Thursday 22 December 2011

ParadisePoker Tour returns to popular stop


The PP blog is delighted to announce that the ParadisePoker Tour will be making a quick return to one of our most popular stops - as the Concord Card Casino in Vienna plays host from March 28th-April 1st.

Having attracted two of the three biggest fields in ParadisePoker Tour history, the Austrian capital needs little introducing to our blog readers - but the second visit requires a little explanation (just for you).

Due to matters beyond our control, plans to to hold the fourth leg of PPT3 in another city had to be cancelled at the last minute, forcing us to look at alternatives. Given its previous success, Vienna was the obvious choice.

Sweetening the deal this time around will be a live satellite for the final stop of PPT3 and a host of other novelty ways to win a free package to Greece in May.

Couple that with the traditional €125,000 Guaranteed Main Event, side events and 24-hour cash games - as well as a new venue for the Players' Party - and we're all set for another great weekend in Austria!

If you have any questions, please feel free to get in touch on Twitter, where you'll find us under @ParadisePoker.

Monday 5 December 2011

Zauner maintains PPT League lead

Click to enlarge standings
Santiago Soriano may have claimed the Barcelona title but the Spaniard will need another cash this season if he is to overtake Vienna winner Andreas Zauner in the ParadisePoker Tour League.

The larger field in the first leg of Season 3 means it is the Austrian who holds the upper hand, with our other Main Event final table players also featuring prominently in the top 20.

We spotted a mistake in the original table posted, as Ferenc Bartha's 6th-place finish in Side Event 2 earned him 103 points to close the gap on Rumen Nanev.

There are still three more events to gather the points needed to beat Zauner to the biggest slice of our €20,000 prize pool, with every event on the PPT counting for points towards the leaderboard. 

In the meantime, click the main image (top right) to enlarge the current standings and check out the tables below for a breakdown of the points for each event.

Main Event Results/Points (click to enlarge)
















Side Event Results/Points (click to enlarge)


Friday 2 December 2011

Fantasy Poker - Barcelona results

Fantasy Poker attracted another three-figure field in Barcelona and while many of the most popular picks had crashed out by the close of Day 2, there was one man who proved key to victory.

With the new, tougher rules meaning only players who reached the money scored points, it was perhaps little surprise that high-flying Hungarian Jozsef Kovacs featured in all but one of the top five teams.

Only NEW KELLIDO TEAM managed to pair him up with another point-scoring player in David Montoro - and that was enough to claim victory and €1,200 package to Prague!

Kovacs' 25 points for his 3rd-place finish saw KariteamKaposvár and Mariusz23 were all contention, but Montoro's 13 points made the difference.

In 5th spot was tweek, having selected another player who made the final table. Pole Rafal Gontarczyk finished 8th for a 20 point score, and means his Fantasy Poker joins the other runners-up in winning a ParadisePoker t-shirt as a consolation prize.

Here are the final Fantasy Poker standings from Barcelona: