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Malinowski Crowned Super High Roller Bowl Champion ($3,690,000)
Wiktor Malinowski is best known for his high-stakes cash game prowess, but the Polish sensation proved he knows his way around a tournament table. Malinowski is the latest poker superstar to win the coveted Super High Roller Bowl Europe title. This victory came with a bankroll-boosting prize of $3,690,000. Forty-one...
Five of the Biggest Dutch Live MTT Winners
We continue our series of the five biggest live poker tournament winners by looking at the Netherlands. The online poker and live poker worlds are awash with Dutch grinders. They usually travel in large numbers, have plenty of fun wherever they go, and rack up enormous prizes. Lex Veldhuis and...
Tony G Wins Two SHRB Short Deck Events in a Week
Tony G is known for his willingness to gamble, which is why Short Deck Hold’em is the perfect game for him. The Lithuanian-Australian won two Short Deck Hold’em events at the ongoing Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Europe festival, including one that awarded a career-best score. Event #3 of the...
Artur Martirosian Banks His largest-Ever Live Score
Russian poker pro Artur Martirosian can boast of a live seven-figure haul. Martirosian helped himself to a $1,400,000 top prize in the $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em event at the Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Europe festival. Thirty-five players exchanged $100,000 for the chance to become the tournament's champion. Despite the final...
Why Value Betting Is Crucial In Poker
Not value betting often enough drags your win rate down into the doldrums. Indeed, correctly value betting regularly is one significant difference between a winning and breakeven, or even losing, player. Are you value betting enough? You need to know what a value bet is before you can accurately answer...
Phil Ivey Wins SHRB Europe $25K Short Deck Event
The 2021 Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) Europe festival got off to a flying start on August 24 with the $25,000 buy-in Short Deck Hold 'em event. Phil Ivey outshone the 48-strong field to bank the SHRB Europe Event #1's $408,000 top prize. SHRB Europe Event #1 saw a mixture...
Five WSOP Events to Play On a Budget
The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is right around the corner, with the first of 88 events scheduled to shuffle up and deal on September 30. Many of you reading these pages wish you could travel to Las Vegas and seek WSOP glory. However, your budget may not allow...
Nicholas Smith Wins MSPT Grand Falls Main Event
Nicholas Smith is enjoying the largest poker score of his career thanks to winning the MSPT Grand Falls Main Event. Smith came out on top of a 532-strong field at the Grand Falls Casino in South Dakota and banked $110,633. Smith hails from Fishers, Indiana, and only had two live...
Matt Marafioti Dead at 33 After Apparent Suicide
Online poker legend Matt Marafioti had died after apparently committing suicide last weekend. Marafioti was only 33-years-old and leaves behind a one-year-old son. Marafioti rose to fame during the original online poker boom. His "ADZ124" alias became synonymous with high-stakes cash game action at PokerStars and the now-defunct Full Tilt...
When Slow Playing In Poker Is A Good Idea and When It’s Not
Slow playing is a powerful, deceptive play poker players utilize. Some people call slow playing "sandbagging" or "trapping," but the principles are the same regardless of what you call the move. It is a move every poker player needs in their arsenal, yet one you should not deploy too often....