The high-stakes live tournament circuit has descended on the Czech Republic for 2022 European Poker Tour in Prague festival from March 5 to 16. A trio of high-stakes, one-day no-limit hold’em tournaments have wrapped up in recent days, with nearly $2.5 million USD in cash prizes awarded between them. Below is an overview of the […]
March 8, 2022 Trade & Industry An NFL player is arrested for betting on his team, a poker-themed cartoon and record-breaking crowds in Prague are some of the short stacks CardsChat has collected in the poker world’s orbit over the past week. . ‘High Card’, a Japanese poker-themed anime series, is coming to small screens […]
March Poker Mania come to BetMGM Poker United States this month giving players an amazing chance to compete with the pros. Depending on the state they are playing from, players will be able to play against BetMGM ambassador Darren Eliasas well as significant benefits Andrew Neemeand Matt Berkey. March Poker Mania games are very similar […]
French poker player Johan ‘Yoh Viral’ Guilbert sat down with Jeff Gross to discuss high-stakes poker and the use case for cryptocurrencies in tournaments and gambling. In the highly anticipated second episode of the Coin Rivet podcast, Yoh Viral then gave his Bitcoin and Ethereum price prediction by January 2023. “It’s tough because I sold […]
888poker For the second time in as many months, 888poker is heading to The Vic in London and, once again, it was a resounding success. the 888poker INHABIT London weekend was headlined by a Main Event at £444 while the Knockout Challenge Chris Eubank Jr. presented the new cultural ambassador in action. As the storm […]
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Schedule is officially released, giving gamers a glimpse of the 88 event wristbands which will take place this summer at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas Hotel & Casino on the Las Vegas Strip. Whether you’re looking to play a $500 No-limit Hold’em tournament or a $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Championship, […]
Twenty years ago, a television producer Steve Lipscomb presented to the American public a poker tournament show called World Tour of Poker (WPT). Two decades later, the WPT is still thriving and remains a fixture in the poker community. In 2002, Lipscomb hired poker pros Mike Sexton and Vince Van Pattentennis star and actor’s son […]
The king is dead, long live the king! On Tuesday, the World Poker Tour announced that it was retiring the WPTDeepStacks brand, replacing it with a new spinoff tour, WPT Prime. The WPT Prime will debut this spring with three events in Asia. “Our continued efforts to improve the experience of WPT live tournaments will […]
The first two events of the 2022 PokerGO Cup are on the books, and this is an example of someone who has been slow to rise to the top and someone who looks set to threaten the global supremacy of the elite of “high rollers”. An overarching theme, however, is smaller fields than you would […]
62 tables less than before the pandemic Encore Boston Harbor, one of only two resort-style casinos in Massachusetts, finally reopened its poker room on Monday, January 31. It’s been a long wait for impatient poker players, as casinos across the state closed – along with most casinos in the US – in March 2020 at […]
The year 2022 has started with a bang and the month of January has slipped by, but it is also the end of the lunar year with the Year of the Tiger to start next week. A few popular major events return to PokerStars from Sunday. Get ready to launch PokerStars on Sunday January 30 […]
BetMGM Poker NJ had a record year in 2021 and is already optimistic about 2022, showing no plans for a slowdown. The three Garden State online poker operators had moments to be proud of last year, but as they each look back and assess the past 12 months, BetMGM will be happiest with what they’ve […]
BetMGM Poker unveiled its first online poker festival of 2022 — The Double Trouble Series. The events start on Friday January 21 and last for ten days, until Sunday January 30. The series is set in all three jurisdictions: New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Michigan. There are 20 events on each schedule at BetMGM Poker, but […]
This week, Patrick Leonard is on his fifth career trip to the top of the online poker rankings. (photo: partypoker) It’s another trip to the top of the online poker rankings for UK online pro Patrick ‘pleno1’ Leonard, who, thanks to a dominant end of 2021 and an early start to the new year, is […]
January 6, 2022 Tournaments & Cash Games Putting the “global” in the Global Poker Index, the GPI awarded Player of the Year honors to players from 56 countries around the world based on their performance in various poker tournaments throughout 2021. Daniel Negreanu is GPI’s Player of the Year for Canada (Image: Mark Gorman / […]
January 03, 2022 Matthew pitt Are you planning to enter the world of online poker in 2022? The start of a new year gives us a new slate to work on and now is the perfect time to embark on a new poker adventure. 2022 is shaping up to be an incredible year for online […]
Turning Stone Resort Casino announced in November that it would become New York State’s first-ever satellite host for the World Series of Poker and would also welcome a WSOP Circuit cease operations from March 17 to 28, 2022. This would make Turning Stone the first and only casino in New York to host WSOP events. […]
Top line: “On Sunday January 3, the World Series of Poker crowned a winner of the annual $ 10,000 Main Event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. Key points to remember: On Sunday January 3, the World Series of Poker crowned a flagship annual Main Event winner at $ 10,000. The […]
There have been many stories of rags for riches in poker. The biggest of these is one everyone knows all too well in poker, and it’s the story of Chris Moneymaker who turned an online satellite into $ 2.5 million and a gold bracelet when ‘he won the main event of the 2003 World Series […]
