The world of poker was buzzing again this week after Doyle Brunson tweeted he was going to retire from WSOP tournament play, maybe. Steve O’Dwyer won the EPT Grand Final Main Event in Monte Carlo in one of the best EPT final tables in the tour’s nine year history. @bluff.com

The EPT Grand Final is over, closing out Season 9 of the tour, but the three biggest events of the series have left a lasting impact on both the BLUFF Power Rankings and the 2013 BLUFF Player of the Year race. @bluff.com

Just when I thought I had the complete list of young German poker players nailed-down, what do I see when I look at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final Super-High-Roller payouts; yup, 1st place Max Altergott, Germany! @pokernewsboy.com

A $100,000 price tag didn’t deter 42 players from entering the $100,000 Super-High-Roller tournament at the 2013 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final, not to mention eight players deciding that one entry wasn’t enough and decided to fire two bullets, including Phil Ivey who bought back in.. @pokernewsboy.com

Team PokerStars Pro Jason Mercier leads the final seven players in the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo? Casino European Poker Tour Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller. @pokernews.com

After a ten hour final table battle, the top two chip stacks at the start of the day – Steve O’Dwyer and Andrew Pantling – decided the championship of the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monte Carlo, with O’Dwyer emerging as the final champion of the EPT’s Season Nine schedule. @pokernewsdaily.com

The tapes, which were recorded five years ago and involved several members of Ulitmate Bet's management team discussing the extent of the cheating and their plans to cover it up, were released on Friday night by Travis Makar, a former employee. @pokerlistings.com

When it comes to all-time great final tables I usually have two contenders: The 2001 World Series of Poker Main Event final table and the 2008 WSOP $5k PLO final table. @pokernewsboy.com

From the outset the Season 9 PokerStars European Poker Tour Grand Final has seen the cream rise right to the top, and now heading into Day 5 of one of the most prestigious events in poker the final 16 players in the EPT Grand Final Main Event features.. @pokernewsboy.com

Defending champion Igor Kurganov leads after Day 1 of the €25,000 High Roller at the 2013 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo? Casino EPT Grand Final. @pokernews.com

Lodden has been locked in for all of the Grand Final and after taking the chip lead yesterday with 605,200 he nearly doubled his 1.23 million to maintain his lead on the competition. @pokerlistings.com

The European Poker Tour (EPT) Grand Final in Monaco always provides a spectacular end to the series, but this year entries are down 20%. Just 531 players registered compared to last year’s 665. @pokernews.com

Lodden is currently gunning for over €1.2 million at the EPT Grand Final but he took a few minutes to speak with Danish PokerListings reporter Thomas Hviid about poker in Norway, plus his plans to shoot a reality TV show this summer in Las Vegas. @pokerlistings.com

After an anemic 108 players registered for Day 1a of the EPT Grand Final, which is the biggest tournament of the year on the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) schedule, it was pretty obvious the final attendance number would be bad, but just how bad nobody quite knew. @pokernewsboy.com

Jason Mercier won the €2K Open-Face Chinese Poker event at the EPT Grand Final in Monaco. It was his first tournament win since 2011. @pokernews.com

Tour organizers shuffle up stops to better accommodate traveling pros. With the European Poker Tour Grand FInale underway in Monaco, the EPT announced the schedule for its 10th anniversary season. @pokernews.com

According to the PokerStars Blog, rumors are swirling about a possible €1 million buy-in cash game, that would be played during the upcoming European Poker Tour Grand Final. @highstakesdb.com

There's a rumor going around that there might be a €1 Million buy-in cash game at the European Poker Tour Grand Final in Monaco. @pokernews.com

According to the PokerStars Blog, over 30 players have already confirmed their participation for the 2013 European Poker Tour Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller event. @highstakesdb.com

The Heartland Poker Tour River City Casino $1,650 Main Event concluded on Monday and saw 62-year-old Roger Campbell top a field of 381 players to win $131K. @pokernews.com

Marcel Luske was among the top pros who won side events at the 2013 European Poker Tour stop in Berlin. @pokernews.com

In a shockingly rapid fashion, Daniel-Gai Pidun defeated the start of day chip leader, Robert Haigh, to earn the championship of the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, early Sunday morning (U. @pokernewsdaily.com

What was expected to be a quick Day Five that would determine the final table turned out to be a long battle at the European Poker Tour stop in Berlin, Germany, on Friday. @pokernewsdaily.com

Germany’s Robert Haigh is the chip leader with 5.4 million while countryman Daniel-Gai Pidun is a close second with 5.2 million. The two high-profile players heading into the final 16 – Olivier Busquet and Cal Anderson – both fell short of the final table. @pokerlistings.com

While the battle in Berlin, Germany for the latest European Poker Tour championship rages on through the weekend, two tournament circuits will hit the felt on Friday in the United States that will have the attention of the poker world as well. @pokernewsdaily.com

She also plays ten instruments, composes music and DJs. PokerListings France's Fred Guillemot caught the rising poker star on a break at EPT Berlin to find out how she keeps all those plates spinning. @pokerlistings.com

The money bubble burst Wednesday at the European Poker Tour (EPT) Berlin Main Event as the field was narrowed from 168 to just 55. As the payouts started at 136, most of the day was played with the participants feeling comfortable that the tournament was at least a profitable one. @pokernewsdaily.com

