Millionaire Chess Comes to Vegas
Chess is trying to muscle in on the Vegas act, with this week seeing the Millionaire Chess event taking over the Planet Hollywood Casino in an attempt to bring the world of 64-squares into the televised limelight.
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Chess is trying to muscle in on the Vegas act, with this week seeing the Millionaire Chess event taking over the Planet Hollywood Casino in an attempt to bring the world of 64-squares into the televised limelight.
Check out the review of the week of October 4th in 2015. An encompassing recap of all of the live poker results for the week in one short and sweet post.
US poker pro Kenneth Chih-Hung takes down a talented field of chess and poker pros to become the victor of the recent PokerStars chess & poker combined tournament.
Jennifer Shahade has come up with the idea of running a chess/poker tournament – allowing the best of the chess-players to show their skills in poker
​The flagship Main Event brought the record-breaking 2015 WCOOP to a close last night, with Belgium’s ‘Coenaldinho7’ lifting the lion’s-share of the money in a sometimes acrimonious night of ‘deal or no deal’.
David Paredes was able to take out Jim Gilbert on the final table to win the WPT Borgata Poker Open Championship and 723k cash prize.
Elimination of Andy Andrejevic boosted Gilbert’s stack to 9,650,000, which put him head and shoulders ahead at the WPT Borgata Poker Open.
The MPN Poker Tour announced that the Montesino Casino in Vienna, Austria will be its first tour stop in 2016 from January 21-24.
Argentinian Mario Lopez has taken down the LAPT Uruguay for 155k beating out the likes of Chadi Moustapha, Hilario Quijada, and Ruben Barros.
Duke Lee beat a field of 155 in the Heartland Poker Tour Main Event at the Grand Sierra Resort and Casino in Reno for $59,494.
Mario Lopez leads the LAPT Uruguay after Day 2. Only 24 remain for Day 3 and the battle will continue between big names like Lopez, Moustapha, and Teixeira.
South American country Uruguay hosts the latest leg of the Latin American Poker tour this September. Players gather from Brazil, Argentina, and the host country.
Only after the Jays had lost 3-2 to the Atlanta Braves, did the lucky winner realise that he had just picked up a whopping $116,935, which was 50% of The Deals jackpot.
Pokerstars will be hosting a betting pool so that spectators can gamble on who will win the $51,000 Super High Roller event!
UK has done a good job so far filling US’s shoes. The latest example is PokerStars’ World Championship of Online Poker.
PokerTube mourns the passing of our friend Philip Yeung, a beloved figure in the Vegas scene and an irreplaceable friend.