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Howard "The Poker Professor" Lederer, the previous Full Tilt Poker owner, is back at the poker tables. On Monday, he was seen taking part in high stakes cash games with other well-known poker pros at Bellagio's casino in Las Vegas. On Tuesday, he was seen at Aria's casino, playing against Nick Schhulman, David Oppenheim, Huck Seed, and other big names.

Read more » Howard Lederer Received Death Threats At Las Vegas Casino

Not only a Main Event Champion was crowned yesterday, but also the High Roller event got a winner! Joel Nordkvist from Sweden had a huge lead with 1,2 million chips when the final table kicked off, and his closest opponent was Benny Spindler with about 840k

Read more » EPT Sanremo: Another High Roller Title For Benny Spindler!

It ended up being Jason Lavallee and Ludovic Lacay who battled it out for the EPT Sanremo main event title yesterday. The heads up battle began after the two players agreed a deal - €644,910 to Lacay and €538,089 to Lavallee, with €100,000 and a Slyde watch left to play for. It was set to be a short match. Sure enought, it only took about 40 minutes until a winner had been crowned...

Read more » EPT Sanremo: Two-Way Deal On The Main Event Final Table!

44 survivors returned for the second day of the 2012 PokerStars EPT Sanremo €10,000 High Roller yesterday. When the day started, Brandon Barnes was the chip leader, and other notables remaining were Team PokerStars Pro Luca Pagano, Jonathan Duhamel and Eugene Katchalov. Unfortunately neither of them made it to the money, and Barnes was eliminated in 9th place for €20,600.

Read more » EPT Sanremo High Roller: Swede Leads Star-Filled Final Table

The PokerStars European Poker Tour Sanremo Main event is down to a final table of 8. Inge Forsmo, the Day 2 and 3 chip leader from Norway, is not among the finalist. He lost 2 big pots at the beginning of Day 5 and was eliminated in 23rd place. Jason Tompkins, the winner of Day 4, made it to the final table, though. Tompkins will bring 3.6 million chips (third place) to the final table.

Read more » EPT Sanremo: Main Event Final Table Set; Canadian Pro Leads Final 8

With 74 players and 10 reloads, a total field size of 84 entries created a prize pool of €823,200, and the winner will get €288,000! At the end of day, 45 players remained with Brandon Barnes as the chip leader (211,700). Notables who also finished Day 1 with big stacks were Justin Bonomo (190k - on the left) & Luca Pagano (188k - on the right).

Here's a list of the 10 players who reloaded: Michael Tureniec, Joseph Cheong, McLean Karr, Joel Nordkvist, Eric Sfez, Steve O`Dwyer, Martin Jacobson, Jason Mercier, Martin Finger and Benjamin Spindler.

Top 10 Players at the end of Day 1
Brandon Barnes 211700
Pier Paola Ruscalla 199300
Justin Bonomo 190600
Kent Roed 188800
Luca Pagano 188600
Joseph Cheong 186200
Carlo Savinelli 175500
Igor Yaroshevskyy 165600
Joe Kuether 155300
Mikalai Pobal 150000

Play will resume at 3:00 Local time today and it's set to be a fantastic day of poker. We will be back with another update tomorrow morning!

When about 50 players remained in the 2012 WSOP Main Event, Aussie David Balkin ended up in a heads-up duel against Gaelle Baumann from France. Before the river card had been dealt, Balkin had about 75% chance of taking home the pot with three of a kind 10s against Baumann's AJ (flush draw and straight draw). The river card gave Baumann the nut flush and Balkin moved all-in almost straight away. Baumann snapped called. Balkin took a quick look at Baumann's cards before heading to his friends in the crowd and celebrated. But in a matter of seconds someone said "You lost, bro!!" and Balkin realized his big mistake. 

Jason Tompkins, an online grinder with about $400k in live tournament earnings, is the new chip leader of the EPT Sanremo main event. The Irishman was among the first players to break the million mark, then it didn't take long before he had 1.5 million before finishing the day with an impressive 2,423,000 stack. The two-day chip leader Inge Forsmo also survived Day 4. He will sit down with 2,025,000 chips today in second place. Many poker stars were unfortunately among the 42 players who hit the rail during Day 4. Just to mention a few of them:

26. Isaac Haxton €19,000
36. Justin Bonomo €16,000
48. Shaun Deeb €14,000
59. Mike Watson €12,000
62. David Vamplew €12,000

A total of 24 players will return to the tables in a few hours. All of them are now guaranteed to walk away with at least €23,000 each. The winner of the tournament will take home €800,000!

