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Not only is the Mohegan Sun the only original stop left on the fledgling North American Poker Tour, but it appears the event is strangely incapable of producing new champions. Incredibly, one day after Vanessa Selbst succesfully repeated as NAPT Mohegan Sun main event champion, fellow Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier did the same in the $10,000+$300 NAPT Bounty Shootout. Mercier, who has torn up the poker circuit to the tune of $5.3 million in earnings since becoming a pro in 2008, added another $246,600 in prize money with the historic win, joining Selbest as the only other player with  [ Read More ]

The Asian Poker Tour Philippines 2011 is set to go off at the Resorts World Manila March 28 to Apr. 3. The schedule will feature 11 events including the Heads Up Asian Championship, Head Hunter, High Rollers, Ladies of Poker, Battle of Teams, Greed, Pot-Limit Omaha Hi, 7-Handed, Deep Stack – Limit, NLH and PLO and the $2,700 APT Philippines main event. Land-based and online poker qualifiers are running now. For more information visit www.theasianpokertour.com Macau Poker Cup Set To Break Records The Macau Poker Cup will run Feb. 21-27 and all signs point towards another record-breaking week for PokerStars  [ Read More ]

Paddy Power Poker’s €20 re-buy Super Satellites for the Irish Open 2011 will go on. The site will continue to host the satellites every Monday at 8pm from now until April 18 with each guaranteeing an Irish Open 2011 seat. Plus, any player who wins a seat on Paddy Power Poker is eligible to take part in the €100,000 Sole Survivor promotion awarding €100,000 to the last Paddy Power Poker qualifier standing in the event. The Irish Open 2011 takes place in The Burlington Hotel in Dublin from April 21-25. Article Source: Pokerlistings.com

Victor Ramdin came back to win the The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino and $500,000 in Los Angeles Thursday. The veteran Team PokerStars Pro held the chip lead for most of the event, slipping from the top spot as the final eight was set. But Ramdin persevered through the final table and despite entering heads-up with 2005 World Series Main Event champion Joe Hachem facing a defecit, came back to win his first major title since the 2006 WPT Foxwoods Poker Classic. First he doubled up heads-up to take the lead, flopping a straight against Hachem’s top pair and  [ Read More ]

Victor Ramdin appears to be running away with the The Big Event at the Bicycle Casino after a huge Day 2 Monday. As a field of 221 Day 1 survivors was pared down to around 70, Ramdin built a stack of over one million chips, almost twice the size of anyone close to him. When Day 3 begins Tuesday in Los Angeles, names like Chris DeMaci, Daniel Negreanu, Pat Pezzin, Ryan Hughes, and Alex Kamberis will all be in the top ten, but still remain hundreds of thousands of chips behind Ramdin. The 56-player money bubble will likely burst on  [ Read More ]

Canadian high-stakes cash pro Will Molson put a fitting cap on the 2011 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure Sunday by finally getting over the high-roller hump. 2011 PCA $25k High Roller champ Will Molson. After finishing second in the $25,000 High Roller at the PCA the past two years, Molson won it this time around and could not have been more excited to finally book a win in the Bahamas. “It feels amazing, what a relief,” he said after beating Team PokerStars Pro Leo Fernandez heads up to collect the $1,072,850 first prize. “When I got heads up I tried not to  [ Read More ]

The PokerStars.net Latin American Poker Tour kicked off it’s fourth season Thursday breaking records in Brazil. The R$5,000 LAPT Brazil main event drew a record-breaking 536-player field to the Sheraton WTC in São Paulo, 169 of whom won their seat through online poker satellites on PokerStars. Including side events, LAPT Brazil will have a combined prizepool of R$4M making it Latin America’s biggest festival of poker. The main event winner will earn R$615,840. Just 168 players survived the first day and will return Friday to the Convention Center of the Sheraton WTC in São Paulo for Day 2. Argentine Leandro  [ Read More ]

PartyPoker is giving new players a head start in building their bankrolls this month. The online poker site is giving away $10 free to new players who register for an account on the site through PokerListings. The promotion will offer ten free Tournament Dollars to the first 3,000 players from the UK, Canada, Germany, The Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland and Russian Federation who sign up for an account through Feb. 28. Players will automatically be credited five Tournament Dollars within 24-hours of signing up and get an additional five once they’ve made a minimum $25 deposit on the site. Players must  [ Read More ]

The PokerStars.com UK & Ireland Poker Tour rolled into Nottingham this weekend and promptly smashed the UK record for number of entries in a poker tournament. The renowned Dusk Till Dawn poker club played host as 1,058 players entered the £500 UKIPT Nottingham main event over two starting days, creating a £529,000 prize pool with £109,000 reserved for the winner. The event broke the UK attendance record of 848 previously held by the 2010 EPT London main event. The tournament drew players from 30 different countries, hundreds of local hopefuls and even a few stars of the UK poker scene,  [ Read More ]

Congratulations Carlo, how are you feeling about the win? I’ve just about recovered! I’m trying to do some research and find out if it’s the longest tournament without a proper break. It went on for 14 hours 25 minutes with just those 5 minute breaks every hour! How did you qualify? I just bought in. I wasn’t able to enter the other PPOC events but I’m a regular PokerPlayer reader. What was your tournament record like prior to this? I’m a winning tournament player on a couple of sites. I won the Sky Poker Primo, I’ve won a couple of  [ Read More ]