Table Of Contents The 2025 Grosvenor Goliath is rapidly approaching, and everything points toward it being another record-breaking event. Since its launch in 2011, the Goliath’s attendance has increased year-on-year (with the exception of the COVID years), culminating in a massive 11,749 turnout for the 2024 edition. Hundreds of players have won their £200 Goliath seats online at PokerStars, which is one of the reasons the tournament could set another record attendance.

Table Of Contents The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) continued at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas on July 1, the 36th day of this exciting festival. Six events played out while a wind and dust storm engulfed Sin City. When that dust had settled, literally, two players had captured gold bracelets, while four other bracelet-awarding events edged closer to awarding theirs. You’ve heard of the poker phrase “a chip and a chair,” right?

Table Of Contents The phrase “a chip and a chair” has been commonplace among tournament poker players for decades, referencing Jack Straus’ 1982 Main Event victory after being left with a single chip. Longtime tournament grinder Michael Wang found himself in a similar position yesterday after doubling up Poker Hall of Famer Erik Seidel in a hand that left Wang with just 65,000. Down to his last five chips, worth two-thirds of a big blind at the time, Wang was all in automatically the next hand just from posting the big blind.

Table Of Contents All eyes were on Event #76: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) on Tuesday as Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu chased his eighth bracelet, requiring the tournament to move to the feature table for an emergency stream. Negreanu, who was at his fifth final table of the summer, came short as he finished in fourth place before Florida’s Aaron Kupin defeated heads-up opponent Marco Johnson to win $206,982 and his first bracelet.

Ben Mintz, aka “Mintzy,” on Tuesday, took one of the dirtiest bad beats we’ve seen all summer at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). The Barstool Sports personality, thanks to a one-outer on the river, is out of Event #75: $1,000 Mini Main Event on Day 2. He earned a small cash but was devastated by the manner in which he exited the tournament. Rough Way to Go Out Mintzy picked up pocket aces in a hand, a welcome sight for the short-stacked player trying to build a stack to make a run at the final table in a 10,794-entrant field.

Table Of Contents Daniel Negreanu has had a stellar 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and “Kid Poker” isn’t slowing down. Negreanu just reached his fifth final table of the summer in Event #76: $2,500 Mixed Big Bet. Negreanu entered the third and final day of the Mixed Big Bet event with 83 big blinds, good to be tied second in chips with Marco Johnson and within reach of chip leader Aaron Kupin.

Table Of Contents At PokerNews, we always love to go the extra mile for our fans. When the opportunity presented itself last year to attach our name to a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet event, the $600 Deepstack Championship, we jumped right at the chance to go above and beyond to celebrate those achieving the pinnacle of poker success. Sponsoring an event of this magnitude is a rare privilege, which is why PokerNews once again has added unique, commemorative, and, above all, valuable extra prizes to what’s already going to be a bumper field of thousands with a prize pool exceeding seven figures.

Former NFL running back Adrian Peterson could get a rematch from the poker player he brawled with inside a Texas poker room in May. But this time, the fight might take place on Pay-Per-View instead of the JokerStars card room in Houston. Peterson, who retired from the NFL in 2021 after 15 stellar seasons, has become a mainstay in Texas poker clubs. He’s even appeared on Hustler Casino Live and the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT).

Table Of Contents It took less than 90 minutes from the first cards being dealt to the champion being crowned at this week’s $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event final table. Eight players from a field of 945 returned to 888poker on Tuesday to conclude the tournament, and it was Ukraine’s “PasHTeT25” who survived the madness and became a poker champion. All the big mystery bounties had been claimed before the final table was set.

Table Of Contents Players from Brazil occupied the top three spots in the PokerStars Jet Set Cruise progressive knockout tournament this weekend. The $75 buy-in, $500,000 guaranteed event saw 7,115 players take to PokerStars’ virtual felt, and “manocaio” outlasted them all. With bounty payments included, the Brazilian champion padded their bankroll with $45,580, an impressive return on their singular $75 bullet. The eventual champion built a large stack on Day 1 and returned to the action in the top ten.

Table Of Contents June 30 was the 35th day of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, and it had everything. Controversy, victory, multi-tabling, and more went down as we enter the latter stages of what has been another incredible WSOP. First, let’s get the controversy out of the way. The WSOP decided not to award a bracelet in Event #53: $1,500 Millionaire Maker after Jesse Yaginuma’s comeback “victory” over James Carroll.

Table Of Contents An incredible feat, Event #67: $300 Gladiators of Poker proved to be the second-largest poker tournament field in history. From a gargantuan 24,629 total entries filtered down to the 812 that made Day 2, it was a whirlwind for all the 13 valiant competitors who advanced to the final day at Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas. Those lucky 13 battled down to the one and only, Ian Pelz, who played confidentially for three days and somehow seemed in control of a heads up match that he started in a two-to-one deficit.

