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ESPN2 To Exclusively Broadcast 2020 WSOP Main Event on February 28
Since 2017, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) has been livestreaming the Main Event final table, bringing the action to poker fans and spectators at home in real time. But that changed in 2020 due ... Read more...
Full Tilt Poker To Be Shutdown Confirms Pokerstars
Full Tilt Poker will be shut down for good on February 25. Explaining the decision via a FAQ page on its website, parent company PokerStars said it could no longer allocate enough focus and ... Read more...
Top Poker Players To Raise Money For The Chicago Lighthouse
Some of poker’s biggest names are set to take part in “Raising the Stakes for Vision“, a virtual fundraising tournament organized by The Chicago Lighthouse. Proceeds of the ... Read more...
Did An Ex-Footballer Win More Cash Playing Poker Than Bilzerian?
Better known as “Mad Dog” for being a tough-tackling midfielder, Thomas Gravesen officially retired from football back in 2009. He has since moved to Las Vegas where he is reportedly ... Read more...
PokerStars Set To Host €15M GTD Carnaval Series in Southern EU
PokerStars is set to host a massive festival in the Southern European poker market as a counter to its main competitor’s recent record-breaking series. In January 2021, Winamax made waves ... Read more...
WPT Spring Festival Running Exclusively On Poker King App
Following the recent success of the Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida, the World Poker Tour’s (WPT) second major event of the year has just kicked off, ... Read more...
Justin Bonomo Wins His First GGPoker Super MILLION$ Title
The GGPoker Super MILLION$ has crowned its newest champion. American poker pro Justin Bonomo triumphed in the latest edition of the tournament, taking home $430,646 in first-place prize. ... Read more...
Dutch Poker Players Entitled to Gambling Tax Refund From PokerStars.eu
Dutch poker players will now be refunded with the gambling tax imposed on their winnings on PokerStars.eu since May 2012. This comes after the country’s tax agency decided to offer a ... Read more...
APL Online Series With $12.4m Guarantee Taking Place on Natural8
The Asia Poker League (APL) Online Series has kicked off on Natural8! The poker series started on February 1 and will run till Feb 21. It is being run in line with the Chinese New Year ... Read more...
Daniel Dvoress Captures WPT Montreal Mike Sexton Classic Title
Daniel Dvoress has added another major title to his already impressive poker resume. The Canadian poker pro just won the Mike Sexton Classic, which ran as part of the recent World Poker Tour ... Read more...
GGPoker Ambassadors Share Their Views on New Flip & Go MTTs
GGPoker’s latest game offering Flip & Go is proving popular among players, both amateurs and pros alike. The operator unveiled the unique poker tournament variant just last month, and ... Read more...
partypoker Releases Full Schedule of Latest MILLIONS Online Festival
One of partypoker’s flagship online festivals is returning this year! The latest edition of MILLIONS Online runs from February 13 to March 9, 2021, and features 28 events, six of them ... Read more...
APAT Continues to Grow By Putting Amateur Players First
The latest edition of the World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) is well underway on partypoker, having kicked off on January 23. The series, which will run through to February 8, is giving ... Read more...
Yong Kwon From New Jersey Wins 2020 WSOP.com POY Title
The WSOP.com Player of the Year (POY) title has been awarded to Yong “LuckySpewy1” Kwon, who plays from New Jersey, United States. The 31-year-old received a WSOP.com POY ring, plus ... Read more...
BlitzPoker Makes Noise With Record-Breaking IOPC
BlitzPoker, an online poker platform which launched in India in Aug 2020, is currently making waves in the country’s booming online poker scene. The site, owned by I3 Interactive is ... Read more...
Lithuania’s “arbaarba” Among Biggest Winners at PokerStars Blowout Series
PokerStars‘ latest Blowout tournament series has finally come to an end. The Blowout Series featured a massive $60 million guarantee across three and a half weeks of top-notch online ... Read more...
PokerStars Makes Marketing Shift Whilst Letting Go Of Celina Lin
Yet another poker pro has parted ways with PokerStars. Chinese poker pro Celina Lin, who joined PokerStars’ Team Asia back in 2010, has announced on Twitter that she will no longer be ... Read more...
Americas Cardroom’s Venom IV Will Run On Jan 22 With 8m GTD
Americas Cardroom (ACR) is bringing back one of its biggest and most popular online poker tournaments with an even bigger guarantee! Venom will return for a fourth edition, and this time around, ... Read more...
Unibet Poker Announces New MTT Leaderboard Races In 2021
Players at Unibet Poker will want to spend the rest of the year grinding it out at the ,a href=”https://www.toptenpokersites.org/poker-strategy/legal-online-poker”>online poker ... Read more...
Darren Elias Captures First GGPoker Super MILLION$ Tournament of 2021
Darren Elias has become the first GGPoker Super MILLION$ winner of the year. The 34-year-old outclassed a pretty stacked final table to walk away with the top prize of $448,842, another addition ... Read more...
Chris Moneymaker Parts Ways With PokerStars After 17 Years
Chris Moneymaker will no longer be sporting the red spade logo in his future poker endeavors. The 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event winner, widely credited for the poker boom of the ... Read more...
William Firebaugh Wins South Point’s “Benny Binion Shootout” Event
With the live poker scene slowly kicking into action again in Las Vegas, a number of venues in the city have been running live poker events over the past few weeks. One of them is the South Point ... Read more...
Live Poker Players Will Continue Find It Tough Beginning Of 2021
The live poker tournament circuit across the world was crippled in 2020 due to COVID-19 and the global lockdown that followed. Since most of the top poker rooms are located inside casinos, they ... Read more...
Max Young Takes Down 2020 Winter Poker Open Main Event for $226,510
The 2020 Winter Poker Open (WPO) at the Seminole Hard Rock Tampa is finally over, with a familiar name being crowned as the Main Event champion. Circuit grinder Max Young added another title to ... Read more...
Isaac Haxton Asks Poker Players To Boycott Live Poker Due COVID-19 Spike
When the World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced a 2020 Main Event, with a special finale taking place live at The Rio in Las Vegas, it was generally welcomed as a positive development as the live ... Read more...
PokerStars PA Brings Back Pennsyl-MANIA & Debuts New Turbo Week Series
Pennsylvania’s largest online poker tournament is making a return, courtesy of PokerStars PA. “Pennsyl-MANIA” is back for its third edition, and is once again creating a new ... Read more...
First APT Online Series For India Kicks Off On Jan 15, 2021
India’s leading online gaming site PokerBaazi.com has inked a partnership deal with the Asian Poker Tour (APT). The first product of the new collaboration will be the inaugural APT India ... Read more...
Poker Legend Doyle Brunson Beats Skin Cancer for the Fourth Time
Poker legend Doyle Brunson has emerged victorious in his fourth fight against cancer. The 87-year-old happily announced on Twitter that his operation for melanoma, a serious form of skin cancer, ... Read more...
888poker Releases Full Schedule of Upcoming $1M GTD XL Winter Series
888poker recently rebranded its popular championship online poker series. Previously named “XL Blizzard“, the festival will now be referred to as the “XL Winter Series”, ... Read more...
GGPoker Offering Final Table Betting Through PokerShares Partnership
GGPoker has added another exciting feature for players to enjoy. The online poker site has just opened its final table betting markets, in partnership with PokerShares. This means poker fans can ... Read more...
