PokerStars Festival
PokerStars Festival Manila: Uday Bansal bests record-breaking Main Event
It's been a thrilling week in Manila and the man smiling the widest now that the record-breaking Main Event is in the books is the new champion, India's Uday Bansal! He bested a field of 594 entries to claim the inaugural title, the illustrious trophy and PHP4,676,000 ($92,793) after a heads up deal...more
PokerStars Festival Manila: Three more fall, heads up set to start
We're almost ready to crown a champion here at PokerStars Festival Manila with a heads up battle between Antii Halme and Uday Bansal about to fire up! Currently it's Bansal out in front with 10,190,000 but Halme still has a great shot with a very respectable 7,600,000 worth of chips to his name. Bef...more
PokerStars Festival Manila: Down to five as Bansal blazes a trail
We're down to just five players here now in this PokerStars Festival Main Event with Tien Than Nguyen, Hoa Thinh Nguyen, Kenneth Buck and Sam Razavi all exiting since the final table began. It was Tien Than Nguyen who dropped first when he ended up on the wrong side of a coinflip against current mon...more
PokerStars Festival Manila: Final table player profiles
Player profiles courtesy of Media Coordinator Sam CosbySeat 1: Antti Halme, 27, Tampere/Finland - 1,995,000Antti Halme is a player who plays poker full time. The 27-year-old is mainly a multi table tournament player who plays online. Halme says his biggest poker accomplishment is a 2nd place finish ...more
PokerStars Festival Manila: Falcon in front as final table set
The PokerStars Manila Main Event final table is now set after today's 14 starting runners have been cut down to nine. Incredibly, both Sam Razavi and Mike Takayama have made unofficial back-to-back final tables after finishing second place and fourth place respectively in last year's APPT Manila Mai...more
PokerStars Festival Manila: Falcon soars as Razavi and Takayama try back-to-
The penultimate day has come to a close here in the PokerStars Festival Manila Main Event as we prepare to crown a champion tomorrow. The plan today was to play 11 one-hour levels or until we reached the final table but ultimately we came up a little short of the latter, with 14 hopefuls still in th...more
PokerStars Festival Manila: Revelling in Chaos
It's all business in the poker room here today as our players have now reached the money, but last night it was a different story when they took a break from the tables to attend the PokerStars Festival Manila Players Party at Chaos Nightclub. Situated just a 30-second walk from the poker room, Chao...more
PokerStars Festival Bucharest: Squid's in! Sam Grafton wins Main Event for €
Sam Grafton - PSF Bucharest Main Event championEvery year, PokerStars TV commentator Joe Stapleton describes it as the 'year of Romania'. But he's not just cracking wise; for the past two years he has actually been spot on. Whenever PokerStars holds an event in the capital city of Bucharest, things ...more
PokerStars Festival Bucharest: Action hand sees four reduced to heads-up on
WOW. What a hand we've just witnessed here at the final table of the PokerStars Festival Main Event. It saw the deep-stacked table of four reduced down to just two players, with the winner scooping almost 8 million chips and surging into a huge chip lead heads-up.WHAT A HANDHere's how it went down:W...more
PokerStars Festival Bucharest: The week's winners so far
At the time of publishing, Sam Grafton and Anil Ozdemir are heads up for the Main Event title. They've just made a deal that sees Grafton lock up €110,007 and secures €97,993 for Ozdemir. There's €7,700 plus the trophy and title left to play for.CHIPS / PRIZESAs the sun sets over the JW Marriott for...more
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