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Fabrid Yachou outlasted a field of 341 entrants over 6 days of play to claim the World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event title and $239,559! According to WPT reporters, the Moroccan born cafeteria owner learned the game playing cash games with his friends. He doesn't visit casinos that often and only decided to play this event (his first poker tournament) to experience something different and compete against poker's elite. 

Final Table Results

1st. Farid Yachou - $239,559
2nd. Steve Warburton - $167,134
3rd. Kees van Brugge - $100,281
4th. Fredrik Andersson - $75,768
5th. Joep van den Bijgaart - $56,826
6th. Jason Wheeler - $45,973

After winning two Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) titles on Monday and Tuesday last week, we (and probably many others) thought that it would take some time until Jason Mercier would be winning a major online tournament again.

Read more » Mercier Wins Another SCOOP Title

Day 1A chip leader Fredrik Andersson is once again back at top of the chip counts after a successful run on Day 3. The Swede bagged up 1.4 million chips at the end of Day 3 - almost 400k more that his closest opponents (the only other players with seven figure sums) Day 2 chip leader Joep van den Bijgaart in second place and Sorel Mizzi in third place.

Read more » WPT Amsterdam: 16 Players Left - Andersson Back in The Lead

You might have heard some of Doyle Brunson's stories about the "good old days" when it sometimes was dangerous to play poker. Those days are, unfortunately, not over yet. On Sunday May 10th, someone posted a video on Facebook in which a game of poker turns pretty ugly.

Read more » Poker Game Turns Violent in New Orleans (VIDEO)

Day 2 of the World Poker Tour Amsterdam €3,300 Main Event concluded last night with 65 players who will return today and fight to live another day - i.e. make it one step closer to the final table.

Read more » WPT Amsterdam: 61 Players Left, Joep van den Bijgaart Leads

In case you missed it, the 2015 Spring Championship of Online Poker (the richest tournament festival of the year runs May 10-24 with $40,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools spread across 138 events) started on Sunday. Believe it or not but PokerStars very own Jason Mercier has already won two SCOOP events!

Read more » 2015 SCOOP: Jason Mercier Scoops 2 Titles In 2 Days!

The second starting day of the first-ever World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event drew a field of 194 entries to the Holland Casino in Amsterdam, Holland. In total, 99 players made it through to Day 2 from Day 1B, with Italian pro Giacomo Fundaro bagging up the overall chip lead.

Read more » WPT Amsterdam: Giacomo Fundaro Takes Overall Chip Lead Into Day 2

Day 1A of the first-ever World Poker Tour Amsterdam Main Event (€3,300 buy-in) began with 130 entries and ended with 54 survivors after nine levels of play, and Fredrik Andersson, from Sweden, finished at the top of the chip counts with 228,100.

Read more » WPT Amsterdam: 54 Players Survived Day 1A; Swede Has The Lead

Between April 24 and May 8, four of poker's best high-stakes heads-up players took on poker bot Claudico (a computer program created by a team at Carnegie Mellon University) in 80,000 hands of heads-up no-limit Texas Hold'em (play money). The rules were very simple: whoever was up after 80k hands would be considered the winner.

Read more » Poker Pros Win Against Computer Program

The €25,000 buy-in High Roller attracted 215 entries (162 players and 53 re-entries) that created a massive €5,267,500 prize pool. At the end of it all, on Friday night, it was 21-year-old Charlie Carrel who stood tall as the winner after overcoming an extremely tough final table (Steve O'Dwyer and Max Altergott, Dan Smith etc.).

Read more » Charlie Carrell Wins EPT Grand Final €25k High Roller (€1,114,000)

The first-ever Spanish European Poker Tour champion was crowned on Friday evening after Adrian Mateoes from Madrid won the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event for €1,082,000!

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Adrian Mateoes Wins The Main Event

12 players remain out of the original starting field of 215 entries, and it is Russian businessman Andrey Andreev who is the chip leader with 2,270,000. 

Big names still in the competition include 2014 WSOP Main Event winner Martin Jacobson, Max Altergott, Dominik Nitsche, Steve O'Dwyer and, not to forget, Dan Smith who played most of yesterday with food poisoning. After reading on PokerStar Blog how ill he was, one can only applaud him for making it this far.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Andrey Andreev Leads Final 12 Into Last Day of High Roller

The final table is set at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event. 558 players (entries) have hit the rail over the past 5 days, which leaves only six players with the chance of becoming the champion of this event and, more importantly, €1.1 million richer! (All finalists are guaranteed to take home €233,500 each).

