Over the past few years few poker players in the world can compare to the huge success of Stephen Song. Recently, Stephen has won an EPT Main Event in Barcelona to add to a WPT Prime Championship and WSOP bracelet. He’s cashed five times in the first month of the year in PokerGO events for […]

For a stand-up comedian and poker presenter, having a side hustle could seem either inspired or insane. After the stirring success of his debut graphic novel selling over $10,000 of digital and physical copies, along with exclusive merchandise, Joe Stapleton can be classed in the first category. The popular the poker and comedy legend can […]

The Canadian poker professional Mike ‘SirWatts’ Watson took home the trophy in the last €10,000-entry EPT Barcelona High Roller as Italian Enrico Camosci bagged the biggest score after a heads-up deal. With legends of the felt such as Markkos Ladev and Jesse Lonis both making the final table of nine, it was a race to […]

The European Poker Tour’s 20th Anniversary was celebrated in the Spanish city of Barcelona this weekend, and no-one was happier in the Catalan home of history than the American player Stephen Song. The United States professional took down the EPT Barcelona Main Event for over $1.4m, the biggest score of his professional poker career, and […]

The €100,000-entry Super High Roller in Barcelona took place last night and it was the Norwegian player Kayhan Mokri who emerged victorious as he claimed his second title of the week in Barcelona. This time it was the €100,000 ($110,595) buy-in Super High Roller event, which saw players such as Santhosh Suvarna and Patrik Antonius […]

The Estrellas Poker Tour’s Main Event is the starter to EPT Barcelona’s main course. This year, 20 years on from the first-ever European Poker Tour Main Event – also in Barcelona – Sylvain Berthelot from France won the Estrellas Main Event for the biggest score of his career, a whopping $552,250. With players such as […]

Byron Kaverman’s record in high roller events was already impressive before he arrived in the historic Spanish city of Barcelona this week. In three days, he has come second and first as the American has banked over $550,000 in tournament winnings. First, he finished as runner-up to Steve O’Dwyer when the Cuatro Knockout event took […]

The latest event to thrill Barcelona not only pleased poker fans but supporters of the city’s La Liga soccer outfit. Former Barcelona F.C. central defender Gerard Piqué arrived to take on some of the best players in the world and certainly Europe. Did the former UEFA Champions League winner make it at the felt, or […]

With nine players left, Steve O’Dwyer sat fifth in chips, the middle pin at a final table populated by poker legends. As the clock ticked around to five in the morning in the Catalan former city of culture in Spain, O’Dwyer had his latest major title in a poker career that defies description. Over decades, […]

After the controversial conclusion to the WSOP Main Event, where Jonathan Tamayo’s victory was overshadowed for many by ‘Laptopgate’, PokerStars have announced changes to the EPT’s rules and regulations, banning solver technology from their live events. With GTO technology or solvers banned from the tournament area in its entirety in Barcelona, are PokerStars the first […]

In just a fortnight’s time, poker will once again descend on Barcelona, as the European Poker Tour returns to the cultural home of Catalan Spain. It isn’t just the latest and potentially greatest EPT Barcelona festival yet, however. It’s 20 years since the first ever EPT Barcelona saw Alexander Stevic become the original winner on […]

A thrilling end to the EPT Barcelona Main Event saw Frenchman Simon Wiciak dominate the deciding moments to claim victory and a top prize of $1.1 million. With a final table containing PokerStars Team Pro and Brazilian legend Andre Akkari as well as British WSOP bracelet winner Carl Shaw, Wiciak needed all his skills to […]

A thrilling end to the busiest PokerStars live event of all time saw Lucien ‘Ratman’ Cohen cement his place in poker history, winning the top prize of €676,230. The Frenchman, who owns a pest control business, cleaned up in Barcelona, winning the equivalent of $733,800 as he won the second-biggest prize of his poker career […]

The first victory of the 2023 EPT Barcelona festival has been confirmed, as Uruguayan Mathias Duarte took home over $200,000 following his Mystery Bounty victory in the Catalan capital yesterday. With players such as nine-time WSOP bracelet winner Erik Seidel, British tournament crusher Conor Beresford and Chinese powerhouse Quan Zhou all going close, it was […]

The European Poker tour is about to land in Barcelona and with a mammoth fortnight of poker action ahead, players can expect a packed Main Event, an exciting opening Mystery Bounty event and the usual raft of great-value recreational buy-in events and mouthwatering high roller clashes. With James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton heading out to […]