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
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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.
December 04, 2021 Jon Sofen Justin Bonomo took down a $100,000 buy-in high roller at the Bellagio’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas Friday night for $928,200. In doing so, the likely future Poker Hall of Famer regained his spot atop the all-time live tournament list. Bryn Kenney, who sits at $56.9 million
December 03, 2021 Chad Holloway On December 2, golf pro Kevin Na posted on social media that his friend, Dusty Schmidt, had passed away at the age of 40. The cause of death for the online poker legend was not immediately known. Na wrote: “He was a top Jr. rank golfer who played pro golf
December 02, 2021 Jon Sofen Encore Boston Harbor, a Wynn Resorts property in the Northeast, will reopen its poker room in February 2022 for the first time since the beginning of the pandemic. But the card room will have limited tables and hours, leading many locals to wonder why it’s even reopening. PokerNews reached out
December 01, 2021 Jon Sofen Lithuania’s Gediminas Uselis pulled off a huge bluff and then won a heads-up cooler to ship the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open for $778,490 at Wednesday’s final table. The champ is barely a month removed from another huge victory when he took down the
November 30, 2021 Chad Holloway Guests: Benny Glaser Boris Kolev Jason Wheeler Ole Schemion Jeremy Ausmus Leo Margets On the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Jeff Platt and Chad Holloway wrap up the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP)! They recap the last of the bracelet winners including Adrian Mateos, Michael Addamo, and Mikita
November 29, 2021 Chad Holloway From November 23-28, Darren Elias hosted his “The End Boss Poker Series” on the BetMGM platform in a trio of states — Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Each state held its own seven-event series with buy-ins ranging from $150-$1,060, and as a whole it proved to be a success as
November 28, 2021 Chad Holloway The Seminole Hard Rock 2021 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open began back on November 17 and is slated to run through December 1. Right now, the $3,500 World Poker Tour (WPT) RRPO Championship is taking place and will crown a winner later this week. That tournament attracted a record 1,566
November 27, 2021 Chad Holloway The 2021 Wynn Fall Classic ran from late September through November 21. During that time, more than 21,000 entrants competed and in excess of $25 million in prize money was awarded. PokerNews was on-site to provide live updates from some of the marquee events including: [embedded content] There was a
November 26, 2021 Jon Sofen There’s no denying Phil Hellmuth had a banner 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP), having reached a record seven final tables, and now we know exactly how much money he actually made during the recently completed series. The “Poker Brat,” in a somewhat surprising move, disclosed his wins and losses
November 25, 2021 Jon Sofen The poker world has reached the end of an era with the World Series of Poker (WSOP) concluding its final bracelet event at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino. Next summer, the series will move down the road to the Las Vegas Strip, the first time the WSOP will take
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Leo Margets is making waves as the FIRST lady to win an open WSOP event in 2021! She’s been denied her first bracelet in 2018 after going heads up, but coming short of her first victory. Leo meets with Erin to revel in the glory of her first WSOP gold. You can find live reporting
Josh Arieh currently sits at the top of the leaderboard for the 2021 WSOP Player of the Year. Phil Hellmuth sits at a close second, only 300 points behind. Erin talks to Josh Arieh about Player of the Year, and the legacy he would leave if he wins. The famous tweet that stirred up the
November 21, 2021 Jon Sofen Phil Hellmuth fell one spot shy of his 17th World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet early Sunday morning in Event #84: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, but he set an impressive record in the process. The 1989 world champ reached his seventh final table of the 2021 series, breaking a
November 20, 2021 Leo Contreras Jason Wheeler was crowned the winner of Event #81: $800 No-Limit Hold’em Deepstack at the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) to win his first bracelet The American poker pro defeated a 1,921-player field and beat Columbian Julian Velasquez in heads-up play to win a $202,274 top prize. Wheeler had