Satellite winner takes down EPT Barcelona Main Event

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 […]

New online poker offering from 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 […]

Former poker magazine bookkeeper charged for fraud

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 […]

Hungarian victory in EPT Barcelona high roller event

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 […]

Winning Poker Network abandons Australian market?

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 […]

Partypoker and World Poker Tour agree four-year Europe and Canada deal

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 […]

French poker ace in another big win at EPT Barcelona

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 […]

Belarus poker pro on a roll in Barcelona

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 […]

Ukrainian lawmakers re-classify poker as a sport

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 […]

French amateur poker player wins major EPT tournament

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 […]