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The six-handed final table of the WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event lasted for 156 hands until Dan Smith defeated Gary Benson heads-up to lay hands on the massive $1,161,135 first prize, a WPT Champions Trophy and a $15,400 seat into the season-ending WPT World Championship in April, 2014.

Read more » Dan Smith Wins WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic! ($1,161,135)

The final table of six is finally set after 5 intensive days of play at Bellagio in Las Vegas. It took about 9 hours of play for the final 21 players to become a final table of 6 in the 5th day of the tournament. Dan Smith, a very experienced live tournament player with over $4.5m in winnings to date, bagged up the largest stack (3.9 million) at the end of play, and the only other player to accumulate over 3 million chips was Gary Benson (3.1 million).

Read more » WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic: Dan Smith Leads Final Table!

Another day of thrilling poker has come to an end at Bellagio in Las Vegas. Jean-Robert Bellande will lead the final 21 players with 1.6 million chips to the fifth day, which begins in a few hours. Other players that will bring healthy stacks to the tables today include Eddy Sabat (1,026,000), Christian Harder (980,000), and Joe Serock (949,000).

Read more » WPT Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic: 21 Players Remain

World number on tennis player Rafa Nadal will play his first live poker tournament this week! Nadal will be competing for a €100,000 charity prize pool (as part of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague poker festival) together with several well-known faces, including Ukrainian footballer Andriy Shevchenko, Italian skier Alberto Tomba, Team PokerStars Pro Daniel Negreanu, and Brazilian football legend Ronaldo! The latter is someone who the 27-year-old Spaniard seems especially eager to play against...

"Ronaldo has always been a hero of mine and I'm looking forward to taking him on at the poker table," Nadal said in statement last week. "The great thing about poker is that it's a common ground for us to compete on, and there are many similarities between sport and poker strategy, so it will be good to see how he translates his game from the football field to the poker felt."

The World Poker Tour Five Diamonds World Poker Classic has been running over the weekend at Bellagio in Las Vegas. A total of 449 players entered the competition and there are 59 players remaining after 3 days of play. The chip leader is Don Nguyen with 774,500, and he will be joined at the poker tables tonight by several poker stars, including Dan O'Brien (504,500), Brian Rast (459,500), Joe Serock (430,000), Jeff Madsen (353,500) and Scotty Nguyen (149,500).

The money bubble will burst when 45 players remain, which should occur early in Day 4. A minimum cash is worth $21,700 and the winner will take home an increadible $1,161,135! Tune back in tomorrow for another update!

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The televised final table at the World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event concluded yesterday with Derrick Rosenbarger as the champion! Rosenbarger, from Clovis, New Mexico, began the final table in 5th place and was well behind chip leader Sylvain Siebert (8.4m), Serge Cantin (6.9m) and Mukul Pahuja (5.9m).

Read more » PartyPoker WPT Montreal: Derrick Rosenbarger is the Winner!

Only six players remain after four days of intensive play at the PartyPoker WPT Montreal Main Event at the Playground Poker Club in Canada. Day 3 chip leader Sylvain Siebert is still in the lead and will bring 8.4 million chips to today's televised final table.

Read more » Final Table Set @ WPT Montreal

This Sunday December 8 at 19:00 CET (6pm GMT), William Hill Poker is hosting an exclusive tournament for all eligible members of BankrollMob. William Hill Poker has added €200 in cash to be distributed among the top 3 plus a €55 Entry Token for the winner! The minimum amount of players in this tournament is 10 so make sure you register!

Tournament details
Tournament Name: BankrollMob Exclusive
Tournament registration Date/time: Immediately
Tournament Date/time: 19:00 CET / 6pm GMT Sunday 8th December 2013
Tournament Password: 123abc
Advertiser Restricted: BankrollMob affiliated players only - click here and get one!
Min number of players: 10                   
Max number of players: 5,000
Prize: First place wins €55 Entry Token + cash prize!
Added: €200
Buy-in: €5
Starting Stack: 2000
Blinds: 10 minutes
Late Reg: Yes, 1 HOUR

No account at William Hill Poker yet? Click here and sign up trough BankrollMob and get a first deposit bonus of 200% up to £1,200!

Players residing in the following countries/regions are NOT eligible for this bonus: Australia, Belgium, Bulgaria, Cuba, Cyprus, Denmark, Estonia, France, French Guiana, Greece, Guadeloupe, Hong Kong, Iran, Israel, Italy, Libya, Martinique, Myanmar (Burma), North Korea, Norway, Philippines, Réunion, Spain, Sudan, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, USA (including incorporated and unincorporated territories).

