Last Thursday, The 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship kicked off at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. However, when it was time for the 16 players from the Spades bracket to take their seats - 1 player was missing: Viktor Blom.
Mike "The Mouth" Matusow is the winner of the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Championship! Matusow defeated Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi in the first round, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom in the second, Barry Greenstein in the third, John Hennigan in the quarterfinals, Scott Seiver in the semifinals and then faced Phil Hellmuth in the best-of-three-series final.
The first round of the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship finished a few moments ago, with 32 players moving on to Round 2. One of the most interesting matches of Round 1 was the one between Viktor "Isildur1" Blom and Andrew Lichtenberger, who Daniel Negreanu predicted would win the tournament.
The 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship ($20,000 buy-in -- invitation-only) begins today and runs for the next 2 days. Viktor Blom, Phil Ivey, Phil Hellmuth, Dan Cates and Tom Dwan are a few of the well-known players who take part in the tournament (64 players in total). Daniel Negreanu, who decided to withdraw from the tournament yesterday, has been replaced by David "Doc" Sands. Here is the official NBC Heads-Up bracket (click to enlarge):
Yesterday Daniel Negreanu announced on twitter that he had dropped out of the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship ($25k buy-in - invitation-only). He didn't say why he had decided to withdraw from the tournament, but he promised to explain in a video later on. Daniel kept his promise as he posted a video last night in which he explained his decision.
On Tuesday, the 2012 European Poker Awards took place at the Aviation Club De Paris (a gambling club/casino in central Paris, France). Kara Scott was the host of the night and received the award Poker Personality of the Year.
We are very happy to inform you that we will continue to offer you an exclusive chance to win a $220 ticket to 888poker's Race Horse Syndicate Qualifier where the winner gets one of 20 shares in a premium racehorse trained by horse racing legend Ralph Beckett. Each share is valued at £3,000!
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Last week a Greek businessman and poker player was sentenced to 7 years in jail for defrauding UK banks out of some 750 million British Pounds. Achilleas "The Don" Kallakis, 44, lived a jet-set lifestyle of high-stakes real estate purchases and casino/poker gambling. In total, he invested in 16 real estates for €120,000,0000 from 2003 to 2008 and had a private jet, helicopter and super yacht moored in Monaco. He was well known on the casino circuit, spending large sums on backgammon and poker.
In case you missed it: Party Poker completed the software merge with bwin in the end of 2012. As a part of the merge, Parter Poker has added $5 million to its monthly tournament guarantees ($15,000,000 in total), with a new tournament starting ever 15 minutes - 365 days a year! Besides that, Party Poker is giving away $10,000 in daily freerolls during January and not to forget our $200 freerolls every Sunday!
After 5 days of play at the Aussie Millions, the first Gold Ring of 2013 was awarded to Ruper Elder. The British poker pro, who won the 2011 EPT San Remo Main Event, bested a field of 1,338 entries in the $1,100 Opening Event and had to overcame 1 former EPT champion and the defending champion in this event, Aussie Brendon Ruble, on the final table. It was a well-deserved win by Elder who now adds $250,000 to a resume that already features over $1.5 million in tournament winnings!
Now all the 64 players who will take part in the 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship (invitation only - $20k buy-in) have been announced. The field will leave no one disappointed as it includes most of the top players in the poker world. Just to mention a few: Tom Dwan, Dan "Jungleman" Cates, Doyle Brunson, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey.
In case you missed it: Daniel Negreanu was featured in the first episode on season 6 of Millionaire Matchmaker. Daniel met up with Patti Stanger, the host of the show, at the Viceroy Hotel in Santa Monica and revealed that he has been on a 6-month break from dating after his last relationship ended. Stanger makes an appointment for Daniel with a astrologer, who tells him "Look for the person who isn't talking to you - Look for the person who isn't coming at you."
The 2013 Turbo Championship of Online Poker (TCOOP) kicked off yesterday and already 4 events are in the books. TCOOP will run until January 27 and a massive $15,000,000 prize pool is spread across 50 fast-paced turbo events.
Two men are each being held on $500,000 bail at the Multnomah County Detention Center because they are being accused of robbing a women in Portland of her approximately $1,000 video poker winnings. The victim told police that she had been at a bar with Nickolas D. Fisher, 22, and Joshua Dean Lauritsen, 25, on the night of January 6. Later that night, she was getting a lift in Lauritsen's car. Lauritsen turned down a side street and stopped while Fisher drove up behind them...
Team PokerStars Online Pro Andre "acoimbra" Coimbra is well known for taking part in some tough challenges, including playing all 100 events of MicroMillions II in 2012. A few days ago he announced that this year's challenge will be to turn $100 into $100,000 by playing tournaments.
On Tuesday, the first 32 players that will take part in NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship were presented. Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Doyle Brunson, 2012 Main Event winner Greg Merson, Erik Seidel, and Barry Greenstein (left to right) are just 6 of the big names that will take part.
In the shadow of the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in Bahamas, the World Series of Poker Bicycle Casino Circuit Main Event kicked off last Monday and attracted a record field of 732 players.
After a short break in 2013, we can now announce that the weekly $200 freeroll at Party Poker has been secured for (rest of) January, February and March.
