Simon Ravnsbaek is a machine! He is the reigning Danish Champion, a member of the final table at the last WPT Vienna and former winner of the PartyPoker.com Monthly Million for $200K (October 2010). He’s also on the final table of WPT Venice.
Danes have won the last three $200k guaranteed tournaments on PartyPoker.com in a row and are becoming a major force- too dominant in some...
Max Pescatori is due to play day 1B of the WPT Venice, presented by PartyPoker.it at Casino di Venezia, Ca’ Noghera. Fresh from his banter on pirates, Italian and French players with Tony G at the PartyPoker.com Premier League Poker Mixed Game Championship his involvement with horse racing has deepened – who is the captain? It’s not Francesco Totti! It is Max’s winning horse!...
Bad Beat Jackpot was hit on a $2/$4 NLH table last week! Hardbiglong won as his 4 of a kind got beat by rol007′s Royal Flush.
Loser in the hand won $479,101, rol007 got $239,550 and other 7 players got $34,221 each!
Hardbiglong is from Germany and we got in touch to ask him some questions:
Have you lost with four 10’s before?
No, I haven’t.
How did it feel at the time – did...
After flying from Melbourne – Sydney then Hong Kong to London I eventually landed in Venice for the WPT.
One of my first missions? An audience with Francesco Totti, Italian football legend – a Roma hero – a man who can walk on water which is very handy when you are in Venice waiting for a water taxi.
Totti is like David Beckham in Italy, the place went off when he came in – he...
Neil McFayden (NEzyWOut on PartyPoker tables) has just come back from a jet boat ride in St Kilda. “It’s a great way to unwind on my day off,” said the English professional, who has been making a name for himself on the online and live circuits in the past three years.
McFayden, 28, from London has made it to day two at the Aussie Millions after playing Day 1A and sits with 45,000...
There is always a lot of talk about how the skills you learn on the poker table are transferable into many different areas of life. In the case of Jason Khan, a 30 year-old businessman from London who was recently crowned Champion Trader on our sister site InterTrader.com, the similarities couldn’t be any stronger. Jason recently managed to turn £10,000 into a whopping £350,017 in...
Drive The Dream live shootout tournament for a brand new 2010 Aston Martin DB9 Coupe will be held this Saturday 2nd October at The Mint Casino in the heart of South Kensington in London! The nine lucky players are:
Marek Sosnowski – Poland
Gregor Wojtowicz – Germany
Davide Altea – Italy
Donaldson Araujo Nunes – Brazil
Christian Altrogge – Germany
Michal Wawer –...
19-year-old Marek Sosnowski (Klevzorr on PartyPoker tables) from Krakow, Poland is the first player to make October’s ‘Drive the Dream’ live final in London!
Marek, who qualified via freeroll will join eight other players to battle it out for an amazing first prize – a 2010 Aston Martin DB9 Coupe!
Marek plans to become a map writer but the cartography will have to wait for a bit...
Jaime Alguersuari was present at the WPT Spanish Championship 2010 in Barcelona and we sat down with him for a talk on poker, Formula 1, and girls.
You have joined the PartyPoker stable of players alongside Giancarlo Fisichella, how do you compare as a player?
I only met Giancarlo for the first time last year – I know he is great poker player as well as legend in F1. I haven’t...
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Direct from the Wheels of Steel – an update on the players who have chosen their walk-on records for the PartyPoker.com Big Game IV, which gets underway at Les Ambassadeurs in London on Sunday.
Below is a list of players who have heir walk-on music confirmed at this stage.
Tony G – Team PartyPoker.com – ‘Bicycle...