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Schemion, Lodden & Another 4 Players Ready For The Final Table

15 of 34 players made it through Day 4, moving one step closer to the final table. Team PokerStars Johnny Lodden started the day with 728k and finished with 2,293,000, which means that he's the chip leader heading to Day 5. The Norwegian finished third in this event two seasons ago for €467,000, he now sits in a great position to top that result.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: 15 Players Left - Johnny Lodden Out In Front!

Sheraz Nasir was crowned the first WPT Champion of Season XIV last night. Nasir, who brought the second biggest stack to the final table, defeated Lu Zhang (had the chance of becoming the first-ever female winner in an open WPT event) heads-up to lay hands on the title, CAD $255,408 in prize money, a seat into the WPT Championship, a WPT Champions trophy and a Playground Poker Club Champions Belt.

Read more » Sheraz Nasir Wins partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship

The official World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship (sponsored by PartyPoker) final table is set after four days of play. The remaining six players will return to Le Westin Montreal at 12:00 noon ET today and battle it out for the title and the first-place prize of CAD $255,408. 

Read more » partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship: Final Table Is Set

PokerStars' 2015 edition of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is just days away now. The richest tournament festival of the year runs May 10-24 with $40,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools spread across 138 events, including three Main Events on May 24 with a combined prize pool of $7,000,000! 

Read more » 2015 SCOOP May 10-24: €40,000,000 in Guaranteed Prize Pools

114 players returned for the third day of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event. After five 90-minute levels of play, the day ended with 34 remaining players and Jose Carlos Garcia, the overall Day 1 chip leader, out in front with 1.71 million in chips.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Jose Carlos Garcia Leads Star-Filled Field To Day 4

Hello fellow mobsters, westside writing. Another month has passed and, as always, it's time to take a look at the numbers.

My excel worksheet shows me a profit of 280€ and a 9% ROI , so taking into a consideration that I had a big downswing at the beggining of the month - I'm satisfied with my April results.

Read more » Genious or gambler?

114 players of 564 entries will be returning to the poker tables in a few hours, as the third day of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final €10,600 Main Event starts. German pro Ole Schemion bagged up the largest stack on Day 2 with 477,700 in chips.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Ole Schemion Leads Main Event

It only took one day of play to determine a winner of the €50,000 Super High Roller at the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo EPT Grand Final.

The tournament kicked off at 12:30 pm local time on Sunday, and the final hand was dealt just before 3:30 am on Monday morning. A total of 66 entries created a prize pool €3.2 million, of which Mustapha Kanit received €936,500!

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Mustapha Kanit Wins €50,000 Super High Roller (€936,500)

A big congratulations to Erik Seidel, the winner of the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller.

The tournament drew 71 entries and Seidel received €2,015,000 (the single biggest cash of his 27-year poker career) for being the last man standing. He's now third on poker's all-time money list - ahead of both Phil Ivey and Daniel Colman.

Read more » EPT Monte-Carlo: Erik Seidel Wins €100,000 Super High roller

Viktor "isildur1" Blom kicked some serious ass on PokerStars last week. On Tuesday, he won $208k playing a 2-7 triple draw, 8-game and pot-limit Omaha (most of the winnings came from Kibler-Melby).

Read more » High Stakes: Viktor Blom Won $1 Million Last Week!

On Tuesday, Poland's ‘bladsonpoker' became the second Spin & Go millionaire since the PokerStars Makes Millionaires promotion began (you can read about the first winner here).

Read more » ‘bladsonpoker' Wins $1,000,000 in Spin & Go

Asher Conniff, who entered the final table with the second largest stack, is the winner of the 2015 World Poker Tour Championship! Conniff, a WPT regular from Brooklyn, New York, bested a field of 239 players to lay hands on the title, $973,683 in prize money, and a Hublot Oceanographic 4000 Watch, a pair of gold Monster 24K Headphones and a WPT Champions Trophy.

Read more » WPT World Championship: A Misclick Worth $973,683