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The 2015 partypoker World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event drew a field of 697 players. Day 3, which was played yesterday, saw the return of 63 of those players but only 16 of them made it through five 90-minute levels of play.

The remaining squad of players will be led into Day 4 by Trevor Delaney with 3.2 million in chips. Delaney and his opponents will battle for a seat at the six-handed televised final table, where $354,001 is awaiting the last man standing!

According to a new studies, more than 1 in 10 adults will be active in online gambling by 2019. A study conducted by Juniper Research (an international investment analyst company) have shown that Italy and the United Kingdom will dominate nearly half of the projected market, which simply means that Europe is where people are most active when it comes to online gambling.

Read more » 1 in 10 Adults Will Gamble Online By 2019

The HK$500,000 buy-in Asia Championship of Poker (ACOP) Super High Roller drew a small but tough field of players. The final table included some of the biggest stars in poker, but somehow a rather unknown Serbian-American player stood tall as the champion after just four levels of play.

Read more » 2015 ACOP Super High Roller: Andrejevic Defeats Juanda To Claim First Major Title!

Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was one of the top ranked StarCraft players in the world before beginning the transition to poker in the end of 2003. ElkY has been under the Team PokerStars Pro flag since 2006 and accumulated almost $11 million from playing live tournaments!

Read more » "ElkY" Becomes Hearthstone Sponsored Pro!

California television network VAMN-TV recently revealed that it is working on a new television reality programme called Girl Got Game, which will follow the lives of eight female poker professionals on and off the felt in Las Vegas and Macau.

Read more » Girl Got Game

Great news! Gold Rush returned to Full Tilt yesterday! For the third time in history this popular promotion has come to Rush Poker ring game tables, offering players the chance of winning up to $25,000 instantly!

Read more » Gold Rush Is Back At Full Tilt

A big congratulations to Joe McKeehen, the winner of the 46th annual World Series of Poker Main Event! The 24-year-old poker pro dominated this year's final table, which was played over three days, to claim a staggering $7,683,346 in prize money and the gold and diamond coveted bracelet!

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Joe McKeehen Wins The Main Main For $7.68 Million!

888poker sponsored player Joe McKeehen's stack just keep on growing. The poker pro from Pennsylvania started the final table with 63 million in chips and finished the first day with 91 million.

Read more » 2015 WSOP Main Event: Joe McKeehen Leads Final 3 With Monster Stack

Iaron Lightbourne claimed the biggest payday of his career yesterday after taking down the World Poker Tour UK Main Event, a tournament that drew 450 entrants who battled it out for several days. 

Read more » partypoker WPT UK: Iaron Lightbourne Wins The Main Event! (£200k)

The first day of the 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event final table (played at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas) is over! 888poker sponsored player Joe McKeehen started with a massive chip lead (63 million - 160 bb) and was responsible for all three eliminations! Play concluded once he eliminated old-timer Pierre Neuville in 7th place.

Read more » WSOP November Nine: Joe McKeehen Dominates Day 1

The partypoker World Poker Tour UK Main Event's player field has been reduced from 450 entries to 59 players over the past few days. Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi started Day 2 with the largest stack and will return today with the 6th largest stack (425,000).

Read more » partypoker WPT UK: 59 Players Remain - "The Grinder" In 6th Place

Day 2 of the 2015 partypoker WPT UK Main Event is currenly being played at the Dusk Till Dawn casino, and no one else than Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi is out in front with 381,000 in chips (average stack 95,745, nearest opponent is Day 1A chip leader Simon Deadman with 312,500).

Mizrachi, perhaps best known from the GSN's High Stakes Poker, and the other remaining 140 players are fighting for a prize pool of £1,000,000. The top 45 players will receive a minimum cash of £4,500 and the winner will take home £200,000!

The 2015 World Poker Tour UK £5,250 High Roller concluded last night with Mian Wei as the champion! Wei, from the UK, had to overcome a tough field of 48 players, including Michael "The Grinder" Mizrachi on the final table (4th £30,000), over two days of play before he could lift the winner's trophy and celebrate with his friends. Also, he received £100,000 in prize money - the biggest live tournament score of his career!

