EPT9 Prague: Lights, camera, final table
The latest - and, sniff, last - installment from the sizzling Arnacey (ie, Kristy Arnett and Rick Dacey) is below. They set up the final table for the main event here in Prague, where we have eight...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Glen Cymbaluk crashes the €330 party, wins €7,200
Glen Cymbaluk yesterday bought into the €330 turbo along with 79 other players. A few turbo-charged hours later and the Canadian was pocketing €7,200 for the win. Easy game. Every EPT festival now has...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Jelassi looking unstoppable, and with good reason
It's never certain that the chip leader will remain so at a final table. The capricious nature of the game can turn an advantage into a shortage in no time, turning final on its head. But not today. So...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Nikonov nips Alioto and Boujenah to the trophy
Andrei Nikonov beat the mercurial Ilan Boujenah and Omaha specialist Dario Alioto to the trophy and a solid €9,800 in the mixed NLH/PLO/PLO8 Event #24. Nikonov has enjoyed a lot of success domestically...
View ArticleEPT Prague: You call that a *side* event?
The €5,000 turbo six max attracted one of the toughest fields of the week. And now they are down to a pseudo final table of seven to play through the bubble, which will burst when the next player goes...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: EPT champ Martin Finger back to winning ways, rakes in €33,600...
Last year's Main Event winner banks €33,600, another PokerStars trophy and a chunk of bounties. Two EPT champions made the money in the €2,100 turbo bounty; EPT Copenhagen winner Michael Tureniec and...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague High Roller: The cherry on the cake for Marvellous Marvin...
The €10,000 High Roller at EPT9 Prague today crowned one of the most appropriate winners of any event in the history of the modern game. After a sensational 2012, during which he won two WPT titles,...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Jelassi survives volatile level to take control
We may just have seen the level that secures Ramzi Jelassi is on course to win a first EPT title, if pure grit is anything to go by. Jelassi just endured a rollercoaster 90 minutes that slashed his...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Fun in Prague
While you're waiting to see whether Ramzi Jelassi can convert his three-handed chip lead into an EPT why not watch some stuff and nonsense from over the last week. Marvel at Jason Mercier stretching!...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Deal collapses as Sotirios gets serious
Even a deal worth more than 1.6 million is written on a scrap of paper torn on one side. The numbers are scribbed down using a hotel biro and after it's passed around between the three players it gets...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Ankush 'pistons87' Mandavia wins the heads-up
You may recognise the name Ankush Mandavia from the Season 7 EPT Grand Final. He finished 13th there for €60,000, his single largest live result. If you follow online poker results closely you'll more...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: A night on the ales ends in the ring for Ainsworth and O'Shea
If anyone without an Irish lilt to their voice had said the following, they would be justly condemned for some terrible regional stereotyping. But the words actually came from the mouth of John O'Shea...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Side event menace Dan Smith tops off an incredible year beating...
Really? Again? Dan Smith has won another side event on the European Poker Tour taking down the €5,200 turbo on the last day of EPT Prague. Add that to the $3,650,758 he's already won in live...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: David Kolmberger wins the €330 turbo
David Kolmberger wins the €330 turbo. Well done, Dave! It's not his first live PokerStars event where he's booked a win. You can look to a £18,700 heads-up win at EPT London and a third place in the...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: Alexander Babich takes biggest chop in Event #27
The majority of the side events have been chopped heads-up here in Prague, but this one went three-way with Russian Alexander Babich taking the the largest slice for €28,250. The two-day tournament...
View ArticleEPT9 Prague: "Finally" - after 11 cashes Ramzi Jelassi wins maiden EPT title
The story of the EPT Prague main event final was almost reserved for one player. Then it became the story of a prickly debate over the numbers of a deal that ultimately turned to vitriol. But then it...
View ArticleThailand's lisaluce tops Women's Sunday field
The month of December is moving us quickly toward holiday celebrations and the start of 2013. While many people are shopping or planning dinners and get-togethers, others are playing on PokerStars....
View ArticleKOLOKOS outswims fish2013 for Sunday Million win
As the second half of December takes over the calendar, the end of 2012 is in sight. For poker players, it means there are only a few weeks remaining to capture a major Sunday online poker title. And...
View ArticleSunday Warm-Up: Team PokerStars Pro Marcel Luske victorious after four-way chop
Team PokerStars pro Marcel Luske is known for the charisma and the smiles he brings to the table. And perhaps during his run to the $500,000 guarantee Sunday Warm-Up victory, some of those good...
View ArticlePokerStars weekend review (12-17-12)
New school or old skool, it really doesn't matter: class will always shine through. On the one hand you have Ramzi Jelassi, one of the leading proponents of aggressive Scandi poker, take down EPT...
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