High Stakes Poker returned to PokerGO Monday night following a two-week hiatus due to the Poker Masters coverage, and Episode 7 of Season 13 was worth the wait. Stanley Tang was the star of the newest episode. He pushed around some accomplished poker players such as Andrew Robl and Jennifer Tilly, and hit two lucky river cards in the same hand against Humboldt Mike. There were four other players in the $500/$1,000 no-limit hold’em cash game, including Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot, Justin Gavri, Sameh Elamawy, and Brandon Steven.

What’s better than winning a World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title over the weekend? How about claiming two? That’s exactly what Renan Bruschi did, following up his Saturday victory with another first-place finish just last night. The Brazilian sensation took down WCOOP 65-H: $1,050 NLHE Deep Stack, earning his sixth overall WCOOP title. However, despite Bruschi’s impressive double, it hasn’t shifted the standings in the WCOOP league, where Team peace&loove continue to fend off all challengers.

The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) first ran in January 2007; Praz Bansi emerged victoriously in the GUKPT Bolton Main Event. In the 17 years since every GUKPT Main Event champion has been male, but that almost changed this weekend in Luton. However, almost is the operative word. The £1,250 buy-in GUKPT Luton Main Event saw 284 entrants create a £299,910 prize pool that the top 33 finishers shared. Katie Swift, a member of Team Grosvenor, was one of those entrants.

Ari Engel broke the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring record on Saturday. His own record. The Canadian born poker legend took down an $888 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Crazy 8’s tournament on WSOP Online Pennsylvania, a Circuit event. He beat out a field of 61 entrants on his second bullet to take home $16,732, defeating “D.Lafferty” heads-up for the ring. And it was a big ring for Engel as it gave him a bit of separation from the close competition.

The PokerStars Mystery Cash Challenge is BACK this weekend for Season 2! After the success of last year’s inaugural season it’s returned, and poker fans can enjoy six brand-new episodes. These will be available to watch on YouTube and released every Sunday and Wednesday starting September 22. But what is the Mystery Cash Challenge? Who’s taking part? And what are those dreaded forfeits all about? Fear not — we’ve got all those questions and more answered right here on PokerNews!

The WCOOP League race is heating up as we enter the final week of WCOOP action on PokerStars. It looks to be heading down to the wire with Team peace&loove and Team tonkaaaa trading titles on Saturday night, including a title for Team tonkaaaa captain Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot — the seventh WCOOP title of his career, and third so far this year. However, Team peace&loove saw “FAL1st” score their third WCOOP title of the year, and the sixth of their career, to ensure their team remained top of the standings.

The landscape of women’s poker has evolved significantly over the years, marked by the inspiring performances of female players. The poker stage has seen the rise of poker legends like Vanessa Selbst and Kristen Bicknell and the inspiring performances such as Rania Nasreddine and Olga Iermolcheva. One pivotal moment in this shift was Gaëlle Baumann’s deep run in the 2012 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, which she describes as a “milestone” in her career.

Where did Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot get his high-stakes poker bankroll? That’s been a topic of discussion among the poker community for a couple years, and the answer hasn’t been clear. The former Hustler Casino Live regular appeared on the Table 1 podcast and gave hosts Justin Young and Art Parmann a brief explanation of where he got his money. But Matt Berkey, who won $1 million off Airball in a heads-up challenge last year, referred to Airball’s comments as “b******t.

Since announcing the upcoming North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Las Vegas festival taking place Nov. 1-10, PokerStars has given players several opportunities to win Gold Pass packages valued at $10,000. Now PokerStars has announced another opportunity for those in the United States to win a coveted Gold Pass to NAPT Las Vegas simply by listening to both the PokerNews Podcast and Life Outside Poker Podcast! Keep on reading to learn what you need in order to be entered to win.

The 2024 PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Events are only a week away, with all three No-Limit Hold’em versions commencing at 5:30 p.m. BST on September 29. This means time is rapidly running out if you want to win your way into these huge tournaments and become a WCOOP champion. Satellites for WCOOP 108-L: $109 NLHE Main Event - $2.5M Gtd The $109 low edition of the 2024 WCOOP NLHE Main Event boasts a $2.

