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Only 16 of 604 players remain in the EPT London Main Event after four days of play. David "MissOracle" Yan will lead the way to Day 5 with a stack of 2.3 million. Yan, 19, has Supernova Elite status on PokerStars and finished sixth in the 2013 Aussie Million Main Event for $232,254.

Read more » EPT London: David "MissOracle" Yan Leads Final 16

It took four levels of play for 106 players to become 45 players at the third day of the EPT London Main Event. None of the survivors were former main event winners or Team PokerStars Pros, but there are quite a few interesting names left in the mix - including Day 2 chip leader Tudor Purice (825k), EPT London Super High Roller finalist Timothy Adams (271k), poker legend David "Devilfish" Ulliot (250k) and Viktor Blom's big brother Sebastian Blom (216k).

The remaining 45 players are guaranteed a minimum payday of £11,425 with the chance of going all the way to the title and laying hands on the first prize of £560,980! The current chip leader is Martin Kozlov with 1,351,000. Besides Kozlov, only another two players (Ludovic Geilich and David Yan) will bring over a million chips into Day 4. 

We will be back tomorrow morning with another brief update!

In case you missed it: The 2013 European Poker Tour London Main Event kicked off a few days ago and attracted a 604-player field. Now, after 2 days of play, there are about 110 players left and Tudor Purice, from Romania, is the chip leader with 628,200 chips.

Read more » EPT London: Tudor Purice Leads The Way Into Day 3

It's been reported that Viktor "Isildur" Blom was the player that profited most of the cashgame highstake players last week. Blom made a profit of close to $2 million after a pretty long down swing. On the other side of the spectrum, Phil Ivey is topping the minus league of last week.

The WCOOP 2013 Main Event concluded with three German players in the top. With a buy-in of $5,200, 2,133 players and a total prize pool of  $10,665,000.00, the germanic top three all earned +$1 million from the 26 hour main event battle.

The winner of the event was a player called PlayinWasted who, according to several sources, is just 22 years old and used to play low cash stakes not longer than two years ago.
Read more » 22 year old takes home WCOOP 2013 Main Event

This year's 10 finalists for the Poker Hall Of Fame were unveiled the other day. Six of ten nominees were players who were nominated to the 2012 Poker Hall Of Fame: Chris Bjorin, Thor Hansen, Jennifer Harman, Scotty Nguyen, David Chiu and Tom McEvoy. The other four nominees were Mike Matusow, Humberto Brenes, Carlos Mortensen and Huck Seed, who had made the top finalists list in 2011.

Read more » 2013 Poker Hall Of Fame: "And the nominees are...."

On Tuesday, the world's largests poker site announced that the 2014 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) will once again be played at Atlantis Resort in the Bahamas. The tournament will be run from January 5th until January 13th and consist of 39 events, including a $100,000 Super High Roller and a $25,500 High Roller. The biggest news though is that the Main Event will have a $10,000,000 guarantee!

Read more » $10,000,000 Guaranteed Main Event at 2014 PCA!

Wynn Resorts, a publicly traded corporation based in Paradise, Nevada that is a developer and operator of high end hotels and casinos, will team up with 888 Holdings for online gaming. 888 and Avenue Capital Group teamed up to create the "All American Poker Network" where Wynn Interactive's online gaming site will operate. According to bluff magazine, the online site has already began the licensing process in both Nevada and New Jersey and will move into additional states as regulation open in other markets.

"This is exactly the type of partnership we've envisioned when we formed AAPN with our partners in Avenue Capital," 888 CEO Brian Mattingley said in a statement. "The challenge of establishing a robust, entertaining offering with ample player liquidity is one of our prime goals, in direct continuum to 888′s success in other regulated markets such as Spain and Italy."

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On Friday, the last six players of a 1,189-player field battled it out on the 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open final table. At the end of the night, after nearly eight levels of play, Anthony Zinno stood tall as the winner after defeating Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst heads-up.

Read more » WPT Borgata Poker Open: Anthony Zinno Defeated Vanessa Selbst For The Title!

The 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open final table is set after four intensive days of play at the Borgata Casino in Atlantic City! Day 3 chip leader Cong Pham and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (the highest-earning woman in poker) will lead the remaining 6 players into tomorrow's televised final table. The average chip count is 5.9 million and Pham has a healthy stack of 10.1 million while Selbst has 7.9 million.

