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Final Table Action The final table was slightly more than a four-hour affair with nearly half that coming during the long heads-up battle between the Day 3 chip leader "alimounda" and the Day 2 chip leader Mosboeck. It took nearly an hour before the first player was eliminated when Greeces "onlyuknowme" (ninth - $55,926) ran their big slick into the rockets held by Belarus "mvpall". Mosboeck, who began the day with one of the lower stacks in play with 24 big blinds, began to rise after his co...

The first event of the WPTDeepStacks London is now in the books after a total of 357 entries including 65 re-entries got into the action in the Latvias "i2out" was crowned the winner after more than 8 1/2 hours in play which included a back-and-forth heads-up battle against United Kingdoms "Tedson89". It appeared that "Tedson89" would be the player to beat after single-handedly eliminating six out of the seven players at the final table and entered heads-up with a lead. Instead, the British...

The first-ever Michigan Championship of Online Poker (MICOOP), which was open to PokerStars players in the Wolverine State, began on February 20 and wrapped on Monday night. The 60-event series proved to be a huge success by catering to 28,830 combined entrants and awarded $2,208,002 in prize money, well ahead of the $1.4 million in guaranteed prize pools. The series began when “smftt” bested a 1,284-entry field to win Event #55: $300 NLHE Main Event for $56,398.35. In between, the...

Poker Palace in Sydneys Club Marconi which hosted the Poker Palace Summer Championships over the past three weeks. The fast-growing poker room already estimated prize pools of AU$800,000 combined throughout the festival — double the amount of the previous one — but even those lofty expectations were easily surpassed as a whopping AU$1,375,440 in total prize money was awarded. Its a testament to the hard work of the hosts who have worked around the clock to ensure a top-notch poker ...

Final Table Action Jonathan Proudfoot came back for the final table with the second-shortest stack and saw his day end after a mere twenty minutes when he called the four-bet of Gelonezi with ace-queen suited. Gelonezi held pocket tens and even though Proudfoot picked up a gutshot to a straight on the turn, it didnt materialize on the river. Another twenty minutes later, Martin Brinkmann left the final table stage when he ran his queen-jack into the aces of Geci. Brinkman flopped a lot of out...

The WCOAP Main Event drew in a crowd of 1,751 players to partypoker, each paying $109 for the chance to become the tournament’s champion. This field meant the $150,000 guaranteed prize pool was surpassed by $21,500, which is an incredible result for amateur poker. Nobody at the final table walked away with less than $2,116 for the initial investment. Julian Selinger collected this sum when his 6.5 big blind shove with pocket deuces was called by Shane Pollington in the big blind with ac...

The 2020 GGPoker World Series of Poker Winter Online Circuit has come to an end with the $1,700 Main Event playing down to a winner. It took just under three hours to determine a champion and Macau-based high-stakes cash game player Paulius Plausinaitis went wire-to-wire, defeating "turkey1" in heads-up to claim his first WSOP Circuit ring and the top prize worth $1,236,361. The flagship tournament of the entire schedule drew a total of 6,395 entries including 974 re-entries to surpass the...

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XL Winter Main Event Action By the time late registration closed, the Main Event attracted 1,804 entries. This created massive value for the 240 players that cashed with $76,060 in overlay. The action was fast and furious after the late registration period closed. There were 434 players left at the tables, but it only took 90 minutes to play down to the money. It didnt slow down any once players began to get paid. About 30 minutes after the bubble burst, Dara "Doked" OKearney ended his day in ...

2020 Winter Poker Open (WPO) at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa marked the first big poker series to play out at the series since the pandemic began. The eight-event series proved to be a big hit, especially the $1,700 buy-in, $200K GTD Main Event, which absolutely crushed it by attracting 779 runners (up from 479 the year before) and offering up a $1,207,450 prize pool. Emerging victorious in that tournament was well-known circuit grinder Max Young, who captured the guitar trophy and a hefty ...