May 07, 2024 Lightening has struck twice for Chris Johnson, who can now call himself a two-time Grosvenor UK poker Tour (GUKPT) Main Event champion. Johnson triumphed in the GUKPT Leeds Main Event in September 2022, taking home a career-best £73,070. Fas-forward to May 2024, and Johnson was the last player standing in the GUKPT
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May 06, 2024 Day 3 in the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship on Monday began with 35 players, but only six of them still have a shot at the $361,600 first place prize. One of those individuals — Eric Afriat — has an opportunity to make history. There won’t be a Day
May 06, 2024 High Stakes Poker Season 12, which airs on PokerGO, continued Monday night with the penultimate episode of the season. It was a continuation of last week’s $1,000/$2,000 game featuring Santhosh Suvarna and Andrew Robl, who two weeks earlier squared off in a $992,000 pot, the largest in High Stakes Poker history. The
May 06, 2024 The final day of the $1,100 Luxon Pay Mystery Bounty, running at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel and Casino in Northern Cyprus as part of the 2024 Mediterranean Poker Party, has now concluded. It took more than 18 hours of grinding on Day 2 for Aleksey Savenkov to emerge as the winner,
May 06, 2024 Known as one of the best in the world during the 2000s, Erick Lindgren is back in the spotlight with a deep run in the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship. On a Day 3 break Monday afternoon, with 23 players remaining out of 606, “E-Dawg” spoke with PokerNews to
May 06, 2024 Last week, a video surfaced apparently showing a false shuffle taking place at Legends Poker Room in Houston. On Monday, a known card sharp who co-founded the Hollywood high-stakes poker game that inspired the book and movie, Molly’s Game, released a video exposing how he claims the dealer cheated, and provided some
May 06, 2024 Poker At The Lodge ran three live streams over the weekend—two $5/$10 cash game streams and a tournament stream. The two cash streams stood out with some massive hands despite the relatively low stakes. These big hands included a massive three-way pre-flop cooler and a hand where “Hai” made a $7,000 bluff
Date Time (ET) Event Buy-in Guarantee Sun 12 May 5:15 p.m. XL Spring #01 – $1,200 Micro Opening Ceremony 11 $11 $1,200 6:30 p.m. XL Spring #02 – $30,000 Opening Ceremony $109 $30,000 7:00 p.m. XL Spring – $10,000 Sunday High Roller $525 $10,000 7:00 p.m. XL Spring #03 – $5,000 Mini
Date Time ET Tournament Name GC Buyin Guarantee Sun 05 May 2024 2:00 PM Rattlesnake Opening GC 2,000,000 Freeroll [Turbo] 0 N/A Mon 06 May 2024 7:30 PM GPC Rattlesnake 01-L: NLHE GC 4,000,000 Guaranteed 11,000 4,000,000 Mon 06 May 2024 8:30 PM GPC Rattlesnake 01-M: NLHE GC 10,000,000 Guaranteed 33,000
May 06, 2024 It took little over thirteen hours on the final day, but eventually Iman Alsaden emerged triumphant in the RunGood Poker Series $800 Main Event at Hollywood Casino in St. Louis, MO. After four opening flights, the total field of 586 combined on Day 2 where just 71 players returned. Alsaden started the
May 06, 2024 888poker is gearing up for the latest edition of its ever-popular XL Spring Series. Running from May 12-28, the XL Spring series features 43 numbered events and more than a dozen side events thawith combined guaranteed prize pools tipping the scales at over $2.3 million. The 888poker XL Spring Festival shuffles up
May 06, 2024 Welcome to PokerNews and our daily coverage of the 2024 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars. Over the next three weeks, we’ll be bringing you all the latest from the festival, checking in on the performance of PokerStars Ambassadors, and keeping tabs on the all-important SCOOP League, where poker fans
May 05, 2024 The money bubble has burst in the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship, a relief to the final 76 players. But with first place set to pay $361,600, the real pressure for those still standing has just begun as the tournament heads into Day 3. As the dinner break began,
May 05, 2024 Kasey Lyn Mills added another cash to her stellar year on Sunday in the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship, and she still has a healthy stack playing for her share of a $2.1 million prize pool. On the Day 2 dinner break, the Oklahoma native who now resides in
May 05, 2024 There are many ways to put poker chips in the pot, but this might be a new one. During the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) Invitational III in Las Vegas, contortionist Sofie Dossi shocked the players around her as she mounted a side table, pulled her legs over her head and moved all
May 05, 2024 Doug Polk already owns the largest poker room in Texas — The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock — but he’s looking to branch out to other cities within the Lone Star State. The Upswing Poker founder, who provided some details of his plans to PokerNews, has done some research on where
May 05, 2024 Rising Swiss poker prodigy Luca Marki has been making quite the name for himself on the European poker circuit this year. After a second-place finish for €606,750 in the €10K EPT High Roller earlier this year in Paris, Marki one-upped himself with a payday of €1,085,970 in the final €25K High Roller
May 05, 2024 There were times during the final table of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Monte Carlo Main Event that it seemed like it was fate for Derk van Luijk to be the one to hoist the gold-plated trophy at the end. The 43-year-old Dutchman was all in yesterday with ace-jack against aces
May 04, 2024 Someone is going to win a ton of money on May 30 when the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship concludes. And no doubt the $3,800 entry fee isn’t just some pocket change. But there’s more to this major poker tournament than just the money involved. On the Day 1b dinner break
May 04, 2024 Tom Joy made the trip to Durant, Oklahoma for the $3,800 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Championship thanks to winning a PokerNews freeroll on ClubWPT, and he’s hoping a poker legend will bring him some good fortune. The 39-year-old from Round Rock, Texas entered Saturday’s Day 1b session with his sights