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2021 Global Poker Awards Releases List Of Nominees
Summary Global Poker Awards nominees’ list The winners will be honored at a ceremony on February 18 Doug Polk, Joe Stapleton among those nominated twice If you were wondering who would make ... Read more...
American DJ Steve Aoki Joins WPT as Brand Ambassador
Summary Popular DJ Steve Aoki will bring in a new audience to the WPT Aoki will partner with the WPT for a charity poker event in mid-2022 The WPT will likely add more stops for the first half of ... Read more...
GGPoker Giving Away Another $10m in Promotions During Jan 2022
Summary All key promos are back, including the Daily Flipouts, Daily Leaderboards, and the Honeymoon Challenge Hundreds of thousands in prizes are being awarded daily in Jan GGPoker’s ... Read more...
Triton Poker SHR Bali Becomes Latest Casualty Of Omicron
Summary Triton Super High Roller Series Bali edition cancelled Omicron concerns reason for cancellation New date for festival will be released at a later stage Most of the top live poker ... Read more...
Poker Pros Join “Gettr” Over Twitter’s Free Speech Censorship Issues
Summary Poker pros Charlie Carrel and Steven van Zadelhoff recently signed up with Gettr Joe Rogan urges his followers to join him on Gettr Twitter loses thousands of users over censorship issues ... Read more...
PokerStars Contemplating Introducing New US Rewards System
Summary The new rewards program was rolled out in October across the global markets PokerStars’ three US markets still use the old rewards program US players could soon enjoy the new ... Read more...
Kyna England Takes Down 2021 MSPT Canterbury ME for $186,709
Summary England outlasted a field of 1,042 entries to take home $186,709 in top prize Her MSPT win marks her third final table finish of the year and the second-largest score of her career The ... Read more...
GGPoker Hosts WSOP Winter Online Circuit With $100m In Prize Money
Summary WSOP Winter Online Circuit guaranteed prize pool is $100 million 18 ring events will give the winners a pass to the freeroll in Las Vegas Top 100 players on the leaderboard get a total of ... Read more...
PokerPaint Involved in Another Copyright Scandal
Brett Butz once again stole images owned by other photographers and used them to create and sell NFTs The PokerPaint boss was called out on social media by the original owner of the photos Butz ... Read more...
888poker LIVE Festival Heads Back to London in January 2022
Summary The festival will run for 12 days at The Vic in London culminating in the £888 buy-in Main Event Online qualifiers to key tournaments are running on 888poker UK is not planning to enforce ... Read more...
WSOP PA To Award Tickets to 2022 WSOP Via “WINter Wonderland”
Summary WINter Wonderland runs from December 5-21, with $300K guaranteed The series will give away tickets to the 2022 WSOP Main Event WSOP PA continues aggressive push in PA WSOP PA is set to ... Read more...
PokerStars Gives Players Multiple Options to Qualify For The Big 20 Finale
Summary The Big 20 Finale features a $55 buy-in and $5 million in guarantees The tournament is set to smash the record for the biggest $55 tournament ever held There are plenty of options for ... Read more...
2021 WSOP Pays Out Over $237m, One Of The Biggest In Series History
Summary The 52nd WSOP attracted 127,245 entries across 99 bracelet events 2021 series generated the third-largest prize pool in its history Attendance numbers dropped but the series was a massive ... Read more...
Daniel Negreanu Has Only Won 1 WSOP Bracelet At The Rio
Negreanu’s lone win at the Rio took place in 2008 The GGPoker ambassador believes luck has something to do with his long bracelet drought A change of location could enable Negreanu to win ... Read more...
Darren Elias To Host “The End Boss Poker Series” In Nov
Summary End Boss Poker Series will run separately in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan Over $750,000 will be guaranteed throughout the series Darren Elias set to host End Boss Poker Series A ... Read more...
Poker Pro Gets Flak For Selling Pic of Homeless Woman as an NFT
Summary Jonathan Little allegedly snaps photos of people without their permission and sell them as NFTs Little claims he pays all of his photograph subjects Little’s behavior described as ... Read more...
888poker Reimburses $100K In Bots Cleanup Campaign
Summary 888poker releases details of bot crackdown for the first time 85 accounts shut down and almost $100K reimbursed in October 888poker will conduct monthly monitoring of bot activity ... Read more...
Mike Matusow Makes It His Mission To Put An End To Max Late Reg
“The Mouth” slams WSOP Main Event for allowing max late reg Four-time bracelet winner thinks max late reg is a disgrace to tournament poker Numerous poker pros defend the practice ... Read more...
GGPoker Sends 251 Players To Participate In $10k WSOP Main Event
The main highlight of the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is the $10,000 WSOP Main Event which is already underway at the Rio in Las Vegas. The WSOP Main Event features a total of six starting ... Read more...
Will The 2021 WSOP Main Event Get More Than 7k Registrations?
The most anticipated event of the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) gets underway on Nov 4. The $10,000 WSOP Main Event is expected to have a massive turnout as the WSOP has extended the number ... Read more...
Phil Ivey Launches NFT Shoe Auction Starting At $50k
Phil Ivey showed up at a special Las Vegas party last week which was hosted at a $4 million Vegas mansion that covered over 8,500 feet. The guest list was impressive and was by invite only. Ivey ... Read more...
PokerStars To Celebrate Its 20th Anniversary This Novemeber
PokerStars recently announced that it plans to celebrate its 20th anniversary in November with a number of special promotions that will run under the Big 20 banner. The online poker operator has ... Read more...
WSOP Online Bracelet Events Proving Very Successful
The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is currently underway at the Rio in Vegas but simultaneously the WSOP is running online bracelet events every weekend. These online bracelet events are open ... Read more...
PokerStars MI Brings Back “The Michigan Classic” With $250K GTS
Online poker players in Michigan have a lot to look forward to this weekend as PokerStars MI has announced the return of its Michigan Classic tournament. PokerStars MI introduced Michigan Classic ... Read more...
International Players To Play At 2021 WSOP After US Travel Ban Is Eased
The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is currently underway at the Rio and will come to a close on Nov 23. The WSOP is missing thousands of international players due to the international travel ... Read more...
“Poker Brat” Threatens To Burn Down The Rio In Tirade At 2021 WSOP
Phil Hellmuth is nicknamed the “Poker Brat” because he can let his emotions get the better off him at the poker tables as the poker community found out this week. Hellmuth leads the ... Read more...
Win A Chance Join Pokerstars Ambassadors With “Dare2Stream Challenge”
PokerStars, the biggest online poker room in the world is very selective when it comes to who it signs on as a brand ambassador. PokerStars usually signs the best poker players in the world or ... Read more...
2021 WSOP’s New Flip & Go No-Limit Hold’em Event Gets A Strong Response
One of the events that were newly introduced at the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) was Event #20: $1,000 Flip & Go No-Limit Hold’em. This event was expected to start out with a Flip ... Read more...
WSOP Running Two Special Online Fall Edition Series For US Poker Market
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has lots of online poker action in store for U.S poker players in October. The 2021 WSOP is currently running WSOP online bracelet events every weekend in October ... Read more...
Tyler Cornell Pockets $833,289 at 2021 WSOP $25k High Roller Event
The 2021 WSOP is in the process of completing its first week at the Rio and so far things have gone well even though there were a few hiccups during the first couple of days. Event number 4 – The ... Read more...
