Justin Tsui Banks £100K and the GUKPT Main Event Title in Coventry Justin Tsui is your 2024 GUKPT Main Event champion. Tsui came out on top of a 632-strong field and banked £100000 after a four-handed chop in Coventry.

The Grosvenor G Casino in Coventry is full to capacity, with hundreds of poker players competing in the 2024 edition of the Goliath. While the lure of a potential £1.5 million prize pool for a £200 entry is tempting, there is more to the Goliath’s series than that event. Several side events are taking place, and one, the £1,100 GUKPT Main Event, wrapped up over the weekend. Some 632 players bought into the £1,100 GUKPT Main Event and created a £667,400 prize pool that the top 74 finishers shared. Plenty of household names were among the in-the-money finishers. They included reigning Goliath champion Alex Todd, Steve Jelinek, Guy Taylor (who went on to bag the High Roller chip lead), Tom Hall, Waheed “Wadey” Ashraf, Endrit Geci, Jamie O’Connor, Charles Chattha, Paul Haycock, and Kuljinder Sidhu.

WATCH: Dream Ends for Most of Team 888poker on Day 2 of the WSOP Main Event The five Team 888poker members who returned for Day 2 of the 2024 WSOP Main Event but only three bagged up chips including a surprise chip leader.

Episode 4 of 888poker’s exciting docuseries sees the Team 888poker members return to the Horseshoe and Pris Las Vegas for Day 2 of the $10,000 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. Five team members sat down at their respective tables, but only three of them progressed to Day 3. All but YouTube sensation Jack “JaackMaate” Dean entered the mix with decent stacks; Dean had exactly 30,000 chips, or half of the starting stack. On the way to his table, Dean explained how he loved having the 888poker camera crew following him around because it gave his opponents the impression that he was a better player than actually is.

New Jersey Poker Player Dan Sewnig Passes Away at 33 Online poker player Dan Sewnig passed away this week at the age of 33. Sewnig was considered one of the best online poker players in New Jersey.

Online poker player and Circuit ring winner Dan Sewnig passed away earlier this week at the age of 33. Sewnig, who played under the handles “mj23style" and “RedsoxNets5”, amassed over a million in online earnings and was recognized as one of the best online poker players in New Jersey. Reports of Sewnig’s death made their way on social media on Saturday, including an obituary stating that he passed on Aug. 13.

Op-Ed: The Poker Hall of Fame is Heading For Disaster And Heres How We Fix It The Poker Hall of Fame induction process should change that according to PokerNews Managing Editor Will Shilllibier who has come up with a solution

Will Shillibier is the Managing Editor of PokerNews and has worked in the industry for a decade, working at some of the world’s biggest poker festivals including the World Series of Poker, European Poker Tour and World Poker Tour. The views and opinions expressed in this article are solely those of the author. The Poker Hall of Fame is sleepwalking into a crisis. And next year, that crisis will come to a head.

Another WSOP Online Bracelet Series Has Been Added to the Summer Schedule GGPoker is hosting a World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Bracelet Series later this month and it includes a Main Event with a $25000000 prize pool.

Days after acquiring the World Series of Poker (WSOP) from Caesars Entertainment, GGPoker has announced the schedule of an online bracelet series that will take place later this month. The series begins Aug. 17 and runs until Sept. 30, with 33 bracelets to be awarded. Players in the United States are not eligible to compete unless they travel to Canada, Mexico, or another country where the poker site is available.

BREAKING NEWS: GGPoker Buys World Series of Poker for $500 Million; WSOP to Remain in Vegas for 20 Years Caesars Entertainment sells World Series of Poker intellectual property rights to NSUS group home of GGPoker for $500 million

Caesars Entertainment has today announced that they will be selling the iconic World Series of Poker Brand will be sold to NSUS Group Inc, a leading investment group and operators of leading online poker room GGPoker. According to a press release, the deal is set to be worth $500 million — $250 million in cash and a $250 million promissory note “due five years after the transaction’s closing date. The release also states that Caesars have secured the rights to continue hosting the WSOP’s flagship live tournament series at its Las Vegas properties for the next twenty years. Caesars can also still use the WSOP branding at its brick-and-mortar poker rooms, and Caesars destinations will continue to enjoy “preferential rights” to host WSOP Circuit events in the future.

Find Out How Next Gen Pokers Frankie Did at the 2024 WSOP Take a look at some highlights from poker vlogger Frank Frankie Cucchiaras summer in Las Vegas which included deep WSOP runs and big cash game wins.

Poker content creator Frank “Frankie” Cucchiara had an eventful summer in Las Vegas that saw him running deep in World Series of Poker (WSOP) events and batting in big pots worth thousands of dollars in cash games across the Strip. The highs of the summer for Cucchiara, a PokerStarsambassador and member of the NextGen Poker crew, included a $7,000 cash game win and a run at a WSOP bracelet, while the lows included runner-runner bad beats and a $13,000 downswing.

