January 18, 2022 Will Shillibier The nominees for the 3rd Global Poker Awards have been unveiled with plenty of familiar faces from the poker world listed among them. The winners will be announced at ceremony on Friday, February 18. The ceremony will be streamed live on PokerGO from the PokerGO Studio at Aria Resort &
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January 18, 2022 Matthew Pitt Team Grosvenor’s Katie Swift sat down with PokerNews and discussed the 2021 poker scene, the resurgent Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT), becoming the United Kingdom’s number one ranked female player, and more. This is part one of two of our exclusive interview with Swift. Swift’s live poker plans took a
January 18, 2022 Matthew Pitt Mikita Badziakouski enjoyed a profitable Sunday on January 16 when he won a high-stakes GGPoker tournament and reached the final table of another for a combined score in excess of $200,000. He now has the chance to add almost $450,000 to that sum because he is the chip leader going
January 17, 2022 Jon Sofen Michael Wang earned one of the biggest wins of his life at the PokerGO Studio Monday afternoon. The poker pro shipped Stairway to Millions Event #5, a $15,800 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament, for $219,300. With the conclusion of Event #5, only two tournaments remain before the highly anticipated $102,000 buy-in
January 17, 2022 Chad Holloway Gianluca Pace of Encinitas, California is the winner of the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour (MSPT) $1,110 Main Event at Sycuan Casino Resort in San Diego. The tournament drew 460 runners over three opening flights as part of the Showdown Series in the MSPT’s kick-off to Season 13. After a final four
January 16, 2022 Jon Sofen Salim Admon arrived at Sunday’s final table of Stairway to Millions Event #4, an $8,400 buy-in no-limit hold’em competition, having never won a live poker tournament, per the Hendon Mob database. He left the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas with his first victory and $138,880 in prize money after defeating
January 17, 2022 Giovanni Angioni Trying to figure out how to get better chances to win at slots but you still don’t know what are the best slots to play to improve your odds? You are not alone. This article does not list all the slots tips under the sun. Instead of focusing on the
January 17, 2022 Calum Grant It may be Blue Monday for some but it is definitely isn’t for a handful of GGPoker players who benefitted from the biggest ever Omaha Bad Beat Jackpot (BBJ) to be paid out on the platform. On Saturday, January 15 a whopping $593,177 was split among the six players at
January 17, 2022 Jon Sofen A security guard at Legends Poker Room in Houston may have prevented a dangerous situation by tackling, and with the help of others, pinned an alleged armed robber down before the incident escalated. Trelynn Robinson, known as “Tek” to locals, wasn’t fazed when a man entered the building at around
January 17, 2022 Matthew Pitt The Sunday tournaments at GGPoker threw up some huge results yet again, and both Jason Koon and Mikita Badziakouski were among the sit’s biggest winners. Koon’s victory came in a relatively new addition to GGPoker’s Sunday schedule, the Sunday Million Super HR. This tournament comes with a bankroll-worrying $25,500 buy-in,
January 17, 2022 Calum Grant The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) New Year Edition Festival is in full swing at King’s Resort, Rozvadov with nine of the 15 ring events playing out to their conclusion. The final day of Ring #7: WSOPC NLH Monsterstack gets underway today while the series’ €1 million guaranteed Main
January 16, 2022 Matthew Pitt Jifeng “Snakey” Huang is a World Series of Poker Circuit champion. The Hong Kong-based grinder came out on top in the $525 WSOP Winter Online Circuit Series Main Event at GGPoker on January 16. Huang’s victory came with a mightily impressive $664,725 payday, and denied David Misickowski a WSOPC ring
January 16, 2022 Jon Sofen Another day, another tournament win for Chance Kornuth, who took down PokerGO’s Stairway to Millions Event #3: $4,200 No-Limit Hold’em on Saturday for $80,640. The Chip Leader Coaching founder, fresh off one of his best years ever in live tournaments, has now won two straight events in the series. He
January 16, 2022 Calum Grant Having a sound knowledge of the fundamentals of preflop play is one of the most important things to know in the beginning stage of your poker journey. The difference between having a winning session or a losing one relies heavily on the hands you choose to play. In the video
January 15, 2022 Chad Holloway From late November through January 9, Venetian Las Vegas hosted a New Year’s edition of their popular DeepStack Extravaganza. Over the course of 56 events, a combined 7,913 entrants competed and $5,100,413 in prize money was awarded. One notable winner was poker pro Ari Engel, who topped a 49-entry field
January 15, 2022 Jon Sofen Two events in the first-ever PokerGO Stairway to Millions series at Aria in Las Vegas are already in the books. At the final table of the second step — $2,150 No-Limit Hold’em — poker pro Chance Kornuth came out victorious for a $51,600 payday. The Chip Leader Coaching founder beat
January 15, 2022 Matthew Pitt It is not exactly warm outside right now, but Unibet Poker has given PokerNews readers the perfect excuse to stay at home by launching the MTT Winter Festival. The weather may be freezing, but the tournament action at Unibet Poker is red hot. The MTT Winter Festival runs from for
January 14, 2022 Matt Hansen Maria Ho found success in poker through her ability to set attainable goals for herself and the determination to work hard and realize her potential. Lately, her objectives have shifted to addressing some of the behaviors that can make the poker community an unwelcome place for recreational players, the people
A new year has started, and the dust has settled on the 2021 World Series of Poker. The late start to the Series in September means that the 2022 WSOP is just around the corner, meaning we get to do it all over again in May. We took a look back at some of the
January 14, 2022 Jon Sofen Chris Moneymaker isn’t a plaintiff in a lawsuit against PayPal, but he could play a key role in assisting Poker League of Nations (PLON) founder Lena Evans in retrieving nearly $27,000 in confiscated funds from the online payment processing giant. The 2003 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion’s