Poker news tagged with 'steve odwyer'

The very first event to kick off at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series in Montenegro this May 2019 has now finished, and it was Steve O'Dwyer who bagged the first place prize and the trophy!

Triton Poker SHR Series Montenegro 2019
Event #1: HK$250,000 No-Limit Hold'em Turbo 8-Handed
Venue: Maestral Resort & Casino in Budva, Montenegro
When: May 5-6, 2019 (Sunday and Monday)

Read more » Triton Poker SHR Montenegro 2019 First Event HKD250K NLHE won by Steve O'Dwyer for $472,788

Every poker fan or player is familiar with the name of Phil Ivey, an American living legend who has won 10 WSOP bracelets and dubbed by Wikipedia as the unofficial best poker player in the world.

As Ivey continues to keep his standards high and mainly focuses his gameplay on high-stakes cash games instead of participating from time to time at tournaments, it has now resulted to the 42-year-old poker pro being "kicked out" of the top 10 All Time Money list as Jason Koon, Dan Smith and Steve O'Dwyer surpassed him thanks to their lucrative finishes in various tournaments.

Read more » Phil Ivey No Longer On Top 10 All Time Money List

After about 12 hours of play on Sunday, Steve O'Dwyer was the last man standing of a star-studded field of 41 entries in the €50,000 Single-Day High Roller at the 2018 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo EPT!

Read more » EPT: Steve O'Dwyer Wins Yet Another High Roller Title!

Steve O'Dwyer added yet another high roller title to his poker resume thanks to winning the PokerStars Championship Macau HK$400,000 Super High Roller last weekend. The event saw 88 entries (64 players and 24 re-entries) and was played over three days.

Read more » Steve O'Dwyer Wins Macau Super High Roller

Does this guy ever stop winning? Well, it clearly doesn't seem that way given that Steve O'Dwyer added yet another High Roller title to his poker resume on Monday! This time he outlasted a field of 15 of the world's best poker players in the 2016 Aussie Millions $250,000 Challenge!

Read more » 2016 Aussie Millions: Steve O'Dwyer Wins The $250,000 Challenge!

Steve O'Dwyer has been on fire in the past two years or so. Little did it surprise anyone when he claimed yet another big title this weekend on Paradise Island. This time the 33-year-old American-Irishman added another $945,495 to his already massive bankroll by besting a field of 58 players (+ 22 re-entries) in the $50,000 buy-in Single Day High Roller!

Read more » PCA 2016: Steve O'Dwyer Wins $50k Single-Day High Roller

Steve O'Dwyer became the first-ever player on the European Poker Tour to win a second Super High Roller title last night! Amazingly enough this was only the fifteenth time the EPT held an event with a Super High Roller attached. (Aside from two EPT Super High Roller titles, he also has a Super High Roller title victory from the 2014 APPT in Macau).

Read more » WPT Prague: Steve O'Dwyer Wins Yet Another Super High Roller!

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)

Germany's Dietrich Fast won the record-breaking WSOP Europe event, €550 Oktoberfest tournament, in early hours of today. Fast received his first WSOP bracelet and €157,749 for coming out on top of a field of 2,144 entries after three days of no-limit Hold'em poker.

Read more » Dietrich Fast Wins Record-Breaking WSOP Europe Tournament!

There are only nine players remaining in the World Series of Poker Europe Oktoberfest event (Event #2: €550 No-Limit Hold'em) after four days of play. All nine finalists have so far secured a €16,935 payday by outlasting 2,135 other entries over four days of play, and on today's final table they will battle it out for a coveted gold bracelet and a $157,749 first-place prize!

Read more » WSOP Europe: John Gale Leads Oktoberfest Final Table, O'Dwyer in Third Place

Ten levels were completed on the second day of the €10k High Roller, and it was American poker pro Nick Petrangelo (1.1 million USD in live tournament earnings) who bagged up the chip lead when the day came to an end. Petrangelo will bring 1.66 million chips to the final day and is up against another 17 players for the title, the €597,000 first-place prize and a luxurious SLYDE watch.

Read more » EPT Malta High Roller: Nick Petrangelo Leads Final 18

The first day of the EPT Malta €10,300 High Roller drew a massive field of 228 unique players who made a total of 61 re-entries. This means that 289 entries have been made so far, plus registration is open till 11:45 a.m. today. The current prize pool is over €2.8 million - just €1.5 million less than the Main Event (895 entries).

Read more » EPT Malta High Roller: 289 Entries So Far!

It took just a little bit more than 5 hours of play at the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island in the Bahamas until the biggest ever $100,000 Super High Roller had a winner, Steve O'Dwyer of USA!

