the players mentioned above, Kara Scott, Matt Salsberg, Giacomo Fundaro, Liv Boeree and Dan "Jungleman" Cates made it through Day 2.
The average stack is 144,166 and there are many players with plenty of chips to gamble with, so it's very hard to predict what will happen during Day 3. One thing is certain, though: it will be a very entertaining day of poker with so many well known faces racing towards the final table - where a first prize of $180,097 is up for grabs!
Both starting days of the WPT Venice main event are in the books now, and the second day is running as we write this short update. There are 91 players remaining with poker amateur Stephen Behm out in front with 188,000. Marvin Rettenmaier (ranked 4th with 129k) and Mike Sexton (ranked 9th with 99k) are the biggest names among the top 10 players. Other big names with chips left are, just to mention a few, Kara Scott, Alessio Isaia, Liv boeree, Matt Salsberg and Dan Cates (picture).
We will be back tomorrow morning with a bigger update! Stay tuned!
Both starting days of the WPT Venice main event are in the books now, and the second day is running as we write this short update. There are 91 players remaining with poker amateur Stephen Behm out in front with 188,000. Marvin Rettenmaier (ranked 4th with 129k) and Mike Sexton (ranked 9th with 99k) are the biggest names among the top 10 players. Other big names with chips left are, just to mention a few, Kara Scott, Alessio Isaia, Liv boeree, Matt Salsberg and Dan Cates (picture).
We will be back tomorrow morning with a bigger update! Stay tuned!
The famous poker couple Kevin Macphee and Liv Boeree's relationship is over after about 2 years, and it seems like it wasn't a friendly breakup. This is what Macphee wrote on twitter yesterday:
Today the third day of the European Poker Tour London Main Event will be played. There are 114 players still standing and the chip leader is Mantas Visockis (522,200), followed by (equally unknown) Matthias Tikerpe (507,600). Day 2 chip leader and UKIPT London champion Sergio Aido will also return to play today with 251,400 chips.
The candidates for this year's European Poker Awards have now been revealed. One of the nominees is the high-stakes player Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom from Sweden. Blom is up against Jens Kyllönen, Chris Moorman and last year's winner Ilari Sahamies for the Internet Player of the Year award.
Yesterday the first starting day of World Poker Tour Prague (re-entry event - 3 starting days) kicked off and saw a field of 115 players. 54 of them made it through the day, and Pasi Jaakko Heinanen (picture) from Finland had the largest pile of chips (193,800) when the tournament director called it a day. Today it's time for Day 1B and famous players such as Liv Boeree and Kevin MacPhee will make sure that it will be a thrilling day of poker.
In the most recent episode of the 2012 EPT Berlin Main Event, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst and Kevin MacPhee played a very interesting hand. Selbst betted 17k from UTG, MacPhee reraised to 37,000. Selbst made it 79k, and MacPhee 5-bet to 131k. Selbst asked Kevin MacPhee how much he had left, then went all in. MacPhee made the call after 1 minute of going through potential hands Selbst could have.
PokerStars Team Pro, former model and TV presenter Liv Boeree's new TV show "I Bet My Life" will be aired this Sunday on the Travel Channel across the USA at 11pm.
The show is about Liv Boeree, her boyfriend and fellow tournament player Kevin MacPhee travelling to and playing in the EPT Grand Final in Monte Carlo. The show will be a mixture between a travelling documentary and a reality show. According to Boeree, "I Bet My Life" was very challenging to film...
On Tuesday, the World Series of Poker Main Event continued with Day 3 from the Majestic Barrière in Cannes, France. The remaining 77 players of 420 played six levels of poker during the day, and by the end of the night, 24 players had chips left and Joseph Cheong, who finished 3rd in the 2010 WSOP Main Even, had the chip lead. Apart from Cheong, Jason Mercier and Phil Hellmuth made it through the day with healthy stacks. Other familiar faces to survive the day were, for example, Liv Boeree, David Benyamine and Andy Frankenberger.
PokerStars European Poker Tour is in Campione, Italy at the moment. Day 1a, Day 1b and Day 2 have been completed over the past 3 days and now 99 of 570 players remain. In the lead is Balazs Botond with 646,000 chips, and in second place is Ronny Kasier, the 2011 EPT Tallinn winner, with 505,900.
The celebration of different milestone hands and other things never seem to stop on PokerStars. But it's all good since PokerStars keeps on spoiling its customers with amazing cash prizes everytime they celebrate something.
