Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.
I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.
As you may have read in my last piece, being the Prince of Freerolls doesn't exactly pay the bills. You can't pay for dinner with tournaments tickets, you know?
But what does, sort of, pay the bills is working as a Poker Dealer at one of them live poker places. The ones where you someone has to count out the bet sizes every time, and the ones where you usually don't have the correct combinations and chips, and some poor sap has to give you change every time.
On Monday evening, Jonathan Gaviao was crowned the champion of Harrah's Tunica Main Event, the 13th stop on the 2013/2014 World Series of Poker Circuit. Gaviao, a 23-year-old College Station, Texas resident, bested a field of 577 entries to lay hands on $181,757 in prize money, his first gold ring and a seat in the National Championship.
"It's wonderful," he said. "It's always nice to win a ring and make a little bit of money. I couldn't ask for anything more."
Final table results:
1st: Jonathan Gaviao - $181,757 2nd: Carter Myers - $112,420 3rd: Charles Hopkins - $82,205 4th: Brad Lipsey - $61,000 5th: Jackson White - $45,897 6th: David Lee - $35,009 7th: Cord Garcia - $27,073 8th: Bryan McMullin - $21,222 9th: Timothy Tracy - $16,860
A big congratulations to Sotirios Koutoupas, the winner of the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event! Koutoupas, 31, bested a field of 671 players, incudling Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov heads-up - who had the chance to complete poker's triple crown (EPT, WPT and WSOP titles), to lay hands on the €614,000 first place prize, an exclusive Slyde watch, a large trophy, and (possibly best of all) he became the first ever Greek champion after almost 10 full season of the EPT!
"It was my time now, it was my time to win," Koutoupas said. "I was very lucky today in some situations, but that's poker. Everything went well for me."
Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest. I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.
Section 1: Poker Tips & Concepts Today's tip is a very important one for players who are constantly being forced to reload their bankrolls. You need to ask yourself some hard questions. Things you might not want to really face about yourself.
It is possible that you have really just been unlucky and that variance has just been totally kicking your teeth in repeatedly. However you might need to face the very real possibility that you have some major leaks in your poker game. If you are constantly losing money over a long time then you are a losing pla want to really face about yourself.
My bankroll has grown over 3K and I have started to play higher limit SnG's and moved to $20 and $50, and also once in a while taking shots at the $60 buy-in SnG's...depending on what players been sitting at the tables.
Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.
I am a semi-pro poker player and an author. I am currently working on several projects for publication, and will be discussing them on occasion in this blog. If you are a fan then I warn you, from time to time there will be spoiler book ideas discussed.
I’m looking at my bankroll right now and it says $0.34. Over the last six months it’s said anywhere between $0.00 and $12.56, but right now it says $0.34. Thirty four cents. About the same price as a Milky Bar, or one of them crappy candles that are about the size of the ‘OK’ sign you can make with your hand.
Thirty four cents is not a lot of money, but I dread to think how many hours I took to earn it. How much that thirty cents has cost me in blood.
Only 16 players remain after 4 days of intensive play at the EPT Deauville Main Event. The remaining players have already outlasted 96% of the field, but only 50% of the remaining players will make it to the final table. Sotirios Koutiupas holds the lead heading into Day 5 with 2.6 million in chips. The Greek poker professional had a runner-up finish at EPT9 Prague. Will he get his first EPT title now?
Now, the biggest name among the remaining 16 is, of course, Team PokerStars Pro Eugene Katchalov from Ukraine. Katchalov will enter the 5th day of play 10th in chips with a below average 1 million. However, he is by far the most experienced of the remaining players, so don't be surprised if he's among the finalists tomorrow, fighting for the first prize of €614,00, a Slyde watch, the trophy and not to forget Poker's Triple Crown! (EPT, WPT and WSOP titles).
On Tuesday, Todd Brunson tweeted that a well-known poker figure had been caught red-handed stealing chips from another player at the Bellagio. The victim of the crime (a player from Japan, described as "The Jap") noticed that $800 had gone missing from his pile of chips after returning from the bathroom. The dealer informed the floor manager, who in turn asked security to check the cameras. They quickly found out that three-time WSOP bracelet winner Chau Giang, 58, was the man behind the crime.
This is my first post to the blog and I will start with a brief introduction of myself. Here we go! I am a young guy from Finland with 2 dreams in life: to become a tennis professional and/or become a poker professional (of course!).
144 players of 671 entries remain after 3 action-packed days (1A, 1B and 2) of poker in Casino Barriere in France. There's a sweet €3.22 million prize pool up for grabs and the money bubble will burst when 95 players remain. A minimum cash is worth €9,500 and the eventual winner will take home €614,000, a Slyde watch, and a huge trophy!
Both starting days at the 2014 European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event (played at Casino Barriere [France]) are in the books. Day 1A saw 234 runners and 433 players signed up for Day 1B and approximately 380 players will return to the poker tables today at noon. Ayman Zbib of Lebanon is the overall chip leader with a stack of 181,400; he will be joined today by several big names in the poker world, including Team PokerStars ProsBertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (picture - dressed up as a popular video game character for Day 1B. Can you guess who?) and Alex Kravchenko of Russia.
Registration will remain open until the beginning of Day 2, so we will know the final number of entrants (and prizepool) later on today. We will be back with another brief report tomorrow morning.
