We are living an unstoppable poker boom. With the constant grow of online poker players and online poker rooms, live poker tours are appearing from under the rocks. ¿The hegemony of the most famous poker series like EPT and WPT is in danger? Today we are going to talk about one of these recent-created tours: the Unibet Poker Open. [Read full entry]

Three hundred twenty-seven players started this event three days ago. The top 36 walked away with cash, but the big money was handed out tonight at the final table. and was for Karl Hevroy. Taking time out from his political studies, 20-year-old student Karl Hevroy from Bergen, Norway has won one of South America’s largest ever poker events. [Read full entry]

Let’s remember the history, Day 1 of the LAPT Mexico event was played live in Nuevo Vallarta, Mexico. It was postponed due to unclear circumstances. So, what was essentially Day 2 of the event played out online at PokerStars. Once play reached a final table, the final nine players traveled more than 5,000 miles south of where they started the event to play down to a champion. [Read full entry]

You should remember that. A few months ago, LAPT Nuevo Vallarta, celebrated (or pseudo-celebrated) in Mexico was suspended and further postponed due unclear circumstances. Today, three months later, and so far away from its original destination, the final table of the most accidental Latin American Poker Tour event will finally play out. [Read full entry]

Naujoks, 27, took the lot after a tense heads up finale against countryman Holger Kanisch. An all-in with aces over jacks gave Naujoks the momentum and despite a battling comeback from Kanisch, Naujoks never looked like losing the match. However, the last time their chips went to the middle, pre-flop and with the stacks close to even, Kanisch was ahead, A-Q over Naujoks’ A-9. [Read full entry]

It takes a special kind of poker nerd to be able to reel off the winners from all five seasons of the European Poker Tour. But there are some people who can do it, and they can often even name the runner up, the venue, other notable incidents and give a rough estimation of the prize pool. Some people like that kind of thing. [Read full entry]

Eight players returned on Sunday to quarterfinal seats in NBC’s National Heads-Up Poker Championship, each with three wins already, halfway to the title and its $500,000 payday. The day’s lineup was formidable, including Daniel Negreanu, former WSOP ME champions Phil Hellmuth and Huck Seed, Sam Farha, Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Vanessa Rousso, David Williams… [Read full entry]