2011 May 12 Poker News, Events and Happenings
The PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final is in the books and Ivan Freitez bested the field to take home the title. Read on for a recap of the action.
The World Poker Tour is extending its contract with the Bellagio. We’ll give you the scoop on that, the Commerce Casino’s Facebook tournament, and more in this edition of the Nightly Turbo.
The last table for the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final main event has been set. Eight poker pros will fight it out with €1.5 million on the line. The chip leader will be the one to beat among the remaining poker players, with nearly six million in chips giving him the edge. Ivan Freitez haisl from Venezuela. The rest of the players and their countries of origin, in chip order, are: Juan Maceiras from Spain, Andrey Danilyuk from Russia, Eugene Yanayt from USA, Torsten Brinkmann from Germany, Alex Gomes from Brazil, Tamas Lendvai from Hungary and Andrew Li from USA.
The last table for the PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final main event has been set. Eight poker pros will fight it out with €1.5 million on the line. The chip leader will be the one to beat among the remaining poker players, with nearly s

The PPA has the backing of Nevada Casinos in the fight for legal online poker in the US. Poker sites in the US have come under fire in the last month and the PPA wants to help. Now a recent announcement shows how much support the Poker Players Alliance is getting from land based casinos. The relationship between land based casinos and online poker rooms have always been hot and cold, but it seems that solidarity is the theme in recent weeks. Casinos such as Caesars recognize that if they could help create a legal online poker environment in the US they stand to profit by entering the market themselves.
The PPA has the backing of Nevada Casinos in the fight for legal online poker in the US. Poker sites in the US have come under fire in the last month and the PPA wants to help. Now a recent announcement shows how much support the Poker Players Allian
The WSOP Rookie Roundup is back. Who do we think will make a big debut at this year’s WSOP? Our first pick is none other than WSOP-Circuit superstar Kyle Cartwright, who’ll be playing his first WSOP later this month.
The results to Days 3 & 4 of the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP).
EPT Live will be broadcasting the European Poker Tour Grand Final, on PokerStars.TV and a number of international networks live with hole cards.