According to recent reports by several well-known newspapers, the American poker pro Phil Ivey, 35, was at Crockfords's casino in London at the end of August and gambled for huge amounts. Ivey and a female friend (described as a beautiful oriental women) played the card game Punto Banco (a variant of baccarat) for about 7 hour over 2 days. Ivey had a really bad start and lost heavily, but then he managed to eliminate the losses and walked away with a nice profit after the first day.

Read more » Won $11.5 Million In August - Still Hasn't Received His Money!

The third Day of the EPT Sanremo main event is in the books. The day kicked off with 163 players and the player-field was narrowed down to 66 throughout the day. Day 2 chip leader Inge Forsmo, from Norway, will bring a stack of 1,021,000 chips to play today - about 160k more than his closest opponenets: Charly Maracchione, Angelo Recchia and Caremlo Vasta.

For those not familar with the names above, Shaun Deeb, Isaac Haxton, Justin Bonomo, David Vamplew (just to mention a few) are great, well-known players who made it through Day 3 and still have the chance of reaching the final table where a €800,000 first place prize is up for grabs.

Check back tomorrow for another update!

A total of 797 players signed up for the EPT Sanremo Main Event this time. Today the third day of the tournament will be played and 162 players are chasing the first prize of €800,000. Inge Forsmo (picture), from Norway, is the chip leader with a stack of 606,100 and big names such as David Vamplew, Shaun Deeb, Isaac Haxton, Ana Marquez, Chris Moneymaker, Liv Boeree and Pius Heinz are among the players that will join Forsmo at the tables today.

Day 3 will begin at 14:00 CET (08:00 ET) today. We will be back with another update tomorrow morning! Stay tuned!

Viktor 'Isildur1' Blom was doing very well at PokerStars' nosebleed tables last Friday and Saturday. He started at the $25/$50 PLO tables but quickly got bored and move over to the $100/$200 PLO tables where patpatman and other regulars were playing.

Read more » Viktor Blom Wins More Than $500,000!

The Majestic Super High Roller (with re-buys) attracted 49 players with 11 rebuys being added to the prize pool. When the third day started, 9 players returned to play and John Juanda had an huge lead with 2,596,000 chips.

After several hours of battle on the final table, Juanda was playing heads-up against Mike Watson, the Canadian poker pro who started the day in 9th place with only 299k. Juanda started the heads-up with 4.83 million in chips to Watson's 4.17. Juanda took down the first few pots and increased his lead, but things changed drastically when Watson got a bit lucky a few hands into the match...

Read more » WSOPE High Roller: Watson Defeated Juanda Heads-up

A big congratulations to Phil 'The Poker Brat' Hellmuth who outlasted a field of 420 players in the 2012 WSOPE Main Event in Cannes, France! This was the poker legend's bracelet victory number 13, and it occurred only three months after his 12th win at the WSOP (Event #18: $2,500 Seven Card Razz)!

Read more » WSOP Europe Main Event: Phil Hellmuth Wins 13th Bracelet!

The Magestic Super High Roller (with re-buys) is now 2-days-old and 49 players (11 rebuys and 61 entries in total) have become a final table of 9. Day 1 chip leader John Juanda will bring the most chips to the final table today. With 2,596,000 chips he has about 1.2 million more than his closest competitors Richard Yong and Philipp Gruissem. 

The total prize pool is €2,880,000 and 8 of the remaining 9 players will receive a share of it. The winner of the tournament will get €1,000,000 and the coveted gold bracelet!

End of Day 2 Chip Counts:

1. John Juanda         2,596,000
2. Richard Yong        1,309,000
3. Philipp Gruissem   1,308,000
4. Steve O'Dwyer     1,146,000
5. Tobias Reinkemeier 904,000
6. David Benefield      551,000
7. Jani Sointula          489,000
8. Winfred Yu            368,000
9. Mike Watson          299,000

Today the WSOP Europe Main Event final table will be played, and guess what? It will be one of the best final tables in a very long time! Phil Hellmuth has the lead with 3,434,000 chips and the chance of winning his 13th gold bracelet! Joseph Cheong (1,966,000 chips - ranked 3), the third-place finisher in the WSOP Main Event in 2010, is looking for his first gold bracelet victory! Jason Mercier (652,000 chips - ranked 7), the man who's widely considered one of the world's best tournament players, is on the hunt for a third gold bracelet. Below is a brief introduction of the 8 finalists who will be fighting for a first place prize of €1,022,376!