First things first (for those who don't know the story already). On January 18th the New Jersey Department of Gaming Enforcement cancelled the opening event ($2 million guarantee prizeopool) of the 2014 Borgata Winter Poker Open after concluding that someone had used a significant number of counterfeit chips in the tournament. On Friday, AP (Associated Press) reported that Christian Lusardi, 42, was arrested in Atlantic City in connection with the Borgata chip cheating scandal.
The 2014 Turbo Championship of Online Poker kicked off yesterday with four action-packed tournaments. The fast-paced tournament series is running until February 2, 2014, with over $15 million in prize money spread across 50 events! TCOOP offers buy-ins for all bankrolls and (as always) there are cheap satellites to all events running around the clock. The Main Event ($700 buy-in) is scheduled for February 2 and the winner is guaranteed to take home at least $300k from the $2 million prize pool!
The Swedish Full Tilt Poker Professional Viktor "Isildur1" Blom is on an incredible winning streak at the moment! After a pretty bad start to the new year, suffering approximately $600k in losses during the first 2 weeks, Blom has turned things around and is now up an incredible $1.7 million (43,879 hands)!
Don Johnson is a living legend in the world of Blackjack. During a period of six months, the 50-year-old Pennsylvanian businessman and high roller won $15 million at Blackjack tables in Atlantic City's casinos ($6 million from the Tropicana, $5 million from the Borgata and $4 million from Caesar's). He doesn't cheat, count cards or steal. How did he do it? Check out the video below (The Player: Secrets of a Vegas Whale) to find out!
The European Poker Tour has made its annual return to Deauville, France. The tournament festivities will run January 22 - February 1 with close to 50 tournament scheduled, including the €5,000 + €300 buy-in Main Event on January 26 and the €10,000 + €300 High Roller (re-entry) on January 30. The Main Event attracted 782 players (€3,753,600 prize pool) to the Casino de Deaville last year and Frenchman Remi Castaignon ended up winning the whole thing for a first prize of €770,000; the High Roller was won by Vojtech Ruzicka (from Czech Republic) who overcome a field of 71 players (14 rebuys were made) to lay hands on €313,000!
We will keep you update on both the Main Event and the High Roller, so make sure to check our news section ever day for the latest news from Deauville!
FOX Sports 1 will broadcast the first ever episode of the World Poker Tour Alpha8, televised high-stakes poker tournaments held at the most prestigious gaming resorts in the world, on Sunday, March 16 at 10 pm ET. First out is the WPT Alpha8 Florida event that was played at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida, last year. The event attracted 21 entries ($100,000 buy-in) and the winner took home a first place prize of $891,660!
The show is hosted by Lynn Gilmartin and Ali Nejad and Oliver Busquet are the commentators. Here is a preview of the first episode.
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...
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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!
James Akenhead, 30, was living the poker dream back in 2009. He finished 9th in the WSOP Main Event for $1.2 million, then he followed that up by winning Full Tilt Poker Million VIII for another $500k to end the year just under $2m plus. He was the hottest name in UK poker at that time, and many predicted that he would have a long and successfull poker career.
The first starting flight of PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour Main Event drew 116 entries, including big names such as Team PokerStars representative Jake Cody (busted), 2012 EPT San Remo winner Rupert Elder (41,300) and Max Silver (busted), who has 2 UKIPT titles to his name since 2010.
In case you missed it, PokerStars is helping its players kick-start 2014 by giving away more than half a million dollars in cash and over 10,000 exclusive gifts. The challenge is underway and runs every day until January 31st. All you have to do to participate is to opt-in using the Star code 'CHALLENGE'.
On Monday evening, Jonathan Gaviao was crowned the champion of Harrah's Tunica Main Event, the 13th stop on the 2013/2014 World Series of Poker Circuit. Gaviao, a 23-year-old College Station, Texas resident, bested a field of 577 entries to lay hands on $181,757 in prize money, his first gold ring and a seat in the National Championship.
Welcome mobsters, if you are reading this blog for the very first time, I thank you for your initial interest. I think that if you give it a little time, you will find something that will peak your interest.
This is my first post to the blog and I will start with a brief introduction of myself. Here we go! I am a young guy from Finland with 2 dreams in life: to become a tennis professional and/or become a poker professional (of course!).
The 2014 Turbo Championship of Online Poker kicked off yesterday with four action-packed tournaments. The fast-paced tournament series is running until February 2, 2014, with over $15 million in prize money spread across 50 events! TCOOP offers buy-ins for all bankrolls and (as always) there are cheap satellites to all events running around the clock. The Main Event ($700 buy-in) is scheduled for February 2 and the winner is guaranteed to take home at least $300k from the $2 million prize pool! 
The European Poker Tour has made its annual return to Deauville, France. The tournament festivities will run January 22 - February 1 with close to 50 tournament scheduled, including the €5,000 + €300 buy-in Main Event on January 26 and the €10,000 + €300 High Roller (re-entry) on January 30. The Main Event attracted 782 players (€3,753,600 prize pool) to the Casino de Deaville last year and Frenchman Remi Castaignon ended up winning the whole thing for a first prize of €770,000; the High Roller was won by Vojtech Ruzicka (from Czech Republic) who overcome a field of 71 players (14 rebuys were made) to lay hands on €313,000!
In case you missed it, 
