This year, 69 events appear on the World Series of Poker schedule. Of those, 31 are non-Hold’em tournaments, or almost half the schedule. You’ll find Anthony Zinno in many of them, and if he finds success, he can point to hard work and practice ahead of the WSOP.

Slovakia’s Jan Bendik won the European Poker Tour’s Grand Final Main Event from the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel in Monaco. His reward: €961,800 and a spade-shaped trophy. After a grueling week of play, Bendik finally cracked a smile and multiple waves of confetti rained down.

The €50,000 Single-Day Super High Roller during the 2016 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monaco turned into a veritable marathon. And not a half marathon… the full, 26.2-mile one. Play started at 12:30pm from the Monte Carlo Bay Hotel at the very northern end of Monaco. Seventeen grueling hours later, while play was […]

Monaco isn’t the simplest place to get to. If you’re from the US, chances are it requires multiple flights to get to Nice. If you’re from Europe, it’s probably a flight or two. Then, it’s a 30-minute car ride, 30-minute train ride, or seven-minute whirlybird adventure to get there.

Emerson called him “number one in everything.” Alessandro Nesta called him “the hardest attacker I’ve ever had to face.” Coach Bobby Robson said he was “the fastest thing I’ve ever seen running with the ball.”

The 2016 European Poker Tour Grand Finalstarts in a couple of weeks from the picturesque principality of Monaco. Its sandy beaches, steep cliffs, celebrities-a-plenty, and famed Grand Prix track will welcome a record number of online qualifiers from PokerStars this year.

Four stops remain on Season 12 of the PokerStars-backed European Poker Tour. According to a press release PocketFives received on Tuesday, the buy-in of the EPT Grand Final Main Event in Monte Carlo will be reduced from €10,600 to €5,300, or 50%.

Over the weekend, Mustapha Kanit (pictured, image courtesy EPT), who is known on PocketFives as lasagnaaammm, won the EPT Grand Final €50K Super High Roller, a one-day event, and banked €936,500. The Italian barreled through a 54-man field, which had 12 reentries and a prize pool of €3.2 million.