TCOOP 2014: James "Andy McLEOD" Obst joins Triple COOP Club with win in Event...
It was never really in doubt that Andy McLEOD was a brilliant payer, but if anyone was in any doubt today he demonstrated why. Over the course of 21 minutes I and 413 others watched Andy McLEOD, better...
View ArticleEPT10 Deauville: Greece is the word as Sotirios Koutoupas pips Eugene...
Among 671 poker players there are countless unique stories. The overall narrative of a major tournament can become desperately tangled. But from a remarkably early stage of EPT Deauville this week, two...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: Boby Boom blasts through Event #43 field ($109 NL Omaha H/L...
Who wouldn't be excited to turn $109 into over $20,000 in two hours? That's the beauty of TCOOP and this evening,1,326 players took advantage of the opportunity for a little hyper-speed Omaha Hi/Lo....
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: RickyBoy1990 starts off 2014 in a big way winning Event #42 ($27...
Germans would make up nearly half of the final table during tonight's TCOOP 2014 Event #42 $27 2X-Turbo with Rebuys. But, only one would make it into the five-way deal that cut the biggest piece of...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: 5typesofmeat duels to a win in Event #41, $215 PL Omaha (Turbo,...
This year's 50-event TCOOP schedule included only two heads-up tournaments. The first of those, a $215 NLHE tourney, was won last week by the Ukraine's Ati Jon. For those whose taste for action either...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1a: The wait is over
1:15pm: It's an hour before the first day of the Aussie Millions Main Event as we arrive in the Crown Poker Room. There's undoubtedly something different in the air. A feeling of excitement....
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: GrzegorzT3 with dazzling come-from-behind victory in Saturday...
Severely out-chipped GrzegorzT3 requested a deal with two players remaining. Leading by 28 million, GrzegorzT3's opponent elevatorboy shot down any deal talk. In hindsight, a deal would have been the...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1a: The right day to play
We were sitting at the blogging desk late last night, wrapping up the final table in one of the Aussie Millions preliminary events when we were approached by someone on the rail with a question. He...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1a: Beat the heat
We already mentioned some of the positive reasons why players should choose Day 1a as the day to take their shot in the Aussie Millions Main Event. Well, we just thought of another one. The weather. If...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1a: Stars in town
We already mentioned that Team PokerStars Pro Naoya Kihara was representing in today's Day 1a field, but he's no longer the lone red spade in the room. After taking some time out to enjoy the city of...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1a: The APPT Journey
The 2014 Aussie Millions marks the start of Season 8 of the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) and it's been an amazing journey for the region's largest and most prestigious poker tour to this point. Who...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1a: Bag 'em up
The wait was finally over! The 2014 Aussie Millions Main Event had arrived with planeloads of interstate and overseas arrivals fresh into Melbourne town to plunder down under. The Crown Poker Room was...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: Fun, flips and frills as Cbank32 binks Event #45 title ($109 NL...
Sometimes as you watch an 'OOP final table you form opinions of players on screen based on nothing more than an avatar and playing style. It can be blind prejudice or just a gut reaction, but it can...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: Second leg complete for ninototoroko winning Sunday Warm-Up...
While it's not the Sunday Million special edition which would wrap up two legs of the PokerStars Grand Slam all-in-one, tonight's TCOOP 2014 Event #46 Sunday Warm-Up special edition would give the...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: dumBBass86 plays it smart in Event #48, $320 8-Game (Turbo)
Your average TCOOP tournament is already a whirlwind experience, taking just a few hours from start to finish and awarding tens of thousands of dollars to its top finishers even on modest buy-ins. For...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: pokerkluka slays high roller giants, Kroko-dill final tables...
Andrey "Kroko-dill" Zaichenko had quite a rail as he approached the final table of today's TCOOP High Roller event. The Russian is one of only two players in the PokerStars universe that's one win away...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: dumBBass86 plays it smart in Event #48, $320 8-Game (Turbo)
Your average TCOOP tournament is already a whirlwind experience, taking just a few hours from start to finish and awarding tens of thousands of dollars to its top finishers even on modest buy-ins. For...
View ArticleTCOOP 2014: styggert bowls over Event #50 (Hyper-Turbo, Sunday SuperSonic...
Can you spare two hours and twenty minutes for a chance at over $100,000? 3,796 players said yes to this proposition and as the Super Bowl's kickoff was underway and prop betters with an affinity for...
View ArticleWomen's Sunday: cheesebreeze brings home the cheddar
Apparently, there was the matter of a little American football match today, but that didn't deter the 215 ladies who came out for this weeks' Women's Sunday. 36 players earned a share of the $10,750.00...
View ArticleAussie Millions Day 1b: Super Bowl Monday
Welcome to Super Bowl Monday in Australia! It's not the traditional Super Bowl party that you might expect if you're following this from the USA. There are no BBQs, no beer, no parties. It's a little...
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