It's seems like there was a very interesting high-stakes game running in Las Vegas in the past weekend. Los Angeles-based multimillionaire and poker player Dan Bilzerian, who's best known for his wild lifestyle and parties, recently claimed on twitter to have won $10.8 million in just one night playing heads-up poker.

Read more » High Stakes: Bilzerian Wins $10.8M in Vegas!

The Main Event's player field was narrowed down from 59 to the final 18 in just six hours in Day 3, and the survivors will return to the poker tables in a few hours to battle it out for the 6 spots at the televised final table - where the winner will take home half a million dollars!

The current chip leader is Sylvain Sibert who eliminated several players in Day 3 to accumulate the top stack of 2.9 million. Other players that will bring +2 million stacks to Day 4 include Derrick Rosenbarger (2,875,000), Alexandre Lavigne (2,197,000), Antoine Berube (2,156,000), Marco Cannizzaro (2,156,000) and Mukul Pahuja (2,003,000)

Read more » PartyPoker WPT Montreal: Poker Babe Lily Kiletto Among final 18

Only 59 of 862 players remain after two days (well, four days if you include the starting days) of intensive poker at the PartyPoker World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event.

Although a lot of big names fell during Day 2, including Phil Laak, Matt Salsberg, Gavin Smith and Antonio Esfandiari, there are still quite a few familiar faces left in the mix of players who still have the chance of going all the way to the title and the top prize of half a million dollars!

Read more » PartyPoker WPT Montreal: Ludovic Lacay Leads Final 59

On Monday, the final table of the World Poker Tour Regional Seminole Hard Rock "Rock 'n' Poker Open" Main Event (holy cow that's a long name) in Hollywood concluded with no one else than Matthew "Matt" Waxman, of USA, as the champion! The tournament attracted 482 players and Waxman received $123,598 after defeating Yuan Yangshen heads-up. Yangshen only received $1 less than Waxman thanks to a heads-up deal.

Final table results:

1 Matthew Waxman $123,598*
2 Yuan Yangshen $123,597*
3 Tyler Stafman $65,504
4 Tom Gleason $48,441
5 Darryll Fish $36,367
6 Mark Morono $29,135
7 John Pizano $24,295
8 Kevin Spires $19,375
9 Javier Prado $14,532
* Reflects a heads-up deal

Poker professional Eric Riley, 32, got a ride to the JetBlue terminal last Wednesday from a new-found friend named Junior, who he had met a few days earlier at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City.

Once they arrived at Terminal 5, Riley got out of the car to collect his bag, which contained $100,000 in cash after a big win in Atlantic City, in the trunk. Unfortunately the greed got the best of his so-called friend who took off from the terminal with the trunk still open just as he was about to grab his bag.

Read more » Poker Pro Escapes Robbery - Twice in 1 Day!

Christmas has returned again this year and so has our Christmas Calendar promotion, with even more prizes during December 1st-24th than our calendar usually has in all the other months during the year. Click here to visit the Christmas Calendar now!

Below is an overview of our Christmas Calendar promotion this season:

Prizes

Prizes vary from day to day but on average there's about 100 prizes per day, ranging from MobPoints to tournament entries and stuff like that.

If you have anything you would like to add as a prize in the Christmas Calendar as well, then please feel free to contact us - we will of course make sure that you/your company is mentioned Read more » BankrollMob Christmas Calendar with $15,000+ in prizes

Two of three starting days at the 2013 PokerStars UK and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) Nottingham Main Event are in the books. A total of 194 players have entered the tournament so far and 78 of them have made it through to Day 2. The current overall chip leader is Mitch Johnson (picture), from nearby Derby, who bagged up an impressive 171,500 at the end of Day 1A.

Poker legend Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot and Alan Gold, the 2013 Full Tilt Poker UKIPT Galway Main Event winner, are two of the most interesting players that will join Johnson for Day 2 this Saturday. Hopefully there will be a a few more interesting names in the mix after Day 1C concludes tonight.

Are you tired of the cold and want to spend Christmas sipping cocktails in the sun on a paradise island in the Caribbean? Maybe you want to be able to finally afford the car of your dreams and enter Las Vegas via the Interstate 15 from California at night?!? Whatever your dreams might be, you can make them come true in December on PokerStars!

A total of $27,000,000 is at stake on PokerStars during the month of December! Starting this Sunday (December 1), old favourites such as Golden Sit & Go's and Milestone hands will return along with some new promotions, including the brand new WCOOP Challenge Series ($10,000,000 guaranteed) and December Mission Week.

