Poker news tagged with 'norway'

Espen Jorstad has won the 2022 WSOP Main Event, earning the second gold bracelet in his poker career and taking home a juicy $10 million top prize.

Read more » 2022 WSOP Event #70: $10,000 NLHE Main Event won by Espen Jorstad for $10 Million

Thor Hansen, also known as the "Godfather of Norwegian Poker", has passed away on Tuesday evening after a long battle with cancer. He was 71 years old.

Read more » Thor Hansen, Godfather of Norwegian Poker, Passes Away at 71

The government of Norway is planning new methods that will strengthen restriction of online gambling payment processing to help limit the competition of the state-owned Norsk Tipping gambling monopoly.

Read more » Norway to Enforce Firmer Payment Restrictions on International Gambling Sites

Earlier this week partypoker announced that norwegian poker legend Johnny Lodden had joined its team of ambassadors! Lodden's 22 cashes in EPT Main Events is more than any other player, and now he will take on a new venture in the partypoker LIVE tour.

Read more » partypoker sign Johnny Lodden as newest ambassador

Felix Stephensen from Norway collected an incredible $5,147,911 when he finished second to Martin Jacobson in the 2014 WSOP Main Event about 1,5 week ago. However, it doesn't seem like he will be able to enjoy his massive payday for much longer as the Norwegian tax department is after half of his winnings.

Read more » 2014 WSOP: Runner-Up Felix Stephensen To Pay 50% Tax On His Winnings

The 2014 EPT Barcelona Super High Roller (buy-in €50,000) attracted a total field of 77 entries - which makes it the biggest Super High Roller in EPT history! Now, after 2 days of play, there are only nine players left with the chance of taking down the tournament and its €1,016,700 first-place prize!

Read more » LIVE STREAM: EPT Barcelona Super High Roller: Chatty Norwegian Leads Final 9

The third Day of the EPT Sanremo main event is in the books. The day kicked off with 163 players and the player-field was narrowed down to 66 throughout the day. Day 2 chip leader Inge Forsmo, from Norway, will bring a stack of 1,021,000 chips to play today - about 160k more than his closest opponenets: Charly Maracchione, Angelo Recchia and Caremlo Vasta.

For those not familar with the names above, Shaun Deeb, Isaac Haxton, Justin Bonomo, David Vamplew (just to mention a few) are great, well-known players who made it through Day 3 and still have the chance of reaching the final table where a €800,000 first place prize is up for grabs.

Check back tomorrow for another update!

A total of 797 players signed up for the EPT Sanremo Main Event this time. Today the third day of the tournament will be played and 162 players are chasing the first prize of €800,000. Inge Forsmo (picture), from Norway, is the chip leader with a stack of 606,100 and big names such as David Vamplew, Shaun Deeb, Isaac Haxton, Ana Marquez, Chris Moneymaker, Liv Boeree and Pius Heinz are among the players that will join Forsmo at the tables today.

Day 3 will begin at 14:00 CET (08:00 ET) today. We will be back with another update tomorrow morning! Stay tuned!

About 2 weeks ago we wrote about the 19-year-old Norwegian poker player Ole-Kristian Nergard and his trip to Macau. He was running well in Macau's big game then and it seems like he's still going strong.

In fact, according to Andrew Feldman - who's also taking part in the big games, the Norwegian young-gun took home a pot of amazing 3.6 million Hong King Dollar (about USD 465,000) the other day and mucked the winning hand on the river. According to Nergard's twitter, it was the biggest pot of his poker career.

Read more » High Stakes: Ole-Kristian Nergard takes home his biggest ever live pot

Some sad news. The Norwegian poker veteran Thor Hansen, 64, has been diagnosed with terminal cancer and probably only has another 2 years left to live. Hansen received the sad news recently and doctors have told him that the cancer he has is untreatable.

"I don't count on dying tomorrow", Hansen said in an interview with Norwegian Verdens Gang.

"I have to fight and we'll see if I can win another good poker hand"

Read more » Norwegian poker legend diagnosed with cancer

A new gambling law which upsets the whole Norwegian poker community has just been passed into law by the government of Norway. The new law will make it illegal for banks in Norway to process transactions to casinos and poker/casino/betting sites outside Norway.

How they will stop people from using Neteller, MoneyBookers and other e-wallets - we will just have to wait and see. The new law will come into effect on 1 June 2010 - the same day as the US Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act (UIGEA) will come into effect. 

Are you afraid that similar laws will be introduced in your country?