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The first results for the €500 September Casino Leaderboard at Energy Casino are now available here. The player at the top of the table has made a €50 deposit (which is minimum to particpate in this leaderboard) and is currenly set to take home €160! That's more than 3 times the deposited money!

Ladies and gentlemen, you won't find a casino leaderboard with higher value this year!   

Click here to find out how you can particpate!  

Things are going very well for America poker pro Gordon Vayo this year. In july, he secured a spot at the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event final table (guaranteed to win at least ‚$1,000,000), and this week he took down the Winstar River Poker Series Main Event in Oklahoma, USA, for a $587,120 payday!

Read more » 2016 November Niner Wins Oklahoma Tourney For $587,120!

888poker is taking its live events to the next level. The world's second largest online poker site recently introduced 888live festivals, consisting of 3 yearly 11-Day Live Poker Festivals with low buy-ins at different locations!

Read more » 888poker Introduces 11-Day Live Poker Festivals

An arrest warrant for Ted Forrest was issued last Friday by authorities. Forrest, 51, a six-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner with more than $6.3 million in live tournament earnings, has been charged with theft and bad check charges.

Read more » Six-time WSOP Bracelet Winner Wanted By U.S. Authorities

partypoker will run its biggest ever POWERFEST (198 events with $10,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools) 4th - 25th September, 2016. All players (new and old) who opened their first partypoker account through BankrollMob.com and make their first deposit (no bonus code needed - your bonus will be issued manually by partypoker) during the upcoming POWERFEST will receive the following bonus package:

• 100% up to $500 welcome bonus
• $20 FREE ($10 cash-restricted bonus and $10 tourney dollars)*

*120 party-points to release cash bonus - 3 months to meet points requirements. Bonus will expire 1 month after being issued if not used.

CLICK HERE TO GET STARTED!

Casino games are getting more popular by the day and a last week we thought to ourselves, "why not create a competition to reward casino players?" Now, we are proud to announce that we have teamed up with EnergyCasino (a safe and secure site where one can play for example slots from Microgaming, Net Entertainment and Novamatic) to create our very first Casino Leaderboard!

Read more » BRM-Exclusive Casino Leaderboard

Aussie Millions (established 1998) has been a part of PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour for the past 3 years, however, it will once again be a stand-alone event in 2017. The reason for this is that PokerStars will re-brand all its global tournaments (EPT, APPT, etc.) into one global tour.

Read more » Aussie Millions & PokerStars Part Ways

The final day of the EPT Barcelona Main Event saw the return of seven players instead of six players (it was supposed to be a six-handed final table but play went on longer than expected on Day 5). There weren't any big stars among the finalists, though, it was still it an exciting final table to follow as it was the biggest EPT Main Event ever (1,785 entries) with a massive prize pool at stake (€8,925,000)! 

Read more » EPT Barcelona: €27 Satellite Qualifier Wins The Main Event For €1,122,800

Anthony Chimkovitch, from Belgium, had an incredible run on Day 3 of the EPT Barcelona Main Event. The 23-year-old showed the experience of a long-time pro and managed to turn 144k in chips into a massive stack of 1.8 million! Chimkovitch was the first player to cross the 1 million chip mark, eliminating players such as US pro Chance Kornuth (close to $4.5 million in tourney earnings) along the way.

Read more » EPT Barcelona Main Event: Belgian Young Gun Out In Front After Day 3

The EPT Barcelona Main Event is the biggest Main Event in EPT history with 1,785 entries! Thanks to so many entries, a massive €8,657.250 prize pool is up for grabs! Now, the money bubble has already popped (top 359 spots get a share from the prize pool) after 2 days of play and 290 players will return to the tables today and continue fighting for the top prize of €1,122,800!

Read more » EPT Barcelona Main Event Draws Record Field!

It took a bit less than 15 hours of play until just one player remained in this year's €25k Single Day High Roller in Barcelona, Spain. US poker pro Pratyush Buddiga bested an extremely tough field of 162 players to claim the title and $690,275 in prize money!

Read more » EPT Barcelona: Pratyush Buddiga Wins €25k High Roller!

Germany's Fedor Holz brought the second largest stack to the 2016 EPT Barcelona Super High Roller final table on Monday, and he declined all proposed deals when there were 3 players remaining out of 9 (he must have had a good feeling he was going to be the winner).

Read more » Fedor Holz Wins EPT Barcelona Super High Roller (€1.3 million)

Season 13 of the European Poker Tour (EPT) is currently in Barcelona, Spain, and the €50,000 buy-in Super High Roller is down to a final table of 9 players out of 102 entries (86 entrants and 16 re-entries - 3 more entries than in 2015) after 2 days of play.

Read more » EPT Barcelona: €50k Super High Roller Final Table Starts Today

Poker legend Doyle Brunson turned to his Twitter account last Friday afternoon and told his 400,000+ followers in a series of tweets that he was informed by the Las Vegas Metro Police Department about an armed robbery incident in his neighborhood, and that he might probably be the original target of the robbers.

Read more » Brunson Narrowly Escapes Armed Robbery

Poker legend Dave "Devilfish" Ulliot passed away in April last year after losing a short battle with cancer. Now, the World Poker Tour foundation has teamed up with Dusk Till Dawn and partypoker to create a brand new tournament series in his honour.

Read more » £1 Million Guarantee Tourney In Memory Of 'Devilfish'

Montreal, Canada - The Amaya online gaming company announces a huge profit jump as well as making a permanent replacement for its former CEO David Baazov, who early this year stepped aside to deal with the charges laid against him by Quebec's securities regulator.

Read more » Amaya’s Interim CEO Permanently Replaces David Baazov

Swedish high-stakes poker pro Viktor Blom aka Isildur1 has successfully managed to win almost $287K from the first seven days of August 2016. It was three times that Isildur1's name topped the daily leaderboard charts with five-figure wins, and he was among the top 7 players daily this August to end the week with a total of $286,704 in winnings.

August 1 (Monday) - $57,200
August 5 (Friday) - $87,700
August 7 (Sunday) - $35,000

Read more » Isildur1 Starts First Week Of August With $287K In Winnings

The heat in ON with the 888poker Summer ChampionChips!

We're celebrating the biggest sporting event on the planet with our very own 888poker Summer ChampionChips. Play to win a share of $150,000 and a place in our Summer ChampionChips Hall of Fame!

Read more » Summer Champion-Chips!

Poker legends Daniel Negreanu, Gus Hansen, Patrik Antonius, Doyle Brunson and Phil Ivey (left to right in picture) all headed to Bellagio last week for some high-stakes action. With ‘high-stakes action' we are not only referring to high stakes cash games but also proposition bets!

Read more » Familiar Faces At Bellagio's High-Stakes Tables

If you're watching MasterChef US Season 7, then you'd know that one poker pro, David Williams, is among the candidates of this reality TV cooking show. The MasterChef US Season 7 premiered Wednesday, June 1, on FOX and David Williams was chosen to be one of the lucky aspiring contestants.

Read more » Poker Pro David Williams Continues To Advance On MasterChef US S7