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Poker Masters
The Poker Masters is a series of high-stakes poker tournaments. Created in 2017, it takes place at ARIA Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, and online at partypoker. Final tables are streamed on PokerGO, and the player who accumulates the most points during the series wins the Purple Jacket. History The first season took place in September 2017 and had five events on the schedule. Steffen Sontheimer won the $100,000 Main Event and was awarded the Purple Jacket for accumulating the most winnings after winning two events and making five final tables. For the second season, a points system was introduced to award the Purple Jacket. There were seven events on the schedule in September 2019, and David Peters won the $100,000 Main Event, while Ali Imsirovic was awarded the Purple Jacket by winning two events and making three final tables. The third season was held in November 2019 and had ten events on the schedule. Sam Soverel won the $50,000 Main Event and was awarded the P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
PokerGO
PokerGO is an over-the-top content platform based in Las Vegas, Nevada. PokerGO was launched in 2017 as a subscription-based streaming service offering poker centric online streaming. The content offered on PokerGO includes poker tournaments, along with cash game-orientated shows. As of February 2021, PokerGO's library of content includes over 2,400 videos totaling over 3,800 continuous hours. Content The content of PokerGO includes shows, tournament replays, and cash games. Other media includes episodes, live streams, and recap videos, and events that were streamed live become on-demand videos afterward. Poker tournaments and cash games High Stakes Poker High Stakes Poker is a cash game poker television program that sees a mix of professional and amateur poker players playing high stakes No-Limit Hold’em with buy-ins ranging from $100,000 to $500,000. The show debuted in January 2006 and ran for seven seasons until May 2011. In February 2020, PokerGO announced th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2021 Poker Masters
The 2021 Poker Masters was the sixth season of the Poker Masters. It took place from September 7-19, 2021, from the PokerGO, PokerGO Studio at Aria Resort and Casino, ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Las Vegas, Nevada. There were 12 events on the schedule including nine Texas hold 'em, No-Limit Hold'em, two Omaha hold 'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, and one 8-Game event. Buy-ins ranged from $10,000 to the $100,000 Main Event. Final tables were streamed on PokerGO. Michael Addamo won the final two events, including the $100,000 Main Event, to earn the Purple Jacket as series champion. Schedule The schedule for the 2021 Poker Masters included nine Texas hold 'em, No-Limit Hold'em tournaments, two Omaha hold 'em, Pot-Limit Omaha tournaments, and an 8-Game event. 8-Game is a rotation of HORSE (poker), H.O.R.S.E., No-Limit Hold'em, Pot-Limit Omaha, and Lowball (poker), 2-7 Triple Draw. Purple Jacket standings The 2021 Poker Masters awarded the Purple Jacket to the player that accumulate ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Schulman
Nick Schulman (born September 18, 1984, in New York City) is an American professional poker player and commentator. Early life Schulman grew up in New York City, and began playing pool at the famous Amsterdam Billiards. He was mentored by several of the best players in the NYC area from ages 13–19, at which point his focus switched to poker. Poker career Schulman began to play poker in 2002, at the age of 18, and by the age of 19 went professional. In 2005, at the age of 21, he won the fourth season World Poker Tour (WPT) World Poker Finals poker tournament, winning $2,167,500, a record for a regular season event on the WPT. He also became the youngest winner of a WPT event. Less than a month later, Schulman finished 4th in the World Series of Poker circuit event in Atlantic City, winning an additional $74,495. In April 2006, Schulman won the WPT Battle of Champions IV event, eliminating Freddy Deeb to take the title. Prior to winning the WPT event, Schulman had regularl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mustapha Kanit