Seat 1. Eric Fields - 3,150,000 (31 bb)
Seat 2. Anthony Zinno - 6,935,000 (69 bb)
Seat 3. Vanessa Selbst - 7,910,000 (79 bb)
Seat 4. David Randall - 3,520,000 (35 bb)
Seat 5. Jeremy Kottler - 3,925,000 (39 bb)
Seat 6. Cong Pham - 10,190,000 (101 bb)

Read more » WPT Borgata Poker Open: Pham and Selbst Lead Final Table

According an article in The Examiner, one shouldn't look at a player's face for clues whether they have a good/bad hand. That's right! New research suggests an experienced poker player's face won't reveal any signs of a good or a band hand, however, there are still other clues in the body language.

Researches have found that arm movements of experienced poker players were more predictable of good/bad cards than clues revealed by the face. Apparently there's a difference in when players moved their arms to move chips forward to make a bet. The ones holding good cards had more smoother arm movements while the ones with bad cards had awkward arm movements.

Another action-filled day of poker is in the books at Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey and now there are only 36 players left out of 1,189 entries, which means that the final table, where some serious cash is up for grabs, is just around the corner! Cong Pham will lead the remaining players into Day 4 with 2.5 million chips, and other top stacks are Jake Schwartz (2,145,000), David Johnston (2,050,000), David Randall (2,020,000), and Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst (1,739,000).

All the remaining players are guaranteed a minimum cash of $14,777 - with the chance of taking home the first prize of a whopping $825,099! We will be back with another brief update tomorrow, so stay tuned!

The third day at the World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open kicks off at noon ET today and the plan is to play until only 27 players remain. When the cards are in the air, Raj Vohra (+$740k in tournament winnings) is the chip leader with 580,700 amongst the remaining squad of 174 players. Vohra will be joined at the tables by Day 2 chip leader Paul Volpe (337,000); Champions Club members Scott Seiver (304,500) Jonathan Little (260,500) and Matt Salsberg (144,000), and several other familiar faces.

The money bubble will burst when 110 players remain (min cash: $7,123) and the winner of the tournament will take home a sweet $825,099! Check back tomorrow for another update.

On Monday, Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier final tabled World Championship Of Online Poker Event #24, a $700 buy-in NLHE tournament that saw 3,491 entries. After several hours of play on the final table and "chosewinner" had been eliminated in 5th place, Mercier and the other three players paused the clock to look at a potential deal. The chip counts were:

Seat 3: Pimmss (11,313,802 in chips)
Seat 6: romanooo64 (6,747,940 in chips)
Seat 7: JasonMercier (7,117,900 in chips)
Seat 8: vovanmillion (9,730,358 in chips)

Read more » PokerStars WCOOP: Mercier Finishes 3rd In Event #24

On Monday, Day 1B at Borgata Hotel and Casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey concluded with close to 440 players of 813 entries! A total of 595 players of 1,189 will return to play later on today and Paul Volpe (picture) has the biggest stack of chips! Volpe, an American pro with over $2 million in live tournament earnings, finished Day 1B with 231,850 chips to earn a $5,000 bonus, and Anthony Castelli bagged up the second largest stack (203,950) to receive a $3,500 bonus.

The top 110 players will cash for at least $7,123 each from the $3,805,989 prize pool, the winner will get an incredible $825,099, and $17,000 is set aside to pay the chip leader bonuses for Day 1A and 1B.

We will be back with another update tomorrow!

The first Day 1 flight at the 2013 World Poker Tour Borgata Poker Open Main Event attracted 376 players and approximately 180 of them advanced to Day 2. The chip leader at the end of play was Cong Pham (picture) with 191,025 in chips. He will get $5,000 from Borgata as the chip leader yesterday, and $3,500 will be awarded to Besnik Ziba for finishing second in chips with 183,375. 

Several big names fell during Day 1A including Matt Salsberg, Kara Scott, Matt Waxman, Chad Brown and Season XII "One to Watch" Loni Harwood. Luckily all of them (and other players that didn't make it through Day 1A) will have a chance to re-enter today. In fact, according to WPT's website, there will be unlimited re-entries for all players today.

We will be back with another brief update tomorrow!

On Saturday, Will "The Thrill" Failla won his fifth career Borgata Open title by outlasting 159 entries in the $1,090 buy-in no limit hold'em re-entry event (played at The Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, USA)

The American pro received $46,269 for his first-place finish and now holds the all-time record for the most titles at the Borgata Open Series; and his tournament careeer earnings now exceed $4 million!

Read more » "The Thrill" Wins Fifth Borgata Open Title!

The 2013 PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (September 8-29 - $40 Million Guaranteed Across 66 Events) is underway since Sunday and already a big name has won an event!

