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The most successful European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event has just been concluded with talented poker player “John Juanda” clinching the win. For his unprecedented victory, the five-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) title winner cashed a whopping prize of € 1,022,593. Interestingly enough, it is his first EPT trophy. In 2010, Juanda fell to David Vamplev in the heads-up of the EPT London Main Event. With the gigantic sum he has just sealed, Juanda now possesses $ 16.7 million in career earnings. He is currently ranked 9th position on the All-Time Money List.

The schedule of the 2016 PCA (PokerStars Caribbean Adventure) has just been unveiled. The one-of-a-kind poker festival will take place from January 6 to 14 in the Bahamas, in the Caribbean Islands. By boasting 104 events, it promises to be the greatest of all. Announced last Friday, the 2016 PCA schedule has undergone some exciting changes. Most important of all is the fact that the buy-in for the Main Event, which will run from January 8 to 14, has been scaled down. According PCA Tournament Director “Edgar Stuchly”, the plan is to offer players the same experience as that in the European Poker Tour Barcelona. May we remind you that the EPT Barcelona Main Event has been a smashing success. With a view to reproducing the same appeal, Stuchly and his team have come up with the idea to halve the participation fee. Thus, the Main Event buy-in has been set to $ 5,300 this year. In 2009 it saw $ 10,000, and in 2010, the amount had $ 300 more.

Last Thursday was a great day for Martin Finger. He sealed his third major event title by winning the € 25,000 Higher Roller in the European Poker Tour (EPT) festival. With this freshly-claimed victory, Finger became the first player holding an EPT Triple Crown. Recall that the 25-years old German poker pro has an EPT Prague Main Event title and an EPT London_Super High Roller’s highlighted in his career. The EPT Barcelona € 25,000 High Roller was slated to be run in conjunction with Day 1B of the Main Event. However, the one-day poker tournament still saw players battling it out late on Tuesday morning. Subsequently, it was decided to postpone the event until Thursday.

The current Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings are undergoing little change with game results pouring down from ongoing poker tournaments. The 2015 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona, for its part, has quaked the GPI Player of the Year ranking. While Anthony Zinno remains in the lead with 4,341.41 points, Connor Drinan found himself plummeted down to 3rd , giving way to Byron Kaverman for the 2nd position. By finishing 9th place in the € 50,000 buy-in Super High Roller, Kaverman has moved over two spots to sit behind Anthony Zinno. Poland’s Dzimitry Urbanovich has jumped over one spot to secure 4th position.

In comparison with the 475-player field of the previous edition, the European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event is generating a buzz by attracting a record-breaking number of participants this year. Actually, the Main Event seduced 1,673 entrants in the first two days of the festival which is currently held at Casino Barcelona, in Barcelona (Spain). The last time the tour hit its peak was in 2011, in the Bahamas leg of the EPT Season 7 to be precise. By logic, the field will be increasing in number given the fact that registration is allowed until Day 2's start this Wednesday, at noon. Anyway, the huge field of 1,673 players was getting smaller at the end of the second starting day flight. Only 770 survivors now remain heading to Day 2. The game is already "over" for poker pros including Vanessa Selbst, Narny Noatman, Benny Spindler, Yann Dion and Tom Middleton. Notables in the pack are Christophe Benzimra, Giulbert Diaz, Philippe Ktorza, Elky Grospellier, Ryan Riess, Jude Ainsworth, Yehoram Houri and Johnny Lodden, with Spain's Samuel Bernabeu on the chip-count lead. As a reminder, Bernabeu has final-tabled the freshly-completed Estrellas Poker Tour.

