Poker news tagged with 'ronny kaiser'

Day 3 of EPT Campione main event saw a field of 99 players. The plan was to play down to 24 players in six levels and call it a day, but the tournament directors decided to to let the action continue a bit into level 7 and then stopped with 24 players. It was a very long day and most of the players probably went straight to bed for some well-needed sleep.

Read more » EPT Campione: 24 Players Left

The action at PokerStars highest stakes hasn't calmed down even though Christmas is just a few days away. And last week we got to see Viktor "Isildur1" Blom, Ilari Sahamies and other poker wonders battle it out on PokerStars nosebleed tables.

Blom made an amazing comeback on PokerStars 2 weeks ago and won an amazing $1,5 million in 2 days, which also made him one of the biggest winners this year. But Blom ran out of luck last week and lost $867,2126. A lot of money, but he's still about $500k plus this month and also one of the biggest winners.

Read more » High Stakes: Viktor Blom lost $867k last week

Yet another cheating scandal is about to emerge in the online poker world. This time it's two high stakes players that have fallen victim to a scam. Both players have had trojan horses installed on their computers by a German poker player who has won about $400,000 from them. The victims come from Switzerland and Austria and the German cheater is now located in England. One of the victims is rumored to be EPT Tallinn winner Ronny Kaiser.

Read more » Another cheating scandal brought into daylight

After 5 days and four and half hours of play on the final table, Ronny Kaiser, 21, from Switzerland, had all the chips and was crowned emperor of Estonia and EPT. For the win of the EPT Tallinn Main Event, Kaiser received the biggest paycheck in his poker career, €275,000. But that's not all! He also became the first champion of European Poker Tour's season 8!

Read more » EPT Tallinn: Ronny Kaiser became the first champ of EPT's 8 season (€275k)