Another exciting year from 888poker is almost in the books, but the season finale promises to end on a high note, featuring an action-packed double-header in Coventry, England. From October 10-20, the CBS Arena will host the Coventry leg of the UK Poker League, followed by the 888poker LIVE Coventry series, headlined by a $500,000 guaranteed Main Event. With buy-ins ranging from the £110 Mini Shot to the £2,000 High Roller, the schedule offers something for players of all skill levels and bankrolls, providing plenty of chances to chase poker glory.

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.

Dead Money, the new poker movie written by Josh Wilcox and directed by Luc Walpoth, is out now, and someone who is especially excited about it is the star of the film, Emile Hirsch, who you may know from hits such as Into the Wild, Speed Racer, and The Autopsy of Jane Doe. Hirsch plays Andy, who along with his girlfriend Chloe, played by India Eisley, “are involved in a crazy 24 hours after a home poker game is robbed.

The Venetian Las Vegas, which recently debuted its new 50-table, 14,000 square foot poker room (the largest on the Las Vegas Strip), just wrapped up its latest Showdown Series, which ran from August 2 through September 15. Through 66 events, the festival catered to a combined 7,427 entries and awarded $2,736,360 in prize money (not including satellites). They also forked over $65,460 in overlays. Among those to win titles were Kfir Nahum (Event #11: $400 NLH Ultimate Stack for $29,650), Roy Bogart (Event #16: $250 NLH Ultimate Stack for $19,671), Ivan Ruban (Event #42: $400 NLH Ultimate Stack for $19,084), and Kimberly Durham (Event #65: $300 Big O for $3,723).

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) returns to Manila in the Philippines in late October for the first time in two years. The luxurious City of Dreams Manila resort will host the APT Manila festival which runs from October 28 through November 7. APT, in partnership with Soul Poker, has created an exciting schedule with combined guarantees of over PHP170,000,000, the equivalent of $3 million. A significant chunk of that impressive sum is reserved for the APT Manila Main Event, a PHP85,000 ($1,500) buy-in affair boasting a PHP100 million guaranteed ($1.

Luton may not be the United Kingdom’s most glamorous location, but it is a proverbial poker hotbed. The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) has been at the G Casino in Luton since September 12, with the £1,250 buy-in Main Event kicking off yesterday, September 19. Day 1a of the GUKPT Luton Main Event attracted 82 players, who were reduced to only 17 by the time the curtain came down on proceedings.

Some of the greatest poker players of recent years either grew up playing chess or have transitioned from chess. The same is true, with five-tiem world chess champion Magnus Carlsen, Jen Shahade and Ottomar Ladva all showing they have what it takes at the poker tables. Ladva’s most recent victory came at EPT Barcelona, winning a €25,000 High Roller for €439,400. Also in attendance at EPT Barcelona, helping to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the European Poker Tour, was chess player and streamer Alexandra Prado who spoke with PokerNews all about the world of chess streaming, the similarities between the two and what she does to prepare for a match.

Sebastian Huber’s Team peace&loove held onto the lead in the inaugural WCOOP League thanks partly to one of its members becoming only the fifth person in PokerStars history to win ten World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) titles. Patrick “pads1161” Leonard triumphed in the $1,050 World Championship of Razz, the tenth time Leonard has been the last player standing in a WCOOP event. Leonard’s impressive win puts him into double figures alongside Denis “aDrENalin710” Strebkov (12), Joao “Naza114” Vieira (13), Tobias “Senkel92” Leknes (13), and the GOAT Benny “RunGodlike” Glaser (15).

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.

Jim Collopy wasn’t among the 10 players who cashed in the 2024 Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT series finale. But it didn’t matter as he’d locked up the Purple Jacket, awarded to the top performer throughout the series, before the $25,200 No-Limit Hold’em final table concluded when Aram Zobian, his final challenger, busted in fifth place. Ben Tollerene, however, took down the eighth and final tournament of the PokerGO Tour series in Las Vegas for $510,000, beating out a field of 68 entrants at the PokerGO Studio.

