Jan 07, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents The Irish Poker Tour’s first event of 2025 is over. The Galway Poker Festival has crowned 18 champions, including one in the massive €700 buy-in Main Event. Over 3,000 players descended on The Galmont Hotel in Galway between January 1-6, helping to smash every guarantee the
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Jan 07, 2025 Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level. In the 23rd episode, Connor speaks with Hollywood producer and 2006 Main Event champion Jamie Gold
Jan 07, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents The Casino de Marrakech at the luxurious Es Saadi Marrakech Resort in Morocco again plays host to the World Series of Poker International Circuit between January 10-19. During the ten-day poker extravaganza, 12 coveted WSOPC rings will be won, including one in the eagerly-anticipated WSOPC Marrakech
Jan 07, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Here at PokerNews, we were excited to see BetRivers Poker launch late last year, but it’s the site’s long-standing and well-established BetRivers Casino brand that’s really catching our eye this month, thanks to an impressive $1,000 live dealer losses bonus match for new players this January.
Jan 07, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents The latest 888poker $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event has crowned its champion but it is not the winner who has hit the headlines. Uzbekistan’s “PokerKron” won the event for the second time in their career, which should be headline-worthy. However, “mr.salgado,” the tournament’s runner-up, banked one
Jan 06, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Today is the first day of the first World Series of Poker Circuit festival of 2025. The Choctaw Durant kicked off the year in style with Day 1A of WSOPC Event #1: $250 Seniors Event at 11 a.m. today. There will be a second Day 1
Jan 06, 2025 2 min read Three masked men are on the loose after allegedly robbing a Northern Texas poker room on Christmas Eve. The dangerous incident at Johnny’s Social Card Club in Wichita Falls, according to police, took place at 3:45 a.m. All suspects, none of whom have been identified by name, were masked
Jan 06, 2025 2 min read Table Of Contents The Commerce Casino in California is hosting will host more than a month of tournament action with the 2025 LA Poker Classic running Jan. 10-March 2. The series will culminate with the $10,000 buy-in LAPC Main Event beginning Feb. 22, which PokerNews will be on-site to
Jan 06, 2025 2 min read Table Of Contents Cherish Andrews and David Coleman dominated the tournament poker world last year. As such, they’ll receive two of the most prestigious awards at the Global Poker Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. Andrews, for the second time in three years, won the GPI Female Player of the
Jan 06, 2025 4 min read What better way to welcome in 2025 than by heading to warmer climes and playing poker for big money? The Merit Poker Western Series gives you the opportunity to do both because the festival, held in Northern Cyprus, boasts over $4.5 million in combined guaranteed prize pools, including a
Jan 06, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents The New Year Series is nearing its conclusion, and Blaz “Scarmak3r” Zerjav seems determined to finish strongly. Zerjav was one of 539 entrants in the $530 No-Limit Hold’em Progressive Knockout Sunday Warm-Up and was the last man standing after 12 hours of play. Dozens of household
Jan 05, 2025 3 min read Popular vlogger Mariano Grandoli disclosed some stunning 2024 poker results in his latest YouTube video. The poker player had a “down” year compared to 2023, however, but there’s a reason for that — he played far less poker. Still, the vlogger won about 10 times as much as the
Jan 03, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Just weeks after winning his sixth World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, Nick Schulman continued his winter hot streak by taking down a $10,100 High Roller tournament at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for $283,050. Fittingly enough, it brings Schulman his sixth PokerGO Tour (PGT) title.
Jan 03, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Liv Boeree is donating more than a half a million of her historic score at World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise to fight factory farming, the science communicator and former poker pro revealed today. Boeree, who in December finished fourth in the first-ever $25,000 buy-in Super
Jan 03, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents Happy New Year, everyone. I’m Kyle Anderson, PokerNews ambassador and Ontario resident. Here is an update on everything that’s both happened and is coming up in the Ontario poker world. Remember, ON players can legally play real money poker in Ontario, so PokerNews has come up
Jan 03, 2025 In the 872nd episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which kicks off the New Year and Season 16, Chad Holloway, Kyna England and Mike Holtz are all at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to recap some of the biggest stories from the poker world in 2024. That includes GGPoker purchasing the World
Jan 03, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Dusk Till Dawn has again partnered with online poker giant GGPoker to bring the UK Poker Championships (UKPC) to the home of British poker. The Nottingham-based venue will be full to bursting between January 18 and 27 as poker players from far and wide descend on
Jan 03, 2025 3 min read The legend of “Peter,” a loose cannon who loves to gamble, grew on Thursday during Hustler Casino Live’s first poker stream of 2025. Peter lost a bunch quickly in the $100/$100 ($100 big blind ante) game that often played even bigger. But he found a strategy to get some
Jan 03, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents While millions of people worldwide were celebrating the start of 2025, Andras “probirs” Nemeth was busy working his way to yet another major online poker tournament victory. Nemeth was one of 149 entrants in the $2,025 No-Limit Hold’em New Year Special, part of the PokerStars New
Jan 02, 2025 5 min read Last updated Jan 03, 2025 Dreaming of Las Vegas? Pack your virtual poker chips because WSOP Free Poker is dealing you a shot at the ultimate Sin City adventure! Here’s how to snag your way to the Strip without leaving your couch. It’s Week 2 – Time to Up