On March 11, 14:30 ET, it's time again as PokerStars will be celebrating the 6th Anniversary of the weekly Sunday Million tourney by hosting a Sunday Million tournament with an amazing $6 million guarantee. The winner of this tournament is guaranteed to walk away with at least $1 million!
Today it's time for the third day of PokerStars Caribbean Adventure on Bahamas. The player field has been narrowed down from 1072 to 195 players, and the chip leader is Faraz "The Toilet" Jaka, 2009-2010 WPT Player Of The Year, with 902,500 chips - quite impressive since he started Day 2 with only 129,500 chips.
There are plenty of big names left. 2011 PCA winners Galen Hall and 2010 champ Harrison Gimbel, Luca Pagano, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree - just to mention a few. 160 of the remaining 195 players will receive a share from the massive prizepool. The winner will get stunning 2 million dollars, and the runner-up will get $1,275,000!
Day 3 of the 2012 PCA Bahamas Main Event begins at 18:00 CET tonight.
The record field of 722 players has been narrowed down to 31 after 4 days of poker (Day 1a & 1b, Day 2, Day 3) The 3 first days ended with a Russian in the lead. But that tradition came to an end yesterday and now the chip leader is Partrik Renkers from Netherlands. Renkers had a fantastic winning streak during Day 3 and today a 2.4 million stack is waiting for him at the Hilton poker room. The player in second place, Martin Finger from Germany, has about half of that stack.
Day 3 of the EPT Prague main event is being played at the moment and there are 129 remaining players. The chip leader is Garri Tevosov, from Russia, with 764k, followed by Martin Finger, from Germany, with 612k and Mads Wissing, from Denmark, with a stack of 565k. There are a few big names with chips left, however, none of them can be found in the very top of the remaining field of players.
We will return with an update as soon as Day 3 comes to an end.
The second starting day of the EPT Prague main event attracted amazing 488 players! Add the 234 players from Day 1a to that and you'll get a new EPT main event record! Out of the 722 participants, 437 players will return to the table in a few hours time and continue the struggle. The chip leader, just like Day 1a, comes from Russia. Andrey Saenko, PokerStars player, played outstanding poker during Day 1b and has accumulated 200,800 - about 20k more than Mads Wissing, from Denmark, in second place.
The World Poker Tour has now made a stop in Amneville, France, and already Day 1a and 1b have been played. Out of the 379 players that paid the €3200 + €300 and entered the tournament, 218 players still have chips left and will return to play Day 2 later on today.
Day 1a was lacking of superstars, but Day 1b attracted quite a few big names. For example there were 2 famous poker couples on show with Liv Boeree/Kevin MacPhee and Catherine Hong/Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Unfortunately both MacPhee and ElkY hit the rail at the early stages of Day 1b, but luckily both their girlfriends made it through to Day 2. Other notables that made it to Day 2 are Jamies Rosen, Arnaud Mattern, Joseph Cheong and famous French rap artist Bruno "Kool Sheen" Lopes.
Another day of the WSOP Europe Main Event is now in the books, and today, when play continues, 115 players will continue the long road towards the final table. In a quite big lead are two Americans, Constand Rijkenberg with 462,800 chips and Hoyt Corkins with 429,900 chips. In 4th place is Jake Cody with 323k, and in 9th place is Erik Seidel with 291,900. Another 2 big names that made it through Day 2 with plenty of chips are Patrik Antonius (23rd place - 228k) and Liv Boeree (202,300).
The total prize pool is €5,692,800 and 64 players will receive a share from it. The winner will get amazing €1,400,000, and the runner-up will get €800,000.
Last Sunday the Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, from UK, took home the World Championship of Online Poker 2nd chance $109 NLHE tournament. Not less than 2,528 players took part in the tournament and for the win Boeree received $40,448.
"Won it!!! Just took down the #WCOOP 2nd chance $100 tourney for $40,448. I love online poker.", Boeree wrote on her Twitter after the win.
Boeree has been running pretty well in online tournaments at PokerStars this year. In February, for example, she won the Sunday Warm-up and laid hands on $147,780. However, her most notable and biggest win so far in her career was at the 2010 EPT San Remo when she took down the Main Event for amazing €1,2500,000!
It's high time to take a look at the EPT Snowfest Main Event, which started 2 days ago in Hinterglemm, Austria. Day 1a and 1b have already been played and 268 of 468 players are now waiting for Day 2 to start.