Jesse Yaginuma and James Carroll, alleged to have participated in a chip-dumping scheme, will receive their seven-figure payouts from the World Series of Poker (WSOP). But the winner won’t take home the gold bracelet, per a tweet. The poker pros with over $9 million in combined live tournament cashes were accused of colluding during heads-up play in the $1,500 buy-in Millionaire Maker event to allow Yaginuma, who stood to win an extra $1 million from ClubWPT Gold, to win the bracelet.

Alex Foxen left the Horseshoe on a Day 3 dinner break on Monday at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) to take his seat in another tournament across town that was approaching the money bubble. The high roller traveled a mile up the Strip to Wynn Las Vegas, where Day 2 in the $10,400 buy-in Wynn Summer Championship took place. He bagged a stack on a Day 1 flight and played briefly early in the Day 2 session before returning to the WSOP for Day 3 of Event #74: $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship.

Table Of Contents The 14th Annual Daniel Negreanu 25K Fantasy League set a record this year with 24 teams each ponying up $25,000 to create a $250,000 prize pool. The top five finishers will get paid, with the winning team taking home $250,000, the runner-up $125,000, and third place $100,000. Fourth and fifth will earn $75,000 and $50,000, respectively. Each team drafted eight players, meaning the league is comprised of 192 players, not to mention 114 bonus players listed in ODB’s $500 sister league.

Are you ready for a new poker show starring arguably the most famous poker player in the world? Phil Hellmuth Jr. might be busy pursuing his 18th gold bracelet at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), but that isn’t stopping him from launching his new show Hellmuth’s Home Game presented by Poker Night in America (PNIA) and sponsored by BetRivers. Debuting Monday, June 30 on CBS Sports and airing weekly at 10 p.

PartyPoker launched its live tour in April 2025, the aptly named PartyPoker Tour. Although in its infancy, the tour is already seeing repeat customers. Now that PartyPoker has unveiled its team of PartyPoker Tour ambassadors seven more familiar faces should be see on the tour’s various stops. Former Hendon Mobster Joe Beevers, Barry “Meme Lord” Carter, and Hearts of Queens founder Natalie Bromley were already confirmed as PartyPoker Tour ambassadors a while ago.

Table Of Contents It has been another week of WSOP Online bracelets at the 2025 World Series of Poker. In that time, four more online bracelets have been awarded and four more happy bracelet winners created. Darren Elias won his first bracelet and Shaun Deeb just missed his seventh. Wantman Denies Deeb in $600 Monsterstack Shaun Deeb came within a hair’s breadth of earning himself a seventh WSOP bracelet when he found himself heads up with Matthew Wantman.

Table Of Contents June 29 was the 34th day of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) here at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Although it was one of the less busy days that we have seen, with only six events in play, there was no shortage of action or stories coming from Sin City. Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi made WSOP history by winning his fourth $50,000 Poker Players Championship title.

Table Of Contents After winning this event last year and finishing runner-up in 2023, Japan’s Shiina Okamoto etched her name into poker history by accomplishing what once seemed impossible: winning the back-to-back Ladies Championship at the World Series of Poker. The pressure was on Okamoto as she began the day with a commanding chip lead, with all eyes on her to see if she could repeat the feat. She didn’t falter under the spotlight, ultimately triumphing over 1,368 competitors to claim the top prize of $184,094 in Event #70: $1,000 Ladies Championship at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas.

Table Of Contents Narcis Nedelcu has won his fair share of poker tournaments over the years (both live and online), but never on the grandest stage of them all — the World Series of Poker. That all changed today after the Romanian poker pro overcame a record 789-entry field in Event #73: $1,500 Eight Game Mix and defeated the formidable Scott Abrams heads-up to claim his first WSOP bracelet and the $184,683 first-place prize.

Table Of Contents After four days of poker, the $1,000 Ladies Championship will crown a winner today after a frenetic Day 3 at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas reduced the field to just seven finalists. Always an event guaranteed to deliver compelling storylines (see PokerNews reporter Gabby Barredo who captured a hand where a player pushed all-in with her husband’s ashes yesterday), the WSOP’s flagship female event has drawn 1,368 entrants this year with Japanese star Shiina Okamoto in pole position to win back to back titles and maintain her stranglehold on the event.

Table Of Contents One win (so far). One second-place finish. Three final table appearances, all within the past three years … in the same event. Let us introduce Japanese poker player Shiina Okamoto, the defending champion in the $1,000 Ladies Championship at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), who will enter Sunday’s final table with the chip lead. Michael Mizrachi made history on Saturday by winning his fourth Poker Players Championship bracelet.

Table Of Contents Day 33 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas saw three more bracelets find three more wrists. The biggest story of the day was Michael Mizrachi winning the $50,000 Poker Player’s Championship for the fourth time. This achievement — four victories in arguably the most prestigious event at the World Series of Poker — is unique. It also shunted Mizrachi into the similarly rarefied class of seven-time bracelet winners.

