Author: Paul Oresteen

partypoker Million North America Underway, Goes Live Friday

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The first partypoker Million North America CAD$5,300 Main Event at the Playground Poker Club outside Montreal hasn’t dealt a live card yet, but two online Day 1 flights already advanced 17 players to Day 2 on Sunday May 7 and leading the online contingent is Norson Saho with 6,394,000.

Summer Action: ARIA’s Summer High Roller Series Schedule Set

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The ARIA Resort & Casino is home to Poker Central’s Super High Roller Bowl and to all the high roller tournament action in Las Vegas. The monthly High Roller tournament weekends have an adapted schedule during the summer with 18 events as part of their ARIA Summer High Roller Series.

Adrian Mateos Wins Single Day HR, Seidel “Feels” Negreanu

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The single-day, high stakes events that pop up around PokerStars Championship stops keep growing in popularity. A €50,000 Single-Day High Roller drew 64 entries during Day 1B of the Main Event, which would have normally been an off day for most of those of players, and 2013 WSOP Europe champ

Gianluca Speranza Tops Day 1B, Main Event Draws 716 Entrants

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Day 2 of the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event fell short of 2016’s mark, but added 481 additional entrants, with 222 of them advancing to Day 2 and Gianluca Speranza finished on top of the chip counts with 201,500 Speranza fell short of Jeffrey Hakim’s Day 1A

Jeffrey Hakim Bags Lead in Monte Carlo Main Event Day 1

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Day 1A of the inaugural PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €5,300 Main Event drew 235 entrants and following a full day of action 107 advance on to Day 2 following a well-deserved day off. Leading the charge is Jeffrey Hakim with 305,300 – about 4.5 times the average stack. Forming

Bryn “Mr. High Roller” Kenney Wins Monte Carlo SHR Title

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The final table of the PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller was the Bryn Kenny show, as he steamrolled the final table until he and Viacheslav Buldygin duked it out over an extended heads-up match. Kenney came out on top, winning his second Super High Roller title and

Kevin Hart Announces PokerStars Sponsorship in Monte Carlo

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After flirting with PokerStars live events for some months and jumping into the deep end of the poker pool by playing their Championship High Roller and Super High Roller events, Kevin Hart called a press conference in Monte Carlo, flanked by Daniel Negreanu, to announce a sponsorship with the site.

Bryn Kenney Leads Monte Carlo SHR Final Table

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The PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo €100,000 Super High Roller played down to the final nine players but are still one off the money when play resumes on Saturday. Bryn Kenney leads with 3.3 million over a collection of SHR veterans. Kenney won two High Roller events at PokerStars Championship

Ole Schemion Notches First Win of 2017 in Monte Carlo Opener

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Ole Schemion notched another win in the opening €10,300 Single re-entry event at PokerStars Championship Monte Carlo. Schemion is one the quickest in history to eclipse the $10 million mark in earnings and his 14th tournament win doesn’t land in his top ten cashes. Schemion earned $298,298 for the