Aug 26, 2024 3 min read Action has concluded in the $550 PSPC Event #1 at the Pennsylvania State Poker Championship. Luke Rothschild has emerged from the pack victorious with a career-high $47,474 score. The seven Day 1 starting flights saw a total of 890 entrants, 113 players made it to Day 2 and secured
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Aug 26, 2024 2 min read Over the years, countless players have experienced all that the European Poker Tour has to offer. Sam Grafton is no exception. So, as the EPT Barcelona festival gets underway today — marking the tour’s 20th anniversary — we spoke with the PokerStars Ambassador about his EPT memories and the
Aug 26, 2024 4 min read George Yazbek was eliminated in 15th place in the World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime Cyprus Championship — but that’s only half the story after one of the craziest coolers reported deep in a poker tournament. The WPT live reporting team captured the four-way all in that could have been
Aug 26, 2024 3 min read Just nine players remain in the WPT Prime Cyprus Championship, all eyeing up the $172,870 that awaits the winner. Leading the way is the same player that started Day 2 as the chip leader Senchylo Zuev who holds a slight lead from Tudor Purice in second and Emile Abi-Daher
Aug 25, 2024 4 min read Seth Davies used a key blocker to pull off a massive bluff in a crucial pot, a hand that helped propel the high-stakes star to a Super High Roller Bowl Cyprus win and $3,206,000. The $300,000 buy-in PokerGO Tour event attracted 24 entrants, creating a prize pool of $7,056,000.
Aug 25, 2024 4 min read Lily Newhouse‘s time on The Big Game on Tour has been nothing short of a rollercoaster. The cancer survivor saw her stack plummet to $14,200 on just the third hand of play of the season after being on the wrong end of a trips versus full house cooler against
Aug 25, 2024 2 min read It’s Day 2 of the WPT Prime Cyprus Main Event, and you can catch all the action from the feature table with the live stream below. WPT Prime San Remo Winner Priamo Carta Eyes WPT World Championship WPT Prime Cyprus Main Event Payouts The remaining players are all guaranteed
Aug 24, 2024 3 min read Last updated Aug 25, 2024 The final two flights of the WPT Prime Cyprus have been completed, with 39 players advancing from the Day 1c field of 313 and 27 making it through from the turbo Day 1d field of 215. The payouts have also been confirmed, with everyone
Aug 24, 2024 2 min read The 2024 Super High Roller Series is currently playing out at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa in North Cyprus. The highlight of the series is the $306,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl IX, which attracted 24 entrants. That made it the 12th-largest field in SHRB history. Day
Aug 24, 2024 4 min read “For better, for worse, for richer, for poorer…” It’s a year and five days since Jamie Nixon married his wife Ellie, and the pair are marking their first wedding anniversary here at WPT Prime Cyprus. The pair, like many, are enjoying the mix of Mediterranean sunshine and exciting WPT
This week on episode 853 of the PokerNews Podcast host Chad Holloway is joined by Kyna England and Mike Holtz. The trio discuss the use of the word “fish” in poker., vloggers and the Royal Flush which disqualified a bad beat jackpot! 00:10 | Welcome Kyna England & Mike Holtz00:15 | Summer Berry Refresher taste
Aug 24, 2024 3 min read As PokerStars celebrates the 20th anniversary of the European Poker Tour (EPT), the company is expanding its reach by forming strategic collaborations with other major poker tours, reshaping the landscape of live poker and offering new opportunities to players worldwide. Julien Liarte, PokerStars’ Live Events Senior Business Development Manager
Aug 24, 2024 3 min read On Day 1a of the WPT Prime Cyprus Main Event, there were 190 players seated at the start of play, with the number of entrants eventually topping out at 340. For Day 1b, things were slightly different with less than half that amount seated to begin Level 1. However,
Aug 23, 2024 3 min read Thomas Keeling, aka “SrslySirius,” clipped a video on X from Ludwig Ahgren, in which the streaming mega star called out ACR Poker for allegedly refusing to pay him out. Ludwig is just a recreational poker player, but he does have some public history playing cards. He appeared in the
Aug 23, 2024 In the 853rd episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is sponsored by PokerStars, Chad Holloway, Kyna England and Mike Holtz are back at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to talk about the term “fish” in poker. It’s a debate set off by veteran poker media member Tiffany Michelle, who used the
Aug 23, 2024 8 min read The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) is celebrating its 20th anniversary at the upcoming EPT Barcelona stop. Since its inception, the EPT has awarded over €575 million in prize money while visiting 24 cities in 19 countries. Fittingly, the EPT celebrates its 20th birthday at the venue that kicked
Aug 23, 2024 4 min read It’s Day 1b of the WPT Prime Cyprus Main Event, and after speaking with Matt Savage yesterday about how WPT Prime allows players to combine poker with the opportunity to travel the world, we found one player doing precisely that. Italian Priamo Carta notched the biggest result of his
Aug 23, 2024 3 min read With a lofty $1,000,000 guarantee, the WPT Prime Cyprus Main Event was always going to attract a healthy field. The $1,100 buy-in tournament is the first on the island, as the tour continues to expand to new destinations, offering the same World Poker Tour experience, regardless of buy-in. The
Aug 23, 2024 4 min read Hustler Casino Live’s Thursday night stream wasn’t an ordinary non-Friday poker game. Two pots cracked $500,000 during the six-hour session, one involving a player who hit quads and earned maximum value. The $200/$400 ($400 big blind ante) no-limit hold’em cash game featured some familiar faces to those who watch
Aug 22, 2024 2 min read Just months after the successful WPT Championship festival at Playground in Montreal, the World Poker Tour announced it will return to Montreal this fall. The WPT Playground festival will take place Oct. 14-30 and will culminate with a CAD $3,500 buy-in WPT Playground Championship event offering a guarantee of