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A new season of PokerStars European Poker Tour is luring around the corner. The ninth season features eight stops on the calendar, including PokerStars Caribbean Adventure from January 6-15 and the EPT Grand final in Monaco in May. There will be more tournaments at each event, with a wider choice of games and buy-in levels than ever before.

Read more » EPT Season 9

In a recent interview, the 78-year-old poker legend Doyle Brunson revealed that he lost his scooter when leaving the Rio (Las Vegas) early in the morning after Day 1 of the Main Event.

"It flew off the lift on my Escalade as I was leaving the Rio after day 1 of the Main Event. It was about 2 o'clock in the morning and as I made a sharp left on Flamingo I heard a strange noise behind me. I looked back and couldn't see anything but I suspected my scooter had broken loose. The traffic was so bad I couldn't turn back, so I continued home where I could see the lift had malfunctioned and the scooter was gone." said Doyle Brunson

Read more » Doyle Brunson's Scooter Curse

Ever wondered what the most successful surname in tournament poker is? Speculate no more! An American poker news site, together with Hendon Mob (a statistical database), have checked which surnames have won the most money in international poker tournaments and created a list of the top 100 surnames, the number of players, and the total amount won.

Read more » The Most Successful Surnames In Poker

A few days ago, Jeanine Deeb, World Poker Tour Development and Casino Relations Manager, Tweeted that the the American poker pro Joe Sebok (Barry Greenstein's stepson) had joined the World Poker Tour team as commentator. But the Tweet was removed shortly after and still World Poker Tour hasn't made any official statements on the matter. One thing's for sure though: the rumor has caused waves as many people don't think Sebok is the man for the job...

Read more » Joe Sebok to Join WPT as Commentator?

There are now only 2 days left (3 including today) of MicroMillions II on PokerStars. Lots of events have been completed and players from all over the globe have won life-changing bankrolls. Did you miss out on this micro stakes tournament series? Don't worry! There are still quite a few tournaments left to be played, including the biggest and most prestigious tournament of all...

Read more » PokerStars MicroMillions II

The 2012 WSOP Main Event attracted 6,598 players and became the fifth-largest Main Event in history. Nearly 2 weeks and more than half a million hands after that the $10,000 buy-in event kicked off, only 9 players remain with the chance of winning the gold coveted bracelet that comes along with the $8.5 million first prize! Yesterday we presented 4 of the 9 finalists. Here is some brief information on the other October Niners (ranked according to stack size).

Read more » Meet the 2012 WSOP October Nine (Part 2)

The schedule for the fifth edition of PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker has been released. Last year PokerStars guaranteed $30,000,000 and the turn out was so good that about $48 million was won by players from all over the world.

Read more » PokerStars 2012 WCOOP Schedule has been Released

The 2012 WSOP Main Event attracted 6,598 players and became the fifth-largest Main Event in history. Nearly 2 weeks and more than half a million hands after that the $10,000 buy-in event kicked off, only 9 players remain with the chance of winning the gold coveted bracelet that comes along with the $8.5 million first prize! Here you can read about 4 of the finalists (ranked according to stack size). 

Read more » Meet The 2012 WSOP October Nine (Part 1)

The Finnish poker pro Ilari Sahamies has been running extremely well in the past few days. Last Saturday he scored a $367k profit, and two days later he walked away with a $444 profit in just under 600 hands. After these two sessions, Ilari was up about $50,000 on PokerStars this year. However, it doesn't seem like the winning streak is over yet as he won another $181k last night...

Most of these winnings came from a two-hour session on a $200/$400 Pot Limit Omaha table against regulars such as Bernsden12, Phisherman32 & Theo J. In total, the Finnish poker guru played for about four hours yesterday, and he took down the 3rd and 4th biggest pots of the day on PokerStars.

source: highstakesdb

It was Valentine's Day in Februrary this year when 25-year-old poker pro Jason Somerville revealed to the world, in a blog post, that he was homosexual. In a recent interview, Somerville talked about why he decided to make the announcement at that time.