"Antony Vidmer", writer and director of the movie "High Roller: The Stu Ungar Story" has just been crowned "Champion" of the 2015 Card Player Poker Tour (CPPT) Jacksonville. He has been performing well in live poker tournaments since 2009 when he first cashed a substantial prize. Vidmer's overall career earnings now total $ 282,848. This year, Vidmer seals a whopping top prize of $ 83,838. Interviewed, the film director said that the $ 83,838 is not his biggest career cash. In the meantime, he cherished that the Main Event is the greatest no-limit hold'em event he has ever part taken in. Recall that the $ 1,500 buy-in CPPT Jacksonville attracted 390 players composed of high-profile names, the likes of current World Poker Tour champion Aaron Mermelstein and 2010 World Series of Poker (WSOP) finalist John Dolan.

Alongside the ongoing European Poker Tour and the Estrellas Poker Tour Barcelona, all taking place in Spain, we can say that this week is filled with other exciting events to the very delight of poker enthusiasts. Most of them are held overseas, in the US. Atop the list is the 2015 Summer Showdown, a series of No-Limit Hold'em events to heat up the whole Mohegan Sun in Uncasville (Connecticut) until August 30. The $ 1,100 buy-in Main Event remains the top highlight in the series; it is scheduled to kick off on August 29 and guarantees a whopping $ 100,000 prize pool. Also included on the list is the PPC Poker Tour to be held at St. Croix Casino & Hotel in Turtle Lake (Wisconsin). The menu features a $ 350 buy-in Main Event to be played from August 28 to 30.

Reigning Latin American Poker Tour Chile champion "Mario Lopez" and 2011 WSOP November Niner "Sylvain Loosli" were the two big names atop the podium in the poker room of Casino Barcelona. France's Sylvain Loosli has just emerged victorious of the European Poker Tour (EPT)_€ 50,000 buy-in Super High Roller. He successfully claimed the throne by besting a stars-packed field that included Byron Kaverman (9th), Paul Newey (8th), Steve O'Dwyer (7th), Ivan Luca (6th) and JC Alvarado (4th). In the heads-up, Loosli had Dzimitry Urbanovich as a rival. All along his way towards the title, Loosli had to walk through thin and thick. As a reward, he pocketed the top prize of € 1,224,000. Runner-up Urbanovich, for his part, was awarded € 841,500, his sixth cash this year.

Barcelona, one of most prestigious European cities with unmatched touristic spots, is currently hosting a new stop of the European Poker Tour (EPT). Both amateur and professional poker players from the neighboring countries have made the trip to the city to part take in the festival. Held at Casino Barcelona, the 2015 EPT Barcelona schedule includes a series of enticing event. The top highlight among is the € 50,000 buy-in Super High Roller. It has seduced 99 entrants, creating a total prize pool of $ 4,753,485. Interestingly enough, the eventual champion in this event would cash a whopping payday of $ 1,224,000.

The New Zealand Poker Championships has gained popularity among New Zealand’s poker enthusiasts in recent years. In 2012, the year when the first edition of the festival was run, it seduced 90 entrants with Paul Hockin winning the championship. Thanks to its attractive format and structure, the attendance rate has steadily increased from 2013. This year, the $ 1,650 buy-in championship Main Event attracted 136 players at Christchurch Casino. After 27 hours of play, it was Jay Gilbert who came out victorious of the battle. The Wellington native actually owes his victory to a sheer patience coupled by an aggressive playing style. This is his first-ever big achievement in live tournaments. With this triumph, Jay Gilbert enters the New Zealand’s big poker names arena.

The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Season 6 is currently in full swing in Evansville, Indiana (USA). The stop has already run a series of qualifiers over the last couple of days, and will wrap everything up with the Indiana State Poker Championship Main Event starting this Friday, August 21. Buy-inable for $ 1,100, the event boasts a $ 250,000 prize pool guarantee, and features two starting days for 14 levels of play each. Day 1 A begins this Friday from 16h while Day 1B will be played on Saturday. Survivors from the starting day flights would return to the poker room of Tropicana Evansville on Sunday for the ultimate round. It is worth highlighting that Propicana Envansville is the biggest gaming facility in the area. Mike Miller, the facility's No.1 official in charge of Table Games activities, said Tropicana regulars are looking forward to part taking in this famous poker tournament. Thus, the Indiana State Poker Championship will expectedly be a smashing success.

