Author: Harry Evans

John Racener, an American poker pro, was crowned as the winner of the WSOP $10,000 Dealers Choice Championship, taking home the largest portion of the guaranteed prize pool as well as his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. After defeating 101 other entries, Racener dedicated the victory to his late mother, appearing with a white T-shirt with an inscription saying “For Mom” written in black marker. The WSOP $10,000 Dealers Choice gathered a player field of a total of 102 entries. By emerging victorious from the event, John Racener…

The American poker pro Frank Kassela was crowned as the champion of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $1,500 No-Limit 2-7, winning his third WSOP bracelet, emerging on top of 266-entry players field. Seven years ago, the then-49-year-old Kassela got both of his first two bracelets at the 2010 Edition of the WSOP. The first gold bracelet came in the player’s after him winning the $10,000 Buy-In Seven Card Stud Hi-Low Split-8 or Better Championship event. Then, Kassela won the $2,500 Razz event and took home another gold bracelet and…

The US professional poker player David Bach emerged victorious from the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Event #11 $1,500 Dealers Choice and won the second WSOP bracelet in his career so far. Apart from the bracelet, Bach was also granted with the lion’s share of the guaranteed prize pool and took home a cash portion estimated to $119,399. Bach managed to outlast a total players field of 364 players to be finally crowned as the winner of the WSOP $1,500 Dealers Choice event. The player has so far generated total…

The 28-year-old player Doug Polk managed to reach another milestone in his carrier as a professional poker player. The young American emerged as the crowned winner of the $111,111 One Drop High Roller event and took home a $3,686,865 cash portion of the guaranteed prize pool as well as a WSOP bracelet. Pasadena, California-born Polk has an impressive poker resume, especially considering the fact he has spent most of his years as an adult to make a living from live poker tournaments. Until now, Polk has managed to generate total…

The US poker player Benjamin Zamani became the one to take home the first Omaha bracelet of the 2017 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Zamani triumphed at the first position early in Sunday, winning the $1,500 buy-in Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better event which took place at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. This is the second WSOP bracelet that has been won by Zamani in his career so far, with the German-born player also being the only one of the Event #4’s finalists who has previously won one. Apart…

The German professional poker player Christoph Vogelsang emerged as the crowned winner of the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl that took place at the Aria Resort & Casino. It took Vogelsang approximately five hours of heads-up play in order to take down the event and overcome the competition of his major opponent Jake Schindler for the No. 1 position. The chip lead swung a few times over the fierce heads-up play, to eventually end up with Vogelsang as a winner. The German poker pro managed to almost double his overall…

US poker player Jake Schindler started $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl’s Day 4 as a chip leader after fierce action over the third day of the event, which is being held at the Aria Resort & Casino. As previously reported by Casino Guardian, he emerged as a chip leader at the end of Day 3 and started Day 4 with a total of 4,080,000 in chips, followed by Cristoph Vogelsang with 2,650,000. Considering the fact that Day 4 featured the unofficial final table of the event and there were almost…

The third day of the $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl has come to an end, reaching the money bubble. The end of event’s Day 3 saw Jake Schindler as the one who ended up as a chip leader. The $300,000 Super High Roller Bowl is hosted at the Aria Resort & Casino. The event gathered a players field of a total of 56 entries, with only 19 of them left at the end of Day 2. The entries managed to boost the guaranteed prize pool to a total of $16,800,000,…

With only a few days left until the end of May, it is time for the poker lovers in the UK and Ireland to turn their eyes towards the upcoming live poker tournaments, festivals and events, which are set to take place in June 2017. As always, UK and Ireland are set to host a variety of poker tournaments over the upcoming month, with each of the live poker events featuring great prizes in return to different buy-ins in order to match all types of players. The Rendezvous Poker Festival…

The organisers of the World Poker Tour (WPT) announced the remaining schedule of the WSP Main Tour’s Season XVI, revealing seven more stops in 2017 in a number of symbolic poker venues, a well as five events that are to be broadcast on TV. The Chief Executive Officer of the WPT Adam Pliska explained that the organisers of the World Poker Tour believed in long-lasting partnerships with some of the most attractive casino venues in the US. Mr. Pliska further shared that each of the venues that had hosted the…