The 26-year-old Nguyen, a live and online MTT specialist with some impressive scores to his credit, hit a huge full house mid-day against Michael Mizrachi's nut flush to bust one of his top rivals. @pokerlistings.com

With attendance down at tournaments across the world there have been a handful of events that have managed to hold steady, and one of those tournaments is the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) stop in Berlin, Germany. @pokernewsboy.com

Today’s Boxscore Kevin Eyster $660,395 – WPT Seminole Hard Rock Shootout Joseph Cheong $1,343,370 – HK$1,000,000 Manila Millions Pieter De-Korver $190,594 – EPT Berlin Cup Joseph “subiime” Cheong had one heck of a time this last week with a couple big pops to his bankroll. @pokerati.com

Join the PokerListings Fantasy Poker League and you could win an iPad Mini, Amazon or iTunes gift cards or even poker cash for your 888poker bankroll. Start Picking Your Dream Team Starting from this Sunday's EPT Berlin main event and running until the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event champ is crowned in Vegas, PokerListings is running its first-ever fantasy poker league on the Global Poker Index's extremely popular Facebook app. @pokerlistings.com

Today’s Boxscore Daniel Negreanu $1,038,825 – WSOP APAC Main Event Phil Ivey $51,840 – WSOP APAC Mixed Event Philipp Gruissem $825,000 – WSOP APAC High Roller Aaron Lim $233,800 – WSOP APAC Six Handed It was a fun weekend in Australia as two of the biggest names in poker captured WSOP APAC braclets. @pokerati.com

2011 EPT Berlin champ Ben “NeverScaredB” Wilinofsky is the chosen one this time as he finished on a mega 160,400-chip stack for the overall lead heading into Day 2 tomorrow. @pokerlistings.com

Scott, more known for being the tableside host of ESPN's WSOP broadcast but who has a second-place finish at the 2009 Irish Open on her résumé, had an impressive day to move up all the way to fifth overall heading into Day 5. @pokerlistings.com

A look at the most updated Global Poker Index rankings where Steve O'Dwyer returned to the top 10 following his EPT London Main Event run. @pokernews.com

The poker world is full of facts, figures, stats and records. With so many numbers being crunched day in and day out, sometimes it is tough to see what they all add up to. @bluff.com

Mike Watson finished second twice this week at EPT London, pushing him all the way up to third in the BLUFF Player of the Year race. (Photo c/o Neil Stoddart/PokerStars Blog) There are still more than three-quarters of a year to go in the 2013 BLUFF Player of the Year race, but if Paul Volpe.. @bluff.com

The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) London tournament series is one of the most prestigious on the tour and in all of poker. This time around the Main Event and the High-Roller tournament both saw excellent turnouts and produced impressive prize-pools. @pokernewsboy.com

Sergio Aido was one of the biggest winners in London this week, capturing the UKIPT London Main Event. (Photo c/o PokerStars Blog) An eventful week at EPT London came to an end as Ruben Visser and Talal Shakerchi were victorious in the Main Event and High Roller, respectively, capping another successful series for the tour. @bluff.com

[[:Ruben Visser]] from Holland has won the PokerStars European Poker Tour London main event lifting ?595,000 for besting 646 opponents in the English capital. @cardplayer.com

The EPT London main event was a tough tournament as it was, but for anybody wanting to test themselves further there was a higher buy in tournament (£10,000 plus single re-entry) featuring the best of that already tough field, minus those still left in the main event. @highstakesdb.com

It started out as your normal run of the mill poker week, with the EPT London taking place, some software announcements from various online poker rooms, and 256 new sponsored pros joining Ivey Poker, like I said a typical week (ok, I made up the last bit, but.. @pokernewsboy.com

The final table for the European Poker Tour stop at the Grosvenor Victoria Casino (“The Vic”) was set on Friday, with Steve O’Dwyer fending off challenges to his place atop the ladder to lead the eight men left to the big money. @pokernewsdaily.com

The final eight players vying for the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) London Main Event title are now set, and considering the star-power that will be sitting at Saturday’s final table this could very well be one for the ages. @pokernewsboy.com

Thursday marked the start of the 2013 PokerStars.com European Poker Tour London ?10,000 High Roller and attracted 127 entries thus far. After Day 1, Paul Volpe led the way. @pokernews.com

Day 4 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour London Main Event was a short one, as the field played-down from 34 players to 16, or at least that was the plan heading into Thursday’s action. @pokernewsboy.com

After busting from day 3 of the Main Event at EPT London yesterday, Viktor "Isildur1" Blom didn't waste much time before getting back online at Full Tilt to see if he could maintain the form which had brought him over $2. @highstakesdb.com

Sormunen, another in a long line of fearless pros from the Helsinki poker scene, fended off a star-studded field to bag up 1,578,000 and grab the overall chip lead with just 32 players remaining. @pokerlistings.com

Finnish pro Pasi Sormunen holds the chiplead going into Day 4 at EPT London. (Photo c/o Danny Maxwell/PokerStars Blog) Day 3 at EPT London was a study in contrasts as play alternated between a blisteringly fast pace and an almost motionless crawl. @bluff.com