Dec 18, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents Justin Bonomo informed his X followers that he’d been threatened with a disqualification deep in the $25,000 World Series of Poker Paradise (WSOPP) Super Main Event for wearing a keffiyeh. The $50 million guaranteed record-breaking tournament, at the time of publishing, was down to 15 of
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Dec 18, 2024 2 min read The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is wrapping up 2024 down in The Bahamas with WSOP Paradise, but they’re already looking ahead to the New Year by announcing the dates for the 56th Annual WSOP in Las Vegas. For the fourth consecutive year, the summer WSOP will take place
Dec 18, 2024 4 min read A few short years ago, there was a span when there was no better poker player on the planet and no one more feared on the felt than Michael Addamo. Today on Day 3 of the WSOP Paradise $25,000 Super Main Event, Addamo wound back the clock. Addamo was
Dec 18, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents Ensure you have February 21 through March 2, 2025, free in your diaries because those are the dates the 2025 Kings of Tallinn festival takes place at the Olympic Park Casino and Hilton Tallinn in Estonia. The popular poker festival is celebrating its 10th birthday, having
Dec 18, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents While it is often the case that multi-table tournament players receive the attention of the poker community, there is something exciting and alluring about high-stakes cash games. Watching the world’s best players battle it out in high-stakes online cash games is super-exciting. Those high-stakes games have
Dec 17, 2024 2 min read Political polling guru Nate Silver and 2023 WPT Prime Championship winner Calvin Anderson are among the 299 players who bagged chips on Day 2 of the $10,400 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship Tuesday night. Malcolm Trayner bagged the chip lead. Ernest Bush went out in 300th place,
Dec 17, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents The second Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam at Albania’s Arena Casino Tirana is set to take place in 2025 after a successful event in November that produced some of the biggest PLO fields in European history. PokerNews will be on-site for the €5 million guaranteed
Dec 17, 2024 2 min read The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise $25,000 Super Main Event attracted 1,978 entrants, and along with 90 online qualifiers joining the field, 297 players returned for Day 3 action. One of those was GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu, who was sitting pretty with 5,795,000 in chips. That put
Dec 17, 2024 2 min read Poker content creator extraordinaire Joey Ingram is rebuilding a stack after losing a cooler monster pot on Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn. The $10,400 buy-in tournament attracted 2,392 players and is scheduled to play five 90-minute levels on Tuesday. It’s unlikely the
Dec 17, 2024 Life Outside Poker is a podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level. In the 22nd episode, Connor speaks with poker coach Jonathan Little about the early days of
Dec 17, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents Montenegro’s “la.creme” is the latest 888poker player to emerge victoriously from the $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event. The latest champion outlasted 933 opponents and saw $8,993 land in his 888poker account, the perfect end to 2024. The 934 starters were reduced to only eight on Day
Dec 17, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents On December 6, PokerStars US launched the 25 Days of Poker Madness promotion on its various North American platforms. The promotion offers players a chance to play in a series of daily tournaments with buy-ins of $25. As part of the promotion, these daily tournaments will
Dec 16, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents As the clock struck 8 p.m. on Monday at Wynn Las Vegas, late registration for the $10,400 WPT World Championship officially closed, locking in the final numbers for the series showstopper of the World Poker Tour World Championships (WPTWC). Before the start of the third starting
Dec 16, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents The World Poker Tour World Championship has swiftly cemented its place as one of the most prestigious events on the poker calendar in just three short years. Hosted at the Wynn Las Vegas, the atmosphere has nothing short of electric, with the likes of the WPT
Dec 16, 2024 2 min read Phil Hellmuth stone bubbled the largest guaranteed event in poker history this evening in the Bahamas, an exciting exclamation point on an action-packed Day 2 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise Super Main Event. Hellmuth was short with four players remaining in the $25,000 buy-in event and
Dec 16, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents Alongside the ClubWPT Gold $5M Freeroll Finale and the 2025 McLaren GTS Prize Draw, poker action at the World Poker Tour World Championships was in full swing with Day 1B of the WPT World Championship and the final day of the WPT Ladies Championship. The Ladies
Dec 16, 2024 2 min read Phil Hellmuth has a reputation for being on the tighter side of things, but that wasn’t the case in the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise $25,000 Super Main Event when he called off preflop with queen-deuce after starting the hand with 26 big blinds. The hand took
Dec 16, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents The World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas is going strong. While the $10,400 WPT World Championship is happening now, several other tournaments on the schedule are in the books. That includes the $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Championship attracted a massive field of
Dec 16, 2024 4 min read Table Of Contents When it comes to hitting jump shots, getting to the rim and setting his teammates up to score, retired San Antonio Spurs point guard Tony Parker is in a league of his own. This week in the Bahamas, the four-time NBA champion proved he also has
Dec 16, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents On Sunday night, Chase Bricker became the newest poker millionaire at the World Poker Tour World Championships (WPTWC) by winning the largest freeroll in poker history, the ClubWPT Gold $5M Freeroll Invitational. The 36-year-old businessman from Texas claimed every last chip at the table, defeating runner-up