Will it be extended beyond March? It depends on you guys! If you're active and playing as many of our weekly $200 Party Poker freerolls as possible, then there are very good chances we can keep it going.
In order to play in them, your Party Poker account must be tracked to BankrollMob (created through a link from our site), and you must have earned 50 PartyPoints in the specified time frame (check the description on each freeroll) - this is to ensure the freerolls are for active players.
Vanessa Selbst made history last night when she won the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25k High Roller, earning $1,424,420. The 28-year-old Team PokerStars Pro now has more than $6 million to her name, which means that she's the biggest female winner in tournament poker history (about $1.1 more than former number 1: Kathy Libert).
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25k High Roller attracted 204 entries (44 rebuys). After 2 days of play, the field has now been reduced to 8 players, who will battle it out on tonight's final table - where a $1.4 million first place prize is up for grabs!
The chip leader is Shaun Deeb (picture) with 2,535,000 - almost 1 million more than his closest opponent. Deeb will be joined by the likes of Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, Tobias Reinkeimer from Germany, and Canadian poker pro Michael "SirWatts" Watson, who won over $2 million dollars at live tournaments last year. The final table will be broadcasted (1 hour delay) tonight at 20:00 CET (14:00 ET).
Click here to view the chip counts and prize payouts.
Dimitar Danchev, 27, who finished second in the 2011 EPT San Remo Main Event, is the newest PokerStars Caribbean Adventure champion! Danchev won his seat in the main event through a $700 qualifier, and after six days of play he had turned his investment into an increadible $1,859,000 (total prize pool $9,573,900 - 987 players). Danchev, who primarily is a cash game player, now has more than $1 million in live tournament winnings and is the biggest tournament winner in Bulgarian poker history.
Final table results: 1 Dimitar Danchev $1,859,000 2 Joel Micka $1,190,000 3 Jerry Wong $725,000 4 Jonathan Roy $560,000 5 Owen Crowe $435,000 6 Andrey Shatilov $325,000 7 Yann Dion $230,000 8 Joao Nogueira $165,900
Another day has come to an end at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure, and Patrick Kelly (1,750,000) is leading the tournament with only 59 remaining players. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi failed to make it through the day, but his brother Robert survived with 783,000 chips. Joe Serock, who just like "The Grinder", was among the top 10 stack when day 3 started - continued playing well and will head into to Day 4 with 1,3 million chips (2nd place).
All the remaining players are guaranteed a minimum of $26,000, with the chance of taking down the first place prize of $1,859,000! Day 4 begins Friday at noon ET. We will be back with a final table recap on Monday morning!
On tuesday, just before Day 1B of the PCA 2013 Main Event started, Daniel Negreanu revealed that PokerStars had signed Jake Cody. The 24-year-old Brit is the youngest Triple Crown winner in poker history. And believe it or not but he completed the triple crown (WPT, EPT and WSOP titles) in just 16 months at the age 22. As of today, his total live tournament winnings exceed $3 million dollars.
"PokerStars always looks for young up-and-coming ambassadors for the game and I feel like we've found a gem. The youngest ever winner of the Triple Crown. He's won a WPT, a World Series of Poker bracelet and more importantly an EPT. He combines poker skill with a gentlemanly demeanour as is expected in a PokerStars Team Pro. Ladies and Gentlemen, please welcome Jake Cody to the team," said Negreanu.
Day 2 of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event brought 501 players from Day 1A and Day 1B. After about 7,5 hours of play, the field had been narrowed down to 172 - with Nicolas Godoy (picture) out in front with 724,200! Ashton Griffin, who brought the biggest stack to Day 2, made it through the day but only has 123,900 left to gamble with. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Joe Serock continued playing great during Day 2 and are among the 10 biggest stacks heading to Day 3.
Now, only 28 players need to be eliminated before everyone is guaranteed a minimum payday of $15k. But of course that's peanuts compared to the money on the final table - where the winner will take home an increadible $1,859,000! Check back tomorrow for another update!
Just like the organisers predicted, Day 1B of the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Main Event attracted a massive field. A total of 649 players entered the second starting day and lots of familiar faces could be spotted at the tables, including actor Jason Alexander, sports star Michael Phelps and poker pros Tom Dwan, Phil Hellmuth, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier, Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi and Phil Ivey.
Approximately 375 players made it through the day and will join the 150 or so from Day 1A for Day 2. Of the people mentioned above, Grospellier, Alexander and Tom Dwan failed to make it through Day 1B. "The Grinder" played extremly well and accumulated a stack of 216,900 - about 40k less than the chip leader Ashton Griffin (253,700), who is the overall chip leader heading into Day 2.
Last Thursday, The 2013 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship kicked off at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. However, when it was time for the 16 players from the Spades bracket to take their seats - 1 player was missing: Viktor Blom.
On Tuesday, the first 32 players that will take part in NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship were presented. Phil Ivey, Tom Dwan, Doyle Brunson, 2012 Main Event winner Greg Merson, Erik Seidel, and Barry Greenstein (
After a short break in 2013, we can now announce that the weekly $200 freeroll at Party Poker has been secured for (rest of) January, February and March. 
PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $25k High Roller attracted 204 entries (44 rebuys). After 2 days of play, the field has now been reduced to 8 players, who will battle it out on tonight's final table - where a $1.4 million first place prize is up for grabs!
