The events in the Bodog Poker Open IV are guaranteeing a ton of added value, and players’ first chance to snag some of that dead money is this Sunday, when the series kicks off with its first event. On BPO IV starts on Nov. 1 at 4:30 p.m. ET with a $100+$9 no-limit hold’em event. [...]
The quarterfinals of the Littlewoods Poker World Heads-Up Poker Championship are happening now, and you can watch it live on PokerinEuropeLive.com. There were 16 players remaining for round 3 of the Littlewoods Poker World Heads-Up Poker Championship at London’s Grosvenor Victoria Casino yesterday but that field would be halved by end of play. Firstly, the [...]
WPT Season 8 Festa al Lago champion Tommy Vedes.The poker Gods appeared to finally give Tommy Vedes the break he needed in Las Vegas Monday night. The New York native, who fell just short of glory at the WSOP, the WSOPE and PokerStars EPT London, found himself on the wrong end of several coolers and [...]
Ashton Griffin: Made the first hit of the day.Unknown player Isildur1 was back at Full Tilt’s high-stakes tables yesterday, only this time he found himself sitting across from some of the best online players in the world. His attempt at repeating Thursday’s winning session began to fail miserably right out of the gate. The first [...]
The World Poker Tour $15,000 no-limit hold’em championship event begins today at Bellagio. The event is the 19th on the schedule for the 2009 Festa al Lago Classic tournament series that has been hosted at Bellagio. You can check out results for all of the preliminary events and news recaps for select preliminary events on [...]
The $10,000 pot-limit Omaha tournament at the 2009 Festa al Lago Classic concluded on Saturday, Oct. 17, and Ted Lawson (pictured right) topped the field to walk away with the $62,080 top prize and a Bellagio championship Rolex. Players that he surpassed on the way to winning the tournament included Matt Glantz, Pat Walsh, Justin [...]
The tournament dates for the PartyPoker.com World Open V have been released on August 27th, 2009. The event will start on October 11th, 2009 and will end on October 15th, 2009 at the Palm Beach Casino in London, England and some of the best poker players in the world will be participating in the event [...]
Vanessa Rousso will not be replacing A.J. Benza as the new co-host of High Stakes Poker. Vanessa told LaunchPoker.com that “I’m not co-hosting HSP, not sure where this rumor started.” Keep visiting LaunchPoker.com for news about who will be taking over as the co-host of High Stakes Poker.
Patrik Antonius took on Ilari “Ziigmund” Sahamies on Full Tilt’s high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha tables last night, beating his fellow Finn out of $468k. It was almost a perfect session for Antonius, making money everywhere he sat.In fact, on top of the $468k he won playing heads-up with Sahamies, Antonius took another $80k off Phil “OMGClayAiken” [...]
The latest European Poker Tour event has wrapped, and EPT London has its winner. The victor is one Aaron Gustavson, an online qualifier from poker room PokerStars, who defeated current World Series of Poker main event champion Peter Eastgate in a heads up battle. The winner is an American poker player who picked up an [...]
