Monster Heads-Up Comeback Sees Dietrich Wins Online Pokers Biggest Prize Moritz Dietrich is the 2024 WSOP Online International Main Eevent champion a result worth $4021012 the largest-ever prize for an online tournament.

After 17 flights and 6,146 entries, the 2024 WSOP Online International Main Event has crowned its champion. Moritz Dietrich is the name written in GGPoker and, indeed, online poker history books as the player who captured the industry’s largest ever prize, one tipping the scales at $4,021,012. The star-studded final table took place on September 24 with Evgenii Akimov leading the way with 86 big blinds, followed by Rui Ferreira (67 big blinds) and Dietrich in third (57 big blinds). Four hours after the finalists received their first hole cards, the champion was crowned.

WSOP Online Main Event Reaches Its Final Table at GGPoker; $4M For the Champion A host of stars will battle for a $4 million top prize at GGPoker when the $5000 WSOP Online International Main Event final table resumes on September 24.

The $5,000 buy-in Main Event of the 2024 WSOP Online International festival at GGPoker has reached its nine-handed final table, and one of those finalists will pad their bankroll with a massive $4,021,012 top prize. The nine finalists return to battle at 6:00 p.m. GMT on September 24 to play for that gargantuan first-place prize and a coveted WSOP bracelet. GGPoker guaranteed to pay out $25 million in the Main Event, but it will dish out $29,193,500 thanks to 6,146 entries spread across 17 flights. That prize pool is so vast that each of the nine returning players has already locked in more than half a million dollars, and the top six finishers will become millionaires.

Daniel Negreanu Slowrolled to Bust WSOP Online Main Event; Nearly Sucks Out Daniel Negreanu got slowrolled on livestream during the WSOP Online Main Event on GGPoker and he nearly dealt his rude opponent a bit of karma.

Daniel Negreanu is in Canada livestreaming the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Bracelet Series on GGPoker, and his first day ended quicker than he’d hoped following a possible slowroll. The Poker Hall of Famer and GGPoker ambassador entered the $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event, a no-limit hold’em tournament with $25 million guaranteed, on Friday. He took his shot at a Day 1 flight in hopes of spinning up a stack and chasing his eighth bracelet. But his attempt came to an abrupt conclusion when he picked the wrong time to move all in.

WSOP Online Bracelet Series Starts Sept. 29; 33 Bracelets to Be Awarded in US There are still dozens of World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets to be awarded this year starting with a WSOP Online series in the US beginning Sept. 29.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas ended in July, but the chase for gold bracelets is never-ending these days. Poker players outside the United States are currently battling it out for some jewelry on GGPoker. American players can join in on the fun later this month on WSOP Online (formerly WSOP.com) for a separate series that runs Sept. 29 to November 12. There will be 33 gold bracelets up for grabs on the Michigan-New Jersey-Nevada network. Pennsylvania players can compete in a secondary series that features four events.

Follow the Action From All 15 WSOPE Bracelet Events Here at PokerNews The 2024 WSOP Europe festival runs from September 18 to October 9 and PokerNews is providing coverage from all 15 bracelet-awarding events.

The 2024 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) is a little over a week away with the first of 15 bracelet-awarding events scheduled to shuffle up and deal on September 18. The 2024 WSOPE continues until October 9, the date the €10,350 Main Event NLH European Championship crowns its worthy champion, and PokerNews is delighted to be the live reporting partner once again for this incredible series. King’s Resort in Rozvadoz, Czech Republic, is gearing up for what should be a spectacular edition of the WSOPE. Attendances were off the charts at the 2024 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas earlier this year, and there is no reason to expect anything different in the European edition.

Flabbergasted Jason Grimes Secures RGPS Tunica Main Event Title Jason Grimes is the 2024 RGPS Tunica Main Event champion an accolade that came with $52102.

After 13 hours of play, the returning tournament field of 83 was reduced to a single player in the 2024 RGPS RunGood Resort Tunica Main Event. Each one guaranteed a piece of the $342,210 prize pool, but all with their eyes up top. The field possessed many known names, RunGood regulars, and tournament legends from many different tours, but today was a day for just one man. Prior to today, Jason Grimes had just $25,592 in lifetime earnings. At a final table with millions of dollars in earnings split between multiple players, it would be Grimes who would triple his lifetime earnings with his new high score of $52,102. “I’m going to do something stupid like pay off debt,” the new champion joked about what he was to do with his new winnings. “Straight into the bank with it.”

Dan Bilzerian Lists Las Vegas Mansion for $25 Million Dan Bilzerian is selling his extravagant Las Vegas and the asking price is more than double the largest poker tournament payout in history. Find out more.

Dan Bilzerian is selling his extravagant Las Vegas mansion, and the asking price is several million more than the largest poker tournament payout in history. Bilzerian, a poker player and polarizing social media influencer, listed the Las Vegas property for $25 million, making it the priciest piece of residential real estate on the Sin City market. At that price, a monthly payment would be an estimated $128,482. The seven-bedroom, 38,289 square-foot mansion, aptly referred to as an “adult playground,” features an array of amenities that includes a full-length indoor basketball court, outdoor pool, paintball field, hockey rink, foam pit, wine cellar, gym, theater room, golf simulator, rock-climbing wall, 16-car garage and plenty of poker tables.

WSOP Online Round-Up: Bryn Kenney Among Early Winners for Second Bracelet The World Series of Poker Online is playing out on GGPoker where there are 33 bracelet up for grabs The WSOP Online Main Event also features a $25 million guarantee.

Tens of thousands of poker players are chasing World Series of Online Poker (WSOP) glory as the WSOP Online festival is in full swing. Running from August 17 to September 30, the festival has already delivered some massive wins, with several familiar faces continuing to leave their mark on the poker world. With 33 coveted bracelets up for grabs, 13 have already found their champions. Excitement is also mounting for the $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event, which boasts a $25 million guarantee. The first three of 14 starting flights are already in the books, with qualifiers securing their spots for Day 2, set to take place on September 23.

Cure Your Post Goliath Blues With the 2024 GUKPT Luton Festival The GUKPT returns to Luton on September 11 for a 12-day festival that includes a £1100 buy-in Main Event.

The folks at Grosvenor Casinos are just about recovered from the massive 2024 Goliath festival that saw William Watkins turn £200 into £166,058 after a nine-way deal at the final table earlier this month. That well-deserved rest is about to be broken with the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Luton festival rapidly approaching. The 2024 GUKPT Luton festival runs from September 11 through September 23 at the Grosvenor G Casino on Park Street West. Luton may not be the first city that springs to mind when you think of poker tournament action, but the Bedfordshire town is a proverbial poker hotbed.

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.

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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.