Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz wins the prize for the coolest entrance in the King’s Casino event There are only two more days of action in the Celebrity Cash Kings event, where businessmen play along with international professional poker players to win big. Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz has arrived as a real star and joins players like Igor Kurganov, Vojtech Ruzicka, who is part of the 2016 WSOP November Nine, Sam Trickett and Daniel “Jungleman” Cates. Antanas “Tony G” Guoga, Lithuania’s representative in the European Parliament, is also playing the tournament. Anyone who wants to head to Barcelona for the European Poker Tour (EPT) after the event, will be taken by private jet. How cool is that! Don’t miss out the last of the action in the King’s […]

Posted by Aleksandra on 19/08/2016 at 13:23

The King’s Casino in the Czech Republic will host a high stakes live cash game with some of the biggest names in poker The game will be live streamed on Twitch and will feature professional poker players like Fedor “CrownUpGuy” Holz, Igor Kurganov, 2016 November Nine finalist Vojtech Ruzicka, Daniel “w00ki3z” Cates and Sam Trickett. Actually, the game already started yesterday, but there still will be a lot of action almost till the end of the week. Check the schedule below (all times are GMT+1): You can watch the game here.

Posted by Aleksandra on 16/08/2016 at 12:36

Cliff ‘JohnnyBax’ Josephy is already a legend as he found the most incredible way to top the November Nine The 50-year-old pro is looking forward to coming back to the Rio. “If I don’t bring back a better rail than I had here today – because my rail was non-existant – which is understandable. I have a bunch of 50-year-old friends in New York with jobs. Judging from the advanced or premature texts that I’ve gotten over the past few days, they’re all looking forward and threatening to come here. We won’t be the most raucous rail. We’re not British. We’re not drunks anymore,“ joked Josephy. “I was in the audience the first two years of the November Nine with Ylon Schwartz in 2008 and […]

Posted by Aleksandra on 19/07/2016 at 22:41

Just 80 players are still alive in the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event In Day 5 the two former champions hit the rail – Greg Raymer (122nd – $49,108) and Johnny Chan (180th, $42,285). So now amongst the 80-player field, there is none Main Event champion. Female pros also fell during Day 5, but Gaelle Baumann was the last woman standing and eventually eliminated in 102nd place for $49,108. Melanie Weiser took home the same prize after losing her chips with A-K. Maria Ho finished in 242nd place for $36,708, getting all-in with the nut flush draw against Valentin Vornicu’s queen-high flush draw. Former champs and female players weren’t the only possible winners ruled out on day 5. Notables who were eliminated include […]

Posted by Aleksandra on 17/07/2016 at 18:42

Last night was played Day 4 of the 2016 WSOP $10,000 Main Event Championship at the Rio in Las Vegas The chip leader after Day 4 is the American pro Bryan Piccioli, who finished the day with 4,026,000 chips. Right behind him are Daniel Colman (3,711,000), James “Andy McLEOD” Obst (3,003,000), Jared Bleznick (2,568,000) and Tom Marchese (2,108,000). Women are also doing well in the event. Melanie Weisner is in top 10 with 3,078,000. Still in play are also the well-known female pros Gaelle Baumann (1,724,000), Jennifer Shahade (976,000) and Maria Ho (671,000). The last time when a woman made it to the main event final table was in 1995 when Barbara Enright finished in 5th place. Among the poker pros who hit the rail […]

Posted by Aleksandra on 16/07/2016 at 18:42

A record number of players played at the WSOP $10,000 buy-in Main Event Registration has now closed. After the record number of players in Day 1C (4,240), the total field size for the Main Event grew to 6,737. The prize pool is over $63 million, and the first-place prize is $8,000,000. A total of 1,011 players will cash in the event, with a minimum of $15,000. This is the biggest player field since 2011 when 6,865 players took their place at the tables. Over 5,000 players are still alive after the first three Day 1s. Some of the notable players who survived the first day include Johnny Chan, Chris Ferguson, Justin Bonomo, Antonio Esfandiari, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Phil Ivey. Some of the eliminated […]

Posted by Aleksandra on 12/07/2016 at 12:44

German poker pro wins his first WSOP bracelet and $4,981,775 The 22-year-old poker pro has won his fifth title of the year. He defeated a field of 183 players to win his first bracelet and the first-place prize of $4,981,775. “Normally I am good with words, but this time, I really don’t know what to say. I just feel so overwhelmed, and I didn’t think that it would be like this. I just feel like I’m in heaven right now,” said Holz after his win. This was his third seven-figure tournament score this year. He has made 13 table and cashed for $14,517,350. His lifetime earnings are now over $18 million and put him in ninth place on the all-time money list. Holz came into […]

Posted by Aleksandra on 11/07/2016 at 13:45

It was bound to happen, the first man in the $10,000 Ladies Championship is there On Friday started the “$10,000” Ladies Championship, but the majority of the players posted $1,000 to play. Starting in 2013, the event is an official $10k Championship, but women got $9,000 discount to play. This was made as a way to discourage men from playing the tournament. As we know, since 2013 there was not a single man in this tournament. This year the strike was broken by Tony Ruberto, who paid $10k to participate in the event. He was sitting at the same table as Karina Jett, and she posted a photo of him on Twitter. According to her, Ruberto lost a prop bet and entered the event. This […]

Posted by Aleksandra on 10/07/2016 at 14:39