For the past couple of weeks, the Top 10 of the Global Poker Index (GPI) standings has undergone almost no sign of move. Currently, Jason Mercier is ranked the world No.1 player for fifth consecutive week. Interestingly, the US poker pro has just added another win to his career résumé, a victory at the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO)_ High Roller event held in Florida. That feat would be taken into consideration in the next GPI rankings. Though he did not cash a substantial sum, the figure is modest enough for Mercier to maintain the lead. As for Anthony Zinno, the current leader in the GPI Player of The Year race, he has jumped over 2 spots to rank 2nd position with 4,021.32 points.

In recent years, Montreal has become a popular poker destination for North American players. The Playground Poker Club in Kahnawake is one of the most prestigious poker rooms known in Canada for the hosting of live tournaments. This gaming facility located on the South Shore of Montreal will receive this weekend a 13-day poker festival starting this Friday, August 21 until September 2. Called Montreal Poker Expo, the poker tournament will offer 14 events with various buy-ins in order to let everyone to participate. For this, four tournaments will be available with buy-ins of less than $ 100. Hostilities begin on Friday with the "3 taken against cancer," a re-entry tournament offering a guaranteed prize of $ 10,000 for a buy-in of only $ 160.

Since March, Delaware and Nevada have launched smoothly online poker liquidity sharing in order to increase their revenues. But for now, the result of this liquidity sharing between the two States is not very promising, at least for the State of Delaware. Indeed, the agreement should be more profitable for poker players of Delaware as Nevada, if we take into account the population: about 920,000 inhabitants for Delaware residents and 2.7 million for Nevada. The July figures seem to contradict this hypothesis.

Jason Mercier offered himself a second title this year after having won the High Roller poker tournament at $ 25,400 buy-in of the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. The guaranteed prize pool of $ 1 million of this event was easily exceeded, as 83 entries were registered bringing the prize pool to $ 2,075,000. This victory is very important for the native of Florida, as his parents and sister attended his coronation. For his second title of the year, Jason Mercier won $ 652,800 and 672 points for the title race Card Player Player of the Year. This year, Jason Mercier played six final tables on which he won two titles – the $ 5,000 Six Max of the World Series of Poker and the $ 25,400 High Roller Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open - and finished as runner-up in the $ 10,000 PLO WSOP. Since the beginning of the year, he won $ 2,022,006 and 4,192 points. At 28, Jason Mercier won more than $ 15.7 million of gain career.

For several months, the State of New York was discussing about the issue of the legalization of online poker while its neighboring State, Pennsylvania, is already close to the legalization of online games. For this purpose, a hearing will be held on September 9 to study the advantages and disadvantages of adopting legislation to legalize the market within the State. As a reminder, a bill was presented to parliament in May, but did not advance for possible adoption at least for this year. In fact, online poker has no chance of being legalized in New York this year, but this next hearing is a great opportunity to open the way for legalization of the sector for the next year. The bill was introduced by Republican Senator John Bonacic who is also the president of the York Senate Racing, Gaming and Wagering Committee.

The Mid-States Poker Tour continued this weekend with a new stage of the season VI in Sioux Falls, Iowa. After two days of competition in the poker room of the sumptuous Grand Falls Casino & Resort, the victory came back to Alan Curl. He surpassed a field of 238 players to pocket the first prize of $ 64,655. 54 players made it through the first day, the Day 2 has as challenge the 27 paid places. All the competitors who will be paid were known when Larry Ormson fell at the 28th place in the level 19. After the bubble burst, Allan Curl continued to stack up the chips and take the lead of this poker event at 10 remaining players.