"My boyfriend suddenly told me that he wanted to join me to PCA (PokerStars Carribean Adventure) in January. At first I was like "hmmm",  and then thinking "but what am I going to do about it?" said Somerville and continued...

Read more » Daniel Negreanu helped Jason Somerville come out of the closet

The Main Event attracted 6,598 players (from 82 different countries, aged from 21 to 92) this year. Now, after that Day 1 a b c, Day 2 a b c, Day 3,4,5,6 & 7 have been completed, only 9 players remain and have the chance of winning the gold coveted bracelet and the $8.5 million first-place prize!

Read more » The 2012 WSOP Main Event Final Table is Set!

2012 has been one hell of a rollercoaster ride for the Finnish poker pro Ilari "Ilari FIN" Sahamies. Winning hundreds of thousands of dollars one night - just to lose it+a bit more the very next day. That's nothing unusual at all when it comes to Ilari Sahamies's way of playing poker. Besides that, there have been a few times this year when Sahamies couldn't continue playing because he ran out of cash - something that has added fuel to the broke rumors.

Read more » High Stakes: Ilari Sahamies is back in business

Day 6 of the 43 Annual World Series of Poker Main Event is now in the books. Erik Hellman from Sweden ended up as the last player to get eliminated (28th place for $236,921) before the tournament crew called it a day.

Read more » 2012 WSOP Main Event: Day 6 ends with 27 survivors! Canadian Marc Ladouceur leads!

Jarret Nash has been on everyone's lips in the past 2 days. Nash, an American poker player, had made it to Day 5 of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event with about 500k chips and had a great chance of making a deep run. But when Day 5 started he was no where to be found. Slowly, he began to blind out, until he was out of chips in Level 22 and finished in 171st place for $44,665.

Later that evening WSOP staff managed to get in contact with Jarret for a comment. Nash told them that he and his wife are non-denominational Christians, meaning that from sundown Friday to sundown Saturday he wasn't able to play poker. However, he had no regrets and he understood the consequences of not playing until after the dinner break, knowing that he would hit the rail.

Not even 2 weeks have passed since Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari took down the most expensive tournament in poker history, The Big One for One Drop at the 2012 WSOP, for bank-busting $18,346,673! Now it seems like a new big high roller tournament is on its way...

Read more » $500,000 buy-in tournament at the 2013 WSOP APAC?

After five levels of action-filled poker, Day 3 of the 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event came to an end with 720 remaining players. It started over 12 hours ago when 1,738 players returned to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino with hopes of making it through the day, and Gaelle Baumann from France had the lead with 505,800 chips.

Read more » 2012 WSOP Main Event: D'Alesandro will lead the way into Day 4

2,300 survivors from Day 1c played Day 2c today, and it took five 2-hour levels of play before the field had been narrowed down to about 900 players. Michael Hack (picture) finished the day with the largest stack (457,000), closely followed by Marco Bognanni (452,100).

Notables who made it through the day with healthy stacks include Jake Cody, Joseph Cheong, Ravi Raghavan, Ronnie Bardah, Ben Lamb, Antonio Esfandiari and Johnny Chan.

Read more » 2012 WSOP Main Event: Michael Hack tops Day 2c field

Both Day 1 a and b have now come to an end with approximately 900 survivors, who now will get to rest a bit before it's time for Day 3 to start. Among the survivors you'll find notable players such David Diaz, Eugene Katchalov, Maria Ho, Gavin Smith, Katie Dozier, Bernard Lee, Amnon Filippi, Dani Stern, Mike McDonald, Taylor Paur, Sammy Farha, Brock Parker, Jackie Glazier, David Pham, Gabe Kaplan, Kevin Pollak, Brian Hastings, Eric Baldwin and Faraz Jaka to name a few.

Read more » 2012 WSOP Main Event: Around 900 players ready for Day 3...

It's not very often that Phil Ivey has the time or wants to sit down for a "proper interview". In fact, it took about 3 years until WSOP's Nollan Dalla was invited over to Ivey's private trailer in the parking lot aside the mammoth tournament area at the Rio for a seocnd one-on-one interview with the world's best poker player.

In the interview, Phil said that he's happy to have made it to 5 final tables in two weeks at the 2012 WSOP but that he's never satisfied with coming second in a tournament.

