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Sep 26, 2024 7 min read The month of September is recognized as “Suicide Prevention Month” – a time to place the spotlight on the multiple resources available to those who may need crisis support or want to help someone they know. Given the poker community has recently lost several players who died by suicide,

Sep 27, 2024 6 min read The World Poker Tour (WPT) heads to Montreal this October, with WPT Playground running from October 14-31. Every tournament carries a guarantee on its prize pool, including the WPT Main Event that will award $1,500,000 to those lucky and skilful enough to navigate their way into the money places.

Sep 27, 2024 3 min read Unlucky for some, but for 13 players who were crowned champions last night, it was a very special night of World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) action on PokerStars! The festival takes its final rest day today, with action resuming on Saturday where all eyes will be on Parker

Sep 27, 2024 Guests: Adam Pliska In the 858th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is sponsored by WPT Global, Chad Holloway and Mike Holtz are joined by World Poker Tour (WPT) President Adam Pliska at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to talk about the WPT World Championship, which isn’t featuring a guarantee this

Sep 27, 2024 2 min read Want to have some fun with the hosts of the PokerNews Podcast and Life Outside Poker? Well, now is your chance. A PokerNews meet-up game will take place on Saturday, October 12 at Resorts World Las Vegas in anticipation of its hosting of next month’s North American Poker Tour

Sep 25, 2024 7 min read It was a “glimpse behind the curtain”. That’s what Bloomberg Senior Writer Kit Chellel told PokerNews about his latest article published late last week. In ‘The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker’, the award-winning journalist writes about Bot Farm Corporation (or BF Corp.), a Siberian bot farm founded

Sep 25, 2024 2 min read Ask any poker player about bad beats and they will likely tell you they have taken the worst of them imaginable. But the beat taken by Isaac Baron during the 2024 WSOP Online International Main Event may actually take the cake. The hand in question took place at the

Sep 25, 2024 5 min read After busting the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in 46th place when Michael Dyer cracked his pocket aces with pocket tens, James Obst began questioning whether he wanted to remain a professional poker player. In July of 2018, Obst revealed he was leaving poker and turning

Stretch Network Sep 25, 2024 2 min read If you were on the fence about becoming a Stretch Network customer, now is the time to hop off and create your free account. Why? Because Stretch Network has just unveiled the World Poker League (WPL), an exciting three-season series with combined guarantees weighing in at €2

Sep 25, 2024 3 min read Ever wanted to hit the blackjack table with one of football’s most iconic stars? FanDuel Casino is gearing up for a special event on Thursday, September 26th, as Rob ‘Gronk’ Gronkowski returns to the live dealer lobby for another exclusive casino experience— and you’re invited to join in the

Sep 25, 2024 4 min read The titles keep coming for Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot in the 2024 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) after the PokerStars Ambassador picked up his fourth of the series last night. His victory in Event 85-M secured him $6,392 and the eighth WCOOP title of his career, drawing him level

Sep 24, 2024 5 min read Last updated Sep 25, 2024 When I sat down at my computer this morning and looked at WOW Vegas, I was genuinely amazed at the sheer number of promotions currently available. Sure, WOW Vegas has built a great reputation in just a few years for offering fantastic promotions, but

Sep 25, 2024 4 min read After 17 flights and 6,146 entries, the 2024 WSOP Online International Main Event has crowned its champion. Moritz Dietrich is the name written in GGPoker and, indeed, online poker history books as the player who captured the industry’s largest ever prize, one tipping the scales at $4,021,012. The star-studded

Sep 24, 2024 3 min read Hustler Casino Live returned to YouTube Monday night following a one-week suspension for the first night of High Stakes Week. The stream will likely be remembered for some big pots and one player going into the tank in a hand for about half the five-hour session. That comment was

Sep 24, 2024 3 min read Clinton Keown from Evansville, Indiana, passed away on September 22 in an automobile accident. A renowned athlete for both basketball and baseball, Keown was also a popular poker player in the community. Keown, born February 25, 1980, had $171,271 in lifetime earnings according to the Hendon Mob, which included

Sep 24, 2024 2 min read The World Poker Tour (WPT) is going to set another record this coming December with a freeroll tournament that will have thousands of poker players interested in making a trip to Las Vegas. Wynn Las Vegas, during the WPT World Championship Festival, will play host to the first ever

Sep 24, 2024 4 min read Volodymyr Kokoulin was a card away from elimination. Instead, he became the newest World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) bracelet winner after taking down Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha. Kokoulin built up a big chip lead three-handed and defeated Poland’s Tomasz Kozub heads-up to win his first WSOP bracelet

Sep 24, 2024 4 min read After six days that included five Day 1 flights, the $1,200 Main Event at The Commerce Casino Hold’em Series has been completed. There were 517 entrants for this event that generated a prize pool of $542,850. Day 2 started with 51 players and ended in a three-way ICM chop

Sep 24, 2024 5 min read The XL Autumn Series has exploded into action at 888poker, with six of 29 scheduled events crowning their worthy champions. Anyone who comes out on top in a large-field multi-table tournament deserves plaudits, especially so when they come back from being the third-shortest stack at the final table to

Sep 24, 2024 4 min read The first gold bracelet of the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe has been presented at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. This marks the seventh time Europe’s largest poker venue has hosted the series and will award 15 WSOP gold bracelets. And claiming the first bracelet of the festival was