The Russian Poker is back, and we have just met the first champion of this first event of the new season.
It happened this weekent, in Kyiv, Ukraine. A total of 123 players took their seats and competed for their share of a $220,720 prize pool. Some very known faces of Russian poker didn’t want to miss the first RPT event as Alex Kravchenko, Ivan Demidov, Alexander Dovzhenko, Vadim Markushevsky, and EPT Kyiv champion Maxim Lykov showed up for the Main Event.
On the last day (4th day) of the battle, and …

Despite a couple of good poker professionals were present at RPT Moscow final table, Ivan Demidov and Alex Kravchenko, both World Series final tablist, the title went to Vitaly Lunkin, a less known but very talented russian former backgammon player.

He claimed the first prize of 14,323,000 rubles ($445,000)…

Here we come with some updates about the Russian Poker Tour event that’s going on in Moscow this weekend. While the Russian did not that good in the Eurovision festival celebrated yesterday in Russia’s capital, russian poker players were on rush in the RPT. In fact, all final tablists are russian!

Is well known that PokerStars is sponsoring some of the biggest poker tournaments all over the the world. Of course we are talking about the European Poker Tour, but also about LAPT, APPT and the recently created ANZPT. Now, there is another great tour going on: The Russian Poker Tour.

The RPT St. Petersburg was quite a success, but it seems that the 7.000 $ buy-in event celebrated this weekend…