No, I don't get any satisfaction from second place at all. It's all about winning.

Read more » Interview with Phil Ivey

The second out of the three opening fields in this year's WSOP Main Event concluded late on Monday night. Main event 1B attracted no less then 2,114 players. This means that the two starting fields has so far a total of 3,180 participants. From the 1B starting field only 1,387 remained after the first 12 hour opening session. In combination with the remaining players from the 1A field, the number of players that, as of now, will continue to day 2 is 2,044. According to WSOP.com reporter Nolan Dalla "Predictions indicate that at there will be more players for Day 1C than Day 1A and Day 1B combined".

Like the 1A field, the 1B field also saw some past bracelet winners leave during the first session. These included the 2001 world champion Carlos Mortensen, 2004 Main Event winner Greg Raymer and the mighty five time WSOP bracelet winner Scotty Nguyen.

The Main Event 1B concluded with John Hoang as the chipleader. The top ten standings from Day 1B is:
1. John Hoang - 180,000
2. James Schafer - 171,250
3. Vanessa Selbst - 168,350
4. Anh Van Nguyen - 163,050
5. Jeff Beckley - 158,550
6. Matthew Woodward - 158,500
7. Cornelius Foley - 146,875
8. Shawn Quillin - 146,300
9. Jason Somerville - 144,725
10. Fergal Nealon - 141,825

The 2012 WSOP has finally reached the main event. The 10 day event kicked off on Saturday the 7th of July with the first of three starting days and attracted 1,066 players, which according to WSOP.com "was a 19% increase from last year’s opening session". The main event has a buy-in of $10,000 and after the first day's session only 657 players remained. Among the known players that were kicked out during the first day of event 1A were the 12-time gold bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, the 1993 champion Jim Bechtel and Joe Hachem who got his only bracelet after winning the 2005 main event.

The chipleader after the first day is William John who managed to get a good start; 100,000 chips a head of the second placement which is held by Gerardo Lubas who cashed $8,920 from this year's event #46. The top ten standings from Day 1A is:

1. William John - 266,700
2. Gerardo Lubas - 165,825
3. Daniel Strelitz - 164,125
4. Dane Lomas - 157,600
5. Cary Katz - 154,850
6. Benjamin Pollak - 144,200
7. Chance Kornuth - 141,775
8. Jonathan Cuevas - 141,675
9. Jared Okun - 141,350
10. Eric Kurtzman - 136,900

Sam Trickett finished in second place for $10.1 million in the $1,000,000 buy-in tournament Big One for One Drop a few days ago. After the big win he and some friends went out to celebrate his amazing achievement with lots of champagne.

However, it didn't take long before the amazing night turned into a nightmare as he was attacked and beaten by six men on his way out of a club. Also, they spat in Trickett's girlfriend's face.

Read more » 2012 WSOP: Sam Trickett beaten up by gang - just hours after winning $10.1 million!

23-year-old Tomas Junek from Czech Republic is the latest gold bracelet winner after defeating, for example, the 2008 Main Event Champion Peter Eastgate on the final table in Event #56: $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em (2,798 players participants) earlier today. Apart the gold coveted bracelet, Junek received $661,022 in prize money.

TOP 10 Finishers:

Many former WSOP Main Event finalists and winners have been doing quite well at the 2012 WSOP. Now it's the 2008 main event champion Peter Eastgate's turn as he's among the last 4 players in Event #56: No-Limit Hold'em, a tournament that saw a field of 2,798 players, and has the chance of winning his second gold bracelet.

Read more » 2012 WSOP LIVE: Peter Eastgate in 2nd place with only 4 remaining players!

The most expensive tournament in poker history has come to an end - The Big One for One Drop ($1,000,000 buy-in). Antonio "The Magician" Esfandiari ended up taking home the whole thing and bank-account busting $18,346,673 - the richest prize in poker history. Besides that, he received his second gold bracelet after winning the $2,000 Pot Limit Hold'em event in 2004 for $184,860.

Read more » Antonio Esfandiari Wins One Drop and Mind-Blowing $18 Million!