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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...
2020 Irish Poker Masters Online Will Start On partypoker This Week
The official schedule for the 2020 Irish Poker Masters Online has just been released. The tournament will run on partypoker from December 4 to 16, featuring an action-packed schedule of 21 ... Read more...
PokerStars’ MicroMillions Attracts Massive Fields Generating $2.5M Prize Pool So Far
The ongoing PokerStars’ MicroMillions is nearing its conclusion, with the latest renewal of the popular low-stakes tournament set to close on November 29. The festival has been attracting ... Read more...
WPT To Run Both Live Events And Online Festivals In 2021
The World Poker Tour (WPT) is bringing back their popular live events in 2021, and will also continue to host major online tournaments, following the massive success of their online festivals ... Read more...
Staudenmaier Talks Future Plans as Pokerstars Marks 1st Year in PA
It’s been a year since Pennsylvania launched its regulated online poker market, and that period has been marked by record numbers in almost all aspects, including player traffic, tournament ... Read more...
WSOP Confirms $10K Main Event Will Take Place In December 2020
The poker community was treated to some great news over the weekend. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) announced that a $10,000 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event will be held this year, catering ... Read more...
F1’s Lewis Hamilton Plays GGPoker’s High Roller Tournament
During the last few years, a number of online poker operators have made major changes to their marketing approach, especially when it comes to their brand ambassadors in the international arena. ... Read more...
2021 WPT Montreal Tournament To Be Held Online At partypoker
The 2021 World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal tournament will be moved online. The WPT confirmed in a press release that the popular Montreal tour will no longer take place at the Playground Poker ... Read more...
PokerStars Running Special EPT Online Promo For $5m GTD Main Event
The much-awaited European Poker Tour (EPT) Online has finally kicked off at PokerStars! The series runs from November 8 to 16, with a whopping $20 million in guaranteed prize pools. The festival ... Read more...
Microgaming Poker Players Will Be Interested In New Hold’em Poker Game
Back in May 2020, Microgaming officially shut down its online poker network. News of the closure, which circulated as early as September 2019, left a lot of players disappointed, especially the ... Read more...
Phil Galfond’s Run It Once Poker Room Launches New SNG
Run It Once (RIO) is set to launch its own version of the popular sit-n-go (SNG) game. The site’s founder Phil Galfond announced last week that their latest offering will not be your ... Read more...
Tom Dwan Returns To High Stakes Action In Latest Season of High Stakes Poker
Tom Dwan is back in action! The 33-year-old is marking his return to the high-stakes arena by becoming part of the newest season of the legendary poker show “High Stakes Poker” which ... Read more...
PokerStars To Host $20 Million-GTD EPT Online in November
PokerStars has finally released the full schedule of the highly-anticipated European Poker Tour (EPT) Online poker festival which will take place from November 8-18. The EPT online edition will ... Read more...
David Sweeley Becomes Biggest Winner Of Seminole Hard Rock’s PPO Event
The live poker scene in the U.S is slowly getting back to business with the reopening of a number of land-based poker rooms in several states. On the tournament front, things are going well. The ... Read more...
UNL Poker Club Develops RFID Poker Table That Streams On Twitch
Poker rooms across the country are slowly reopening and trying to get back to proper action amidst strict protocols and social distancing measures. One poker club that never had any issues during ... Read more...
partypoker To Host Online Edition Of Caribbean Poker Party In November
The Caribbean Poker Party (CPP) will now be turned into an online festival. Instead of travelling to the Bahamas in November, players will now have to go over to partypoker to take part in the ... Read more...
“blakjack19” Captures Latest Edition of GGPoker Super MILLION$
A lot of the top poker players headed to GGPoker each weekend to take part in the Super MILLION$ High Rollers event. This is currently online poker’s biggest weekly super high roller ... Read more...
Americas Cardroom Cancels MoMoMo PKO Series Due To Overlays
The MoMoMo PKO Series, which kicked off on Americas Cardroom (ACR) on September 9, has now been cancelled. The PKO festival was supposed to run for seven full weeks, featuring a massive $50 ... Read more...
More Allegations Surface Against Midway Poker Tour Founder
Dan Bekavac, the founder of the Midway Poker Tour is facing a lot more trouble. It has now emerged that Bekavac forced participants in the event to join the free-to-play app PokerBROS using his ... Read more...
“LetMeWin3437” Wins The 2020 PACOOP Main Event 2020
The 2020 PokerStars Pennsylvania Championship of Online Poker (PACOOP) finally came to a close and one of the big winners from the festival was “LetMeWin3437“, who took down the $300 ... Read more...
Mike Postle Sues Poker Community For Defamation Of Character
The Stones cheating saga is far from over. Now, it’s Mike Postle’s turn to sue those who accused him of cheating during livestreamed cash games at the California poker room. The ... Read more...
PokerStars’ New Active Waiting List Aims To Eliminate Bumhunting
PokerStars has introduced a fresh feature that will protect its customers from predatory practices as it continues to see innovative ways to provide its players with a better gaming experience. ... Read more...