After weeks of debating whether or not he should do it, Michael Graydon posted a simple appeal to his few hundred followers on Twitter on October 27. “In March of this year, I was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer,” the 40-year-old wrote from his home in Moody, Alabama. “Due to the location of my tumor, […]
Familiar structure The PokerStars Winter Series are back this month, offering $ 50 million in guaranteed prize pools across 291 tournaments. Tap on the cute phrase “Unwrap the Gifts” as the festivities begin on Christmas Day, December 25, and continue through January 12. As is the case with many PokerStars tournament series, the Winter Series […]
December 14, 2021 Tournaments & Cash Games The Bicycle Casino is back with its “Quantum” tournaments – and not everyone is happy. A group of Los Angeles poker players are boycotting the events, claiming they are unfair and lead recreational players into shark infested waters. A flyer circulating on Facebook hopes to quell a popular […]
December 14, 2021 Law and Politics No pass, no entry. This is the possible future for poker tournament players in England as Parliament considers new COVID-19 rules that could go into effect as early as Wednesday. COVID passes are expected to become an entry requirement for poker tournaments in England following new government guidelines. (Image: […]
In December, don’t miss Ignition Poker’s Felt Festival, two tournament series with over $ 6.5 million in total guarantees combined. Of course, the holidays are a busy time of the year, so Ignition has kicked off with 12 Days of Turbos. Between December 4 and December 15, players will compete against each other for over […]
December 10, 2021 Commerce and industry From a proposed Manhattan casino with flying car parking, to a landmark innovation that marks the start of a new era for casino gaming in Virginia, to voters rejecting a casino in Louisiana on Saturday, it has been a busy week for Canadians. news from the casino industry. Here […]
Michael Graydon, a father of two from Birmingham, Alabama, was recently diagnosed with a slow-growing brain tumor, but he didn’t let his diagnosis stop him from achieving his goals. Since receiving his diagnosis, he has been invited to the World Series of Poker Main Event to compete alongside some of the greatest poker players alive […]
The World Series of Poker (WSOP) online winter circuit returns this weekend to GGPoker, with 18 ring tournaments up for grabs. These dozens and a half of ring events come with over $ 26 million in guaranteed prize pools. The overall figure, however, is $ 100 million. This is the amount of guaranteed prizes on […]
Think outside the box when it comes to gifting the poker player of your life. The holidays are here and that means it’s time, once again, to pick out some choice items that will make the perfect gift for the poker players in your life. After the trash year that 2020 was, 2021 has turned […]
Koray Aldemir, a 31-year-old German professional poker player, emerged from a starting field of 6,650 to become the new World Series of Poker Main Event champion and win an $ 8 million first prize. Aldemir outlasted American amateur George Holmes in an epic 6.5-hour heads-up session in which he briefly gave up a significant lead, […]
Paulo Joanello beat a field of 1,501 total entries to win the 2021 World Series of Poker $1,500 buy-in Fifty Stack no-limit hold’em event, winning $321,917 top prize and its first WSOP gold bracelet. The Brazilian player celebrated the victory in front of a crowd of supporters. WSOP Social media ‘czar’ Kevin Mathers captured the […]
YouTube star Jimmy “MrBeast” Donaldson broadcast live high-stakes poker action with the hole cards presented to viewers. The American channel MrBeast has 69.2 million subscribers and is the 11th most subscribed channel on YouTube. His videos usually center on expensive stunts. Not previously known as an avid poker player, Donaldson has recently been featured playing […]
08:3607 Apr Basketball legend and poker fan Paul Pierce at lost his role as ESPN analyst this week after sharing video of himself smoking weed and entertaining exotic dancers twerk! The old one Boston Celtics and 10 times NBA All-Star player was seen on Instagram Live receiving a massage at the poker table from a […]
If you can earn millions of dollars in a career doing anything, there has to be an element of skill involved. If it was all luck, our perception of the world would be challenged, working hard to succeed would mean nothing. Bill Gates, a stroke of luck? Impossible. The famous poker players we’re going to […]
October 28, 2019 Latest poker news Actor Ben Affleck, a recovering alcoholic, played poker – and won – at the Commerce Casino in Los Angeles on Saturday night under the influence, reports TMZ. He has said regarding his actions that he will not let the misstep “derail me”. Ben Affleck was hit-and-run while intoxicated at […]
A $3 million trade at an Aria poker table is now at the center of a lawsuit filed in Clark County Court. In late May, Australian poker pro Matthew Kirk, known for his unorthodox play, passed $500,000 and $1 million in chip raises to Czech casino owner and entrepreneur Leon Tsoukernik. At least two other […]
September 01, 2016 Ashley adams There are generally two formats that you can stream for your home poker game: a tournament or a cash game. Let’s take a look at each of them and give us some food for thought to decide which one you want to have. Tournaments vs Cash Games A home poker […]
The legendary Johnny Chan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Johnny_Chan.jpg LAS VEGAS (AP) — A never-before-seen $1 million buy-in tournament at the World Series of Poker this year will generate the biggest prize in poker history at more than $12 million — and potentially more if played. other players enter. Series officials planned to announce Thursday that 30 players have […]