WATCH: The 888poker Team Headed to Las Vegas With a Dream 888poker sent five team members to the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) to play in the Main Event. Heres how things panned out.

The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) may be done and dusted but that doesn’t mean the Las Vegas poker action has to stop. That’s because 888poker sent a team of pros and ambassadors to “Sin City” to play in the $10,000 Main Event, and a camera crew to follow their progress in poker’s most prestigious event. The 888poker docuseries is divided into five parts, with new episodes published on YouTube every Saturday for the next few weeks. Part 1 recently landed on the internet superhighway, and this is what happened.

Take a Look at the Circuit Ring Winners from the WSOP Circuit Choctaw Stop Find out who won Circuit rings at World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Choctaw including Rachel Sawyer Shawn Fakhimi & James Pupillo.

The first stop of the new World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) season wrapped up this week with WSOP Choctaw, a series in Oklahoma consisting of 20 ring events that generated over $3.2 million in prize money. The series, which ran July 17-28, culminated with two-time bracelet winner Justin Lapka taking home $252,282 and his third Circuit ring after denying runner-up Gregg Merkow a third ring of his own. You can read all about Lapka’s WSOPC Choctaw victory here.

Aurimas Stanevicius Wins 2024 WSOPC Tallinn Main Event (€167900) Aurimas Stanevicius came out on top of a 812-strong field in the €1500 NLHE WSOPC Tallinn Main Event for €167900.

The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) International Circuit Tallinn festival concluded over the weekend with the crowning of the €1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Main Event champion. Lithuania’s Aurimas Stanevicius is that champion and the recipient of a coveted gold WSOPC ring and a career-best €167,900 prize. A field of 812 entrants ensured the €1,000,000 guarantee was met and then surpassed, with €1,052,352 awarded to those lucky and skillful enough to navigate their way into the money places. Each of the nine finalists locked in €17,350, but €167,900 was up top for the eventual champion.

Global Poker x PokerNews Cup Trophy Winner Loves The Social Aspect Global Poker x PokerNews Cup trophy winner MrGoldenPair discussed his win with PokerNews

From June 17 to July 7, Global Poker and PokerNews teamed up to present the Global Poker x PokerNews Cup. The Global Poker x PokerNews Cup series is just one of Global Poker’s flagship series (others include the upcoming GOAT festival, the Rattlesnake Open, and the Grizzly Games). It featured all manner of events including mystery bounties, progressive knock-outs, turbos, and deepstack events. One of the highlights of the schedule was was the multiday Global Poker X PokerNews Cup Sweep Coins 100,000 Freeroll Finale.

WATCH: Brad Owens Worst Day of Poker You win some you lose some. Watch how Brad Owen endured the biggest cash game loss of his career a day after enjoying his largest win.

The life of a poker player is full of ups and downs; it’s the nature of the beast and Brad Owen’s army of followers get to ride that rollercoaster without having to step foot in a poker room because the vlogger documents his wins and losses at the tables. Unfortunately for Owen and his loyal fans, the rollercoaster took a long nosedive in his latest video. Shortly after winning $25,000 playing cash games in Bobby’s Room, Owen stated that he wouldn’t be playing poker for a while because he would become a father in the next couple of days. However, he told a little white lie about not playing because he was invited to play $25/$50 with the same group of players the next day.

Historic Summer Leads to WSOP Player of the Year for Scott Seiver Despite winning three bracelets this summer Scott Seiver faced tough competition when it came to the 2024 World Series of Poker Player of the Year award.

Three bracelets wasn’t enough for Scott Seiver to run away with the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year award, but he did hold on to win. And now he might be one year away from an even bigger honor — the Poker Hall of Fame. The live WSOP in Las Vegas wrapped last week, but there were still two WSOP Online bracelet events earlier this week that could have impacted the Player of the Year race. As such, the WSOP couldn’t call it official for Seiver as a few other players were still mathematically in competition.

Poker Player Admits Lying About Cancer for WSOP Main Event Buy-In Rob Mercer, a poker player who solicited donations for a WSOP Main Event buy-in after claiming a terminal cancer diagnosis, admitted he lied in a story released by the Las Vegas Review-Journal Tuesday.

Rob Mercer’s Deceptive Poker Dream: A Shocking Admission of False Cancer Diagnosis Introduction Rob Mercer, a participant in the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event, received significant financial support from the poker community after claiming to have Stage 4 colon cancer. However, Mercer recently confessed that his cancer diagnosis was a complete fabrication. In an interview with the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Mercer admitted to lying about his condition, expressing remorse for his actions. This shocking revelation has sparked controversy and raised questions about the authenticity of his GoFundMe campaign and his participation in the poker event.