Author: Paul Oresteen

WPT Seminole Hard Rock Open Draws 1,207, Alejandro Duque Leads

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The World Poker Tour Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open $3,500 Main Event kicked off Friday and drew an impressive 1,207 entries with a single Day 1 flight. Following 10 levels of action only 476 players return to action with Alejandro Duque leading the field with 320,600. Kelly Minkin, WPT

Jamie and Matt Staples Take on Bill Perkins’ Weight Bet

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Bill Perkins made another high stakes prop bet, offering 50-1 on a whim to brothers Jaime and Matt Staples while they were in the Caribbean for Perkins’ Streamboat week on the billionaire’s popular Twitch channel. The brothers stand to win $150,000 if they can get to within one pound of

PokerStars Guaranteeing Ten $1 Million First Place Prizes

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PokerStars celebrates the 11th anniversary of the Sunday Million on April 2nd with a huge $10 million guarantee and $1 million locked up for the winner. As part of a larger promotion, the site is guaranteeing ten weeks of $1 million first-place prizes and this Sunday's winner will be the

Dietrich Fast & Adrian Mateos Chop SHR Super High Roller

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The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open welcomed the top one percent in poker with their $50,000 Super High Roller on Wednesday and drew 28 entrants that juiced a $1.4 million prize pool. Five players returned for Thursday’s final table and a heads-up deal between Dietrich Fast and Adrian Mateos saw

Nan Tu Leads PokerStars Championship Macau High Roller

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The PokerStars Championship Macau kicked off with the HK$82,000 ($10,552) Single Re-entry High Roller which drew 73 entries. Following nine levels of action the field was trimmed to 45 survivors with Nan Tu leading the field with 205,700 in the bag. Isaac Haxton and Steve O’Dwyer finished third and

Mori Eskandani – A Lifetime of Achievement in Poker Part 2

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 Part 1 of the story can be found here. Eskandani credits this to an amazing team of sports producers. He realized everything was going to compete with other professional sports productions when it aired. “It had to be a sports show,” he said. “I was lucky enough to run into

Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood Boasts Over $6 Million Guaranteed

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The Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Hollywood is rolling out the red carpet for poker players over the next two weeks. The World Poker Tour brings three highlight events to the property and in conjunction with the championship events are a $50,000 Super High Roller, a $25,500 High Roller

Audi S5 Added to WPT Season XV Tournament of Champions

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The season-ending stop for the World Poker Tour Season XV at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, FL boasts three events, including the $15,000 WPT Tournament of Champions. Monster Headphones added $100,000 to the prize pool and the winner drives away in a 2018 Audi S5 Coupe.

Commerce’s Social Experiment Event- No Phones, Hoodies, Shades

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Matt Savage lit social media on fire recently when he announced the Social Experiment event as part of the California State Poker Championship. Players in the event won’t be allowed to have electronic devices, headphones, hoodies or sunglasses to “create a social interaction amongst players.” The tournament runs Saturday,