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December 2014

Video: Watch Vanessa Selbst’s Giant Bluff vs. Ole Schemion

In episode eight of the televised poker show the Shark Cage, Team PokerStars pro Vanessa Selbst attempts to bluff German wunderkind Ole Schemion. Does she succeed? In the Shark Cage the players risk to spend an orbit in the cage if they fold to a bluff or get caught bluffing themselves. In this heat, …

EPT Prague Main Event Day 4: Vanessa Selbst in Strong Contention for the Title

A record-breaking field of 1,107 players signed up to play in the two starting flights of EPT Prague Main Event, but when Day 4 started on Monday at noon only 61 players remained. Among them were well-known pros like Sam Grafton, George Danzer, Alexander Roumeliotis, Davidi Kitai, Vanessa Selbst and …

Yaxi Zhu Strikes Again and Wins EPT €2K NL Event

Yaxi Zhu has done it again and made another final table, and this time she went all the way and took down a €2,000 NL Holdem side event at EPT Prague. The field included top players like wunderkind Ole Schemion and former EPT Player of the Year Ondrej Vinklarek. When …

EPT Prague: Luciana ”luckyno75” Manolea Wins Event #20; Runner-Up in Event #23

Luciano Manolea arrived in Prague Wednesday night and within 24 hours she had won €63,535 ($79,101). First she entered EPT Event #20 (€1,000 NL Hyper Turbo) at midnight. The tournament had 211 runners and heads-up Manolea and Daniel Weiman agreed to do a straight chop of the prize money (€30,245 …

Jennifer Shahade Wins the First Open Face Chinese World Championship

Yesterday the first ever Open Face Chinese (OFC) World Championship High Roller kicked off in Prague.  The £10,000 event attracted 18 players and with five re-entries the total number of entries reached 23. The tough field included players like Sorel Mizzi, Jason Mercier, Alexander Kostritsyn, Vladimir Troyanovskiey, Mikhail Smirnov, Bruno …

Fatima Moreira de Melo and Chess Master Zuzana Borosova in the Shark Cage

In episode five of the televised poker show the Shark Cage, online qualifier Zuzana Borosova from Slovakia gets a chance to win one million US dollar. The 25-year old grand master of chess is up against a tough lineup consisting of Jonathan Duhamel, Fatima Moreira de Melo, Griffin Benger, Igor Kurganov and hockey player Jeremy Roenick. …