Table Of Contents For more than 30 years, California casino owner Wil Wilkinson has been grinding the World Series of Poker, amassing a record of eight final tables, 20 cashes, and more than $1 million in career winnings. One thing Wilkinson had never done, though, was win a bracelet. He left that to his son, Alex Wilkinson, who finally brought the coveted piece of WSOP gold jewelry back home to his family today by taking down Event #71: $10,000 2-7 Triple Draw Championship.

Table Of Contents Day 4 of Event #68: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em at the 2025 World Series of Poker saw only 16 hopefuls return from the substantial 2,338 total field. In the end it was Yilong Wang, who took home the gold and the massive $830,685 first place prize. Wang defeated Ran Ilani in heads up play despite the latter entering the final two with a near 2:1 chip advantage. Winner’s Reaction Yilong Wang managed to double his career earnings along with earning a shiny new bracelet and when asked what it meant to him, here’s what he had to say:

Table Of Contents Michael Mizrachi has once again raised the bar in what can be argued as poker’s most prestigious event. Already sharing the record for most $50,000 Poker Players Championship victories with Brian Rast, Mizrachi now stands alone after capturing his historic fourth title on Saturday at the 2025 World Series of Poker. “The Grinder” conquered the 107-entry field, earning $1,331,322 from the $5,162,750 prize pool and further cementing his legacy as the event’s most dominant force.

Table Of Contents Ever misread your poker hand and felt like an amateur? Don’t worry. Even Daniel Negreanu does it. The Poker Hall of Famer and seven-time WSOP bracelet winner has been eliminated from this year’s $10,000 Pot-Limit Omaha Championship after a rare misread led him to shove all-in against American player Mark Steinberg with his tournament life on the line. It marks the second championship exit of the week for Negreanu, who was also bounced from the $50,000 Poker Players Championship by none other than Phil Hellmuth.

Table Of Contents The alleged chip dumping scandal that occurred earlier this week in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Millionaire Maker event may have seemed egregious to many poker pros. But the players involved, if they did indeed collude, didn’t make it nearly as obvious as the heads-up foes in a 2018 World Poker Tour (WPT) event. Jesse Yaginuma won the $1,500 Milly Maker on Wednesday for over $1.2 million and an extra $1 million via a promotion from ClubWPT Gold.

Table Of Contents Michael Mizrachi could be just hours away from pulling off what many will likely consider the greatest accomplishment in poker history. “The Grinder” enters Day 5 on Saturday as the chip leader in Event #66: $50,000 Poker Players Championship at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). He’s among the seven remaining players out of the original 107 chasing the gold bracelet and the $1,331,322 first-place prize.

Table Of Contents Winning $1.2 million across three sessions on Hustler Casino Live during the Million Dollar Game isn’t newsworthy. But doing so any other time of year is rare. Henry Guttman, aka “King Henry,” was the biggest winner on the show for three straight appearances over the past two weeks, and he more than doubled his lifetime HCL profits. The heater every poker player dreams about began on a June 11 stream where he won $276,250.

Table Of Contents That’s three more tournaments completed for the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas! On Day 32 of the series, three more bracelets found their way to three more happy winners. The first of these winners was Lonny Weitzel, who raked in $356,494 for his win in the $1,000 Super Seniors tournament. The second bracelet went to Blaz Zerjav who scored a nice $153,487 win in Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 Or Better.

Table Of Contents Event #72: $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty No-Limit Hold’em (8-Handed) at the 2025 World Series of Poker started at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas at midday. Just 15 hours later, the 809 entrants to this tournament had been whittled down to just one. Rainer Kempe not only won a highly coveted World Series of Poker Bracelet but also earned a huge top prize of $892,701, which has been supplemented by an additional $27,000 from other players bounties, and $3,000 from his own.

Table Of Contents Blaz Zerjav continued his breakout summer with a second bracelet win at the 2025 World Series of Poker, taking down Event #69: $1,500 Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo 8 Or Better at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Zerjav, who previously won Event #22: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed High Roller, now adds a mixed-game title to his growing resume. He earned $153,487 for the victory, capping off what has already been a magical run.

Lonny Weitzel outlasted 3,338 total entries in Event #64 $1,000 Super Seniors No-Limit Hold’em event at the 2025 World Series of Poker to win his first gold bracelet and the first-place prize of $356,494 at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. When it’s meant to be, it’s meant to be. Weitzel did so by spiking a two-outer with pocket eights against the pocket queens of Damir Stefanic to win the title.

Esther Taylor has made history by becoming the second-ever woman to cash the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, after making the final table of one of the summer’s showpiece events. The American, who has over $2.3 million in total live earnings, joins trailblazer Melissa Burr as the second female player to cash the event, eleven years on from Burr’s 7th-place finish in 2014 for $165,435. Taylor, who has already locked up a minimum of $142,720 by making the final eight, enters the final table on the penultimate day of the event seventh in chips with 1,870,000.