Archive for the ‘Tournament Results’ Category

The poker world was expecting the 22% drop in online poker traffic reported buy pokerscout.com, and virtually everyone in the industry is in agreement that the World Series of Poker numbers will take a major hit thanks to the DOJ’s crackdown on online poker in the US.

With Black Friday and all of its developments beginning to die down, the poker world is now looking toward the future –well about a month into the future as the World Series of Poker and its May 31, 2011 start date fast approaches.

The NAPT, after a grand total of just four poker tournaments, has crowned its first repeat winner in the form of Team PokerStars Pro Vanessa Selbst, as she captured the NAPT Mohegan Sun title for the second straight year.

It was an interesting theme for this week’s episodes of Poker After Dark, one of the longest running poker programs in TV. Dubbed, Idols Week, PAD pitted 5 young guns in the poker world against Doyle Brunson in a $50,000 buy-in, winner-take-all Sit and Go style tournament.

Few people outside of online poker are likely familiar with the name Ben Wilinofsky, but the phenom who goes by the name of “NeverScaredB” has racked up nearly $1 million in online winnings over the past two years; enough to land him a job as a poker coach at PocketFives Training.

The winner of the last EPT tournament, Vladimir Geshkenbein, and the winner of the most recent WPT tournament, Roberto Romanello, both find themselves within striking distance of chip-leader Sander Berndsen heading into Day 2 of the PokerStars EPT Berlin Main Event.

Last weekend Full Tilt Poker held their first online qualifier for their newly formed Onyx Cup Series –a live tournament series featuring buy-ins from $100K to $300K. While these stakes are well beyond the pay grade of most players, the $600+$40 qualifier hosted by Full Tilt Poker was a little more reasonable.

Last night at The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino it was tournament pro and philanthropist Victor Ramdin who outlasted Team PokerStars Pro and 2005 WSOP Champion Joe Hachem to win the championship and pocket the $500,000 in first-place prize-money.

The 5th anniversary of the PokerStars Sunday Million was definitely going to be one of the biggest poker tournaments in online history, but I don’t even think PokerStars expected the kind of turnout that the tournament produced this past Sunday.

The 2011 NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship took place this past weekend and the tournament was chock-full of surprises, big hands, and finished up with one of the hottest players in poker taking on a very surprising opponent in the finals.