As the river card hit and sent 2012 World Series of Poker Main Event runner-up Jesse Sylvia out of the $3,000 No Limit Hold’em event in third place, the reactions of Thiago Nishijima and Sotirios Koutoupas perfectly summed up how each player would approach their heads-up match. Koutoupas gave Sylvia a quick hug as he […]
The Rio was stretched to its limits Thursday with five events scheduled for a final day, the $10,000 Limit Hold’em Championship played down to a final 11 and two more events kicked off: the $3,000 No Limit Hold’em Six Max and the $1,500 Dealers Choice. Mike Gorodinsky Wins $50,000 Poker Players Championship, $1,270,086 Mike Gorodinsky […]
The 2015 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has seen a number of highlights so far, and with just two days left in the festival the $25,000 High Roller is helping to cap things off with a bang. A tournament that saw a record-breaking 247 entries in 2014 has already broken that record in 2015. Through 10 levels […]
Throughout the 2013 WSOP, BLUFF’s WSOP Photo Blog brings all the action from the Rio. Whether it’s action on the felt or a sneak peek behind the scenes, BLUFF is bringing it to you in full color. (Unless the photo looks cooler in black and white). Day 9 saw Jason Mercier dashing between two events, […]
Another busy week on the tournament circuit is in the books, with just over three weeks left until the start of the 2013 World Series of Poker. Before we get to that point, though, there are still WPT events in Montreal and Las Vegas, the WSOP Circuit National Championship in New Orleans and the EPT […]
Vanessa Selbst got off to a typically hot start on Day 1A of the EPT Barcelona Main Event, but after losing a big chunk towards the end of the day, Martin Schleich assumed the chip lead. Schleich leads the remaining 179 players who survived play on Saturday from a starting field of 346. Others who […]
It has been a rollercoaster of a year for Andre Akkari. He may have reached the pinnacle of the poker world by winning his first World Series of Poker bracelet on Tuesday, but it has been a bittersweet experience. Akkari was down in Peru for the Latin American Poker Tour event back in April, where […]
With both of Monday night’s final tables coming back due to hard stops, there were seven tournaments in action on Tuesday afternoon. While the Razz event got a winner in short order, it took nearly four hours for Event 43 to crown their champion. The $1,000 No Limit Hold’em got down to a final table […]
It took nearly 34 hours of poker to do it, but there’s finally a champion in Event 43, $1,500 No Limit Hold’em. Andre Akkari survived the marathon that was spread over four days of poker, defeating Nachman Berlin heads-up to win the bracelet and $675,117. As play entered the third level of the day on […]
Will it be Rasts’ turn to rail Esfandiari this time tomorrow? There are just twelve preliminary events remaining on the WSOP schedule, but the action is as compelling as ever. The day is only halfway over and there has already been a change in the WSOP Player of the Year race, a bracelet won, another […]
Sometimes it felt like a blur, other times it felt like a lifetime. Over the past two weeks the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars captured the time and attention of the online poker world as well over $50 million in prize money was doled out over the course of more than 110 […]
Though the third event of this year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) did make its $500,000 guarantee, it only bested it by a small margin compared to the massive prize pools in Thursday’s events. The $215 Pot Limit Omaha 6-handed event brought 2,738 players to the virtual felt compared to the 8,500 runners in […]
Another May holiday, another couple of big overlays. Whether it was because Memorial Day plans kept some of the players away or the online rooms set their sights too high, several of yesterday’s big guaranteed prize pool tournaments ended up with an overlay for their participants. The biggest overlay event was the PokerStars Sunday Million. […]