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888Live Festival heads to one of the most beautiful European capital cities for its third edition. The Festival is set to kick off at Gran Casino de Barcelona on May 11th and run for eleven days until May 22nd. Over that period of time, it is to feature a great variety of events, which are to attract some of the biggest names among the contemporary poker pros. As mentioned above, a large number of events is to be held over 888Live Festival Barcelona, with a combined guaranteed prize pool which…

German poker player Philipp Gruissem emerged victorious from the €25,500 Single-Day High Roller Event of the 2017 PokerStars Championship Monte Carlо. The player managed to scoop a cash portion estimated to €485,135 as well as the champion’s title after a two-way deal at the end of the competition. The one-day event which was presented by Monte-Carlo Casino saw a player field of 85 participants, with 58 entries and 27 re-entries for the massive guaranteed prize pool estimated to €2,082,500. Despite Gruissem winning the Single-Day High Roller trophy and being crowned…

Irish poker player Joseph Macari has managed to navigate his way to his first major live poker tournament winning, emerging victorious from the Main Event of the Grand Prix Dublin. As Casino Guardian has earlier reported, the Grand Prix Dublin event was hosted at the Clayton Hotel as part of the 2017 Grand Prix Poker Tour. The tournament provoked the interest of a large number of British and Irish poker players, especially considering the fact that Dublin was only the second stop of this year’s edition of the Grand Prix…

As Casino Guardian reported only a few days ago, the WSOP Circuit came back to the Hoseshoe Casino in Baltimore. As the organisers of the tournament event have already revealed, there were a total of four starting flights for the tournament’s fourth event over the past couple of days. A massive number of 657 entries were gathered to one players field over the starting flights of the $365 No-Limit Hold’em Re-Entry event, who accounted for a prize pool estimated to $197,100. Now, there are only 79 players left who are…

May is just around the corner now, offering a great variety of live poker options for all fans of the game in England and Ireland. The upcoming month is to offer a whole plethora of poker events, tournaments and festivals, all of the offering different buy-in options and attractive prize pools. There are various poker tournaments and events scheduled to kick off in May, so poker lovers should look up the schedule below and choose their favourite events to join this May. The first event to start at the beginning…

One of the leading international online poker brands, partypoker, has come back to Ireland with its Grand Prix Dublin event, which features a massive €150,000 guarantee prize. The event, which is expected to gather some of the most popular and successful British and Irish poker players, is to be hosted at Dublin’s Clayton Hotel. This is the second stop of the Grand Prix Poker Tour for 2017, with Ireland set to become a gathering place of everyone who loves poker. After the Online Day 1s end on April 27th, it…

With the end of the 2016/2017 season of the WSOP Circuit coming closer, it is time for the last two events of the series. The Horseshoe Baltimore is to host the first one of these two events, and the WSOP Circuit is to get back to Maryland. The upcoming event of the WSOP Circuit schedule is to kick off on April 27th to May 8th at Horseshoe Baltimore. The latter is currently considered as one of the newest and most modern casino venues that have ever hosted the series. The…

US poker player Jose Montes managed to add another trophy to his collection, after he was crowned as a winner of the $1,500 WPTDeepStacks Main Event. Montes emerged victorious from the event which took place at Maryland Live! Casino and took home a cash portion of $95,032. The cash prize also included a $3,000 package to the Season 4 WPTDeepStacks Championship event. In order to get to the first place in the competition and win the largest share of the guaranteed prize pool which amounted to a total of $439,780,…

As Casino Guardian has reported several weeks ago, PokerStars Championship headed to the French Riviera, with the Championship set to kick off at Monte-Carlo Casino on April 25th. The tournament is to be hosted in one of the oldest and most popular gaming venues worldwide. To date, the Monte-Carlo Casino has hosted a large variety of glorious poker tournaments from the ones sponsored by the PokerStars brand, including the Grand Final of the European Poker Tour (EPT). That tradition is to be continued over 2017, with the Monte-Carlo casino becoming…

PokerStars, the poker brand of the Canadian gaming and online gambling company Amaya Inc., officially announced that its new MEGASTACK series had not only made a pretty successful debut in the UK, but will also be hosted in poker venues across Europe to be more accessible for players in Ireland, France and Belgium. As revealed by PokerStars, the live tournament series MEGASTACK which was hosted at The Hippodrome Casino London this month, had great success after it managed to gather more than 520 entries. Now, it is planned to get…