Author: Harry Evans

At the latest update of the Global Poker Index (GPI) ranking, Steve O’Dwyer occupied the fifth place, following Fedor Holz, Nick Petrangelo and Byron Kaverman, who currently occupy the first, second and third position respectively. Jason Mercier, on the other hand, occupies the fourth place, but holds a very small lead on O’Dwyer. The 32-year-old US player has managed to generate all-time earnings of $15,779,659. His live best cash is estimated to $1,872,580 to date. The player took part in several poker tournaments and events in 2016. Most recently, he…

Connor Drinan won the EPT Barcelona High-Roller event and took home a prize of €849,200. The 2016 EPT Season saw a record-breaking €10,300 Buy-in High Roller Event which final day was brought to an end after almost 14 hours. The event attracted a player field of 591 entrants, only 36 of which made it to the third day tables. The final day started with Julian Stuer as chip leader, with Ilkin Amirov right behind his back. Still, at the end, it was Connor Dinan who won the competition, with Mihails…

US poker player Byron Kaverman maintained his third position in the latest Global Poker Index (GPI) update. He is ranked right after Fedor Holz who has been occupying the first place for eleven weeks now, and Nick Petrangelo, who got second. The 29-year-old Kaverman, who generated his first live-event cash eight years ago, has live bet earnings estimated to $727,860. His all-time earnings so far amount to $7,809,310. The US player, who lives in Ohio, had a wonderful performance over the first three years of his professional poker player career.…

Pratyush Buddiga won the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller of the 2016 EPT Season Barcelona and got home an award of €690,275 after he made a three-way deal with his last two opponents standing. He was not granted with the largest chunk of the prize pool, but he got the spade trophy for himself. Since one day turned out to be not enough for last year’s tournament with a total player field of 152 entries, the 2016 edition of the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller started early in the morning. All participants…

Mohamed Samri came out as a victor from the Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona €1,100 Buy-in Main Event after a tough final table after a heads-up deal was agreed. The event ended with the French poker plater being proclaimed as a winner, after setting a record with the total number of 3,447 players who took part in the competition. Samri took home the first-place prize of €353,200. Barcelona was the final stop of the ESPT Season 7. The event coincided with the EPT Barcelona festival, which featured several cross-listed events and…

Fedor Holz won the European Poker Tour (EPT) €50,000 Super High Roller tournament that took place in Barcelona and took home a massive prize of €1.3 million. The third and final day of the EPT’s €50,000 Super High Roller gathered a total of nine players out of the player field of 102 entrants. Less than five hours were needed by the German poker pro Fedor Holz to emerge on the first position from the competition and claimed the victory by getting yet another trophy. In addition to the trophy and…

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit is to take place at King’s Casino Rozvadov once again. The tournament is to be held on October 27th and features a guaranteed prize of €2.25 million. After the great success it had in 2015, the WSOP Circuit is to return to the biggest and most popular poker room on the territory of Europe – King’s Casino Rozvadov, which constantly attracts poker players from Europe who want to take part in a number of the most thrilling tournaments and games. The event is…

The EPT Barcelona €10,300 Single Re-Entry tournament offered tons of excitement to both fans and entrants and at the end there were 14 players who survived the day. In comparison, their number at the beginning of the day was 125 and decreased to 14 after 10 levels of one hour each. Chip leaders were quickly switching their places, some of the big names in the poker industry busted at quite an early stage and at the end, it was Alexandru Papazian who finished the day as a chip leader. His…

Season 13 of the European Poker Tour started mere days ago and it is scheduled to finish on August 28th. Meanwhile, it promises unparalleled excitement and the first stop this year is one of the favourite destinations of players namely Barcelona. Although fans’ attention over the last few days was captured by the game action at the Estrellas Main event, there was yet another event worthy of checking. The €10,300 NLHE Single Re-entry tournament kicked off on August 17th and attracted a total of 223 players. As many as 186…

The 2016 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Event #22 $5,250 Championship that kicked off on August 13, attracted 847 entrants who had a guaranteed prize pool of $5,000,000. After three days of play, Jason Koon emerged victorious to collect $1,000,000 of the accumulated prize pool after defeating Seth Davies, a close friend of his. Right after the victory, the champion shared that his participation in the tournament was a special moment in his life. He also added that he felt fantastic and was pleased with the end result and the…