Tags : kenny hallaert

  • The Brilliant Belgian – Why Thomas Boivin is Crushing Super High Rollers
    The Brilliant Belgian – Why Thomas Boivin is Crushing Super High Rollers

    As another Triton Poker Series plays out in Jeju, South Korea, many fans will be looking forward to following the fortunes of the greats, the players whose names have been hollered in households around the world for many years. From Phil Ivey to Isaac Haxton, Jason Koon to Daniel Dvoress, legends of the Triton Poker […]

  • 15 Bigs: Kenny Hallaert Answers Our Questions and Faces Difficult Decisions
    15 Bigs: Kenny Hallaert Answers Our Questions and Faces Difficult Decisions

    In every poker tournament, players will eventually face an all-in or fold that could change the course of their event. It could be the difference between winning six figures or going home without any return on their buy-in. One player who knows all about the vagaries of tournament poker is Belgian former tournament director and […]

  • Kenny Hallaert on Will Kassouf, The Grinder and Growing the Game
    Kenny Hallaert on Will Kassouf, The Grinder and Growing the Game

    In the modern poker era, very few have made it to the final table of the WSOP Main Event twice. One such player is the Belgian great Kenny Hallaert, who finished fourth in the World Championship this summer for $3 million after previously winning $1.64m in sixth place just nine years ago. After an exhausting […]

  • How Much Did the 2025 WSOP Main Event Finalists Really Win?
    How Much Did the 2025 WSOP Main Event Finalists Really Win?

    The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event was officially the third largest in WSOP history. In fact, since GGPoker’s takeover of the brand, the WSOP Main Event has been bigger and better than ever before and the numbers back that statement up. Bigger prizepools, eight figure top prizes and some of the most magical […]

  • Michael Mizrachi Wins the 2025 WSOP Main Event and Enters Hall of Fame
    Michael Mizrachi Wins the 2025 WSOP Main Event and Enters Hall of Fame

    On the footsteps of poker immortality, Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi just needed to outlast three more opponents in the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event. The final day of the WSOP at Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas didn’t disappoint, as the action at the final table was fast and furious from the […]

  • Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi on the Cusp of WSOP Main Event History
    Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi on the Cusp of WSOP Main Event History

    The opening day of the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table will likely be talked about in poker circles for years to come. An electric crowd at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas bore witness to hand after hand of excitement, and it took just 59 hands to reduce the […]

  • Leo Margets First Woman to Make WSOP Main Event Final Table in 30 Years
    Leo Margets First Woman to Make WSOP Main Event Final Table in 30 Years

    After enduring a particularly dramatic – and loud – Day 7 of the WSOP Main Event, the final 24 players resumed normal operations on Day 48 of the 2025 World Series of Poker. A total of 15 eliminations were needed to bring the field down to the final table of nine, with four-time Poker Player’s […]

  • PokerStars First to Fire as Solver Technology Banned in EPT Tournament Areas
    PokerStars First to Fire as Solver Technology Banned in EPT Tournament Areas

    After the controversial conclusion to the WSOP Main Event, where Jonathan Tamayo’s victory was overshadowed for many by ‘Laptopgate’, PokerStars have announced changes to the EPT’s rules and regulations, banning solver technology from their live events. With GTO technology or solvers banned from the tournament area in its entirety in Barcelona, are PokerStars the first […]

  • First-Round Picks: The 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event
    First-Round Picks: The 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event

    This week the World Series of Poker Main Event, in all its glory, returns to the Rio for what is strongly rumored to be the very last time. Thousands of players – both pros and recs – will pony up the $10,000 buy-in in hopes that after more than two weeks, it will be they […]

  • SCOOP: Kenny Hallaert Ships Third Career SCOOP Title, Earns $48K
    SCOOP: Kenny Hallaert Ships Third Career SCOOP Title, Earns $48K

    Kenny Hallaert navigated his way through 742 other players in Friday’s PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker action before chopping up a little more than $140,000 with two other players on his way to his third SCOOP title.

  • POWERFEST: ‘ElCabanero’ Scores PLO Super High Roller Title For $84K
    POWERFEST: ‘ElCabanero’ Scores PLO Super High Roller Title For $84K

    Plenty of big names in the high-stakes MTT scene took their shots in the eight High Roller tournaments on the partypoker POWERFEST schedule on Thursday night.

  • SCOOP: Kenny Hallaert, Joao Vieira Pick Up Wins On Saturday
    SCOOP: Kenny Hallaert, Joao Vieira Pick Up Wins On Saturday

    After a busy Friday on the PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker schedule, Saturday saw just nine players walk away with a SCOOP title, including one player picking up his second of 2019.

  • SUNDAY MAJORS: Chance Kornuth Picks Up Gladiator Win for $67K
    SUNDAY MAJORS: Chance Kornuth Picks Up Gladiator Win for $67K

    ‘Luigy666‘ came through a 10,306 field to win the PokerStars Sunday Million for $108,192. Brazil’s ‘Leo Borgheti‘ secured his biggest online cash to date with a third place finish for $55,929, before ‘Luigy666’ got the better of ‘QTsN€v€rF0ld‘ heads-up, with the latter banking $77,787 as runner-up.

  • MILESTONES: Kenny Hallaert Grabs Second Triple Crown
    MILESTONES: Kenny Hallaert Grabs Second Triple Crown

    Every week The PocketFives Milestone Report looks at the online poker players who are achieving career-best achievement or reaching new heights in the rankings

  • WSOP: PocketFivers Main Event Day 6 Sweat Guide – 22 Still Standing
    WSOP: PocketFivers Main Event Day 6 Sweat Guide – 22 Still Standing

    With just 85 players still standing on Day 6 of the 2017 World Series of Poker Main Event, 22 of them are PocketFives members. The group has a combined $33.6 million in lifetime tracked online earnings with former #1-ranked Bryan ‘theczar19’ Piccioli leading the way with $6.36 million.