Aug 22, 2024 2 min read Adrian Mateos added to his 2024 GPI Player of the Year lead on Thursday by taking down Super High Roller Series Cyprus Event #6: $25,750 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty for $162,000, and another $165,000 in bounties. The Spanish poker legend wasn’t the biggest winner in the tournament, however. Phil
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Aug 22, 2024 4 min read It’s award-winning. It’s global. And it just broke the record for the largest event in its history. And now the WPT Prime brand rolls on to Cyprus and the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Spa for a $2.5 million GTD festival in the Mediterranean. To learn more about the brand
Aug 22, 2024 4 min read Tiffany Michelle shared a hand history on X from the Arizona State Poker Championships at Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale. That isn’t the full story, though. Michelle’s a longtime respected and talented poker content creator who has reported on more tournaments than we can count. But in this event,
Date Day Start Time Event 08-Sep Sun 08:05 WCOOP 02-L: $5.50 NLHE [WCOOP Kickoff], $50K Gtd 08-Sep Sun 08:05 WCOOP 02-M: $55 NLHE [WCOOP Kickoff], $200K Gtd 08-Sep Sun 08:05 WCOOP 02-H: $530 NLHE [WCOOP Kickoff], $200K Gtd 08-Sep Sun 10:05 WCOOP 03-L: $11 NLHE [Mystery Warm-Up], $100K Gtd 08-Sep Sun 10:05 WCOOP 03-M: $109
Aug 22, 2024 3 min read Amateur poker’s premium live festival, the Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) World Championship Of Amateur Poker (WCOAP), kicked off over the weekend atDusk Till Dawn, Nottingham. Every entrant wants to win their respective event not only to give their bankrolls a cash injection but also because each champion
Aug 21, 2024 3 min read Before this month’s World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Graton stop, Andreas Kniep had been heads-up for a Circuit ring three times without ever being able to close out. The German-turned-Californian can now boast a Circuit ring after taking down Event #5: $600 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed for $15,907. Kniep,
Aug 21, 2024 3 min read The poker community received sad news recently that Wisconsin’s Alexander Hill, who final tabled the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Seniors Event two years ago, died due to complications with cancer. “The poker community and his poker buddies meant so, so much to him,” Hill’s son, Alex Kestrel, wrote
Aug 21, 2024 2 min read BetMGM has made online casino history with the announcement that a New Jersey player has won a record-breaking $6.4 million progressive jackpot – the largest in the history of online casinos in the United States. The record-breaking win, totaling exactly $6,450,023.04, occurred on the morning of August 19th, when
Aug 21, 2024 3 min read The folks at Grosvenor Casinos are just about recovered from the massive 2024 Goliath festival that saw William Watkins turn £200 into £166,058 after a nine-way deal at the final table earlier this month. That well-deserved rest is about to be broken with the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT)
Aug 21, 2024 3 min read Episode 4 of 888poker’s exciting docuseries sees the Team 888poker members return to the Horseshoe and Pris Las Vegas for Day 2 of the $10,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Five team members sat down at their respective tables, but only three of them progressed to Day
Aug 21, 2024 4 min read The World Poker Tour continued to live up to its global moniker, with another Prime Championship in the books after a two-week visit to Taipei City in Taiwan. The headline event of the series, the WPT Prime Taiwan Championship, was a massive success. It became the largest field size
Aug 20, 2024 3 min read A former waitress at an illegal underground poker club in Connecticut told the U.S. Sun she had no involvement in a botched armed robbery attempt that ended with both robbers being shot to death. Bridgeport police, however, tell a different story, claiming that Shanica Merced assisted in plotting to
Aug 20, 2024 4 min read The fourth season of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) run by Pokerstars is well underway and the action only continues to heat up with the recent schedule release for its marquee stop in Las Vegas. Running from Friday November 1st through Sunday November 10th at Resorts World Las
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Aug 20, 2024 2 min read The Super High Roller Series is in full swing at Merit Royal Diamond Hotel and Spa and two winners have already been crowned on the sunny shores of North Cyprus. The renowned series, a collaboration between PokerGO and the Onyx Club at Merit Royal Cyprus, runs Aug. 17-25 and
Aug 20, 2024 3 min read The $8 million guaranteed Summer Festival wrapped up on WPT Global over the weekend, and it’s safe to say WPT Global’s management staff will be delighted with how the series panned out. Some 15,850 players from 80 countries logged into their WPT Global accounts during the Summer Festival, highlighting
Aug 20, 2024 3 min read The $1,050 buy-in WCOOP Boot Camp Main Event drew in 502 entrants to PokerStars, and Sweden’s Simon “C. Darwin2” Mattsson outlasted them all. Mattsson added $76,031 to his online poker tournament lifetime winnings of over $35 million after coming out on top of the star-studded field. The $1,050 Main
Aug 20, 2024 4 min read GTO Wizard, poker’s leading training platform, is offering an exclusive chance to take your tournament game to new heights with the ICM Masterclass Bootcamp. Taking place from August 23-24, this immersive experience is led by six elite coaches with over $32.6 million in combined MTT cashes and an average
Aug 19, 2024 4 min read Jennifer Tilly, as has often been the case during Season 13, was the star of the show on High Stakes Poker’s newest episode. But she’d find herself in need of a two-outer against Andrew Robl or lose what turned out to be the largest pot of the current season.
Aug 19, 2024 3 min read Women in Poker Hall of Famer Kathy Liebert won her latest poker trophy and added to her nearly $7 million in live earnings this month as she took down the Wynn Signature Series Ladies Event at Wynn Las Vegas for $5,806. Liebert, wearing her favorite color purple, topped a