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Sam Trickett will take a break from playing poker professionally to focus more on his family. The British poker superstar became a father to Bodhi Blu in October 202, and he and his wife Mieke ... Read more...
Natural8 Hosts $150M GTD GG Spring Festival With Exciting Promos
Natural8 is playing host to another record-breaking online poker festival this month. The GG Spring Festival (GGSF) kicked off on April 4 and will run through April 25, with an astonishing $150 ... Read more...
Kentucky Begins Process of Collecting $1.3bn From PokerStars
Kentucky won a massive $1.3 billion lawsuit against PokerStars in December 2020. Flutter Entertainment, which now owns PokerStars, filed a motion to the Supreme Court to reconsider its ruling. ... Read more...
Daniel Sepiol Captures Inaugural MSPT Riverside Main Event
The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) made its debut at the Riverside Casino & Golf Resort in Iowa with a $1,100 buy-in, $200,000 GTD Main Event during March 26-28. The inaugural stop attracted a ... Read more...
PokerStars Launches “Michigan Classic” To Take On BetMGM Launch
PokerStars‘ online poker monopoly in Michigan officially ended on March 22 when BetMGM became the second online poker site to launch in the Wolverine state. PokerStars enjoyed a monopoly on ... Read more...
Jared Jaffe Wins Kickoff Event of WSOP Silver Legacy Circuit Series
The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Circuit series is currently underway. This time players around are competing in the Silver Legacy Circuit Series which is taking place on WSOP.com. ... Read more...
888poker is hosting a major online festival in the next few weeks as part of a new partnership with the World Poker Tour (WPT). A virtual edition of the popular WPTDeepStacks tournament series ... Read more...
Poker Powher & Team Liquid Join Forces for Charity Poker Tournament
Poker Powher is joining forces with Team Liquid to host a poker tournament which aims to highlight the importance of female representation in poker and esports. Proceeds from the event will go to ... Read more...
Qing Liu Defeats Joe McKeehen to Win WPT Venetian ME 2021
The World Poker Tour (WPT) crowned its newest winner this week. Qing Liu emerged victorious in the WPT Main Event at the Venetian in Las Vegas for $752,880. He managed to overcome a 2:1 chip ... Read more...
Inaugural MICOOP Concludes With “smftt” Winning Main Event
The inaugural Michigan Championship of Online Poker (MICOOP) came to an end on March 8, and it was a massive success, attracting a total of 28,830 entries, with $2.2 million in total prize money ... Read more...
WPT 2020 Final Tables Will Resume On March 10 In Las Vegas
The next few months are going to be busy for the World Poker Tour (WPT) as all of its final tables which have been delayed since the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 will take place in spring. The final ... Read more...
iPoker Network Running Bounty Hunter Series With €1M Guarantee
The iPoker Network has re-launched one of its most popular tournament series, the Bounty Hunter Series! The latest edition of the progressive knockout festival kicked off on February 26, and will ... Read more...
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...
