September 3, 2018
Piotr Nurzynski is a Polish amateur poker player who entered a $250 online poker satellite competition whilst travelling in South America and won a seat in the Euro 5,300 buy-in European Poker Tour Barcelona Main Event. Today he is Euro 1,037,109 wealthier after winning the event following a four-way chop…and he has a $30,000 PokerStars […]
September 2, 2018
Media and forum reports this week indicate that PokerStars is continuing its pursuit of new and interesting product offerings by promoting Six Plus Hold’em (Short Deck Poker), a variant reportedly popular with high roller players in cash games and on the tournament circuit in Asia. The variant differs from Texas Hold’em; deuces through fives are […]
September 1, 2018
Anna McCann, a former bookkeeper for the poker publications company Card Player, has been charged before a Las Vegas Clark County court with 24 felony offences regarding her criminal activities at the company. McCann stands accused of defrauding magazine owners Barry and Allyn Shulman of $1.4 million over a five-year period ending August 2016, during […]
August 31, 2018
Hungarian poker pro Andras Nemeth has pulled off a surprise victory in the EPT Barcelona Euro 25,000 buy-in Single Day High Roller competition after besting a field of 95 players – many of them internationally respected professionals. The registrations included Michael Dyer, Stephen Chidwick, Bryn Kenney, Luc and Sam Greenwood, Nick Petrangelo, Patrik Antonius, Dan […]
August 30, 2018
Forum and social media posts this week appear to indicate that the Winning Poker Network has pulled out of the Australian market, although there is a marked lack of official notification to that effect from the company, leaving the reasons for the move open to speculation. The obvious rationale for the decision is the Australian […]
August 30, 2018
PartyPoker and the World Poker Tour have expanded their business relationship with an agreement to team up over a four-year period to deliver major live tournament events across Europe and Canada. InfoPowa readers will recall that the two poker giants originally had the same owner; PartyPoker acquired WPT in 2009 for $12.3 million and sold […]
August 29, 2018
Only a day after earning Euro 445,300 for finishing fifth in the Euro 100,000 buy-in Super High Roller at EPT Barcelona this week, French professional player Benjamin Pollack added a further Euro 979,000 to his bank balance by taking down the Euro 50,000 Single Day High Roller competition at the same venue. The event attracted […]
August 28, 2018
Belarus poker pro Mikita Badziakouski is on a roll this year with a series of big wins that make him second only to Justin Bonomo as a money-maker. This week his roll continued with victory in the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona Euro 100,000 buy-in Super High Roller, which boosted the poker pro’s bank balance […]
August 27, 2018
Eight years ago, the Ukrainian government’s Justice Department decided that poker was not a sport but in conflict with national gambling law, and removed the popular genre from the national Register of Recognised Sports. The unilateral decision triggered a storm of protest from poker clubs, which formed an alliance and took the case to the […]
August 27, 2018
The Euro 1,100 buy-in European Poker Tour National in Barcelona has been taken down by French amateur player Jean-René Fontaine despite a professional-heavy field of 4,348, rewarding the Reunion resident with the main prize of Euro 547,000 and a Pokerstars $30,000 Platinum Pass. In a four-hour final table, Fontaine and French professional player Julien Martini […]