by Rebecca McAdam | Published: Dec 20, '10

Fernando Brito has taken down the final event of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague, the €1,000 Turbo Random Bounty event. This keeps the Portuguese businessman at the top of the charts in the race towards the EPT award for Player of The Year. So far this season Brito has had some fantastic results on […]

by Michael Kaplan | Published: Dec 26, '24

In life, simply saying please and thank you are freerolls; they cost you nothing and may very well benefit you in kind treatment from others. With poker, whether at brick-and-mortar casinos or in online casinos, freerolls are more clearly remunerative. If you don’t believe me, just ask Chase Bricker or Pablo Brito. Bricker won $1 […]

by Brendan Murray | Published: May 13, '11

Fernando Brito from Portugal is the PokerStars.com European Poker Tour Player of the Year after picking up the gong last night at Pacha nightclub, Madrid during the EPT Grand Final final table. The 52-year-old businessman topped the POY table after scoring: 6th – EPT London main event 1st – four €1,000 NL Turbo Random Bounty […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Feb 24, '11

Day 2 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour Copenhagen no-limit hold’em main event has come to a close and there are just 73 players left in the hunt for the money. The bubble will burst early tomorrow when just 64 players remain. A Swede leads the way with 640,000 and he is professional poker player […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Jan 15, '11

The $25,000 High Roller no-limit hold’em event at the 2010 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure smashed all expectations in terms of attendance and attracted a huge field of 151 players. That made for a $3,995,500 total prize pool and the champion of this event will walk away with $1,072,850 in prize money two days from now at […]

by Craig Tapscott | Published: Feb 04, '26

Aaron Johnson started playing poker professionally in 2014, and very quickly made a name for himself on the mid-major tournament circuit and even had a couple of deep runs in the World Series of Poker main event. Johnson broke through in 2018, cashing 11 times on the Mid-States Poker Tour including a win, two runner-up […]

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Jan 21, '26

The World Poker Tour’s season is officially in the books with the conclusion of the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. All told, there were nearly 35,000 entries made across the 53-event schedule that ran from Dec. 2-22 in Sin City. That made for more than $59 million in total prize money, with nearly […]

by Ryan Lucchesi | Published: Oct 13, '11

Fernando Brito has been playing poker for less than two years, but he already has racked up an impressive collection of tournament results. He currently is atop the European Poker Tour Player of the Year standings, thanks to his impressive consistency during season seven. He has a big lead over current runner-up John O’Shea and […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Jan 17, '25

The World Series of Poker Paradise festival debuted in 2023, bringing poker back to Atlantis Paradise Island Bahamas, the former site of the long-running PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. The second-annual running of the WSOP Paradise went all-in on high-roller offerings, with seven of the 13 live events priced at $25,000 or more to enter, including three […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Jul 18, '24

Rank Player Earnings 1 Yuri Dzivielevski $7,669,038 2 Bruno Volkmann $5,464,267 3 Felipe Ramos $3,915,952 4 Alexandre Gomes $3,433,409 5 Andre Akkari $3,349,253 6 Pablo Brito Silva $3,147,653 7 Pedro Garagnani $3,071,071 8 Philipe Pizzari $2,933,821 9 Rodrigo Seiji Sirichuk $2,913,972 10 Rafael Moraes $2,375,075 Brazil has slowly become a poker powerhouse over the last […]