Ever wondered how tough it is to win an EPT Main Event title? Well, for example, 14 former champions were in the Day 1b field - four of them ended up at the same table - Kevin MacPhee, Liv Boeree, Kevin Stani and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (who arrived a few hours late). All but ElkY made it to Day 2 of the tournament.
The world's biggest poker site has just announced that Poker Pro Liv Boeree now is a part of its Team PokerStars Pro. Liv Boeree will now get to travel the world with the rest of the team and play in the biggest tournaments - absolutely free. She will make her Team Pro debut this week at PokerStars EPT London. Boeree has an EPT title since before, so it will be really interesting to see how she will do this time. If she doesn't cash in EPT London, I'm still sure it's only a matter of time before she makes PokerStars proud of her.
Liv Boeree is probably the "hottest" female poker player at the moment. Yesterday, she took down the Main Event of EPT San Remo (the biggest ever EPT in Europe) and became a euro millionaire. Even though this is her first major tournament win, she's definitely not a new face in the poker world. Liv has been around for quite some time and been interviewed many, many times.
So, Liv is a successful poker player, millionaire, model, TV presenter, guitar player and seems to a be a fun and interesting person to hangout with. The dream girlfriend, some would say. Well, if you're good at dancing you can try to impress her - just like Daniel Negreanu did at a PokerStars party 1 year ago. :)
A big congratulations to Liv Boeree, a poker player, model, guitarist and TV presenter from UK, who took home the Main Event of EPT San Remo yesterday. I must say that I'm very, very impressed how good she played at the final table. She had been quite anonymous until the final table started (probably for a reason?), but then she showed the guys her poker skills! It came to be Jacob Carlsson, who had a big chip lead in the beginning of the day, and Boeree who were the last 2 "men" standing.
Even though Jacob had such a big lead in the beginning of the day, it was Liv Boeree who had the big chip lead when they started playing heads up. Liv continued playing fantastic poker throughout the heads up and she ended it all with a great read on the swede.
A big congratulations to Liv Boeree, a poker player, model, guitarist and TV presenter from UK, who took home the Main Event of EPT San Remo yesterday. I must say that I'm very, very impressed how good she played at the final table. She had been quite anonymous until the final table started (probably for a reason?), but then she showed the guys her poker skills! It came to be Jacob Carlsson, who had a big chip lead in the beginning of the day, and Boeree who were the last 2 "men" standing.
Even though Jacob had such a big lead in the beginning of the day, it was Liv Boeree who had the big chip lead when they started playing heads up. Liv continued playing fantastic poker throughout the heads up and she ended it all with a great read on the swede.
When it comes to poker success stories, we notice that many who were able to make it to the top come from different types of people from various walks of life; however, it seems like individuals who had the highest success rate are the ones who are analytically-minded and highly-knowledgeable with numbers.
The €25,000 High Roller event (a single-day event that required two days to be completed) resumed on Thursday at Casino Barcelona after a one-day break. The returning players were former Main Event winners Martin Finger, Liv Boeree and Mark Teltscher, all of whom had survived 115 entrants on the first day to secure a payday of at least €391,000 each!
One day of play wasn't enough to decide a winner of the single-day €25,000 High Roller event. That's right, three players of 152 entrants still remained after nearly 17 hours of play (around 5 in the morning) when tournament staff were forced to close the exhibition centre (which hosts the EPT) due to casino rules.
Team PokerStars Pro Liv Boeree, 30, is a lady with many irons in the fire. She has modelled in mainstream magazines, co-hosted a show on Discovery Channel, and much more off the poker felt. On Sunday, she had her own political opinions published in The Independent newspaper.
Curious to know what it's like to win millions of dollars playing poker and to be sponsored by the world's largest poker site? You can stop wondering because BankrollMob is now giving you the unique opportunity to ask five members of Team PokerStars Pro (Daniel Negreanu, Barry Greenstein, Liv Boeree, Jason Mercier and Jonathan Duhamel) yourself!
The 2013 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (September 8-29 - $40 Million Guaranteed Across 66 Events) is underway since Sunday and already a big name has won an event!
The candidates for this year's European Poker Awards have now been revealed. One of the nominees is the high-stakes player Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom from Sweden. Blom is up against Jens Kyllönen, Chris Moorman and last year's winner Ilari Sahamies for the Internet Player of the Year award.
