Poker news tagged with 'wpt prague'

On Tuesday, the partypoker WPT Prague Main Event final table concluded after 122 hands of play with Oleg Vasylchenko from Ukraine as the champion for €132,200 and a $15,000 seat into the season-ending WPT® Tournament of Champions.

Read more » Oleg Vasylchenko Wins WPT Prague!

After a thrilling three-hour heads-up battle against Russia's Pavel Plesuv on Sunday, Spain's Javier Gomez was the last man standing in the World Poker Tour Prague Main Event. Gomez only had about €25k in tournament earnings prior to this tournament, so the €175,000 first-place prize will definitely come in handy!

Read more » Javier Gomez Wins partypoker WPT Prague For €175,000!

Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Prague Main Event concluded last night with Brian Senie bagging up an incredible chip lead! Senie, from USA, started Day 2 with a decent stack but a tough table, featuring Simon Deadman, Michel Abercassis and Yann Dion.

Read more » WPT Prague: American Pro To Bring Massive Lead Into Day 3

The second starting day of the World Poker Tour Prague Main Event attracted a much bigger player-field than Day 1A (60 entries). A total of 173 players entered Day 1B, and 112 of them made it through to Day 2 after 8 levels of intensive play.

Read more » WPT Prague: Day 1B Update

The World Poker Tour has landed in beautiful Prague in Czech Republic and the first day of the Main Event is already in the books. 60 players entered Day 1A and, after 8 levels of play, 38 of them were still alive and kicking.

Read more » WPT Prague: Day 1A Drew 60 Players

The last World Poker Tour tournament of 2013 came to a close yesterday when Julian Thomas defeated Vasili Firsau, who also finished runner up at the WPT Grand Prix de Paris a few months ago, heads-up in the bwin WPT Prague Main Event! Thomas received €206,230 in prize money and joined a long list of German poker professionals who have gone all the way in some of the major poker tournaments of 2013.

Final table results:
1) Julian Thomas, €206 230
2) Vasili Firsau, €135 000
3) Andrey Shatilov, €85 000
4) Gintaras Simaitis, €63 000
5) Ognjen Secularac, €47 000
6) Valeri Savov, €38 000

PartyPoker World Poker Tour (WPT) Prague is now down to 78 players after Day 1 and 2 (4 days including the starting days). Just another six players need to be eliminated now before everyone is guaranteed at least $6,515 - with the chance of taking home the first place prize of $423,957!

Read more » WPT Prague: Elio Fox Through To Day 3

Day 1C of the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Prague Main Event saw a field of 273 players, which means that a total of 567-players entered the tournament. 141-players made it through Day 1C with Yannick Bonnet out in front with 197,200. This means that the Mikhail Mazunin (Day 1B chip leader - 203,600 chips) will bring the largest stack of chips to Day 2 of the remaining 287 players. 

We will return with another update tomorrow (the prize pool should be announced by then).

Day 1B of WPT Prague was a very thrilling day of poker as lots of well-known players were among the 179 particiapants. Besides that, the atmosphere among the players was very good. Maybe it had something to do with some of the French players wearing bunny rabbit hats?

Read more » PartyPoker WPT Prague: Rabbits At The Poker Tables

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.

Check back tomorrow for another brief update. 

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.

Read more » EPT Prague becomes a part of history

The EPT Prague main event kicked off yesterday and saw a field of 234 players. After a long day of poker (8 one-hour levels), 133 players still had chips left and they will return tomorrow to the tournament room at the Hilton.

The one who managed to accumulate most chips during Day 1a is Vedzizhev Beslan from Russia. With 131,200 chips he has a small lead over Jesus Cortes, from Spain, with 131,200. And only 1 chip behind Cortes is Sergey Baburin with 131,100. These 3 players are closely followed by several players, so it's impossible to predict how things will go during Day 2.

Unfortunately not a lot big names in the poker world made it through Day 1a. Let's hope that Day 1b, which begins in a few hours, will generate a few more renowned players will plenty of chips.

The WPT Prague main event came to an end yesterday. The final table was probably one of the sickest final tables in WPT history and it lasted for nearly 10 hours. Below you find a short recap of how the final table was played out, and also you will find out what we mean with "one of the sickest final tables in WPT history".

Read more » A sick final table of the WPT Prague main event

The final table of the WPT Prague main even is just about to start and so is also the EPT Prague main event. In other words, today will be the most exciting Monday in a very long time. The WPT Prague main event attracted a field of 571 players and became the biggest-ever WPT event held on European ground. Now it will be very exciting to see whether the EPT Prague main event can break some records as well.

We will keep you updated with the most exiting news from start to finish, so you are guaranteed not to miss out on anything interesting.

The World Poker Tour Prague main event attracted a field of 571 players and became the biggest European WPT event ever (the previous attendance record was set by WPT Vienna last season). Now, after 4 days of play, the tournament is down to a final table, and these are the players that will do everything in their power to take down the tournament and the first place prize of $630,263.

Read more » Live Stream: The largest-ever European WPT is down to a final table