Final table results: 

1 Mian Wei £100,000
2 Mario Sanchez Cano £60,000
3 Steven Warburton £40,000
4 Michael Mizrachi £30,000
5 Daniel McAulay £20,000
6 William Chattaway £10,000

source and picture: pokernews.com

The World Poker Tour is underway in the United Kingdom, and the first day of the £5,250 High Roller is already in the books! After nine levels of play on Monday, 23 players of 29 entrants were still alive and kicking, including Sam Trickett (56,000), Adrian Mateos (48,500), and Tom Hall (45,700).

Read more » WPT UK: High Roller Day 1 Attracted 29 Players

The 2015 EPT Malta Main Event final table only took four and a half hours to complete. The fact is that it only took 36 hands of play before UK's Niall Farrell and Bosnia & Herzegovina's Alen Bilic were heads-up for the title. 

Read more » EPT Malta: Niall Farrell Lays Hands On Main Event Title (€534,300)

For a long time it looked like Mukul Pahuja would be the champion of the EPT Malta €10,000 High Roller, because he had the lead for much of the final day of play and had close to a four-to-one lead against Byron Kaverman when heads-up began.

Read more » EPT Malta: Byron Kaverman Wins The High Roller!

Valeriu Coca, who finished in 5th place in the $10K Heads Up NLHE Championship at this summer's World Series of Poker, has now received his money ($54,545) after an investigation by Nevada Gaming Control was completed earlier this week.

Read more » 2015 WSOP: Moldovan Poker Player Cleared Of Cheating

16 players will return to Portomaso Casino today and battle it out for a seat at the six-handed EPT Malta Main Event final table, where the winner is set to take home €602,400! The man with the biggest stack heading into the fifth day of play is Day 2 chip leader Alexander Ivarsson from Sweden.

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: Alexander Ivarsson Leads Final 16 (LIVE STREAM at 12:00 CET)

A total of five players will return to Day 4 of the EPT Malta Main Event with over 1 million in chips each, and Poland's Jaroslaw Sikora out in front with 1,457,000! Sikora and his two closets competitors, Alexander Ivarsson and Faraz Jaka, have been among the top stacks since Day 1 and now they and the other remaining 37 players are guaranteed to take home at least €11,840 each.

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: 40 Players Remain, Faraz Jaka In 3rd Place

Theo Jorgensen has been playing EPT events since the very first season but not once been able to bring back a trophy to his home in Denmark... well, until yesterday that is! The Team PokerStars Pro decided to enter a €1,100 buy-in bounty event (€500 + €500 + €100 fee) last night and defeated 154 other entrants to lay hands on the €16,940 first-place prize, along within bounties and an EPT trophy!

"Only problem now is that I have to sleep with 2 covers on, since I still have goosebumps over how great I played this tourney," Jorgensen told his fans on Facebook following his victory. 

Another day of poker concluded last night at the Portomaso Casino in Malta, with Alexander Ivarsson bagging up the chip lead (529,200) amongst 135 surviving players. Ivarsson, a 27-year old poker pro from Sweden, spoke to PokerStars Blog about his winning streak...

Read more » EPT Malta Main Event: Day 2 Ends With 131 Players

Last night it was announced that Jennifer Harman and John Juanda are the newest members of the Poker Hall of Fame! The two American poker pros will be officially inducted on Friday, November 6 at 7:00 pm at Binion's Gambling Place in Las Vegas.

Read more » Harman and Juanda Become Poker Hall Of Fame Members!

Live coverage of EPT Malta Main Event Day 2 begins at 12:00 CET. Registration for the Main Event is open until the start of Day 2 but around 390 players will return today and play another six 75-minute levels. Leading the way is Day 1A chip leader Carmelo Crucitti with 163k in chips, and not far behind him is Day 1B chip leader Jaroslaw Sikora with 153k.

Read more » EPT Malta: Main Event Day 2 Live Stream (12:00 CET)

Many well-known poker pros signed up for the €10,200 buy-in single-day EPT Malta High Roller on Monday. When the registration desk had closed, not less than 99 players (+33 re-entries) had joined the tournament to create a prize pool of €1,299,800!

Read more » EPT Malta: Steve O'Dwyer Wins Single-Day High Roller (€327,030)