When Alan Meltzer passed away last October, he left behind $1 million in his will to his chauffeur and another $500,000 to the doorman of his building. An entrepreneurial success story, Meltzer built his fortune in the music business and gained fame in the poker world when he appeared on Season 5 of High Stakes [...]
Loutraki, Greece, the stunning seaside resort town 84 km west of Athens and only 4km from Corinth is set to host the EPT Loutrak next month! Win a main event package at PokerStars now! A world class destination for poker, the five star Loutraki Casino and Hotel is one of the largest casinos in all [...]
The European Poker Tour features some of the most prestigious poker tournaments in the world, and Season 8 is officially underway! Season 7 set the bar high with memorable tournaments, including last year’s epic Grand Final in Madrid, which had a prize pool of €6,860,000! Plus last year’s PokerStars Carribean Adventure, held at Atlantis, was [...]
PokerStars is without a shadow of a doubt one of the greatest online poker sites serving players on the internet today. In addition to many other great features, it is the king of tournament poker and if you’re an online tourney player then you’ll feel right at home there. Live tournament players now also have [...]
Amid much speculation of how Black Friday would affect the live poker scene, live tournaments are still doing extremely well and drawing great crowds. The poker action was heating up in Spain’s capital city of Madrid last week as the conclusion to this latest season of the EPT took place in the form of the [...]
Serving as a further testament to the strength of poker and that the game shall live on in whichever form necessary regardless of attempts to stop it, the European Poker Tour held their inaugural Champion of Champions event. Every single player who has won an EPT event in the history of the Tour was invited [...]
Although a substantial part of the poker world was turned upside down by the events of Black Friday and players both in and outside of the US are feeling at a loss, the live tournament scene is still going strong. The PokerStars EPT is among those tournaments keeping the game alive. It was visiting San [...]
FlopTurnRiver.com recently had the opportunity to interview Ben Wilinofsky just days after his EPT Berlin 2011 Main Event win. Last week 773 poker players battled it out in Berlin for a first prize of $1.19 Million. It was the 22 year old, Canadian, Ben Wilinofsky, with the Beatles-esque mop-top and stunner shades, who took the [...]
The tournament players were flocking to France for the end of last month, as the PokerStars European Poker Tour hit Deauville, bringing some of the biggest names in the game with it. It was a stop filled with intense action, near misses and a lot of fun as the tournaments played out with the Main [...]
The poker world has been abuzz with news of online tournaments over the recent weeks, but live poker is by no means dead either, with major tournaments still being held all around the world. Spain’s second largest city of Barcelona was abuzz with exactly that as the PokerStars European Poker Tour stopped there, giving locals [...]