January 10, 2022 Matthew Pitt A New Year often sees the contracts of online poker sites’ sponsored pros and ambassadors end, and those players leave their posts, often for pastures new. This has been the case over at partypoker where no fewer than six of the site’s ambassadors have left the company and will no
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January 10, 2022 Calum Grant Live poker returned in 2021 with a bang with the likes of the World Series of Poker, World Poker Tour and partypoker LIVE hosting marquee events, and the the poker calendar is already starting to fill up for 2022. 888poker Live London Festival kicks off proceedings in the new year
January 10, 2022 Matt Hansen It’s time once again for PokerNews to predict a few of the major plot points in this highly anticipated 2022 poker season. This year’s list of predictions comes with more clarity than a tumultuous 2021 that began with widespread uncertainty and ended with the World Series of Poker playing a
January 10, 2022 Brandon Bloom Over the weekend at Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas, Roger Lens and Christopher Waszczyk finished in the top two spots to win the grand prize in the 2022 Free Poker Network World Series or Bust National Championship. They each won a $10,000 seat into the 2022 World Series of
January 11, 2022 Calum Grant 888poker ambassador Dominik Nitsche and World Poker Tour host Tony Dunst know a thing or two when it comes to analyzing hands from the poker table. Combined, the pair have over $23 million in total live earnings as well as six World Series of Poker gold bracelets. [embedded content] Dunst
January 11, 2022 Matthew Pitt Michael Addamo has the opportunity to write himself into the GGPoker history books by becoming the first player to win the $10,300 Super MILLION$ five times! Addamo is currently tied with Swedish legend Niklas Astedt on four titles. The Australian superstar goes into the latest Super MILLION$ final table holding
January 10, 2022 Nicholas Baltz Kasey Orr was a wrecking ball on the final day of the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) $575 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event $200,000 GTD from Thunder Valley Casino Resort and it resulted in him taking home $65,728 after a deal was made at the beginning of heads-up play. “It feels good
January 07, 2022 Calum Grant Following the conclusion of the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe last month, the WSOP brand has swiftly returned to King’s Resort, Rozvadov to play out their first batch of WSOP Circuit events of the new year. ♦️♠️ The WSOPC has kicked off♥️♣️ €3 Million guaranteed and 15 WSOPC Gold
January 07, 2022 Jon Sofen Move over Ali Imsirovic, Alex Foxen, and Stephen Chidwick, there’s a new sheriff in town and his name is Punnat Punsri, a poker player from Thailand who shipped back-to-back high rollers to start the new year. The Venetian in Las Vegas is currently hosting a high roller mini series with
January 07, 2022 Matthew Pitt We are only a week into 2022 but there are already opportunities to turn a few dollars into a potentially life-changing score at both PokerStars and GGPoker. Both online poker giants have some massive tournaments taking place this weekend, tournaments that have dozens of budget satellites feeding into them. Can
Date Time (GMT) Event Buy-in Guarantee Sun, January 16 6 p.m. XL Winter #1 – $100,000 Opening Event $55 $100,000 Sun, January 16 7 p.m. XL Winter #2 – $20,000 Mini Opening $16.50 $20,000 Sun, January 16 8 p.m. XL Winter #3 – $15,000 Late Opening $33 $15,000 Mon, January 17 6 p.m. XL Winter
January 05, 2022 Jon Sofen The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) is in Northern California at Thunder Valley Casino Resort, and is set to host a $575 buy-in no-limit hold’em Main Event starting January 7. PokerNews will be in attendance live reporting the $200,000 guaranteed poker tournament. The series began January 4 with a $135 buy-in
January 04, 2022 Matthew Pitt Have you made it your 2022 poker goal to win as much money as possible and increase the amount of value you receive from the grind? If your answer is yes, you need to head to Unibet Poker and get involved in the €35,000 Winter Bootcamp and the €31,000 HexaPro
January 03, 2022 Matthew Pitt Happy New Year from everyone at PokerNews! 2022 looks set to be a massive year for online poker if the opening weekend’s action is anything to go by. There were dozens of massive scores on January 3, including one weighing in at $108,655 for the Swedish online poker legend known
January 02, 2022 Jon Sofen Masashi Oya arrived at the Venetian last week seeking his first-ever Hendon Mob database record. He left the Las Vegas resort on Thursday as the champion of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) Season 12 finale, an $1,100 no-limit hold’em tournament that attracted 851 entrants. Although Kyna England, an up-and-coming poker
January 03, 2022 Matthew Pitt Are you thinking of jumping into the online poker world during 2022? The start of a new year gives us a fresh slate to work from, and is the perfect time to embark on a new poker journey. 2022 looks set to be an incredible year for online poker players;
January 03, 2022 Jon Sofen Following a lengthy pandemic delay, the Free Poker Network will host its anticipated World Series or Bust National Championship at Golden Nugget in Las Vegas from January 7-9. PokerNews will provide extensive coverage for the January 9 Championship Event along with two qualifying tournaments on January 8. The top two
December 28, 2021 Matthew Pitt The final Super MILLION$ of 2021 is at the final table stage after the 261 starters were whittled down to the final nine on Day 1. Each of the nine finalists is guaranteed to take home $63,611, but one of them will walk away with $508,891 and the title of
December 29, 2021 Matthew Pitt PokerNews continues its countdown of the ten biggest and most popular stories of 2021 with the incredible year of the one and only Phil Hellmuth Jr, who comes in at number three. There are few poker players who divide opinion as much as the polarizing character that his Phil Hellmuth.
December 29, 2021 Matthew Pitt Ognyan “fizoka” Dimov reached the final table of the GGPoker Super MILLION$ last week, but had to make do with a fourth-place finish. Dimov navigated his way to this week’s final table where he started fourth in chips, almost 60 big blinds behind the leader, Ravid Garbi. Dimov made amends