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Some very sad news this morning. British poker legend Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott passed away on Monday, April 6. According to an announcement by his son on Twitter, Dave Ulliott, who has been fighting terminal bowel and liver cancer since earlier this year, died peacefully surrounded by his loves ones. Ulliot, who has $6.2 million in live tournament earnings (the second biggest winner of all time in the UK), leaves behind his wife and eight children.

RIP

Read more » Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott Dies at 61

Last week, in a conference call with investors, Amaya CEO David Baazov said that the company (PokerStars) is aiming to double the poker business in the next five years.

Read more » Amaya Looking To Double PokerStars' Poker Business Within 5 Years

The Sunday Storm only costs $11 to play and usually has a prize pool of $300,000. To mark the fourth anniversary of the popular weekly tournament, PokerStars will be hosting a special version (still $11 buy-in) with $1,000,000 in prizes, of which $100,000 is reserved for the winner!

The tournament will be played on Sunday April 19, 2015, at 13:30 ET and you can already now qualify for it through one of many cheap satellites, running around the clock, on PokerStars. Good luck!

888poker and Caesars Interactive Entrainment Inc recently announced that they will begin a new collaboration. 888poker has signed a broad sponsorship and content pact with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to be the leading sponsor of the 2015 WSOP in Las Vegas and the 2015 WSOP Europe (WSOPE).

Read more » 888poker & WSOP Teams Up

Nevada Poker Revenue was $8.53 million in the month of February. According to Card Player magazine, the revenue in February 2014 was $9.27 million, which equals a 8 percent drop this February compared to last year.

Read more » 8% Dip In Poker Revenues For Nevada

We, BankrollMob, are very happy and proud to announce that we'll soon be opening five betting shops in Europe. The shops will be located in London, Lyon, Minsk, Warsaw and Riga, and it will be possible to bet on all types of sports, including football, tennis, trotting and golf, as well as request bonuses available on BankrollMob's website.

Read more » BankrollMob To Open Betting Shops

7,000 players entered last week's Sunday Million on PokerStars, which meant that a prize pool of $1,400,000 was up for grabs. In total, 1,080 places were paid with $210,000 put aside for the last man/women standing.

Read more » Sunday Million: UK's 'Legadzo' Wins $182k After Three-Way Deal

Hello mobsters, westside1950 writing.  I hope you had a succesfull previous week, I didn't play much of my HU SNGs, still made some small profit though. I ended the month with around 400€ profit (mostly on Pokerstars, less on some other sites I play), so I'm pretty satisfied with my month.

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The final day of the €10,300 High Roller saw 18 players returning to the tables on Saturday. All were guaranteed €32,300 each, but, of course, everyone's eyes were on the first-place prize of €597,000!

Read more » EPT Malta: David Peters Wins The High Roller And €597,000!

Valentin Messina (7,805,000) and Jean Montury (7,185,000), both from France, were at the top of the chip counts when the first ever EPT Malta Main Event final table kicked off on Saturday.

The French duo used their big stacks well and made it to heads up after several hours of play. After coming back from a dinner break, they quickly agreed on a deal: Messina was guaranteed €615,000 while Montury secured €587,000, and there was still €100,000 left to play for.

Read more » Jean Montury Wins The First Ever EPT Malta Main Event

Ten levels were completed on the second day of the €10k High Roller, and it was American poker pro Nick Petrangelo (1.1 million USD in live tournament earnings) who bagged up the chip lead when the day came to an end. Petrangelo will bring 1.66 million chips to the final day and is up against another 17 players for the title, the €597,000 first-place prize and a luxurious SLYDE watch.

Read more » EPT Malta High Roller: Nick Petrangelo Leads Final 18

Dominik Panka, best known for winning the 2014 PCA Main Event for $1.4 million, is the biggest name among the finalists of the first ever EPT Malta Main Event. The Polish poker pro was all in at least three time during Day 5, and he rived an ace in one of them to beat the pocket kings of Fedor Holz, who was the chip leader at one point but finished in 9th place (offical final table bubble).

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: The Final Table Is Set - Dominik Panka Looking To Win A Second EPT Title!

