EPT9 Grand Final: That 'ridiculously big' cash is on! Six buy-in for €500,000...
It's happening! It's happening! There's €3,000,000 on the table! In the lead up to the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final a rumour emerged of a big cash game. No, scratch...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final Day 5: Steve O'Dwyer leads Negreanu, Mercier, Cody, Lodden...
We've seen great final tables, and not so great ones, epic ones and those that a day later you can't recall at all. We've watched boring ones and exhilarating ones, quick ones and slow ones. Actually...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final High Roller: Not even at the bubble
Who would be a High Roller? If it wasn't bad enough that eight of your peers have already made it to an EPT main event final table -- and let's be clear, all of Steve O'Dwyer, Andrew Pantling, Jake...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Johannes Vervuren wins sit-and-go
It's not often that you can win a PokerStars EPT trophy in an event which has a smaller prize pool than the after hours media tournament, but then again most events tend to start with more than one...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Roll-up roll-up for the biggest (cash) game in town
The world of cash games is a lot different to that of tournaments. Forget all that strategy stuff, it just looks and feels different. For a start the chips are different. This is big money. The yellow...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: It's the best ever, but why? Your cut-out-and-keep guide
It doesn't get any less thrilling through its continual repetition, but this is the single most exhilarating final table ever assembled on the European Poker Tour, and quite possibly even further than...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Mihails Morozovs wins trophy and €37,110
Mihails Morozovs yesterday won big at the EPT Grand Final after a three-way chop, the second largest of his career. EPT9 Monaco, event #23 Date: 11 May, 2013 Buy-in: €1,100 Game: €1k PLO 1 rebuy or add...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Niccolo Ceccarelli binks €13,300 in turbo
Niccolo Ceccarelli booked a bankroll boosting €13,100 win here at the EPT Grand Final beating, among others, EPT presenter Natalie Hof, who herself did pretty well in the EPT Berlin Main Event last...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final High Roller: The Vanessa Selbst language problem
Is Vanessa Selbst going to win the High Roller event, because if she is, I'm going to need help finding some way to describe it. Selbst has won a big title every year since 2008, and having reported on...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Rumen Nanev wins side event trophy four
Four. Yes, Rumen Nanev has racked up four side events on the European Poker Tour. We wrote about his third bit of silverware back in London, which you can read about here. EPT9 Monaco, event #32 Date:...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Get me a flux capacitor! The difficulties of the EPT...
The "cards up" coverage of live poker tournaments on EPT Live is a relatively new addition to the multi-media experience. It means that viewers at home can actually learn more about the tournament than...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final Day 6: Grand final pop quiz with Sarah Grant
We are yet to discover the identity of the ninth EPT Grand Final champion. But as Sarah Grant finds out in the video below, some top players struggle to remember the names of the eight predecessors. A...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final High Roller: What to get the high roller who wants everything?
What do you get for the poker player who has everything? In the case of Fady Kamar it was nothing. Steven Silverman and Anthony Gregg found this a short while ago when play in the high roller went...
View ArticleAnother final, another title for Rafa Nadal
Rafael Nadal has done it again. After reaching his seventh consecutive tourney final, Nadal has won another title. Today he beat Stanislas Wawrink for the ATP Madrid Open championship. Nadal speaks...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Night Shift
First, cue this tune up in a separate window so you can listen while you read... It's Saturday night, May 11, 2013 at the PokerStars and Monte Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final, and poker history is...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Yann Belkheir stop Onrust from making it three
Yann Belkheir last night won an EPT trophy at the Grand Final in Monaco. The Frenchman managed to stop Dutch amateur Jesper Onrust from completing a three-trophy salute (we spoke to him after his...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Andrey Volkov wins €51,500
Russian Andrey Volkov has won a career-best €51,500 at the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final. Well done, Andrey. EPT9 Monaco, event #22 Date: 10-11 May, 2013 Buy-in:...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: Steven Silverman beats Anthony Gregg to High Roller title
It could turn into the spin up of a lifetime, but whatever it is it's a high roller win for Steven Silverman. Silverman wrapped things up in the high roller after seven hours of play, defeating...
View ArticleEPT9 Grand Final: All hail the Hairy Beast! Steve O'Dwyer is EPT champion at...
Just about all season on the European Poker Tour, all anyone has been able to talk about has been open-face Chinese poker. It's been "royalties" this and "scoop" that for sessions lasting hundreds of...
View ArticlexHAPKOMAHx crushes final four in May 12 Women's Sunday
Everyone at this final table learned a valuable lesson today-- don't mess with a woman on a hot streak. Eight days ago, xHAPKOMAHx made one of her largest-ever online scores, finishing second in May...
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