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March 14, 2024 There’s plenty to look forward to across the calendar year when it comes to 888poker. Not only has a full season of 888poker LIVE events already scheduled, but the brand also launched a UK Poker League, which has been a success so far. And with the countdown underway for their festival in

March 14, 2024 Seventeen months after authorities raided the Watauga Social Lounge Poker Club during a $100,000 guaranteed tournament, the card room’s owner, Joe Vongkaysone, has reached a plea deal and will avoid jail time. But he’s out a significant amount of money from the legal fight. Vongkaysone, who issued a statement to PokerNews following

March 14, 2024 We all know that online casinos change their offers like we change our socks, but at PokerNews we remain committed to bringing you the best casino bonuses, as soon as we spot a deal. On that note, let’s take a closer look at the current 888casino bonus in the UK, which is

March 14, 2024 Triton Poker Jeju is in the tail end of its No Limit Hold’em Events, with only the $100K Main Event left to play out. There have been several high-profile winners across the festival, with plenty of seven-figure scores handed out but those paydays pale in comparison to the figurative treasure chest Elton

March 14, 2024 The 2024 $3,500 Wynn Millions Championship has come to an end and Neel Murthy is the winner after he defeated Chris Frank in heads-up play. The tournament drew a total of 1,180 entries across three opening flights, with 236 of them turning out for Day 1a. Day 1b drew 403 entries and

March 14, 2024 In a shock announcement, PokerStars have announced 2024 EPT Paris champion Barny Boatman as the latest member of Team Pro. Less than three weeks after winning €1.2m in the French capital, the British poker legend was unveiled by James Hartigan and Joe Stapleton at a special live recording of Poker in the

March 13, 2024 Connecticut’s Soheb Porbandarwala won his 12th World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring this week as he took down the $1,700 buy-in WSOPC Horseshoe Hammond Main Event for $257,725. The WSOP Hammond stop in the Chicago area ran Feb. 29-March 11 and consisted of more than a dozen ring events that generated

March 13, 2024 On Monday, Mike Matusow promised the “old school” version of “The Mouth” would appear on Hustler Casino Live. Two sessions of play later and he proved he wasn’t all talk. The four-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner first played on “Max Pain Monday,” a popular gimmicky weekly show that features

March 13, 2024 There’s good news and bad news for Kevin Martin on his 24/7 live-streaming bankroll challenge. The good news is he’s reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers. But the bad news is he’s only about 20% of the way to his $5,000 online poker goal after 13 days. Martin, a reality TV star who appeared

March 13, 2024 Freeroll tournaments at most online poker sites tend to have small prize pools, but WPT Global is not like most poker sites. WPT Global gives all of its players the chance to play in a $10,000 freeroll, where the champion is guaranteed to take home $1,000, just for reloading their account with

March 12, 2024 The poker community recently received sad news that Florida poker player and World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Ring winner Ryan Estrada passed away unexpectedly in a motorcycle accident. Estrada was a grinder from Sunrise, FL who was active in the Florida poker community and earned $316,969 in live earnings since his

March 12, 2024 The latest PokerGO Tour (PGT) series wrapped up this week with the completion of PGT Mixed Games 2024, a series that ran Feb. 28-March 8 and consisted of various mixed game events with buy-ins ranging from $5,100 to $25,300. While he didn’t take home any trophies, the true dominator of the high-stakes

March 12, 2024 The World Poker Tour (WPT) is truly becoming a world poker tour. For the first time in the WPT Main Tour’s 22-year history, an event will take place in Macau, China this coming summer. Macau, considered the Las Vegas of Asia, is a gambling and poker hotbed and has played host for

March 12, 2024 There have been a plethora of seven-figure payouts at Triton Poker’s jaunt in Jeju for its super high roller series, and the biggest prize of the festival so far was just dished out. A cool $2,010,000 awaited the winner in Event #8: $50K NLH 7-Handed and the poker wizard to claim the

March 12, 2024 Guests: Tom Dwan In the 820th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway sat down with Tom “durrrr” Dwan for a 45-minute in-depth conversation about the debt allegations recently level against him by Peter Jetten and Haralabos Voulgaris. Jetten, who has over $9.3 million in The Hendon Mob cashes, was first to

March 12, 2024 The second annual Baller Dream Celebrity Poker Tournament, a charity event hosted by former Major League Baseball (MLB) star Greg Maddux, takes place April 27-28 at Circa Resort & Casino in Las Vegas. Maddux, winner of four straight Cy Young awards from 1992-1995, hosted the event last year, along with his daughter,

March 12, 2024 Boom Fantasy is one of the top apps for playing daily fantasy sports in the US, and this PokerNews review will give you everything you need to get started. From promotions to the dozens of states where the app is offered, here is everything you need to know about Boom Fantasy. What

March 12, 2024 The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) launched in 2007 and is still going strong today. Now in its 18th season, the popular tour has visited dozens of cities across the United Kingdom, with the seaside town of Blackpool ever-present throughout its existence. Blackpool is famous for its pleasure beach, “The Big One”

March 11, 2024 We’d already picked out Pulsz Social Casino as one of our favorite new sweepstakes casinos here at PokerNews, and that was before we found out about their St Patrick Day ‘Luck of the Irish Draw! This St Patrick’s Day, you could be in with a shot at a share of 2 MILLION

March 12, 2024 Happy memories came flooding back for Nick “eastyyy22” Eastwood when he saw 888poker had launched its Stream On contest, with the online poker giant searching for a new member of the 888poker Stream Team. Eastwood joined the 888poker Stream Team in July 2021, and he cannot wait to be one of the