Portugal’s Antonio Matias displays his winning hand from EPT Vilamoura. (Photo courtesy PokerStars)
Home cooking must serve Portugese businessman Antonio Matias well. The 54 year old outlasted a field of 322 players to win the European Poker Tour stop in his home country, €404,793 and a seat in the EPT Grand Final.
“I like to think of [...]

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Apparently bubbling on European Poker Tour final table once was one time too many for Jeff Sarwer and Pierre Neuville. After both recently bubbling EPT final tables they’ve made the jump at EPT Vilamoura and will beat the final table on Sunday.
They will both be chasing current chipleader Antonio Matias though. The 54 year old [...]

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Day 3 at EPT Vilamoura is in the books and the rich continued to get richer as Antony Lellouche and Jeff Sarwer steamrolled the field for a third straight day.
After two days of letting Sarwer enjoy the top spot, today was Lellouche’s turn to assume the role of chip leader. The French pro, whose resume [...]

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Two days of poker are in the books at EPT Vilamoura in Portugal, and former child chess prodigy Jeff Sarwer of Canada leads the way with only 69 players still in contention for the top prize of €404,793.
Sarwer, who also held the chip lead at the end of Day 1B, made the most out of [...]

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Today was the second starting flight at Casino Vilamoura in Portugal, where the European Poker Tour’s latest main event is taking place. Yesterday’s field of 136 and the 186 players at the tables on Day 1B combined for a total field of 322, building the prize pool to €1,561,700. A total of 48 players will [...]

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A total of 136 players showed up today for the first of two starting flights of the European Poker Tour main event in the Portuguese seaside resort region of Vilamoura, the newest addition to the the EPT’s Season 6 schedule.
The overnight chip leader is Austria’s Ljubomir Josipovic, who closed out the day with a stack [...]

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The PokerStars Latin American Poker Tour announced its schedule for Season Three and there’s a new addition to the schedule that isn’t so new: the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The $10,000 buy-in event has previously been a part of the World Poker Tour and European Poker Tour.
The LAPT will feature five events this year with the [...]

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Christophe Benzimra has a trophy and a pile of cash after winning EPT Warsaw on Sunday.

Christophe Benzimra is a 47 year old French businessman who plays poker as a hobby. So what he was doing at the final table of a European Poker Tour event playing against a group of players with the average age of [...]

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Two Russians, two Italians, two Ukrainians, a Canadian, and a Frenchman make up tomorrow’s final table of the EPT Warsaw main event.

Oleksandr Vaserfirer holds the lead with 1,854,000 chips going into the final table. The Ukrainian pro has already cashed in three EPT events during this young season, but this is by far his most [...]

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Being a former chess prodigy Jeffrey Sarwer is able to see three or four moves ahead of the competition. Now he’s the chipleader at the European Poker Tour event in Warsaw, Poland with only 23 pawns standing in between him and the $535,630 US first place prize money.
Sarwer’s 956,500 chips is a significant lead over [...]

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The plan for Day 2 of EPT Warsaw was to play five levels or until only 54 players remained, whichever came first. They almost pulled off both.
After five levels of play on Thursday 55 players are left in the field including Day 1 chipleader Carter Phillips but the real story was the emergence of Canadian [...]

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Warsaw might not be the grandest event on the European Poker Tour schedule but Carter Phillips could care less. The EPT Barcelona champion bagged up 194,850 as the chipleader at the end of Day 1a Tuesday and then watched the Day 1b field try and catch him on Wednesday.
The player who came closest to Phillips was [...]

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Aaron Gustavson came to the final table of the European Poker Tour London event as the last American standing and will leave Jolly Ol’ England with an EPT title and £850,000 after eliminating reigning world champion Peter Eastgate heads-up.
The final table lasted a little more than seven hours and Gustavson maintained the chip lead for most [...]

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Peter Eastgate might be helpless in watching his year as World Champion come to an end in the next few weeks but he’s doing everything he can to go out with a bang. Eastgate is second in chips at the PokerStars European Poker Tour London stop as the final eight players await Wednesday’s final table.
The [...]

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Three days of poker are in the books at the Hilton Metropole in London and the remaining lineup of 24 players at EPT London sports a few of the more accomplished names in recent poker history: Eastgate, Obrestad, Rajkumar, Berry.
Wait, who’s that last guy?
That would be Michael Berry, an amateur from the UK who won [...]

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After more than 300 players turned up for the first Day 1 flight of European Poker Tour’s main event in London, Day 1B drew an even bigger crowd and officially made this the biggest poker tournament ever held in the United Kingdom. A stunning 426 players turned up for the second flight at the Hilton [...]

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Is it just me, or has [...]

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WSOP Europe PLO bracelet winner Erik Cajelais entered the EPT London High Roller final table as the chip leader, with high stakes East Coast cash player Matt Glantz hovering pretty close behind. Glantz and Leo Fernandez were able to take a few pots from Cajelais in the early going, evening out the top of the [...]

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The EPT London High Roller event might not produce a repeat champion this year with Jason Mercier busy trying to take down the WSOP Europe Main Event, but there are plenty of familiar faces who will be sitting at its final table tomorrow.
At the top of the heap with 893,000 in chips is none other [...]

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Busting out of the World Series of Poker Europe Main Event before the second-to-last day allowed some of poker’s biggest names – and deepest pockets – to make their way over to the Hilton Metropole hotel in London for the Wednesday start of the European Poker Tour’s £20,000 High Roller Event.
Included in that group was Phil Ivey, [...]

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