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Poker comes back to Kyiv

Andriey POKER UKRAINE 15 November 2018 No comment

Big poker event starts is Kyiv today. PokerMatch UA Millions series with a prize fund of 5,000,000 hryvnia will be held on November 15-25 in the club of sports poker Full House Kyiv. The series is supported by the All-Ukrainian Federation of Sports Poker and will also identify the champion of sport poker in Ukraine. […]

Russia to host the 1st WPT and partypoker LIVE event in 2019

Earlier in September, the World Poker Tour (WPT) and partypoker LIVE announced their collaboration. Now, they have named the five major stops for 2019.

Jack Sinclair wins the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event

Andriey POKER 2 November 2018 No comment

Jack Sinclair wins the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event for €1,122,239, defeating Laszlo Bujtas heads-up. Bujtas earns €693,573 on finishing second. The news was just posted on WSOP Twitter. Jack Sinclair (@jacksincredible) wins the 2018 WSOP Europe Main Event for €1,122,239, defeating Laszlo Bujtas heads-up. Bujtas earns €693,573 on finishing second. The final table recap […]

Wojciech Wyrebski wins the second-place prize at 2018 WSOP COLOSSUS in Rozvadov

Andriey POKER 16 October 2018 No comment

After less than four hours of play, the first gold bracelet of the 2018 World Series of Poker Europe has been awarded to Tamir Segal from Israel. This is the biggest cash ever for Segal and he was very happy to be able to take this back to the bank after defeating Wojciech Wyrebski heads […]

Ukrainian entered the Top-10 ranking of the world’s best online poker players

Andriey POKER UKRAINE 29 September 2018 No comment

Roman Romanovsky has become the winner of the main event of the online series XL Eclipse with $ 187,000 prize. Thus Roman has improved his own position in the Pocket Five ranking of the best online players on the planet. This success allowed him to return to the top 10 most successful players according to […]

Another Pole’s poker success

MDM POKER POLAND 3 September 2018 No comment

Although Poland is bypassed from a distance by large poker festivals, Poles are succeeding beyond the borders of the country. In the EPT Barcelona main tournament with the entry fee of EUR 5,300, Piotr Nurzyński secured a prize of over EUR one million. This is the fourth Pole who became the champion of the prestigious […]

Ukraine defines poker as a sport

Iwo Bulski POKER UKRAINE 30 August 2018 No comment

Lawmakers have decided that poker is not a game of chance, therefore it is exempt from anti-gambling laws. Ukrainian lawmakers have listed poker in the Register of Recognized Sports after discussing whether it was a game of chance or not.

Nikita Bodyakovskiy from Belarus wins another poker tournament

Andriey BELARUS POKER 29 August 2018 No comment

Nikita Bodiakovskiy is 26-year-old poker player from Belarus and this week he has won another poker tournament in Barcelona. Thus, just in summer 2018 he has earned about $ 7 million. Nikita has won the prestigious Triton Super High Roller which was held in South Korea in July. With the buy-in of 250 thousand dollars […]

Poker is now officially a sport in Ukraine

Andriey POKER UKRAINE 24 August 2018 2 comments

Ukraine has recognized and legalized poker as a sport. The corresponding order is published on the website of the Ministry of Youth and Sports of Ukraine. Minister of Youth and Sports Igor Zhdanov signed the order No. 3780 on August 16, 2018. By the order, the Minister has recognized sports poker as the official sport […]

Anatoly Filatov wins partypoker Millions Russia Main Event

Andriey POKER RUSSIA 15 August 2018 No comment

Anatoly Filatov from Russia has won the 2018 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS Russia ₽318,000 ($5,023 USD) buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. A total of 11 people out of 916 players of the tournament reached the final table of the Main Event partypoker MIILIONS Russia with a buy-in of 318,000 rubles (~ $ 4,700). The game took […]