Poker news tagged with 'kevin macphee'

On Saturday, American poker pro Kevin Macphee earned his second career bracelet and €883,000 in prize money for being the last man standing in the 2015 World Series of Poker Europe Berlin Main Event!

Read more » WSOPE Berlin: Kevin Macphee Is The Winner (€883,000)

Kevin MacPhee ended up with the chip lead for the second day in a row as the final table of the 2015 WSOP Europe Berlin Main Event was reached on Thursday.

MacPhee started Day 4 with 1.15 million in chips and finished with a massive stack of 5,015,000! As you can imagine he was doing extremly well at the poker tables on Day 4, and he was responsible for the elimination of Erik Seidel to set the official final table of six players.

Read more » WSOP Europe Berlin: Kevin MacPhee Leads Final 6, Seidel Bubbles Final Table

21 of 313 players are still alive and kicking after three thrilling days of play at Spielbank Berlin. Young gun Dzmitry Urbanovich was out in front when Day 3 began, and he will return today for Day 4 with 414,000 in chips (11th place).

Read more » WSOPE Europe Berlin: 21 Players Left; Urbanovich In 11th Place

This event drew a field of 454 entries, generating a $2,133,800 prize pool. Due to the turbo format, a winner was crowned already in the evening on Day 2. Kevin MacPhee, who is no stranger to turbo structured events, received his first gold bracelet and $490,800 for his first-place finish.

Read more » Kevin MacPhee Wins Event #56 - $5,000 Turbo No-Limit Hold'em

Day 3 saw the return of 36 players, including notables such as Kevin MacPhee, Guillaume Darcout, Benjamin Pollak, and Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Just as planned, the tournament director called it a day when 16 players remained on Day 3.

Read more » EPT Deauville Main Event: 16 Players Remain - Satellite Qualifier Out In Front

Georgios Kapalas is the chip leader with 1,398,000 among the final 36 players of the EPT Deauville Main Event. The Greek pro missed this tournament for the first time ever last year when his fellow countryman Sotirios Koutoupas bested a field of 671 players (and denied Eugene Katchalov the triple crown heads-up) for €614,000. Now, Kapalas sits in a great spot to take Greece back-to-back titles in Deauville!

Read more » EPT Deauville: Day 3 Is Over - 36 Players Remaining

Another day of poker has come to an end in Deuville, France. There are 138 players (of 592 entries) left with the chance of winning an EPT title along with the top prize of €543,700. Irishman Alex Tikhoniouk will lead the remaining player field to Day 3 with 312,600 in chips.

Read more » EPT Deauville: 138 Players Move One Step Closer To The €543,700 First-Place Prize

The famous poker couple Kevin Macphee and Liv Boeree's relationship is over after about 2 years, and it seems like it wasn't a friendly breakup. This is what Macphee wrote on twitter yesterday:

Read more » Boeree and Macphee Have Split Up

The High Roller (buy-in €10,000+€300) kicked off yesterday with 71 players (plus 14 €10k rebuys). There were a lot of familiar faces in the field: Eugene Katchalov, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier (picture), Michael Tureniec, Steve O'Dwyer, Kevin MacPhee etc.

Read more » EPT Deauville High Roller

Yesterday the first starting day of World Poker Tour Prague (re-entry event - 3 starting days) kicked off and saw a field of 115 players. 54 of them made it through the day, and Pasi Jaakko Heinanen (picture) from Finland had the largest pile of chips (193,800) when the tournament director called it a day. Today it's time for Day 1B and famous players such as Liv Boeree and Kevin MacPhee will make sure that it will be a thrilling day of poker.

Check back tomorrow for another brief update. 

In the most recent episode of the 2012 EPT Berlin Main Event, Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst and Kevin MacPhee played a very interesting hand. Selbst betted 17k from UTG, MacPhee reraised to 37,000. Selbst made it 79k, and MacPhee 5-bet to 131k. Selbst asked Kevin MacPhee how much he had left, then went all in. MacPhee made the call after 1 minute of going through potential hands Selbst could have.

Read more » MacPhee and Selbst Levelling War at EPT Berlin

The World Poker Tour has now made a stop in Amneville, France, and already Day 1a and 1b have been played. Out of the 379 players that paid the €3200 + €300 and entered the tournament, 218 players still have chips left and will return to play Day 2 later on today.

Day 1a was lacking of superstars, but Day 1b attracted quite a few big names. For example there were 2 famous poker couples on show with Liv Boeree/Kevin MacPhee and Catherine Hong/Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier. Unfortunately both MacPhee and ElkY hit the rail at the early stages of Day 1b, but luckily both their girlfriends made it through to Day 2. Other notables that made it to Day 2 are Jamies Rosen, Arnaud Mattern, Joseph Cheong and famous French rap artist Bruno "Kool Sheen" Lopes.

After 5 days of play, the EPT San Remo main event field has been narrowed down from 837 to 8 players. These 8 players will in a few hours time return to the theatre of Casino San Remo and fight for a first prize worth €800,000. Daniel Nielson, from Australia, will bring the largest stack to the final table. With 6,7 million chips Nielson has about a 2,3 million lead over Dimitar Danchev, from Russia, in second place.

Read more » EPT San Remo: The final table is set; live stream available at 14:00 CET

Last weekend, PokerStars (in the connection with the last EPT tournament of the season) dealt out the EPT awards for this year. William Thorson, the swedish PokerStars Pro, received the award for best Omaha player. William has been very successful in different PL Omaha events at EPT London and Bahamas.

Maxim Lykov received the EPT Player of the Year award. Lykov won EPT Kiev in the beginning of the season, then he won a side-event at PokerStars Caribbean Adventure in January. He also finished in 13th place in EPT Snowfest + a few other good results in other side-events.

Read more » EPT Awards: Max Lykov takes home the Player of the Year award