December 28, 2021 Calum Grant After five Main Event flights and two more days of play, the 2021 partypoker Millions Online Main Event has concluded with Argentina’s Ramiro Petrone being the eventual victor. He became the rightful owner of the $859,018 up top after defeating Spanish-Andorran player Juan Dominguez in heads up play. The event
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December 28, 2021 Jon Sofen Doug Polk did what he set out to accomplish against his once bitter rival Daniel Negreanu: he backed the truck up to the tune of a $1.2 million profit in the most heavily publicized heads-up poker match of all-time, and one of the most exciting poker stories of 2021. The
December 22, 2021 Matthew Pitt It is that time of year again when PokerNews delves through the hundreds of articles published over the past 12 months and chooses the ten biggest stories of the year. Kicking off the series for 2021 is the launch and initial success of a brand new poker product, GGPoker’s ClubGG.
December 22, 2021 Matthew Pitt PokerStars is the place to be over the festival period if you are a fan of tournament poker because it is here that the massive Winter Series takes place. The Winter Series returns to PokerStars from December 25 and guarantees to award at least $50 million by the time the
December 22, 2021 Connor Richards Sweden’s “WhatIfGod” successfully defended his title in the European Poker Tour Online Main Event by taking down Event #32: $5,200 NLHE Main Event on PokerStars for $363,641. “WhatIfGod,” who won the same event in 2020 for $1,019,082, earned consecutive titled by defeating PokerStars ambassador and Ramon “RamonColillas” Colillas after an
December 22, 2021 Jason Glatzer Gerard “Panxetillo” Carbo navigated through a field of 1,024 entries to win the $1,050 WPTDeepStacks London Online Main Event for $184,320 at 888poker. This was easily the largest cash for Carbo at 888poker. The Andorran-based player was able to seal the deal after besting Jesse “jessecesar” Cesar Fonseca in just
December 23, 2021 Chad Holloway 0 Hosts: Sarah Herring @auntychardonnayChad Holloway @ChadAHolloway LibsynSpotifyiTunesPodbeanPlayerFmStitcher On the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is the penultimate of the year, Sarah Herring and Chad Holloway talk a look back at half of the Top 10 Stories from 2021! These include the launch of ClubGG by GGPoker as
December 23, 2021 Chad Holloway April 15, 2021 marked the 10-year anniversary of Black Friday, the day federal authorities shut down and forever changed online poker in the United States. Gone were the days when U.S. citizens could sit down and log onto sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker at their leisure. Instead, online
December 23, 2021 Jason Glatzer The Club PokerNews Cup is returning to ClubGG for its Winter Edition from Dec. 26 to Jan. 5. The festival boasts 30 play-money events where you can win trophies, PokerNews gear, and other amazing prizes absolutely for free. The entire festival will take place exclusively in the Club PokerNews (Club
On the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is the penultimate of the year, Sarah Herring and Chad Holloway take a look back at half of the Top 10 Stories from 2021! These include the launch of ClubGG by GGPoker as well as online poker in the state of Michigan. They also take a
December 23, 2021 Jon Sofen Phil Hellmuth shipped his record-extending 16th World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet this fall. Shaun Deeb won his fifth, but he will one day surpass the “Poker Brat,” or so he claimed on Doug Polk‘s Tuesday podcast. Deeb, who is consistently in contention for WSOP Player of the Year, has
December 13, 2021 Jon Sofen MGM Resorts International sent shockwaves through the Las Vegas casino industry Monday when the company announced the sale of the Mirage to Hard Rock International for $1.08 billion in cash. Mirage is one of the most iconic casinos in town and was once the home to the biggest poker games
December 12, 2021 Will Shillibier Two more champions were crowned on PokerStars last night as the 2021 European Poker Tour (EPT) Online continued. Christian “WATnlos” Rudolph bagged a title in Event 8: $530 NLHE 8-Max Progressive KO for cashes and bounty prizes worth almost $50,000, while Lithuania’s Audrius “Stakelis24” Stakelis added an EPT Online title
December 11, 2021 Chad Holloway The World Poker Tour (WPT) Five Diamond World Poker Classic runs December 15-19, but it won’t be the only game in town. Just down the Las Vegas Strip, Wynn will also host the Championship Event in their 2021 Wynn Winter Classic. The 10-event series kicked off on December 6 and
December 10, 2021 Calum Grant Andrey “Anjeyyy” Novak Triumphs in EPT Online Series Opener EPT Online 01: $1,050 NLHE [8-Max, Series Opener], $250K Gtd – Trophy Event #1 Final Table Results Romania Takes Gold and Silver in EPT Online Mini 03 EPT Online Mini 03: $55 NLHE, $100K Gtd Final Table Results Alysson “Brunopoker94” Bruno
December 09, 2021 Chad Holloway Back in September, a controversy broke out after several prominent poker photographers charged art company Poker Paint for using their photos with neither permission nor compensation. Based out of Washington, DC, and run by poker player Brett Butz, Poker Paint commercially sells art pieces and NFTs by taking a photograph
December 08, 2021 Jon Sofen The $2,500 buy-in WPTDeepStacks Championship at Thunder Valley Resort and Casino in Northern California wrapped up a successful event Tuesday night with Michael Rossitto coming out on top of the 588-entry field. In doing so, he won $250,073 in front of a live-streamed WPT.com audience. In total, 74 players cashed,
December 07, 2021 Will Shillibier Just seven players remain in this year’s World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, with Czech player Josef Gulas leading the way ahead of Germany’s Alexander Tkatschew. Gulas won his seat back in October after finishing third in a €250 buy-in event at King’s Resort, and now he is in
December 06, 2021 Will Shillibier Just 32 players remain in the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event, all eyeing up the €1,276,712 first-place prize that awaits the winner of this record-breaking event. The money bubble burst on Day 3, and after the dust settled it was Dimitar Yosifov who emerged as the chip
December 05, 2021 Christian Zetzsche The 2021 World Series of Poker Europe has crowned a new maiden gold bracelet winner as Romain Le Dantec, who was playing his first €10,000 buy-in event, defeated fellow countryman Sonny Franco in heads-up to come out on top of an 73-entry strong field in Event #13: €10,000 NLH 6-Max.