The first day of the EPT Malta €10,300 High Roller drew a massive field of 228 unique players who made a total of 61 re-entries. This means that 289 entries have been made so far, plus registration is open till 11:45 a.m. today. The current prize pool is over €2.8 million - just €1.5 million less than the Main Event (895 entries).

Read more » EPT Malta High Roller: 289 Entries So Far!

The final table of the first ever EPT Malta Main Event is getting closer and closer as only 23 players out of 895 entries remain after four thrilling days of play. Czech Republic's Antonin Duda will bring the biggest stack (3.4 million) into the the fifth day.

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: Antonin Duda Leads Final 23

Just as the previous three days, Day 3 of the EPT Malta Main Event ended with a new chip leader, Javier Gomez. The Spaniard, who qualified for the tournament through a €250 satellite, bagged up 1,690,000 and is now guaranteed €12,800 - with the chance of going all the way to the top prize of €810,400!

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: 56 Players Left, Satellite Qualifier Out In Front

Another six players entered Day 2 of the EPT Malta Main Event to bring the total field size to 895 players and a prize pool of €4,340,750 - of which 121 players will receive a share of (the winner will take home €810,400).

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: 186 Players Ready For Day 3

A massive field of 629 runners entered Day 1B of the EPT Malta Main Event, which brings the total to 899 entries - with registration open until tomorrow at noon. This means that the tournament is already the second-largest debut for a new destination on the European Poker Tour.

Read more » EPT Malta: Max Silver Tops Massive Day 1B Field

The first day of the first ever European Poker Tour Main Event in Malta has come to an end. Approximately 260 players turned up for Day 1A, and 153 remained after eight 75-minute levels of play in the Grand Masters Suite of the Portomaso Casino.

Read more » The First Ever EPT Malta Main Event Has Started

Hello mobsters, this is your blogger westside1950 writing (dknight217 on Pokerstars), I hope you all had good and successful week. I wrote about a week ago about my plan to go and play Spin&Go's on Pokerstars.

Read more » ''Accept rematch?''

Micro Millions, the richest low-stakes tournament series in poker, kicked off on March 19. In total, 100 events will be played until March 29 with $5,000,000 in guaranteed cash prizes!

With buy-ins starting from as little as $0.111, this is the perfect tournament series for all type of players. Besides some massive prize pools, there are also a Player of the Series prizes up for grabs. Visit PokerStars website for further information or click one of the links below. Good luck!

At around 14:30 on Friday, after four intensive days of poker, Connor Drinan and Dzmitry Urbanovich were the last men standing from a field of 88 entries of the European Poker Tour Malta €25,000 High Roller.

Read more » Dzmitry Urbanovich Wins EPT Malta High Roller (€572,300)

The €25,000 buy-in High Roller is down to a final table of eight players after three intensive days of play in Malta. Connor Drinan, who bagged up 893k after nearly 10 levels of play, will lead the way to today's final table.

Read more » EPT Malta €25,000 High Roller: Connor Drinan Leads Final 8

Just five days after being eliminated in 6th place on the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star Main Event final table, Ravee Mathi Sundar won the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder $3,500 Main Event! In total, he topped a field of 379 players to claim his first WPT title, $266,857 in prize money and a $15,400 entro into the season-ending WPT World Championship at Borgata Casino in Atlantic City.

Read more » Ravee Mathi Sundar Wins WPT Rolling Thunder

On Tuesday, PokerStars announced that it had signed Japanese celebrity Yuiko Matsukawa as a new brand ambassador. Matsukawa is 24-year-old actress and model who recently received significant public attention in Japan by starring as the heroine of recent release Terrace House Closing Door, a movie based on a reality TV show series about six men and women living in a shared house.

Read more » PokerStars Signs Yuiko Matsukawa

Pokerstars' $9m Anniversary Sunday Million kicked off last Sunday and went on for 15 hours before the field of 50,432 had turned into 1 remaining player. The winner was BRAYDEN93, located in Mexico, and he left the table with no less than $597,720. The first prize was initially said to be +$1 million but due to a deal that was agreed on between the players it turned out that the second place paid out more than the first place.
Read more » $9 million anniversary Sunday Million winner