Sep 17, 2024 3 min read The Olympic Casino Lietuva is set to host the largest poker festival held in Lithuania when the OlyBet Kings of Vilnius heads into town on November 15. The festival features more than 30 events and satellites, including a €1,100 Main Event boasting an impressive €250,000 guaranteed prize pool. November
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Sep 17, 2024 4 min read The WPT Prime tour was at Dusk Till Dawn, the home of British poker, and was a club regular who captured the £1,100 WPT Prime UK Championship title, £57,660 in prize money, and a £10,000 package to the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. Timothy Chung has
Sep 17, 2024 4 min read It’s all change at the top of the WCOOP League standings after an incredible night of action. Sunday saw Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot score his second WCOOP title in four days, earning valuable WCOOP League points after leading home a Team tonkaaaa 1-2-3. Finishing third in that event was Niklas
Sep 17, 2024 4 min read The 888poker player known as “IOwnU888” warmed up for the XL Autumn Series in style on the evening of September 16 with an impressive double-whammy. The online tournament specialist not only chopped the $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event but also pulled out over $12,000 worth of mystery bounties along
Sep 17, 2024 3 min read Whenever a big-name casino like PokerStars rolls out a new promotion, it definitely grabs our attention. So, when the Stacks promo crossed my desk, I knew I had to see what it was all about. With the promise of stacking up some fantastic rewards and bonuses, let’s dive into
Sep 16, 2024 3 min read The 2024 Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT continues on this week inside the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas after several players picked up trophies and seven-figure scores during the first half of the series. The series kicked off with two qualifiers battling it out in Event #1: $5,100
Sep 16, 2024 2 min read Hustler Casino Live is facing some challenges thanks to a one-week YouTube suspension that is forcing the poker livestream to adjust its plans for the coming days. The most popular livestream in poker history shared an “important announcement” on X to advise its followers what the plan will be
Sep 16, 2024 3 min read What is the proper amount for a wealthy poker player to tip a cocktail server for a bottle of water? That is the debate that transpired on X thanks to a critical tweet from Daniel Negreanu, who called out an unnamed “millionaire” high-stakes pro for being a bit of
Sep 16, 2024 7 min read Last Thursday, Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot clinched his fifth World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title with a win in the HORSE Championship. His stay in the five-time winner’s club was brief—lasting just four days—before Talbot captured yet another WCOOP victory. The WCOOP League captain had even more reasons to
Sep 16, 2024 4 min read After four days of action, only one player remained to become the 2024 €1,000 French Championship Main Event winner, here at Pasino Grand in Aix-en-Provence. And after a long battle, Heni Mokni emerged as the winner from a field of 553 entrants, taking home the first-place prize of €75,000
Sep 16, 2024 4 min read The EA Poker Tour (EAPT) found its way to the shores of Batumi, Georgia, for the first time in its eleven-year history and smashed guarantees all over the place in a spectacular series of poker that took place in the Eclipse Poker Club. After four live starting flights and
Sep 16, 2024 3 min read The weather in many parts of the world is cooling down but the heat at the 888poker tables is increasing and will reach boiling point between September 22 and October 1 when the XL Autumn Series springs into action. Featuring 29 No-Limit Hold’em events with combined guaranteed prize pools
Sep 15, 2024 5 min read As the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on PokerStars resumed yesterday after a brief pause on Friday, the competition in the WCOOP League stepped up a notch. With the latest points added, the standings at the top are incredibly close. Team peace&loove retains the lead with a narrow
Sep 14, 2024 2 min read Never assume victory until the river card is dealt, which one player learned in a wild all-in hand during Friday night’s Hustler Casino Live stream. The $50/$100 ($100 big blind ante) no-limit hold’em cash game featured actor Emile Hirsch, star of the new poker movie, Dead Money, which came
Sep 13, 2024 16 min read Last updated Sep 14, 2024 Over the past century, poker has permeated pop culture, especially when it comes to motion pictures. Long before the “Poker Boom”, and even before the World Series of Poker (WSOP) was a thing, poker had already made its big screen debut. Over the decades,
Sep 14, 2024 3 min read Kerryjane Craigie, a PokerStars Ambassador and Director of Poker at the Hippodrome Casino, is leading the charge with the upcoming Women’s Winter Festival. This event aims to elevate inclusivity in poker and create new opportunities for women in the game. In this blog, Craigie shares her vision and the
Sep 13, 2024 Guests: Robbi Jade Lew In the 856th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is sponsored by Global Poker, Chad Holloway, Kyna England and Mike Holtz are back at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to talk about Robbi Jade Lew‘s appearance on the new reality TV show The Anonymous on the USA
Sep 13, 2024 3 min read A new poker movie is coming to video on demand (VOD) and limited theaters on Friday, September 13. Dead Money, written by Josh Wilcox and directed by Luc Walpoth, stars Emile Hirsch as Andy, who along with his girlfriend Chloe, played by India Eisley, “are involved in a crazy
Sep 13, 2024 3 min read The Casino de Marrakech in the Moroccan capital will be awash with poker players from far and wide between September 20-29 because the Unibet DeepStack Open series is in town. A bustling schedule of 34 events and satellites await anyone traveling to Marrakech, and PokerNews‘ live reporting team will
Sep 13, 2024 4 min read Thursday was a monumental day for Team tonkaaaa in the 2024 PokerStars WCOOP League, with team captain Parker Talbot leading by example. The Canadian, whose roster is stacked with Swedish talent, played a pivotal role in propelling his team into third place. Talbot’s heroics came during the WCOOP $1,050