After the misadventure of last year, marked by an overlay of $ 2.5 million, the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open is back this year with a new formula. Indeed, the guaranteed prize of ten million dollars was reduced to 5,000,000. The reduction in the prize pool is accompanied by a proscription of reentries and the adoption of a single registration. But the bet is not really won, because the Main Event has registered a total of 907 entries, while 1,000 were needed to bridge the prize pool. Nevertheless, this $ 5,250 buy-in poker tournament remains up to its promises. After a few days of competition, the Main Event has reached its final table.

The legalization of a regulated online poker market will not yet be for a near future in Russia, but the situation has accelerated recently with the government's intention to reclassify casino games as games of skill. Indeed, the Government of the Federation is currently debating on the reclassification issue of gambling, including poker as game of skill. And if casino game is reclassified as expected, the regulation and the opening of online poker market will be also affected in Russia. In July 2014, the Russian Deputy Prime Minister, Igor Shuvalov commissioned a study to assess whether poker is or not a skill game. But a few months later, in December, a bill was passed in the Duma making online poker game as illegal in Russia outside the six gaming zones designated by the State.

The issue of legalizing poker is back on the table in India following a legal case about rummy game with money that the Supreme Court of India has processed. Main poker actors are attentive to the progress of the case because the decision by the court could lead to the legalization of poker. The case dates back in 2011 and began in Madras, a city in India, with the prosecution of several gaming organizations in the State of Tamil Nadu. At the time, the judge classified rummy as a game of skill and not a game of chance. The Madras High Court subsequently rejected this decision and said that the clubs could no longer organize and take profits on rummy games or other games that could be played with bets.

It was in a poker players-packed courtroom that Circuit Court Judge "Richard G. Niess" confirmed Wednesday the illegality of poker in the state of Wisconsin (United States). Recall that the judicial petition came as a request filed by local poker enthusiasts. They actually claim legal recognition of the game as a skill-based one. For consideration, they raised a whopping $ 10,000 fund for legal fees. In his statement, the Judge partly admitted the fact that poker involves more skills and agility. At the same time, he put an emphasis on the way chance plays a big role in winning a poker game. He also said he appreciated the contents of the briefs submitted to the council, from which he tagged the consideration of poker as "entertaining". However, he underlined that he was entrusted with making a judicial decision consistent with Wisconsin laws. Richard G. Niess based his ruling on the 1964-dated "25Wis 2d 638 law" that prohibits poker gaming within the state.

The freshly-completed tournament organized by Poker Central, the new TV channel that provides exclusive coverage of poker events, has been a smashing success. Named "Super High Roller Celebrity Shootout ", the event attracted a celebrity-packed field of the industry's big names, all battling it out at the Aria Casino, Las Vegas. Emerging victorious of the race was Vanessa Selbst. Admittedly, Selbst has come a long way to claim the top prize. Actually, she found herself facing formidable opponents all along her way up to the final showdown. One after the other, she knocked out Doyle Brunson, Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Antonio Esfandiari. As for Kevin Pollak, Selbst's eventual heads-up rival, he sent Don Cheadle, Norm McDonald, Brad Garrett and Hank Azaria to the rail.

The Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings have undergone relatively slight change over the past seven days. Dominik Nitsche and Bryan Rast's moves are the only thing noticeable this week. Actually, Nitsche moved up from 12th position to join the GPI Top10. He has jumped over 4 spots to secure 8th position. As for Bryan Rast, he now ranks 20th in the current standings. He owes the move to his 1st-place finish in the Aria Super High Roller Bowl run on July 2-4 at the Aria Resort & Casino, in Las Vegas. As a reminder, poker pro Rast has an attention-getting resumé. He has won a number of major championships. Most impressive among them are two WSOP bracelets and a victory in the 2013 World Poker Tour High Roller championship, the Doyle Brunson Five Diamond World Poker Classic.