Read more » 2013 WCOOP: Toby Lewis Wins Event #6 and Liv Boeree Finishes 5th In Event #5

Viktor "isildur1" Blom has been on a terrible downswing in the past few days at Full Tilt Poker's nosebleed tables. The fact is that the young Swede has lost over 1.5 million dollars over the past five days and he's now ranked 8th with a $1.5 million profit on the list of 2013's biggest winners online.

According to highstakesdb, "Sanlker" and Ike "luvtheWNBA" Haxton are two players who have enjoyed Blom's adversity. Sanlker, who's identity is unknown, defeated Blom in an 8-hour-long session on Saturday for $239.3k and Haxton took Blom for $287k in a two-hour session on Sunday. The latter consisted of several coin-flips (most won by Haxton) and some terrible bad beats for Blom.

On Monday, poker veteran Billy "The Croc" Argyros was crowned the champion of the 2013 Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Melbourne Main Event after five intensive days of play at the Crown Poker Room in Melbourne, Australia. The Australian Hall of Famer bested a field of 309 entrants to secure the title and $134,500 - the second biggest live tournament cash of his career!

Apparently, Argyros received his nickname "The Croc" by poker legend Johnny Moss in a satellite event for the 1989 World Series of Poker. He introduced himself as "Crocodile Billy" (a reference to the popular Crocodile Dundee movies) when Moss asked who he was. Moss dubbed him "The Croc" and the name has been with him ever since that day.

The three-day EPT Barcelona High Roller (buy-in €10,000+€300 ) saw a record field of 180 entries - about 40 entries more of the previous record at EPT Season 9 in Berlin - and the biggest chunk of the massive €1,800,000 prize went to Thomas Muhlocker, who defeated Daniel Negreanu heads-up after an incredible comeback.

Read more » EPT Barcelona High Roller: Muhlocker Defeated Negreanu Heads-up

A big congratulations to Thomas "hitthehole" Middleton, the winner of the Season 10 European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event! The tournament attracted a record field of 1,234 players, and on Saturday the final eight players returned to battle it out on the final table. After about five 90-minute levels of play Middleton of UK, who had been the chip leader since Day 3, had all the chips in play and received €942,000, the trophy, and a Slyde watch for the victory.

Final table results:

1st. Thomas Middleton, United Kingdom -- €942,000*
2nd. Kimmo Kurko, Finland -- €750,000*
3rd. Kresten Nielsen, Denmark -- €440,500
4th. Luca Fiorini, Italy -- €328,000
5th. Pasi Sormunen, Finland -- €253,000
6th. Benoit Gury, France - 188,000
7th. Eduard Bhaggoe, Holland -- €143,000
8th. Andreas Christoforou, Cyprus -- €102,430

* reflects a late heads-up deal

Although various players had the chip lead during Day 4, Tom Middleton once again bagged up the lead at the end of play. The Englishman started Day 3 with 1,030,000 chips (the only player with 1m+ chips) and will bring nothing less than 3,986,000 chips to Day 4, which will see 24 players returning to the tables.

Read more » EPT Barcelona Main Event: Tom Middleton Leads Final 24

Gerard Piqué, a Spanish footballer who plays as central defender for FC Barcelona, is doing very well in the €10,000 High Roller! In fact, he built a sweet 308,500 stack during Day 1 and is currently ranked 5th of the remaining 98 players (168 entries in total). Leading the way into Day 2 is Ole Schemion who bagged up 393,600 thanks to some big pots during the last stages of the day.

Besides Schemion and Piqué, big names such as Eugene Katchalov, David Benefield, Chino Rheem and Ludovic Lacay will all bring healthy stacks to Day 2, which begins on Friday at 12 p.m. with registration open until 11:45 a.m. Friday morning. In other words, we might see some late entrants and some players using their second bullet.

Viktor "Isildur1" Blom is doing extremely well at the moment. According to highstakesdb, the young Swede has won $1,5 million in the past three days against SallyWoo, Kyle "PKR16" Ray, OMGClayAiker, Isaak Haxton, and other regulars at Full Tilt's nosebleed tables! The biggest chunk of the profit comes from SallWoo, who lost $716k to Blom in a few sessions of $500/$1000 CAP PLO yesterday.

The winnings will come in handy for Blom who had lost over 2 million dollars in just one week before his incredible winning streak started. He's now up $3,095,932 (289,208) this year - about 200k less than the biggest winner online, "cottonseed1".

source: highstakesdb