Poker news tagged with 'russia'

partypoker has great news for their players who use cryptocurrency. They can now deposit at MuchBetter using cryptocurrencies and then use MuchBetter to deposit into their partypoker account. The payment system works with BTC, ETH, LTC and XRP. After verification, high limits are available - during the year, players can make financial transactions for $140,000.

Read more » partypoker Players in Russia can Now Deposit with Cryptocurrency

A 26-year-old lady tagged as Russia's "sexiest" or "most beautiful" poker player has been found dead in her bathroom. It is believed that she died due to a massive electric shock from a hairdryer.

Liliya Novikova was at home alone when her lifeless body was discovered on the floor at her bathroom in Moscow on Tuesday, June 11.

Read more » Female Russian Poker Player Dies from Electrocution in Bathroom

After winning LIVE MILLIONS Russia Main Event in August last year, partypoker ambassador Anatoly Filatov begins 2019 with yet another first-place achievement to add to his impressive poker resumé.

Read more » WPT Russia High Roller event won by Anatoly Filatov for $119,730

The bill signed by Vladimir Putin over a year ago is now baring its fangs, with state-owned Sberbank now coldly rejecting transactions to offshore gambling sites and ewallets.

Russia's move to make banks and payment processing companies ban online gambling payments is now in full swing as state-owned and the biggest bank in Russia Sberbank has confirmed that it will no longer allow the processing of online transactions involving blacklisted offshore gambling websites.

Read more » Russian Banks Now Implement Payment Ban to Offshore Gambling Operators

partypoker LIVE has announced this week that they have signed a four-year contract as the primary partner of Russia's first-ever Sochi Casino and Resort, beginning with the inaugural WSOP Circuit Russia set on May 13.

Aside from the $5,000,000 guaranteed WSOP Circuit Russia event, the partnership deal also consists of the Eurasia Poker Tour (EAPT), the Russian Poker Championships and two partypoker LIVE MILLIONS events (Russia and Snowfest).

Read more » Partypoker LIVE to be Primary Sponsor for Events in Russia's Sochi Casino

The $1,100 buy-in partypoker Million Sochi Main Event drew a field of 1,170 players. The first two days were played online at partypoker on March 12 and 19 and the remaining days were played March 23-25 at the recently opened Sochi Casino and Resort.

Read more » Dmitry Chop Wins partypoker Million Sochi Main Event

partypoker has just announced its first partypoker Million National event in Sochi, Russia. The recently opened Sochi Casino and Resort in association with the Poker Club Management will host a $1,000,000 guaranteed event in which the winner is going to get at least $200,000!

Read more » partypoker LIVE: $1M Guaranteed Event in Russia (online satellites for just 1 cent!)

This poker player from Moscow is now behind bars (for a mere four months) after he was found cheating casino rivals out of almost £60,000 in a single game of Texas Hold'em poker by using sleight of hand and ‘sandpaper' at an exclusive London casino.

Read more » Russian Fraudster Jailed After £60,000 Single Game Win

Even though some speculations emerged in Russia over the last couple of years that online poker may soon be regulated and legalized, unfortunately, it is still currently deemed illegal as Russian law strongly consider it officially as a "game of chance". Though that's the case, thousands of Russian residents still opt to play online poker via offshore websites. Should you be a Russian who enjoys playing online poker, then you better watch out because from now on, you will face a fine if you get caught.

Read more » Fines For Playing Online Poker

Sweden made skiing history last weekend at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, when it became the first country in 42 years to win both the men's and the women's 4x10-kilometer cross-country relays.

Read more » PokerStars SportStar Marcus Hellner Wins Olympic Gold Medal!

A big congratulations to Alexey Rybin, the champion of the 2013 bwin WPT Merit Cyprus Classic! The 33-year-old businessman from Moscow, Russia was the chip leader every single day of tournament and had a decent lead over his 5 opponents when the final table kicked off yesterday.