Mustapha Kanit (born 24 January 1991) is an Italian professional poker player. Biography Kanit was born in Alessandria, Italy and currently resides in London, United Kingdom. He began playing poker as a teenager participating in live tournaments at private clubs. He worked at these clubs as a bartender and dealer. He later started playing in online poker under the alias lasagnaaammm. Poker career Kanit overtook Max Pescatori on the Italian all time money list and is currently ranked 2nd behind Dario Sammartino. His results include thirteen cashes and two final tables at the WSOP winning $800,424, a 4th place finish in the High Roller PCA Bahamas, followed by two victories in the Aussie Millions in Melbourne. Kanit won the 13 March 2016 $215 PokerStars PokerStars is an online poker cardroom that was a part of The Stars Group until it was sold to Flutter Entertainment on May 5, 2020. It can be accessed through downloadable poker clients for the Windows, macOS, Android and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brandon Adams (poker Player)
George Brandon Adams (born December 12, 1978) is an American poker player and self-published author. Career Adams got his bachelor's degree and Master's degree at the University of Florida, before attending Harvard Business School and obtaining a doctorate. Adams finished a book titled "''Setting Sun: The End of Economic Dominance''". He previously published a poker novel, "''Broke: A Poker Novel''" in 2008. He co-authored a book on behavioral finance, "''The Story of Behavioral Finance''", with Brian Finn. Poker Brandon Adams was first introduced to poker during his college years. Adams first cashed in the World Series of Poker in 2006 in the $1,000 No Limit Hold'em event and again in the Main Event the following year, winning a cash prize of $130,288 for his 69th-place finish. His best finish in a tournament at the WSOP came in 2019 when he won the $3,200 Online No-Limit Hold'em High Roller (Event #74) event for $411,561. In total, Adams has cashed twenty-three WSOP ev ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jens Kyllönen
Jens "Jeans89" Kyllönen (born 1989) is a Finnish professional poker player who won the European Poker Tour Copenhagen in February 2009. Kyllönen was the second Finnish EPT winner since Patrik Antonius's victory in 2005. He is an online cash game specialist and plays under the aliases Jeans89 on PokerStars and Ingenious89 on Full Tilt Poker. In 2009, Jens won the EPT Copenhagen Title for $1,120,815. In January 2012, he was awarded Finland's best poker player. Kyllönen was rewarded again as Finland's best poker player in January 2013. In October 2014, Kyllönen became a poker coach for Phil Galfond Phil Galfond (born January 16, 1985) is an American professional poker player. Galfond won three World Series of Poker bracelets, in the $5,000 buy-in pot-limit Omaha with rebuys event in 2008, the $10,000 no-limit 2-7 single draw championship ...'s training website, Run It Once. As of 2016, his live poker tournament earnings exceed $2,750,000. World Series of Poker Re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adrián Mateos
Adrián Mateos Díaz (born 1 July 1994) is a Spanish professional poker player. At the age of 19, he won the 2013 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event for €1,000,000. He also won an event on the Estrellas Poker Tour in Madrid in January 2013 for €103,000. In May 2015, Mateos won the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, earning €1,082,000. With the win, he became the first Spanish EPT champion. At 22 years old, he became the youngest player to ever win three WSOP bracelets. As of January 2024, his total live tournament winnings exceed $39 million. World Series of Poker bracelets The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet is considered the most coveted non-monetary prize a poker player can win. Since 1976, a bracelet has been awarded to the winner of every event at the annual WSOP. Even if the victory occurred before 1 ... An "E" following a year denotes bracelet(s) won during the World Series of Poker Europe References External links *Adrian Mat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dan Smith (poker Player)
Dan Smith (born February 23, 1989, in Manalapan Township, New Jersey) is an American professional poker player. He now resides in Las Vegas, Nevada. He has won many titles during his poker career, including a World Poker Tour title, a World Series of Poker bracelet and a championship event at the Aussie Millions. Poker Dan Smith started playing online poker at the age of 16, before actually reaching the legal gambling age in the US. He is a former chess player who got into college on a chess scholarship, but he decided to stop his studies in 2007 (at 18 years old) to pursue a full-time poker career. His first cash and victory was in 2008 when he won the Heartland Poker Tour Main Event at Turning Stone Resort & Casino in New York for $101,960. Smith's biggest tournament cash to date came in June 2014 when he won the Bellagio Super High Roller $100,000 buy-in event with a grand prize of $2,044,766. He has over 74 cashes in live poker tournaments and has won over $36,000,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nick Petrangelo
