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January 29, 2024 Nadya Magnus is continuing her tradition of giving away coveted tournament seats to women in the poker community. This year, the 2021 GPI Female Player of the Year will award two $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event seats to two lucky women. Magnus teased the giveaway on X by writing that

January 29, 2024 The Borgata welcomed back poker players with its first Winter Poker Open and more than 16,000 entries turned out over 22 events to award more than $12 million in prizes over three weeks. The popular series was capped off by the $5,300 Championship Event, where 689 entries turned out to build a

January 29, 2024 The end of an era is near as Tropicana Las Vegas has announced its expected closure date — April 2, 2024 — as the property which opened in 1957 will become the future home of the Oakland Athletics. Prominent Las Vegas X account @LasVegasLocally reported rumors of the anticipated closure Monday morning

January 29, 2024 We all know modern tech has its downsides – screen addiction, privacy woes, getting a QR code instead of an actual menu in a restaurant – but for us casino fanatics, there is one silver lining: the live casino. As much as a visit to our local casino holds a special place

January 29, 2024 Flutter Entertainment Plc, owners of the Betfair, FanDuel, Paddy Power, PokerStars, and Sky Betting & Gaming brands among others, has listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE). Peter Jackson, Flutter’s CEO, was invited to ring the famous NYSE Opening Bell on January 29, signaling the latest step on Flutter’s journey in

January 29, 2024 The diverse world of scratch cards, arcade games, and instant-win titles can feel like a magical maze, one that you can easily get lost in without a guiding hand. We’re here to assist, to help you find the games that most suit your playing needs. If you want convenience, excitement, and the

January 29, 2024 An uncharacteristic period of time has passed since either Michael “imluckbox” Addamo or Niklas “Lena900” Astedt have featured in PokerNews headlines, but like London buses, both have arrived on our front page today Addamo helped himself to the $87,002 top prize of the $5,200 Titans Event while Astedt banked $40,136 in a

January 29, 2024 Is there a better way to start the year than with a win and to end the tournament with aces? That is what happened for Miklos Zsuffa, crowned as the winner of the €560 EAPT Bratislava Main Event at Banco Casino. After he defeated a field of 389 entrants and Christoforos Chrysochoidis

January 28, 2024 One of the premier and exclusive annual pre-Super Bowl parties, hosted by legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg, will feature a poker tournament for the first time in the event’s 37-year history. World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion Jamie Gold has been selected by Steinberg to emcee the poker festivities. PokerNews, along with

January 28, 2024 The excellent Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, is currently awash with poker players competing in the WPT Global Winter Classic. You could be joining them in the $1,150 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed Main Event if you capture one of the ten seats that are guaranteed to be won on January 28. The

January 27, 2024 Las Vegas is preparing for a busy Super Bowl weekend, and a part of that will be plenty of celebrities coming into town. That’ll be especially true on Thursday, February 8th when the Celebrity Poker Tour host their second invitational at PokerGO Studio with a livestream starting at 6 p.m. PST. The

January 27, 2024 Author and poker player Maria Konnikova has checked a major poker achievement off the list after she scored a victory in her first-ever World Series of Poker Circuit event on Thursday for a WSOPC gold ring and $57,532. Konnikova, a regular on the poker scene and author of The Biggest Bluff, outlasted

January 27, 2024 Global Poker just finished up its Monsterstack Series III and is already gearing up for its next series with Grizzly Games VII, which will run Jan. 29-Feb. 18 and will feature hundreds of Gold and Sweeps Coins events. The Grizzly Games VII series will consist of 108 Gold Coin trophy events with

January 27, 2024 What are your plans for the evening of January 28? Order some takeout? Watch a movie? It should be getting your grind on at WPT Global because at least three WPT Global players will win a $12,400 WPT Passport to the upcoming $1.5 million guaranteed WPT Voyage. A $1,060 buy-in satellite, named

January 26, 2024 With about four months remaining, poker pro Shaun Deeb appears to be headed in the right direction to win $1 million from Bill Perkins in a body fat loss prop bet. Deeb, a perennial World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year candidate, shared a trimmed-down recent selfie on X along

January 26, 2024 The first final table of the 2024 PokerGO Cup in Las Vegas includes known crushers like David Peters and Fabian Quoss, but most of those tuning in will likely be cheering for another player. Terminally ill Cody Daniels crossed off a bucket list item by playing the $5,100 buy-in event inside the

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January 26, 2024 Being all-round sports fans here at PokerNews, we’ve loved watching the African Cup of Nations live from the beautiful Ivory Coast this January. With temperatures topping well over 80° degrees every single day, Africa’s biggest football tournament has proven a welcome antidote to the bone-chilling weather and long, dark days at home.

January 26, 2024 December’s World Poker Tour World Championships capped off the end of an exhilarating poker year for the WPT. Their Prime tour was a huge success around the globe, and the WPTWC was also one of the most anticipated events of 2023. While the $40 million guarantee for the Main Event had a

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