WPT Celebrity Invitational Updates...

After a day spent taking in the sights or just taking it easy, the players all converged on the tournament room on the second floor at the Commerce Casino for the WPT Celebrity Invitational. This event is a $200,000 freeroll which attracts many top name poker players as well as a good number of TV and movie stars. This was the reason the players had flown all the way to Los...

PartyPoker players visit Beverly Hills...

After the fun and games from Friday nights party, there were a few sore heads in the breakfast room on Saturday. Some of the players ended up in the Sky Bar which had an excellent rooftop terrace where you could get a great view of Los Angeles while sipping a cool beer or mojito. Other players had plenty of success on the cash tables with many of them saying how soft the tables were....

PartyPoker party at the WPT Celebrity In...

PartyPoker welcomes the players to Los Angeles. Friday night saw the players arrive at The Commerce Casino for the PartyPoker welcome party. Many people had arrived that day from all over Europe, Canada, even India and for many this was their first trip to Los Angeles and they were ready to have a good time. The Commerce Casino Although there was plenty of poker being talked about at...

PartyPoker – Final table at the As...

I’m sure there will some sore heads today in and around the tournament room as the players try and recover from lasts nights great party on the 39th floor. The action will take place on a special table up at the end of the tournament room with TV cameras in attendance. Tournament Director, Matt Savage had his best suit on and got proceedings underway a little later than planned due...

PartyPoker Asian Poker Tour – Day ...

PartyPoker have five players and a couple of adopted players playing under the PartyPoker name. Unfortunately we had Ian Frazer, Maksim Shuts and Philipp Gmunder all sitting on table 15 which was not the preferred start but never mind. Raymi was sitting over in the far corner on table 23 and Gylbert was on table 17. Some notable names still in the tournament included Johnny Chan, JC...

PartyPoker – APT MACAU Day 1B...

Today we had a total of 193 players making a total turnout of 326 players in this years event which is a huge jump from the 260 they had in last years event. This has created a huge prize pool of HK $10,919,040 which equates to US$1,408,699 – a very attractive sum indeed. PartyPoker had 4 players and one invited guest playing today all hoping to get their hands of their share of the...

PartyPoker – Day 1 A at the Asian ...

Day 1A Players are back and suitably refreshed. Soon after the dinner break we lost Ricky from Australia who started the day very well and won a couple of big pots to establish a nice stack but who got no luck later in the evening and hit the rail at about 8pm. Walking past one table I noticed all the players were making a lot of noise. It was easy to see why because we had an all in...

PartyPoker – Asian Poker Tour Main...

Day 1A started today at 12 noon local time. Partypoker have 11 players registered for play today all eager to do their best in the second Asian Poker Tour Macau main event. A total of 133 players sat down although some must have overslept and arrived in the tournament room up to 40 minutes late. Todays plan is to play 10 levels today with a 60 minute dinner break after the 6th level....

PartyPoker – Asian Poker Tour, Bat...

Wednesday saw the “Battle of the Nations” tournament start with 13 teams each representing a different country. The PartyPoker players in Macau have come from a variety of countries and the only country that had the three required players was Belarus. Brothers Mikhail and Maksim Shuts and their friend Ihar Pliashko took on the teams from destinations such as USA, Korea, Australia,...

PartyPoker Asian Poker Tour – Play...

Tuesday night was party night for the PartyPoker players and our special guests. The venue was beside the pool at the brand new Hard Rock Hotel in the City of Dreams resort complex over on the other island here in Macau. This place was an excellent venue for the party and the players had a great time. To start with we all had VIP passes for the new attraction called “The Bubble”...