1 Pierre Sayegh 349,000 Lebanon
2 Alexey Rybin 2,698,000 Russia
3 Andrei Nikonov 1,280,000 Russia
4 Sergey Rybachenko 921,000 Russia
5 Albert Daher 1,595,000 Lebanon
6 Kayhan Tugrul 1,025,000 Turkey

Read more » Alexey Rybin Wins WPT Cyprus For $258,000

After four days of play, the final table of the World Poker Tour Merit Cyprus Classic Main Event is set! The final 6 players will return to play in about 1 hour and fight for a first place prize of $258,00!

The big favourite to take down the tournament is the 1 million+ chip leader Alexey Rybin who has led the tournament from start to finish Day 2, 3 and 4. The 33-year-old from Moscow, Russia has $483,503 in live tournament earnings and his best score so far is a 5th place finish at EPT San Remo in 2010 for $366,833 (Liv Boeree won the tournament). 

1 Pierre Sayegh 349,000 Lebanon
2 Alexey Rybin 2,698,000 Russia
3 Andrei Nikonov 1,280,000 Russia
4 Sergey Rybachenko 921,000 Russia
5 Albert Daher 1,595,000 Lebanon
6 Kayhan Tugrul 1,025,000 Turkey

Eighteen months ago, PokerStars celebrated its 10th anniversary by, for example, hosting a fourth World Record tournament attempt. The tournament was a huge success as it attracted 200,000 runners who played for a $250,000 prize pool. That world record lasted until last Sunday when the site hosted its fifth World Record tournament attempt...

Read more » PokerStars Sets New World Record With 225,000 Player Tournament

Moscow police have shut down an illegal casino that was being operated on the premises of a former sugar refinery in central Moscow, the Interior Ministry said in an statement on Monday. The owners of the casino were making approximately 10 million rubles (around $300,000) a day, police said.

Read more » Illegal Casino Busted in Russia

It ended up being a Russian low stakes grinder who took home the 2012 World Championship of Online Poker Main Event for a life-changing $1,000,907.26! "maratik" had to win several FPP qualifiers to get his ticket for the main event. Then he was up against a field of 1,824 players, including many well-known players.

After almost 22 hours of poker stretching over two days, the final table began and he had 1,935,189 chips. At that point, many expected Mike "muchenHB" Telker from Cyprus to win the whole thing with his 11,907,089 chips.

Read more » PokerStars WCOOP 2012: FPP Qualifier Wins The Main Event! ($1,000,907.26)

The Russian poker community has lost one of its greatest players as poker pro Nikolay Evdakov passed away on Monday this week. He died at the age of only 47 and no reason to his sudden death has been given.

Evdakov made a name for himself in the poker world during the 2008 World Series of Poker when he beat the most cashes during one WSOP record. In total, he cashed in 10 events and his best result was a 14th place in the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha event. Last year he reached the quarter finals in the WSOP $25k NLH heads-up event, and the year before that he finished 9th in the World Poker Tour Final.

The funeral of Nikolay Evdakov will be held in his hometown next Wednesday. Rest in peace! 

According to a Danish poker magazine the worst player in the world is the unknown poker (until now?) player "Scout326" from Russia. He has played 78,000 hands and lost about $2 million dollars at PokerStars. "Scout326" has tried his luck at all kind of stakes in his favorite game NL Holdem - from as little as $1/$2 to as much as $25/$50. However, no matter what stakes he has been playing with -- the results have been terrible. "Scout326" has lost the most money at the stakes $25/$50, -$737,000.

"Scout326" is for sure someone who poker players stand in line to play against. And after looking a bit closer at his game, I have to say that it looks like even the average player could win quite easy against him if he continues this way. So, who's "Scout326"? All we know is that he's Russian and that he's someone with a lot of money. Would be really cool if an interview with him shows up somewhere in the near future.

On the 1st of July, 2009, a new law which forced casinos and slot machine halls to close down went into effect. The idea to this new law was brought to life during the time when Vladimir Putin was the president of Russia. Many casinos/slot machine halls already back then started to transform their premises into poker rooms, because poker was classed as a sport, and therefore it was legal to organize cash games and tournaments. But now, live poker is also banned in Russia and over 400,000 people that used to work at casinos, slot halls, and poker rooms, are now without jobs.

Read more » Poker is no longer a sport in Russia