Nick Petrangelo (born January 2, 1987) is an American professional poker player from Feeding Hills, Massachusetts. He has won two World Series of Poker bracelets. Poker career Petrangelo plays online under the nickname caecilius. In December 2012, he scooped the most points in the PocketFives ranking, which lists the most successful online tournament players. On PokerStars, Petrangelo won the high-roller event of the World Championship of Online Poker in September 2017 winning $625,000. Since 2009, he participates in live tournaments. In 2015, Petrangelo won his first WSOP bracelet at the World Series of Poker. In December of that year, Petrangelo finished runner up to Fedor Holz in the $100,000 WPT Alpha8 No Limit Hold'em High Roller event, winning $1,015,335. Petrangelo won a side event at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown in 2016, winning $93,208. Petrangelo won the 2017 Aussie Millions ANTON Jewellery AU$100,000 Challenge in January 2017, netting him AU$882,000. Pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bryn Kenney
Bryn Kenney (born November 1, 1986) is an American professional poker player from Long Beach, New York. Poker career Kenney played '' Magic: The Gathering'' competitively before transitioning to poker. His first live cash was in 2007 at the East Coast Poker Championships. Kenney won his first WSOP bracelet in 2014 after winning the $1,500 10-Game Mix Six Handed event, which earned him $153,220. In 2016, Kenney defeated 2015 World Series of Poker Main Event champion, Joe McKeehen heads-up at the Pokerstars Caribbean Adventure $100K Super High Roller event winning $1,687,800. After placing 2nd to Aaron Zang in the £1,050,000 No-Limit Hold'em - Triton Million for Charity Event, Kenney received the largest single payout in live poker tournament history of £16,890,509 ($20,563,324). The tournament had the largest scheduled single payout in poker tournament history with first place receiving £19,000,000 ($23,100,000). However, due to a prize splitting deal agreed with Zang, Kenn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2023 Poker Masters
The 2023 Poker Masters is the eighth season of the Poker Masters. It will take place from September 14-26, 2023, from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. There are 10 events on the schedule and all the events are No-Limit Hold'em. Buy-ins range from $10,000 to the $50,000 Main Event. Final tables will be streamed on PokerGO. Stephen Chidwick cashed four times including winning Event #8 to earn the Purple Jacket as the series champion. Schedule The schedule for the 2023 Poker Masters includes ten No-Limit Hold'em tournaments. Purple Jacket standings The 2023 Poker Masters will award the Purple Jacket and a $50,000 championship bonus to the player that accumulates the most PokerGO Tour The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is the official tour and ranking system for the world's top professional poker players that play in high roller poker tournaments with a minimum $10,000 Buying in (poker), buy-in. The PGT celebrates the most elite profession ... point ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jason Koon
Jason Koon (born August 14, 1985) is an American professional poker player from Weston, West Virginia known for his accomplishments in live and online poker tournaments. Early life Koon graduated from Lewis County High School in 2003 and then attended West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon. There he received his Masters in Business Administration and Finance. He declared he started to play poker following an injury. To avoid boredom, his roommate taught him Texas Hold'Em, and Jason Koon realized he could make a lot of money. Poker career Koon began playing poker in 2006 during college. He played online under the alias ''JAKoon1985'' on PokerStars and ''NovaSky'' on Full Tilt Poker. In April 2009, he won a tournament in the Spring Championship of Online Poker earning over $300,000 prize money. Since 2008, Koon has participated in live tournaments. Koon played in his first WSOP in 2009 where he cashed twice. In 2010, Koon finished 4th in the World Poker Tour main event at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