Read more » 2015 PCA: Steve O'Dwyer Wins The Super High Roller

Day 1 of the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final High Roller attracted 158 players (37 more than last year) and 47 of them used their option to reenter the tournament, which brought the total to 205 entries so far (registration is open until the start of Day 2). However, no matter how many more players enter today, this High Roller is already the largest one to date on European ground. 

According to PokerStars Blog, 104 players survived the first day with Germany's Benny Spindler bagging up the largest stack (384,300). Spindler will be joined today by the likes of Viktor Blom (26k), Steve O'Dwyer (47k), Jason Mercier (47k), Daniel Negreanu (110k) and a whole bunch of other superstars in the poker world.

We will be back with another update tomorrow morning! Stay tuned!

Another day is in the books at the 2014 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo® Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final Main Event. After six 75-minute levels of play in Day 2, Russia's Vladimir Troyanovskiy bagged up the largest stack (450,500) amongst the 123 remaining players. Troyanovskiy is a regular in the Super High Roller and High Roller tournaments on the European Poker Tour and, believe it or not, he played final tables in both of them at the 2013 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Russian High Roller Leads Final 123

On Sunday, the final table of the 2013 European Poker Tour Monaco Grand Final Main Event concluded with Steve O'Dwyer taking down the tournament for €1,224,000 and an exclusive Slyde watch after defeating Andrew Pantling heads-up.

Read more » Steve O'Dwyer Wins EPT Monaco Main Event!

Another day of the EPT Monaco Grand Final main event is in the books. There are now only 34 of 531 players left in the tournament and it starts getting really exciting as the final table is just around the corner.

There are lots of big names left in the tournament, including Steve O'Dwyer, Andrew Pantling, John Juanda, Noah Schwartz, Victor Ramdin, Jason Mercier, Jake Cody, Paul Volpe, Daniel Negreanu, Andrew Lichtenberger, Andrew Chen, Freddy Deeb, Luke Schwartz, Mickey Petersen, Ville Wahlbeck and Norwegian Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden, who remained out front throughout Day 3.

All the remaining players are now guaranteed a minimum payday of €21,500 - with the chance of a bank-busting €1,224,000! We will be back with a final table recap on Monday morning! 

About 110 players remain in the EPT Monaco Grand Final Main Event after 2 days of play. Team PokerStars Pro Johnny Lodden pushed past the half a million mark late during Day 2 and finished the day as the chip leader with 605,200. Lodden will be joined by the likes of Calvin Andersen (472,400), Oleksii Kovalchuk (414,700), Noah Schwartz (453,400), Steve O'Dwyer (389,200) and Daniel Negreanu (340,100) to the third day of the tournament.

The remaining players are fighting for a first prize of €1,224,000! The money bubble will burst during day 3 when 80 players remain (€16,000 min cash). We will be back with a bigger update tomorrow. Stay tuned!

It has been an action-filled weekend in Casino Barcelona's poker room as Day 1A, Day 1B and Day 2 of the WPT Barcelona main event have been played. The field has been narrowed down from 249 to 42 players and the money bubble will burst during Day 3 (starts at noon today). The chip leader is Anaras Alekberovas (picture) with 467,000 chips and Tahiri Hassani (434,500) and Antonio Alfaia (430,500) are not far behind.

Besides the players mentioned above, there are two players that one should look out for during Day 3: Lukas Berglund (347k), of Sweden, who won this tournament in 2011 and Steve O'Dwyer (112,000), the American poker pro who has played several EPT and WPT final tables.

The final table of the European Poker Tour London main event was one of the most interesting and exciting final tables in EPT history because 4 of 8 finalists were well known talents in the poker world: Steve O'Dwyer, Theo Jorgensen, Ruben Visser and Chris Moorman.

Read more » Ruben Visser Won Star-Filled Final Table at EPT London

Day 4 ended up being a short day of poker as the field of 32 players only had to be cut in half to 16. However, 15 players remained when the tournament crew called it a day and the American poker pro Steve O'Dwyer had the largest stack (2,279,000).

Read more » EPT London: Steve O'Dwyer Leads Final 15

Day 4 of EPT London will kick off in a few hours time and there are only 32 players remaining. The plan for Day 4 is to play down to 16 players, who tomorrow will continue the road leading up to the final table (Day 5).

Read more » EPT London: Jorgensen, Obrestad and Mercier Among Final 32

Today the third day of the European Poker Tour London Main Event will be played. There are 114 players still standing and the chip leader is Mantas Visockis (522,200), followed by (equally unknown) Matthias Tikerpe (507,600). Day 2 chip leader and UKIPT London champion Sergio Aido will also return to play today with 251,400 chips.

