A recap of Day 1a of the European Poker Tour Copenhagen. PokerStars qualifier Mark Hirleman leads the Day 1a field.
Where will the European Poker Tour Grand Final be held? Read on to find out. Also in tonight’s Nightly Turbo, we’ve got the final table line up of the WPT Celebrity Invitational, and more.
Two chess players are leading in a WPT poker game. The World Poker Tour Celebrity Invitational in Los Angeles final table has two lady chess pros. They are poker players who have made it to the end without being poker pros. Almira Skripchenko and Dinara Khaziyeva are both big shots in the chess world and both will take a shot at the $74,500 in cash and $25,500 WPT Championship Seat first prize award. The event is a freeroll that had 482 players and is played at the Commerce Casino
The 19th running of the Full Tilt Online Poker Series (FTOPS) wrapped up early Monday morning, setting records for the size of the field and paying out its first ever million-dollar prize.
Norm Macdonald started playing poker at the famed Mayfair Club and is now the host of High Stakes Poker. Find out how he’s preparing for the gig and what games he’s currently grinding.
On Sunday night, the finale of the 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe Main Event aired on ESPN2. The two-hour broadcast featuring commentary from Norman Chad and Lon McEachern hit television airwaves at 10:00pm ET and began with a final table of nine. For the first time, four Americans made the finale.
The National Football League put the brakes on player participation at a recent charity poker event. In the end the NFL players were allowed to watch but not play in the poker game. The NFL players were ready to play and even had assigned seats when the NFL issued an edict declaring that they could not be poker players, just poker observers. The charity event raised money at the Golden Nuggest Casino in Las Vegas for Starkey, a Minneapolis foundation that provides hearing aids to children. The Raise Your Hand for Africa poker event also had big name celebrities like Steve Martin.
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