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Sunday Warm-Up: Konstantinos "arxigos" Nanos add another major win and $112K
Time and time again players who make the final table and win the Sunday Majors, such as tonight's $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up, as well as the COOP tournament series, do so because they like money...
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Put a halo on the Women's Sunday for winner xAnGeLxEyEzx
It was another exciting Women's Sunday this weekend. In fact, the turnout was particularly great, with the guarantee set aside for a prize pool that exceeded the $10K by several thousand dollars....
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ACOP Platinum Series IV ready to kickoff
The ACOP Platinum Series IV is ready to kickoff at the 'PokerStars LIVE at the City of Dreams' poker room this April 17-20 and once again features the HK $5,500 Main Event, which comes with a HK...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Small but easily recognizable
As we walked along Corso Giacomo Matteotti, the central pedestrianized boulevard of Sanremo last night, a crowd began to gather on a street corner. After a few minutes it had doubled in size, about 40...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Julian Track just couldn't keep away
Hold on to the sides of your chair and prepare for a shock: PokerStars Blog has discovered that people in poker lie. It turns out that the game renowned for its entire absence of calculated dishonesty...
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Carnival of Tournaments: Golden SNGs start today!
If you play Sit & Go tourneys at PokerStars, you're going to want to play some close attention to your games today, because there is big money on the line. Over the course of the next few days,...
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Diversions
Grzegorz "DaWarsaw" Mikielewicz and I were recently talking about the other things we do while playing online. Here's my list. DaWarsaw's will be coming tomorrow. Multi-tabling poker just isn't enough....
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EPT10 Sanremo: The benefit of slow rolling with a victory lap
There's something refreshing about talking poker with someone outside the industry, who at most is an occasional recreational player in the most informal sense. This happened to me on the way to the...
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EPT10 Sanremo: This town, is coming like a ghost town
Sanremo itself is hardly the biggest town visited by the European Poker Tour but, as Sarah Grant discovered yesterday, it is by no means the smallest or most mysterious village in these parts. Join...
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Weekend review: Selbst downs Rafa, Sunday Storm celebrates
You know what's fun? Winning $115,000 on an $11 buy-in. That's what. Yesterday, the $11 PokerStars Sunday Storm celebrated its 3rd anniversary with a $1 million guaranteed event. More than 118,000...
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EPT10 Sanremo: High rolling misdirection with Marc-Andre Ladouceur, Olivier...
The last time that the European Poker Tour smoothed its felts down in Sanremo was way back in October 2012. The event was one of the first to roll a national tour - the Italian Poker Tour in this case...
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EPT10 Sanremo: IPT accumulates a monster field
On June 5, 2009, Casino Sanremo hosted a poker tournament that seemed to be nothing out of the ordinary. There were 225 players, paying €2,200 apiece, and a player from Rome named Stefano Puccilli won...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Pizza-making 101
It's always good to have a second career and the EPT concierge this week in Sanremo is offering poker players the opportunity to learn how to make pizza. (Delivery outlets the world over weep. Imagine...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Supernova Elite Alessandro de Fenza wins IPT Sanremo and €105,600
Italian Supernova Elite Alessandro "aletilter" De Fenza tonight won IPT Sanremo and €105,600, beating two-time IPT runner-up Marcello Miniucchi after a three-way deal. De Fenza, who is a heads-up cash...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Those little things that make this place unique
Everyone has their reason for liking Sanremo. Each combined they make this sleepy town on the Riviera the draw that it is. But what exactly are they? Well, here's a helpful list of some of them, which...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Vanessa Selbst bearing down on the EPT Player of the Year title
Vanessa Selbst has her sights set on the EPT Player of the Year title, but still has to catch German wunderkind Ole Schemion. Selbst's results have been quite amazing this season with big points and...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Cristiano Guerra rises to the top of small but concentrated field
If there's one thing you can guarantee about EPT Sanremo it's that it'll be an enormous field. But if there's one thing you can guarantee about EPT Sanremo Season 10 it's that the enormous field will...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Flopping a set with Ronan Montfort
Ronan Montfort used to be the kind of person who would pinch a PokerStars patch and stick it on his laptop as he sat among the media in the EPT press room. But these days, the patches are stuck firmly...
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EPT10 Sanremo: 'Chip and a chair?' More a 'free trial download and a dream'
Stories of novices playing high stakes poker tournaments are not exactly rare. There's always someone in a field of several hundred who qualified for a few dollars, even some who found their way here...
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EPT10 Sanremo: Rickrollin' through Sanremo
We know that if you're coming to Sanremo you're going to want to spend 90% of your time in the casino, but just in case you have some spare time - or want to burn off bust-out energy - then it's a...
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