Read more » WSOPE Main Event: The Final Table Is Set! Phil Hellmuth Has The Lead!

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The final table is very, very close now. At the moment 11 players have chips left, including Phil Hellmuth who leads the pack with a 2.8 million stack. Another 3 players need to be eliminated before the final table is set and the tournament goes on a break until tomorrow.

The remaining 11 players are guaranteed €52,416 each, the 8 finalists will be guaranteed €84,672 each - with the chance of taking home an amazing €1,022,376 first place prize.

Yesterday Full Tilt Poker revealed in a press release that its former pro Gus Hansen will be the first ambassador when the site re-launch on November 6, 2012. This is what Hansen had to say about his return to Full Tilt Poker.

"I'm very excited to represent the industry's most authentic poker brand," Hansen said in a press release. "Full Tilt Poker has the best games, most innovative software and the strongest poker community; to me this feels like coming home."

"Gus is one of the best-known and most respected names in the poker community," said Sarne Lightman, the newly-appointed Head of Marketing at Full Tilt Poker. "Gus has always embodied the best characteristics of the Full Tilt Poker brand and we are thrilled to have him return as an ambassador."

Besides the ongoing (and very exciting) WSOP Europe Main Event in Cannes, the $50,000+$1k buy-in Majestic Super High Roller with re-buys started yesterday and saw 43 entries throughout the day. The field included notables such as Tom Dwan, Sam Trickett and Daniel Negreanu, who signed up for the tournament as soon as he had been knocked out of the Main Event.

Read more » WSOP Europe: John Juanda Leads The €50k Buy-In High Roller!

On Tuesday, the World Series of Poker Main Event continued with Day 3 from the Majestic Barrière in Cannes, France. The remaining 77 players of 420 played six levels of poker during the day, and by the end of the night, 24 players had chips left and Joseph Cheong, who finished 3rd in the 2010 WSOP Main Even, had the chip lead. Apart from Cheong, Jason Mercier and Phil Hellmuth made it through the day with healthy stacks. Other familiar faces to survive the day were, for example, Liv Boeree, David Benyamine and Andy Frankenberger. 

Read more » WSOP Europe Main Event: 2010 November Niner Joseph Cheong Leads Final 24

There are now 77 remaining players of 420 in the WSOP Europe Main Event. Michael Mizrachi held a significant lead over his next closest competitor, Day 1b chip leader Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier when Day 2 started. "The Grinder" played loose-aggressive game that took him, and his opponents, for a wild rollercoaster ride. Eventually he was eliminated in in Level 11 where he joined Vanessa Rousso, Joe Hachem, Phil Ivey, Antonio Esfandiari and many other big names on the rail.

Read more » WSOP Europe Main Event: Negreanu, ElkY and Hellmuth through to Day 3

Last week we reported that Brandon Cantu had a massive chip lead and was about to face Phil Hellmuth heads-up in Event #5: Mixed Max - No-Limit Hold'em. Cantu won the heads-up match against Hellmuth after some struggle, then he defeated Martin Jacobson from Sweden in the "quarter-finals" and Roger Hairabedian in the "semi-finals". In the final heads-up match he was up against Jonathan Aguiar, the man who bubbled in the very same event in 2011.

Read more » WSOP Europe: 7-Hour Heads-Up Between Brandon Cantu & Jonathan Aguiar

The two starting days of the WSOP Europe Main Event are in the books now. In total, 420 players enterd the tournament for €10,450 each and created a massive €4,032,000 prize pool. Today the second day of the tournament will be played and 230 players have chips left.

Read more » WSOP Europe: Mizrachi Leads The Way Into Day 2 of the Main Event

While most of the poker world focused on WSOP Europe and PokerStars' WCOOP last week, a £100,000 buy-in tournament took place at Aspinalls, a private gaming club in London, England. Among the 21-players to show up for the expensive tournament were Phil Ivey, Sam Trickett, JC tran, Erik Seidel, Tobias Reinkeier etc.

Read more » Macau Businessman Wins Big in London!