Dec 13, 2024 2 min read Who says that begging a dealer to give you the card you need to win a hand doesn’t work? “Mike X” made an odd plea on Hustler Casino Live Thursday night during an $80,000 pot, promising to kiss the dealer if a four-outer on the river came through. And
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Dec 13, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents If you’re in Las Vegas and not at the Wynn for the World Poker Tour World Championships (WPTWC), what are you even doing? The WPT’s flagship festival, and one of December’s “Big Three,” has moved into fifth gear, with the WPT Prime Championship playing down to
Dec 13, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents Friday the thirteenth is known as the unluckiest date on the calendar, but for Mats Ullereng, it proved to be the exact opposite. Ullereng bested a field of 835 over three days of play to take home €265,560 in the €3,000 Mystery Bounty at the 2024
Dec 13, 2024 2 min read On Thursday night, before the action kicked off in the highly-anticipated ClubWPT Gold $5,000,000 Freeroll, players were invited to special event. For the third year in a row, the WPT World Championship hosted an epic players party at AREA15. Complete with a world-class DJ, DJ LEFIH, and complimentary food
Dec 13, 2024 2 min read The $5 million ClubWPT Gold Invitational Freeroll kicked off Friday at Wynn Las Vegas with some fireworks that involved a former Halo champion. Aaron Elam’s nickname in the gaming world is, fittingly, “Ace,” and he used an ace to win a wild hand right off the bat to secure
Dec 13, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents The WPT Prime Championship and Friday’s $5 million ClubWPT Gold Invitational Freeroll will get most of the headlines at Wynn Las Vegas this week. But there are many other intriguing events taking place during the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship festival that are seeing some
Dec 13, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents The European Championship Of Poker (ECOP) Paris festival, scheduled for January 2-13, 2025, has been postponed until further notice. The postponement comes only 24 hours after PokerStars announced it was canceling the European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris festival that was scheduled for mid-February. The ECOP Paris
Dec 13, 2024 Guests: Nikki Limo In the 869th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, sponsored by the free-to-play WSOP App, Chad Holloway hosts from down in The Bahamas at the 2024 World Series of Poker Paradise, while Kyna England is back at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas. Mike Holtz is out with a broken
Dec 13, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents The massive field at the $1,100 WPT Prime Championship thinned dramatically after a whirlwind Day 2 at Wynn Las Vegas. Over the course of 18 action-packed levels in the Encore Ballroom, chips flew back and forth as the initial 1,206 survivors dwindled to a pack of
Dec 13, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents If you haven’t had a chance to check out the Live Poker at the Hippodrome cash game live stream, then you’re missing out! Every weekend there’s live poker action from central London with actual players — no hand-picked participants here just pure, genuine cash game grinders.
Dec 13, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents It has been a memorable 2024 on and off the felt for British grinder Matthew Davenport. The Macclesfield native’s incredible performances at the felt saw him become the National Poker League (NPL) and UK Poker League (UKPL) Player of the Year, earning him a £75,000 sponsorship
Dec 13, 2024 5 min read Table Of Contents As thoughts turn to the holiday season, what better excuse is there to find some free slots action to take you into 2025? WOW Vegas had exactly the same thought, which is why they have partnered with some of the biggest and brightest names in gaming
Dec 13, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents The festive period is a time for giving, and 888poker is getting well and truly into the Christmas spirit by running its popular Holiday Sale promotion. Running from December 16-23, the Holiday Sale sees 17 of 888poker’s most popular multi-table tournaments (MTTs) have their buy-ins slashed
Dec 12, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents It’s the season of giving, and it seems the team at WPT Global has definitely embraced the holiday spirit with their Holiday Rush promo, giving away $2.5 million in cash and 85,000 prizes this festive season. Running until January 10th, this Prize Drops promo in collaboration
Dec 12, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents PokerStars and Club Barrière have announced the cancellation of the European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris 2025, which was originally scheduled to run from February 12-23 at Le Palais des Congrès. The cancellation is part of a broader uncertainty surrounding Paris’s gaming landscape. Recent developments indicate that
Dec 12, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents PokerStars Italy is about to get a whole lot busier thanks to the online poker giant starting to migrate players from Sisal onto its platform. Currently, Sisal’s online poker operations are on the iPoker Network, but they will be part of a Sisal-branded PokerStars Italy Platform.
Dec 12, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents Winning the first €20,000 High Roller of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague was already an impressive way to kick off the festival. Securing the €50,000 EPT Super High Roller title three days later was an even bigger feat. But claiming victory in the €25,000
Dec 12, 2024 4 min read What is a player to do when they love tournament poker, their mind allows them to compete against the best of the best, but their body doesn’t want to cooperate? That’s a question “Texas” Mike Moncek, who suffers from a heart condition, asked himself Wednesday night after playing in
Dec 12, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents Things are heating up at the World Poker Tour World Championships (WPTWC), with cards in the air for Day 2 of the WPT Prime Championship at Wynn, Las Vegas. The WPT Prime Championship, which smashed its $5 million guarantee, is set to pay out $9,379,900 to
Dec 12, 2024 4 min read Kristen Foxen, Jeanne David, and Starla Brodie were officially inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WiPHOF) on Wednesday during a ceremony sponsored by PokerStars at the Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Brodie, a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, passed away