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.

They say everything is bigger in Texas, and that includes the poker tournament prize pools. Take, for example, the upcoming series at Champions Club in Houston — the Fall Poker Open — which features a $1 million guaranteed Main Event, along with 14 other juicy tournaments. Action begins at the Texas poker club Oct. 16, and it concludes Oct. 28. Fall Poker Open Series Highlights Champions Club, co-owned by 17-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion and Poker Hall of Famer Phil Hellmuth, is one of the top cardrooms in the Lone Star State.

The World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) continues all this month on PokerStars, and there’s still time for players to get involved in this prestigious online poker festival. The best way to get involved is through online satellites that are now available in the PokerStars client. Almost two weeks into the festival, there has been some crazy return on investment (ROI) from satellite winners, including WCOOP champions and people winning tens of thousands of dollars in prize money.

We’re well into the second week of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on PokerStars, and the action is really heating up. The WCOOP League race continues to be close, especially at the top, with PokerStars Ambassadors doing their best to lead from the front and earn points for their team. Tonkaaaa and Lex Set to Go Head to Head Just 18 players remain from a starting field of 251 in WCOOP 56-H: $1,050 NLHE (6-Max, PKO) and they include both Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot and Lex “L.

The 2024 Borgata Poker Open (BPO) ran from September 3-17 at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 30-event series started with Event #1: $800 NLH Kickoff Deepstack, which saw Guan Huang top a 1,727-entry field ($1,208,900 prize pool) to capture a $192,236. Another six-figure winner was Joseph Molitor, who bested a 2,837-entry field ($1,191,540 prize pool) to win Event #17: $500 Almighty Million for $103,140.

The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) is heading back to “The Lou” next week for an exciting series that features a $200,000 guaranteed Main Event and 10 other ring events. Play inside Hollywood Casino St. Louis kicks off Sept. 24 and concludes with the Main Event final table and the last two ring tournaments on Sept. 29. PokerNews will be in attendance providing live reporting duties. Hollywood Casino, one of the top spots for poker in Missouri, is a popular RGPS destination.

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) had its latest stop at Horseshoe Council Bluffs in Iowa that ran Sept. 4-16 and featured 15 ring events that generated $919,070 in prize money. The Circuit stop culminated with the WSOPC Council Bluffs Main Event, which saw Nebraska’s Scott Allacher defeating Iowa’s Tim Garles during heads-up play for a career-best $83,865 and his first Circuit ring. Allacher, whose previous biggest score came from a 467th-place finish in the 2021 WSOP Main Event for $26,700, topped a 259-player field in an event that created a prize pool of $392,385.

The PokerNews desktop and mobile browser websites are as feature-rich as ever, so our tech gurus have decided to call time on the PokerNews mobile app. Our mobile app was available to download from the Apple App Store and the Google Play Store, but is no longer the case having been removed. Don’t fret if you spend your time reading PokerNews articles and live tournament updates from your mobile device because adding PokerNews to your Android or iOS-powered device is simple.

After a successful inaugural event last year, the France Poker Series (FPS) once again turns to the Casino Grand Cercle Aix-les-Bains for one of the most beautiful poker festivals around. The festival kicks off later this month, with the €330 FPS Cup getting things underway with three starting flights from September 27. The biggest buy-in event on the schedule is the €2,200 FPS High Roller on October 1, before the FPS Main Event gets underway, with four starting flights running from October 2.

Sebastian Huber’s “teampeace&loove” has retaken the WCOOP League after “FAL1st” enjoyed an incredible time at the PokerStars tables. Although “FAL1st” did not add to his four World Championship Of Online Poker victories, they came close with a trio of final table appearances. “FAL1st”’s valiant performances helped Team peace&loove amass 770 points, catapulting them from third into first place. Not only that, Huber’s grinders now have a 220-point advantage over Fintan Hand’s Team easywithaces.