There are tournaments to cater for all bankrolls and cheap satellites are running around the clock. Don't miss out on this fantastic opportunity! This can be the best (and wealthiest) Christmas of your life! Good luck and may the flop be with you!

We are looking for 10 members who are serious about blogging long term and want to share their daily activities and thoughts with our +548,000 members! Your blog doesn't necessary have to be about poker and/or gambling only, but it's great if you try to stick to it as much as possible.

What's in it for me?
Although we won't be able to pay anyone in the beginning of this exciting "project", we will give you a fantastic opportunity of reaching out to thousands of poker, bingo, casino and sportsbetting lovers all over the world!

How do I publish?
It's very simple, actually. If you are one of the selected bloggers, then just e-mail your article (and any photos you want to include) to us and we will publish it here on BankrollMob (Monday-Friday). It couldn't be easier for you!

How do I apply? (Today until December 31)
Simply send an e-mail to [email protected] with a few words about yourself (Name and surname, interests etc) along with a complete blog post (doesn't have to be a new one) that we can compare with other applicants.

A big congratulations to Sorel Mizzi, the winner of the star-filled $125,000 PartyPoker Premier League VII. The event, which consisted of 12 world-known poker professionals, wrapped up yesterday after several days of play at the Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada.

Read more » Sorel Mizzi Wins partypoker Premier League VII ($466,000)

PokerStars has launched a new promotion where one can get to play poker's biggest names for $1,000,000 on television! The Shark Cage is a new TV show where world-known poker professionals, Team PokerStars Pro and a few "lucky" PokerStars qualifiers will compete in eight heats (will be filmed at EPT events). Each heat will see five poker pros and one online qualifier battle it out for a seat in the final, will be played at EPT London, where the winner will take home $1,000,000 (winner takes all). Online qualifier tournaments are played daily at 15:00 ET from November 25-30. Good luck!

Current promotions:

100% up to $600 Deposit Bonus
Leaderboard ($21,400 IN PRIZES - NOV. 1 TO JAN. 31!!)
Daily leaderboard freerolls

Read more » Shark Cage, a new TV Show by PokerStars

The 6th edition of PokerStars MicroMillions concluded yesterday with the $1 million guaranteed Main Event! The tournament ($22 buy-in) saw 65,397 entries that pushed the prize pool up to an incredible $1,307,940. The top 8,505 players were going to get paid and $167,090.74 was set aside for the winner.

However, at the end of the night, the winner ended up taking home "only" $126,000. Due to a three-way deal, the largest chunk of the prize pool ($128,842.57) went to German "ZAR84" who was eliminated in third place.

Read more » "TheManM" From Brazil Wins MicroMillions Main Event ($126,000)

On Sunday, the World Poker Tour Caribbean $3,500 Main Event wrapped up at Casino Royale in St. Marteen with WPT's very own Tony Dunst as champion! The WPT Raw Deal host overcame a very tough final table that included two former WPT champions, Marvin Rettenmaier and Giacoma Fundaro, to earn his first major tournament title and a sweet $145,000 first place prize + $15,400 seat into the WPT World Championship (Borgata, May 2014)! This was his fifth WPT cash (third largest cash of his career) and the second final table.

Final table results:
1st:  Tony Dunst - $145,000
2nd:  Giacomo Fundaro - $100,000
3rd:  Severin Schleser - $63,500
4th:  Marvin Rettenmaier - $46,800
5th:  Zoltan Purak - $35,900
6th:  Robert Bakker - $28,700

The next stop on the World Poker Tour is the PartyPoker WPT Montreal that runs from Nov. 29 - Dec. 5. We will keep you updated from start to finish on this event, so make sure to check our news section every day for the latest updates.

World tennis number one and PokerStars Team SportStars member Rafael Nadal, 27, will play his first-ever live poker tournament next month! According to PokerStars, The 13-time Grand Slam champion will participate in a charity tournament on December 12 in conjunction with European Poker Tour's stop in Prague, Czech Republic.

Read more » Nadal To Play First Live Poker Tournament!

The second day at the World Poker Tour Carribean Main event came to a close just a few moments ago. There are 32 players left in the tournament and the chip leader is Thomas Laviano with 402,000.

Other big stacks at the end of Day 2 included Jean-Nicolas Fortin (361,500), Tony Dunst (282,000) and Day 1 chip leader Ebony Kenney, who bagged up 258,000 (7th place) at the end of play.

Read more » WPT Caribbean: 32 Players Survived Day 2