The fourth and final day of the €4.250 Main Event of the 2015 Master Classics of Poker saw nine hopefuls out of a 291-entry field return to action at Holland Casino in Amsterdam, chasing the exclusive winner's plate, Skullcandy headphones, and a first-place payout of €300.000.

Ultimately, it was Finland's Jussi Nevanlinna who emerged victorious after defeating Georgios Zisimopoulos in heads-up play.

Source: pokernews.com

Legendary poker pro Phil Ivey dropped $417.602 over the past week playing under his “RaiseOnce” screen name on PokerStars.

The 10-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner logged 6.100 hands during the week, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB.

Ivey’s losses on PokerStars this year are $2.381.013. He is down $1.250.806 on PokerStars’ sister site Full Tilt in 2015.

Source: CardPlayer.com, HighStakesdb.com

The third and penultimate day of the €4,250 Main Event from the 2015 Master Classics of Poker saw 36 hopefuls out of a 291-entry field return to the tables. When it began, Donald Rae was in the lead at Holland Casino in Amsterdam, and after five and a half 90-minute levels, Rae maintained his position as chip leader. Only nine participants remained to battle for the €300,000 first-place payout, and Rae's stack of 2,265,000 in chips was the standard set.

Final table (seating):

1. Clyde Tjauw Foe ~ 904K
2. Donald Rae ~ 2,265K
3. Kilian Kramer ~ 371K
4. Joep van den Bijgaart ~ 617K
5. Jussi Nevanlinna ~ 1,388K
6. Kees van Brugge ~ 1,003K
7. Johnny Hansen ~ 393K
8. Georgios Zisimopoulos ~ 1,611K
9. Makarios Avramidis ~ 222K

A $4.1 billion casino project from Wynn Resorts in Macau will open in June of next year rather than in March, the company said this week.

The company said that construction issues are the reason for the three-month delay, according to a report from Bloomberg.

Back in mid-October, Full Tilt revealed that it would be listing its free-to-play software client on Steam Greenlight, a system where developers advertise their gaming creations with the potential to be approved on Valve Corporation’s actual Steam platform.

Within a month or so, Full Tilt had established itself among the top 50 games on Steam Greenlight thanks to a slew of positive votes from the community, and has now been given the official thumbs up to host certain games on Steam – which currently houses around 3,500 games and 100 million users.

Source: highstakesdb.com

We've gotten used to seeing Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov's username high on the leaderboards in big events on PokerStars. Before this week the he had collected a WCOOP title in 2013 (in a $320 Stud event) and a SCOOP win this past spring ($109+R NLH, Big Antes). He'd also won multiple Super Tuesdays, so it was no surprise to see his avatar showing up again at this week's Sunday Million final table.

11/15/15 Sunday Million ($215 No-Limit Hold'em) results

Entrants: 5,925
Prize pool: $1,185,000.00
Places paid: 855

1. Artem "veeea" Vezhenkov (Russia) $183,675.00
2. HU4FU (Sweden) $136,275.00
3. DaNteisKing (Germany) $95,985.00
4. pilsuhng (United Kingdom) $66,537.75
5. prsalute (Greece) $49,770.00
6. topoz (Israel) $37,920.00
7. Bario_03 (Austria) $26,070.00
8. Indigo4life (Austria) $14,812.50
9. JJdyno99 (United Kingdom) $9,243.00

The final entry day of the 2015 partypoker.net World Poker Tour Montreal Main Event has come to an end with another 153 players headed to Monday's Day 2. There were a total of 335 entries at Playground Poker Club on Sunday, proving to be the largest starting flight of the three that took place.

After 10 one-hour levels, Gregoire Denis held the most chips with 204,500, but he was the smallest chip leader to advance from the three starting days. Right on his tale was local Marc-Etienne McLaughlin with 198,000 inchips.

Combined with the other two starting days, this event received a total of 697 entries. That's down a small amount from last year's 732, but there's still CAD $2,366,315 in the prize pool and a hefty CAD $433,410 first-place prize. There will be a total of 294 players returning with chips for Day 2 on Monday.

The World Poker Tour landed back in Canada on Friday. On a gray and wet fall day, players sought sanctuary inside Playground Poker Club for the 2015 edition of partypoker.net WPT Montreal to try their luck on Friday the 13th.

With the buy-in set at $3,850, 127 players bought a starting stack of 30,000 in chips to try to build a stack worthy of Day 2. Only 45 players managed to do so, and they counted and bagged their chips after 10 one-hour levels of play.

Coasting up top was Brian Altman, bagging 221,600 in chips as the only player to cross the 200,000 mark. The next-best stack was that of Jacques Frenette with 190,400.

Another field of players will fill the tables on Saturday to try to qualify for Day 2. Day 1b will kick off at 11 a.m. and those who don't make it will still have one more chance in Sunday's Day 1c.

Source: pokernews.com

California-based network VAMN-TV has recently announced it will be airing a brand new documentary style poker reality show called “Girl Got Game”.

Production is scheduled to get underway soon, and the show is predicted to be hitting screens by April of next year.

The line-up of female pros set to star in the show includes the likes of Sofia Lövgren, Xuan Liu, Danielle ‘dmoongirl’ Andersen, Kitty Kuo, Joanna Kwak, Lilou Agostini, Oanh Bui, Sabina Hiatullah and creator Katrina Lim.

Source: highstakesdb.com

According to WSOP spokesperson Seth Palansky, this year's format was a hit with audiences. "I don't want to speak for ESPN, but we're pleased with what we see from the ratings and think this is probably the path forward," Palansky told the Las Vegas Review-Journal before the last day of play.

Televising live the final three days, the network saw a big jump in viewership for the two days preceding the final broadcast. On Sunday, ESPN saw a high of 810,000 viewers, compared with 592,000 last year. The jump on the second day was even larger, with the network pulling in a high of 709,000 viewers compared with 439,000 last year.

On the final day, ESPN drew 1.147 million viewers, just under the 1.159 million poker fans who tuned into watch the final last year.

Source: pocketfives.com