What Does PartyPoker Do To Catch and Stop Cheaters? Jaime Staples interviewed PartyPokers Head of Game Integrity. Heres what was discussed.

Wherever there is money involved, some individuals will do whatever it takes to get their hands on it through unscrupulous means. Online poker is no different. You only have to browse through PokerNews’ news stories to see stories about bot rings, players colluding with one another, and the use of Real-Time Assistance (RTA) tools. Those three things are among the primary reasons why some poker players prefer playing live instead of online.

Hands of the Week from 2024 EPT Barcelona: Kassouf Goes Out with Nine High Like a Boss As a part of the PokerNews Hands of the Week series check out some of the biggest and most interesting hands from the 2024 European Poker Tour Barcelona.

The 2024 European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona recently wrapped up with poker pro Stephen Song topping a field of 1,975 entries (the fourth-largest Main Event field in EPT history) to claim the championship title and €1,290,386 in prize money. This Main Event attracted players from 82 different countries. From Albania to Vietnam and the United States to South Africa, it seems no corners of the world are untouched or unaffected by the EPT’s influence. The top five nations were France (205 players), Italy (144), Spain (124), Brazil (89), and the United Kingdom (76).

“Hawk Tuah Girl” Gets Distracted and Folds Flopped Two Pair in CPT Invitational IV On Saturday night 80 celebrities packed the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) Invitational IV including The Hawk Tuah Girl.

On Saturday night, 80 celebrities packed the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) Invitational IV, which was won for $20,000 by Stephen Matt Morrow, better known as high-stakes slot icon Vegas Matt. Vegas Matt actually started the night at the feature table alongside the likes of 8-time NBA All-Star Dwight Howard, Blac Chyna, Steiny, Ethan Klein, and arguably the “celebrity” everyone was most excited to see, Haliey Welch, known as the “Hawk Tuah Girl” thanks to a viral video earlier this year.

10 of the Most Important Poker Concepts for Beginners GTO Wizard highlights ten of the most important poker concepts new players should learn and master.

Dipping your toes into online poker’s waters can be a daunting experience, especially if you don’t have much experience of playing this crazy game. Thankfully, the PokerNews strategy pages are awash with easy-to-digest articles for beginners. One such article is the one you are reading now from our good friends at GTO Wizard, highlighting ten of the most important concepts for new poker players. GTO Wizard specializes in helping poker players learn a Game Theory Optimal (GTO) strategy. GTO is highly complex, but GTO Wizard makes studying GTO strategy easy. One of the GTO Wizards’ latest articles gives ten tips on how to get your head around some helpful concepts while implementing some elements of GTO.

How to Become a GTO Wizard GTO Wizard provides users with a step by step guide on how to improve their game through regular training lessons from pros and hand history reviews.

Poker solvers have been the talk of the town in recent weeks with 2024 World Series of Poker Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo controversially harnessing an online tool via his rail at the final table to help boost his chances of victory. While the use of solvers in certain circumstances continues to be divisive, occupying an ethically grey area, away from the poker table they remain an incredibly useful tool that many top pros rely on to increase win rates as they get closer and closer to playing Game Theory Optimal (GTO) poker.

GTOWizards Daily Dose of GTO Ebook Teaches GTO in Bitesized Lessons GTOWizards free ebook Daily Dose of GTO uses five-minute lessons to teach players to understand study and apply GTO concepts to their poker game.

Understanding what Game Theory Optimal poker is, when to use it, and how it applies to the hands you play has become one of the cornerstones of profitable poker. However, GTO remains a badly understood (and often wholly misunderstood) aspect of poker strategy for most players. If you are approaching GTO for the first time, then the sheer depth of the subject and volume of information available can be a barrier. Where does one even start when learning about GTO poker? The folks at GTOWizard have your back.

Learn Poker Hands and Hand Rankings with Visual Poker Hand Images and Chart Discover the 10 Categories of Poker Hands: From Royal Flush to High Card, the Ultimate Guide for Texas Hold'em and More

Poker hands fall into one of 10 categories. The highest is a royal flush, followed by a straight flush, then four of a kind, a full house, a flush, a straight, three of a kind, two pair, one pair, and finally a high card. This is the same for all the main poker variations, including Texas Hold’em. Download and print out wpt global poker hands ranking chart, or save it to your phone. Keep this poker cheat sheet nearby when playing so that you always know the ranking of hands from best to worst.

What Is Real-Time Assistance (RTA)? Is it Legal? Real-Time Assistance (RTA) is being discussed more than ever in the poker world, but what is it exactly and what does it mean for online poker?

Real-Time Assistance (RTA) is a topic that is becoming increasingly more discussed within the poker community, and PokerNews is here to give you a brief explainer of what the term poker RTA means, how it works, and how players are supposedly using it at the highest levels of poker to cheat their way to hundreds of thousands if not millions of dollars. PokerStars takes its game integrity seriously, and recently gave insight into how they combat RTA, including how they detect and deter cheaters on its site. PokerStars revealed that its proactive detection rate of RTA usage exceeds 95%.