Read more » EPT London: Viktor Blom Through to Day 3

254 players signed up for the WPT Baden Main Event (Day 1A: 104 & Day 1B: 150). Both starting days are in the books now and there are 131 players remaining. Day 2 starts in just about 2 hours and Kimmo Kurko (picture), from Day 1A, will sit down with the largest stack (149,700). Steve O'Dwyer is ranked 6th with 118,000 chips and Champions Club members Marvin Rettenmaier (86,000) and Lukas Berglund (78,900) are not far behind.

The money bubble will burst when 27 players remain ($8,634). The winner will take home a whopping $271,258 - about 100k more than the runner-up. Check back tomorrow for a Day 2 recap.

The final table of the 2012 WPT Copenhagen Main Event is not far away now as only 18 players remain. Stanislav Barshak (picture), from the U.S., is the current chip leader with 830,000 chips and Frei Dilling Kjaer, the Day 3 chip leader, is ranked 3rd with 691,000 chips. Barshak and Kjaer will be joined by the likes of Peter Jepson and WPT National Series Denmark winner Steve O'Dwyer.

Read more » WPT Copenhagen: 18 Players Remain. New Chip Leader!

Yesterday the sixth day of the WPT World Championship was played at the Bellagio in Vegas. There were only 9 players left and only 6 of them would make it to the final table. Marvin Rettenmaier had a big lead and could just have kicked back and relaxed, waiting for the small stacks to take out each other.

Read more » The WPT World Championship final table is set - Rettenmaier holds gigantic lead!

There are now only 9 players left in the World Poker Tour World Championship after 5 days of play! But the final table is still not set as the remaining 9 players need to become 6 for Saturday's televised final table! This means that the 6 players who survive Day 6 (play starts in a few hours) will get a well-deserved off-day to gather some energy.

Read more » WPT World Championship: Rettenmaier and Mizrachi top the field when 9 players remain

About one week after finishing seventh in the EPT Copenhagen Main Event, the American Poker Pro Steve O'Dwyer won the WPT National tournament in Vejle, Denmark.

O'Dwyer received a first prize of 900,000 DKK (about USD 160k) for his amazing achievement - especially since he had to beat 5 "locals" on the final table. O'Dwyer is now closing in on the $2.5 million mark in his career live tournament earnings.

WPT National Vejle final results (players 289, 1.00 DKK = 0.177533 USD):
1: Steve O'Dwyer - 893,960 DKK
2: Martin Tonnesen - 490,140 DKK
3: Claus Uhrskov - 339,960 DKK

4: Jan V. Sorensen - 225,030 DKK
5: Justin Lund - 175,710 DKK
6: Kenneth Laursen - 138,720 DKK

Team Online against PokerStars Pro; youth against old timer; blonde hair against dark hair; foreigner against local - all could describe the heads-up between Mickey Petersen and Pierre Neuville. One thing is for sure though - it was one of the most entertaining EPT finals for quite some time and it took six-and-quarter-hours before a winner was crowned, Petersen.

Petersen, who's a well-known and respected tournament player in Denmark, really deserved the win against the Belgian Team PokerStars pro. Firstly, he usually had the best hand when the money went into the center of the table. Secondly, he stayed focused from start to end and didn't let his older, more experienced opponent push him around. Thirdly, he saw that his opponent was getting more and more exhausted and used time to his advantage.

Read more » Local won EPT Copenhagen after marathoon heads-up

Many well-known players didn't survive the third day of the Main Event and the tournament is now down to only 24 players. Melanie Weisner, the Day 3 chip leader who was very confident of a deep run, is not among these 24 players, nor is the Day 1b chip leader Mads Wissing from Denmark.

There are still some pretty interesting players who made it through the day though. For example: the American poker pro and Day 1a and Day 2 chip leader Steve O'Dwyer with 423,500 chips, and the reigning EPT Copenhagen Champion Micheal Tureniec from Sweden with 294,500.

Read more » EPT Copenhagen: 24 remaining players. Pierre Neuville leads the pack.

As many predicted, Day 1b of the EPT Copenhagen Main Event attracted a much bigger player-field than Day 1a. In total, 215 players arrived at the SAS Radisson Hotel in Copenhagen yesterday and battled it out for seven levels of play.

The day ended with a local player in the lead, Mads Wissing, who managed to accumulate 127,575 chips. A few familiar poker players who also made it through Day 1b: Johnny Lodden, Anton Wigg, Luca Pagano, Juha Helppi, Arnaud Mattern and home town here Theo Jorgensen.

Read more » EPT Copenhagen: Mads Wissing from Denmark wins Day 1b

Yesterday (at around 20:00 CET) Day 1a of the EPT Copenhagen Main Event came to an end with 48 survivors. The chip leader comes from the other side of the atlantic ocean and his name is Steve O'Dwyer. O'Dwyer, who finished second in EPT London, will bring 190,975 to Day 2 and he has the experience to go all the way to the final table.

Read more » American leads the EPT Copenhagen Main Event