The European Poker Tour (EPT) is getting back to the paradisiacal island of Malta with an all-new festival to be held from October 20 to 31. This is actually the second time the tour lands in the island. Featuring an action-packed schedule of 76 events and a series of cash games, the poker tournament promises to be a marvel. May we remind you that the Italian Poker Tour (IPT) will be held in conjunction with the 2015 EPT Malta. Held from October 21 to 25, the € 1100 buy-in IPT Main Event boasts itself as the inaugural event of the festival. As for the EPT Main Event, the entry-fee is set to € 5,000 + € 300. It will be played from October 25 to October 31.

The World Poker Tour National (WPTN) Rozvadov is one of those poker tournaments attracting a record breaking number of participants this summer in Europe. The city of Rozvadov (Czech Republic) may lack touristic appeal but that did not actually prevent poker enthusiasts from making the trip to the festival. Indeed, the € 1,100 buy-in Main Event seduced 374 entrants, creating a prize pool of € 362,780. At the end of this action-packed three-day battle, it was Manig Loeser who successfully made his way up to the win. Held at King's Casino's poker room, the WPTN Rozvadov saw Manig of Germany and the Netherland's Jeffrey Brouwer running for the title in the heads-up. It only took 23 hands of play for Manig to knock the Estrellas Poker Tour Marbella finalist out.

After almost a year of hearings and debate, Pennsylvania (United States) is expected to have its online poker industry legalized before 2016. However, the recent budget issues that the Governor Tom Wolf along with the General Assembly must resolve would delay the process. So far, no consensus has been reached for the fiscal year which began July 1. Despite those thorny setbacks, State Representative, "John Payne", who introduced the R-106 District bill, remains optimistic. Interviewed, Payne said that iPoker in Pennsylvania has all assets to be legalized before the New Year.

The 2015 Sydney Poker Championships Main Event has just come to an end. It has seduced 281 players, all battling it out in The Star's poker room, in Sydney (Australia). The 281-player field actually includes a panel of notable players. "Peter Matusik", a former ANZPT Gold Coast champion, Minh Nguyen and Henry Szmelcer were among them. The final table was played on Monday evening with Peter leading the pack in chip count. Ismael Ismael and Tony Kambouroglou were among the best-placed players in the hunt; however, both men failed to move forwards. They respectively fell to 6th and 5th place. Ben Jee saw himself facing Yusuf Dib in the final clash. By winning over Dif, Ben Jee cashed the top prize of $ 200,634. As a runner-up, Yusuf Dib earned $ 127,855 of consolation prize. Finishing 3rd-place was Adam Hamkin.

This week is filled with a series of stunningly interesting poker tournaments held almost everywhere in the US. In Florida, there are three major events on the menu. Alongside the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open which will kick off on July 30, the Card Player Poker Tour Besbet Jacksonville is also worth a play. It is about the final stop of the series' Season 3. It will be played in Florida from August 13 to 24. Speaking of its schedule, the CPPT Bestbet Jacksonville features 21 attractive events including a $ 1,500 buy-in Main Event starting on August 21. The Daytona Beach Beachside Open is also part of the week's biggest events. This one-week poker festival promises an action-packed schedule for players. The highlight is a $ 360 buy-in Main Event which guarantees $ 50,000 prize pool. It will be played from August 14 to 16, 2015. Poker enthusiasts willing to part take in the battle are invited to make the trek to Daytona Beach's Club & Poker Room.

By besting a huge field of 585 players, Aaron Lim wrapped up the 2015 Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Manila Main Event grabbing the top payday. The 29 years-old poker player is now the first man to ever hit such an achievement in the APPT history. As a reminder, Lim's first championship feat is dated back in 2013, the year when he sealed the APPT Seoul Main Event's win. This year, he successfully made a title repeat. He was among the 23 survivors who returned in the poker room of Manila's City of Dream (the Philippines) for the ultimate day. He was ranked 8th in chip position when he entered the final table. After a few hours of play, Lim made his way to join the 9-final-tablist pack that included High Stakes guru "Winfred Yu" and Macau Poker Cup Red Dragon champ "Terry Fan". Surprisingly enough, Winfred Yu saw his run cut to 8th place.

