Poker Events

Whether its a player's charity event, or any type of gathering in the poker world, this is the place to find out about it. Conventions, ceremonies, or any kind of special event in poker are all in this category.

• Nancy Cartwright, Voice of Bart Simpson, to Host Monte Carlo Night and Poker Tournament

  September 02, 2007,

  Onscreen, Bart Simpson is quite the mischief-maker and probably the last Simpsons character you'd expect to see open up his home to a bunch of strangers for a charity event benefiting an organization with the word 'police' in its name...

   

• Sander Lylloff Captures EPT Barcelona Title

  September 01, 2007,

  Sander Lylloff from Copenhagen, Denmark outlasted a field of 543 players that included some of the biggest names in poker, to take down the PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona Championship for €1,170,000. Lylloff outlasted...

   

• EPT Barcelona Day 1b Report: 'Ansky,' Wahlroos Move Up

  August 30, 2007,

  Day 1b of the Poker Stars EPT Barcelona tournament featured both more big names and more players overall than Day 1a. 279 players from around the world joined the 264 that competed Tuesday in the first stop on the European Poker Tour's fourth season...

   

• The College Poker Scene, Vol. 1: – Univ. of Missouri, Columbia, MO

  August 29, 2007,

  With the start of the new school year, excitement is in the air as the poker scenes on campuses across the nation are set to pick up once again. The beginning of summer meant the end for most poker events on and off campus, but with...

   

• Brett Parise Wins APPT Manila Main Event

  August 26, 2007,

  For 22-year-old Brett Parise, the roller coaster ride to the APPT championship began before he even left home. The California college student received his passport a mere two hours before boarding the plane for the Philippines after winning...

   

• Van Marcus Leads APPT Manila Final Table

  August 25, 2007,

  72 players returned to the felt to battle down to the final table of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour Main Event today, with David Saab leading the chip stacks with over 100,000 in chips. Play continued until the final nine...

   

• WSOP Academy to Host Two-Day Event at Harrah's Atlantic City

  August 25, 2007,

  For the first time ever, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Academy is headed to Atlantic City, NJ for a two-day instructional camp, set for December 1 and 2, 2007. The event has been scheduled to coincide with the WSOP Circuit Event...

   

• APPT Manila Main Event Begins

  August 24, 2007,

  255 players from 34 countries squared off in the opening event of the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour in Manila, Philippines today. Team PokerStars players Vanessa Rousso, Daniel Negreanu and 2005 WSOP Main Event Champion Joe Hachem...

   

• NPL UK Open Main Event, Day 2

  August 19, 2007,

  With his son also part of the final table, Peter Gould held on to take down the National Poker League's UK Open Main Event Championship at the Loose Cannon Club in London on Saturday. Gould started the final table with a slight chip lead...

   

• NPL UK Open Main Event, Day 1

  August 18, 2007,

  A small but powerful field turned up for the £2,500 UK Open Main Event, including some household names such as Tony G, preliminary UK Open winners Dave 'El Blondie' Colclough and Mel Judah, and WSOP bracelet holder Jennifer Tilly...

   

• Preliminary Action from the NPL UK Open

  August 17, 2007,

  The National Poker League UK Open is underway. The first stop on its 2007 World Circuit Tour is being hosted by London's Loose Cannon. The £2,500 buy-in Main Event kicks off today, but there's already been a lot of action...

   

• Round One of The Doyle Brunson & Dewey Tomko Invitational a Success

  August 16, 2007,

  'Let's tee it up and get it on!' were the words High Stakes Golf Tour field announcer Mike Sexton chose to usher in the first annual Doyle Brunson & Dewey Tomko Invitational. The groups teed off at 10:00 a.m. Wednesday morning...

   

• Doyle Brunson & Dewey Tomko Hold High Stakes Golf Launch Party at Venetian Last Night

  August 15, 2007,

  $1,305,000 was the amount 2007 Masters Champion Zach Johnson took home for winning golf's most prestigious tournament this past April, and he had to fend off Tiger Woods to do it. Today, nine of the world's highest stakes gamblers....

   

• Beverley Pace Wins PartyPoker Women's World Open

  August 13, 2007,

  The inaugural PartyPoker Women's World Open in London concluded late last week with Beverley Pace emerging as the winner. Pace, the wife of noted comedian/poker-player Norman Pace, overcame Jen Mason to take down the $50,000 winner's prize...

   

• Palms to Host JCC Charity Poker Tournament

  August 10, 2007,

  Eli Elezra, David Benyamine, Erica Schoenberg, Mike "The Mouth" Matusow and Evelyn Ng are just a few of the big names expected to convene in the Key West Room at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas, NV on Sunday, August 12th...

   

• What Are the Odds: PartyPoker's Women's World Open

  August 07, 2007,

  Women poker players are in London, poised for the August 7th start of PartyPoker's inaugural Women's World Open. The 36-player field will be vying for a piece of the $108,000 prize pool. While the field boasts some tough international...

   

• California Readies Itself for State Poker Championship

  August 05, 2007,

  What do Ben Affleck, Chip Jett and Tony Ma all have in common? They've all won the California State Poker Championship Main Event. The Cal State Championship is gearing up again, running from September 4-23, 2007. It will be hosted...

   

• Zogman Completes $450-to-$228K Parlay in Heartland Win

  August 01, 2007,

  47-year-old Dan Zogman achieved the 'everyman' poker player's dream in the recently completed Heartland Poker Tour event at Majestic Star Casino in Gary, Indiana. Zogman, a McHenry, IL Home Depot employee, parlayed an initial $450-buyin...

   

• World Poker Congress Announces November Gathering

  July 27, 2007,

  Following in the success of last year's inaugural World Poker Congress gathering, the WPC has once again scheduled Jeffrey Pollack and Steve Lipscomb as speakers for the keynote address for the second annual WPC event in late November...

   

• Laak-Eslami Team Defeats Polaris in Man-Machine Poker Championship

  July 25, 2007,

  Poker professionals Phil Laak and Ali Eslami have defeated a poker-playing computer program dubbed Polaris in the 'First Man-Machine Poker Championship.' The two-day, four-session match took place at the annual meeting of the Association...

   

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