The EPT Poker Festival in Barcelona keeps breaking one record after the other, and yesterday was no exception as the €10,300 High Roller saw a total of 378 entries! The previous record was set in Vienna last season, when the €10,300 High Roller attracted 141 unique players and 40 reentries. …
Only two women remained, when Day 4 of EPT Barcelona Main Event kicked off at noon today. From the starting field of 1496 entries only 102 players had survived with the dream intact, among them world class players like Mike McDonald, Davidi Kitai, Martin Finger and Dominik Panka – just …
Day 3 of the European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event is in the books. Nearly 300 excited players showed up at Casino Barcelona today to play five levels. Around 60 of them were going to leave empty-handed as only 239 players would get paid. What nobody had expected was the …
The EPT Barcelona Main Event attracted a record setting field of 1496 players, and 889 of them returned today to play Day 2. When the dust had settled only 324 were left. Even though the day was a short one with only six levels, not a lot of female players …
They started out 2,560 players and today they were playing down to a winner. The large field at Estrella Poker Tour Main Event in Barcelona created at huge prize pool with healthy €393.354 on top for the winner. One of the players in contention for the prize and the glory …
Even though online poker has been around for approximately 15 years, the stereotypes of the online grinder still thrive. The typical players is a man in his early twenties. He’s an introvert nerd with a hoodie, who plays poker nonstop surrounded by large computer screens and empty pizza boxes. While …
Before the World Series of Poker not a lot of people in the poker world had heard of Mikiyo Aoki from Bozeman, Montana. That all changed this summer, when the 24-year old Demo Architect, who works for Oracle, finished runner-up in the Ladies Event to Haixia Zhang and in 83rd …
When Black Friday hit on April 15, 2011, pokerpro Christina Lindley was in her home in Las Vegas. Devastated. At that time Lindley was primarily an online player, and she was pretty much crushing. In 2009 she was runner-up in a FTOPS event for $106,460, and in 2010 she won …
Ruth Graham is a 38-year old poker pro from Denver, Colorado. She mainly plays cash games, but also a few tourneys each year at the WSOP and the WPT. Until 2005 she worked as a system engineer for Sun Microsystems, but decided to quit her job as she was making …
In 2013 Jackie Glazier was the last woman standing in the Main Event at World Series of Poker. She finished in 31th place and recieved $229,281 for a really amazing performance. Just three months later she won her first bracelet, when she took down the first Ladies Championship at World …