The World Poker Tour National (WPTN) will land in Morocco soon. Not only are poker fans given a great opportunity to enjoy a one-of-a-kind holiday vacation in Marrakesh but also they can part take in the festival to be held from September 26 to October 4, 2015. As mentioned in this freshly-unveiled schedule, there is everything that matches everyone's taste and budget. Actually, the menu features a series of poker tournaments with attractive structures. The highlight of the festival remains the single-entry € 1,200 buy-in Main Event. The 2015 WPTN Marrakesh Main Event will be played from October 1 to 4; it guarantees a whopping € 300,000 prize pool for ITM-place finishers.

The World Poker Tour National (WPTN) is one of the must-attend live poker tournaments in Europe this summer. King's Casino in Rozvadov (Czech Republic) is playing host to the festival. It actually features 11 events, including the eagerly anticipated Main Event slated to kick off on Friday, August 7. The entrance-fee to this battle is € 1,100. Interestingly enough, the Main Event boasts an alluring guaranteed prize pool of € 200,000, plus a super attractive structure. Indeed, the € 1,100 buy-in event will run two starting days. Every participant will enter the game with a modest stack of 30,000 chips for 45-minute blind levels. Survivors from those flights will battle it out for Day 2 on Sunday. The ultimate day flight is on Monday, August 10 when the pack will play down to a winner.

Verdicts from the recently-completed World Poker Tour (WPT) National London and the WPT Choctaw are “in”. Yet, the overall Global Poker Index (GPI) rankings show no significant change. In the Top 10, USA’s Jason Mercier secures the driver’s set with a total score of 4,057 points. Byron Kaverman is right behind at 2nd position. He is actually one of the biggest movers this week. Among his biggest achievements in the past couple of weeks include a 3rd place finish at the Bellagio Cup, a poker tournament held in late July. Kaverman has jumped over 6 spots to secure 2nd position in the rankings.

The suspense-filled final table of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw has just come to an end. Among the four men who made it through the final, three of them were notable poker players. But it was a simple amateur named “Jason Brin” who successfully made his way to the win. Mina Greco, the only woman who managed to reach the final day, was the favorite candidate in whom the audience at Choctaw Casino Resort (Oklahoma, USA) believed notching the victory. Believable, that would certainly generate an unprecedented buzz. Any way, every WPT event since the inception of the franchise has always seen a man claiming the trophy. And that in Choctaw does. As a short stack at the beginning of the final day, Mina Greco called it a day securing 5th-place for $ 167,691. Alex Lynskey was the first final-tablist to hit the rail.

The 3rd annual Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) has been in full swing in the luxurious poker room of the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino since July 30. On the menu is a series of stunningly attractiv events. The organizers are actually vying for the attention of regulars by offering a truly unique poker experience. For the very first time since its inception, this year’s SHRPO includes four events with super alluring guarantee each.Named “The Big 4”, it is about the first ever four final-table finale to be held in the room. The $ 5,250 buy-in Event # 21, is part of those flagship poker tournaments. This SHROP $ 5 Million Guarantee Championship is scheduled to kick off on Saturday August 15. Interestingly enough, the eventual winner will be awarded $ 1 million. The Event # 22, a $ 1,100 buy-in NL Hold'em, is also in the agenda. It guarantees a prize pool worth of $ 500,000 and runs two-day flights during which re-entry is allowed. The big event is slated to kick off on Monday, August 17.

In a media interview early this week, Alexandre Dreyfus revealed further details about his fresh and innovation-packed invention, the Global Poker League. According to him, the Global Poker Leage is a genuinely stunning event that is currently enjoying great support from US, UK and China-based partners. It is expected to kick off late this year or in early 2016. Presumably, the plan is for the Global Poker League to feature a sport-like concept, similar to the NBA or the NFL. The formula will also undergo some interesting re-shapings. Actually, the big tournament will see various teams of notable names in contention, including those who are in the current Global Poker Index Top 300 rankings. The selection will be based on a typically USA draft system, Dreyfus highlighted.

