Russian Poker Tour Starts

So who says that poker tournaments have not become popular all over the world?

We’ve been following the Aussie Millions in January, but there was also a European Poker Tour event on at the same time in Deauville in France.

Then the Philippines has just hosted an Asia Poker Tour competition in Manila.  East, west, north & south poker is being played all over and enjoyed by millions of people.  You could make it your full time job, just cruising around the world playing poker in different countries and following the pros at play in poker tournies.  Sounds like a good life to me!

And it wasn’t long before Russia got in on the scene and has started their own Russian Poker Tour.  The beautiful Russian city of St Petersburg is where the first poker tournment has just kicked off.

Russians dominated amongst the last nine players, seven of them being Russian, and eventually Oleg Suntsov pulled through to take the title in St Petersburg.

PokerStars are sponsoring the poker tour and I reckon they are onto a big thing, this will be the next big growth area in the poker world and what better place to be … have your name all over the main event at the Russian Poker Tour… clever move by the PokerStars boys…

The Russian Poker Tour now moves onto Moscow and the main event starts on 25 Feb… we’ll keep a close eye on it and keep a look out for some future poker pros.