Isaac Haxton continued his dominance of the toughest tournaments in the world with a Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT victory on Tuesday. Event #6: $15,100 No-Limit Hold’em played down to six on Monday, and the remaining players returned to the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for Day 2, which saw the legend of Jeremy Becker grow. But the local grinder would lose a bad beat to bust shortly after he bluffed off half his stack.

The Olympic Casino Lietuva is set to host the largest poker festival held in Lithuania when the OlyBet Kings of Vilnius heads into town on November 15. The festival features more than 30 events and satellites, including a €1,100 Main Event boasting an impressive €250,000 guaranteed prize pool. November 15 is when the Kings of Vilnius festival shuffles up and deals, ironically, with a €555 buy-in event called the Kings of Vilnius Championship.

The WPT Prime tour was at Dusk Till Dawn, the home of British poker, and was a club regular who captured the £1,100 WPT Prime UK Championship title, £57,660 in prize money, and a £10,000 package to the season-ending WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. Timothy Chung has history with Dusk Till Dawn. Back in August 2012, Chung won his first live event, the DTD £150 Deepstack for £15,373. Five years later, he banked £78,700 for his victory in the DTD 1000 before helping himself to a £97,065 prize for a third-place finish in the £1,100 WSOP Circuit UK Main Event.

The 888poker player known as “IOwnU888” warmed up for the XL Autumn Series in style on the evening of September 16 with an impressive double-whammy. The online tournament specialist not only chopped the $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event but also pulled out over $12,000 worth of mystery bounties along the way, including the jackpot of $10,000. Their total haul of $19,103 is one of the largest prizes awarded in this event in recent times and arms them with plenty of ammunition for the XL Autumn Series.

It’s all change at the top of the WCOOP League standings after an incredible night of action. Sunday saw Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot score his second WCOOP title in four days, earning valuable WCOOP League points after leading home a Team tonkaaaa 1-2-3. Finishing third in that event was Niklas “Lena900” Astedt and, perhaps reminded of his third-place finish this summer, he duly went out and went two places better — twice!

The 2024 Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT continues on this week inside the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas after several players picked up trophies and seven-figure scores during the first half of the series. The series kicked off with two qualifiers battling it out in Event #1: $5,100 No-Limit Hold’em as Spencer Champlin came out on top for $160,475.. Later winners in the series included rising prodigy Jeremy Becker and poker coach Jonathan Little, who continued his PokerGO Studio domination with his third PGT title of the year.

Hustler Casino Live is facing some challenges thanks to a one-week YouTube suspension that is forcing the poker livestream to adjust its plans for the coming days. The most popular livestream in poker history shared an “important announcement” on X to advise its followers what the plan will be for this week. More Than Just a Short Suspension? Ryan Feldman, co-owner of Hustler Casino Live, told PokerNews the suspension “has to do with advertisers they don’t like,” referring to YouTube.

What is the proper amount for a wealthy poker player to tip a cocktail server for a bottle of water? That is the debate that transpired on X thanks to a critical tweet from Daniel Negreanu, who called out an unnamed “millionaire” high-stakes pro for being a bit of a tightwad. Las Vegas Tipping Culture The tipping culture in the United States differs greatly from Europe and other parts of the word.

Last Thursday, Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot clinched his fifth World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title with a win in the HORSE Championship. His stay in the five-time winner’s club was brief—lasting just four days—before Talbot captured yet another WCOOP victory. The WCOOP League captain had even more reasons to celebrate as teammates “ShipitFTW911” and Niklas “Lena900” Astedt joined him on the podium in WCOOP 32-H: $1,050 NLHE Progressive KO, Saturday KO.

After four days of action, only one player remained to become the 2024 €1,000 French Championship Main Event winner, here at Pasino Grand in Aix-en-Provence. And after a long battle, Heni Mokni emerged as the winner from a field of 553 entrants, taking home the first-place prize of €75,000 and a €11,000 package for the next WSOP Main Event. In the lead almost from the start to finish, Mokni only needed one hand in heads-up play to win against Hugues Girard, who finishes second again after he took the silver medal in the €1,000 Heads-Up Event earlier in the week.