The 2015 Asian Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Manila is one of the must-attend Asian poker tournaments this month. It has currently been in full swing with a relatively good number of participants joining the poker room of Manila’s “City of Dream”, in the Philippines. Kicking off the festival was a ₱ 10,000 buy-in Warm-Up event, guaranteeing an enticing prize pool of ₱ 4,976,100. By topping a field of 570 players, Malaysia’s Alex Lee came up victorious of the battle and cashed the top payday of ₱ 1,082,200 .The pack actually saw China’s poker pro Pete Chen in contention. However, he was sent to 3rd-place. Thanks to another final-table finish in a previous event, Chen now secures 3rd position in the Asia Player of The Year rankings.

All verdicts of the events from the recently-concluded 2015 World Series of Poker (WSOP) are now in. 67 gold bracelets and approximately $ 150 million were awarded in this great global poker tournament. Numerous were those who left Las Vegas with a truly notable sum in hands. As featured in the current money list, it is Jonathan Duhamel who claims the driver’s seat. Crowned “champion” in the 2010 WSOP Final Main Event, the Canadian poker pro now sits atop the leaderboard with $ 4,048,137 in career earnings. He grabbed a great part of that money from his 1st-place finish in the $ 111,111buy-in High Roller for One Drop. Besides, Duhamel also finished In The Money in five different events. Listed second position is Bill Klein. The career cashes of this California native now total $ 2,465,522, a noticeable part of which was owed to his runner-up place in the High Roller for One Drop.

After four days of battle in the poker room of Aspers Casino, in Westfield Stratford City (London-UK), the World Poker Tour (WPT) National London has just been concluded with a poker lady scooping the top prize: Irina Nikolaidi. Irina is a highly skilled London-based poker enthusiast who clothed herself with determination to challenge a 667-player field in a £ 600 buy-in Main Event that saw some world-famed notables in contention, the likes of Tony Dunst, James Akenhead, Surinder Sunar, James Dempsey and Charles Chattha. Indeed, Irina has just entered the cicle of successful female poker players who delivered milestone performances in a global tournament. Recall that the recently-concluded World Series of Poker Championship saw another woman, Loni Harwood, grabbing the coveted trophy, a gold bracelet.

The Diamond Series is back in town. The great poker festival will heat up the whole Adelaide (Australia) soon. As a reminder, the first edition of the series was played in April 2014. This year, it is ranked among the must-attend poker tournaments across the country. The Maylands Hotel is playing host to the 2015 Diamond Series which will be held from October 20 to 25. As officially mentioned in a release, the five-days long festival features a truly entincing series of events. The inaugural is a $ 350 buy-in PLO during which re-entry will be allowed. The schedule also includes a $ 450 buy-in No Limit Hold'em, a $ 350 Mixed Game PLHE / PLO, and a $ 450 buy-in Terminator. With a view to satisfying cash-game lovers, the organizers have come up with the idea to equip The Maylands Hotel’s poker room with several cash-game tables.

They were 122 players, all battling it out in the poker room of Harrah's Cherokee (North Carolina, USA) for the 5th annual World Series of Poker National Championship (WSOP Championship). Interestingly enough, it was a 25-years-old female poker pro who sealed the win: Loni Harwood. Of the $ 1.22 million prize pool, the super lucky and talented poker lady cashed $ 341,599. Admittedly, Loni Harwood has come a long way to the victory. She actually found herself teed against tough poker players, namely Phil Hellmuth, John Monnette, Jeff Madsen and Dominik Nitsche. However, none of those big names made it through the final table. In addition to the top payday, Harwood was also granted a gold bracelet. It is the second bracelet she earned so far.
 
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