With all the talk about the World Series of Poker, an upcoming online poker festival has sneaked under the radar. Fortunately, the crack research staff at Team Blog managed to sniff this one out before it was too late.PokerStars is giving away seven packages to the European Poker Tour. Yep, just giving them away.Starting August 19th and running through August 26th, PokerStars will host a daily $200 no-limit hold'em tournament (with satellites available into each event). The winner of each of the seven events will receive a free entry and travel money to one of seven European Poker Tour events.I've
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Dinner break details
The players are taking their dinner break, which gives us the chance to catch up on a few newsworthy tid-bits that have otherwise gone unreported.Xuyen "Bad Girl" Pham is now challenging for the chip lead. She has about 35,000, much of it thanks to what can only be described as...more
Punching above his weight
If you have ever had the fortune to look at a recent picture of "Team PokerStars", you will notice some very familiar faces. The last three world champions for instance - Joe Hachem, Greg Raymer and Chris Moneymaker, for those who have spent the past five years in the jungle...more
The rough and the smooth
A certain day in a certain month in the year of 2003. A certain online player from a certain poker site is sitting in a certain casino in a certain city in Nevada. He is changing the course of poker history. Certainly.Chris Moneymaker won $2.5 million when he took first...more
Like a stake Thew the heart
Who are the good guys in poker? It all depends who you ask.Take Julian Thew, for instance. Ordinarily, you could ask just about anyone in any casino or card room in any country around the world and they wouldn't have a single bad word to say about the softly-spoken Nottingham-based...more
Read all about it
Yesterday evening, as is customary, the EPT kicked off with a media tournament where all the visiting press takes a couple of hours from their hectic schedule of heavy drinking to play some poker. In truth - and I say this as a member of the press pack myself -...more
We've lost one
It took more than an hour - an almost unprecedented amount of time - but we have now lost a player. Not just any player, either. It's Rob Hollink, the reigning EPT Grand Final champion, who has just shuffled out of the Casino Copenhagen, dispatched by Dario Alioto, another player...more
Breakfast betting
At breakfast this morning, the discussion was about chip stacks."How many do we start with?" asked one anxious player, through a mouthful of scrambled eggs."Ten thousand," chimed the rest, variously flavoured by yoghurt, croissant and Danish salami."There'll still be someone out on the first hand," offered Barny Boatman. "How difficult...more
The final moments
It's that time again: the calm before what promises to be a category Scandinavia poker storm. The players have arrived and the draw has been made. That means the lobby to Casino Copenhagen is full of the anxious and their friends, fidgeting from foot to foot, smoking strong coffee and...more
Into the lions' den
Here we are then: Copenhagen. Welcome to the capital of Denmark for the Scandinavian Open, the latest leg of the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour (EPT).In tourists' terms, this is a wonderful city. Canals, statues, parks, fountains and fairytales, all glimpsed through the amber glow of a pint of Carlsberg. By...more
When the smoke cleared - Dublin EPT final report
As every sweet-toothed child around the world knows, today is Halloween. But as every poker player knows, if it's tricks and treats you're seeking, look no further than the EPT.Someone who knows all about the sweetness of high-stakes poker is Mats Gavatin, from Sweden. Late last night, the 26-year-old tasted...more
Cooking up an EPT winner
He's a former baker. He studied information technology and maths. He's 26-years-old and he's from Sweden.As unlikely as it might sound, that's the recipe for success for Mats Gavatin, the newly-crowned EPT Dublin winner. Mats overcame the vast chip-lead of Henric Olander, his countryman, to claim the €317,000 first prize...more
Dublin EPT final table - live
1.35am-- That's it. We have a winner and his name is Mats Gavatin. The final hand was ace-king in Mats's hand against king-nine for Henric. End of story - although there'll be photos and a report here in a moment.1.30am-- Wow. Huge swing to Mats. He's now the dominating chip...more
The first fantastic four
The first fantastic fourFrom left to right: David Pomroy, Jim Reid, Michael Greco, Michael O'SullivanThe final fantastic fourFrom left to right: Joe Rafferty, Henric Olander, Pete Haslam, Mats Gavatin...more
The final stretch
The final table of the EPT Dublin is coming from the Royal Dubin Society (RDS) in the Ballsbridge district of this wonderful city.The television set has been created in the centre of a wooden-floored concert hall, with books lining the walls and elegant statues posing flamboyantly to welcome us in....more
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