The 2024 Poker Masters series kicked off yesterday at PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas with Event #1: $5,100 No-Limit Hold’em, and with the start of the series came the news that the series will be presented by the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT). The Poker Masters series runs Sept. 10-19 and features eight tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $5,100 to $25,200. In addition to the coveted Purple Jacket and a $25,000 PGT Passport, the series will now award a Gold Pass to NAPT Las Vegas taking place Nov.

The Irish Poker Tour Killarney Festival runs from September 24 through September 29, meaning time is rapidly running out if you plan to win your way into the €400,000 guaranteed Irish Poker Cup online at Paddy Power Poker. Paddy Power Poker has been a long-time partner of the Irish Poker Tour, so it makes sense for online satellites to run there. However, a quick glance at the Paddy Power Poker tournament lobby reveals that the seat-only satellites end on September 14, with the final package-awarding satellites stopping on September 15.

The action on PokerStars is heating up and we’re only midway through the first week of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). More titles were handed out on the third day of competition, including Lex Veldhuiswinning his first WCOOP title in Event #9-H: $5,200 NLHE. That result hasn’t quite seen his team move to the top of the WCOOP League standings, but it’s all to play for as drafted players start to get on the scoreboard.

Hear me now. Big up yourself Lex Veldhuis, big respek to you and your crew In the weeks leading up to year’s World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), Lex Veldhuis told PokerNews two things. The first, was that he was “extremely confident” heading into this year’s festival. The second, was that he had lots of things planned for his community and their enjoyment of his streaming content. Last night, Veldhuis put the words into action, keeping it real and taking down WCOOP Event #9-H: $5,200 Bounty Builder Super High Roller for over $130,000, all while dressed as Ali G.

WPT Prime was at the Grand Casino Liechtenstein last weekend and saw 1,411 entries processed, including one from Switzerland’s Marc Sen. Sen may not be a name you are familiar with, but he pulled off a remarkable achievement. Sen finished as runner-up to David Kozma in the 2023 edition of WPT Prime Liechtenstein, outlasting all but one of the 1,664-strong crowd. He collected the equivalent of $193,200 that day, but falling at the final hurdle of a large-field poker tournament is a bitter pill to swallow regardless of the financial rewards that come with it.

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) events have become must-play festivals not only for poker players from Asian countries and those surrounding them but also for poker tournament grinders the world over. Each stop has a bustling schedule of events across several disciplines and buy-in levels designed to put players to the ultimate test while maintaining the fun and welcoming feel the APT has grown famous for. APT Taipei Poker Classic 2024 is right around the corner.

Summer is drawing to a close in many parts of the world, leaving people yearning for some fun in the sun. Poker tournament grinders can combine the beautiful Mediterranean weather with hot poker action at the 2024 Autumn Malta Poker Festival. The inaugural Malta Poker Festival took place in November 2018, and it was a rip-roaring success. Poker players from far and wide descended on the Portomaso Casino in St. Julian’s, Malta, for the week-long series that culminated in a €550 buy-in Malta Poker Festival Grand Event (the Main Event).

Donald Trump (R) is a near heavy favorite to defeat Kamala Harris (D) in the November US presidential election, according to avid poker enthusiast and political polling guru Nate Silver. Silver, who recently appeared on the PokerNews Life Outside Poker podcast and talked about the presidential election and political forecasting, founded FiveThirtyEight, where he rose to national prominence. He was relieved of his duties as editor-in-chief last year by Disney/ESPN, the company he sold his website to in 2013.

Russell Westbrook, one of the top scoring guards in NBA history, is taking his talents to Las Vegas for an evening of poker, and more importantly to raise money for a good cause. The World Poker Tour (WPT) Foundation and Westbrook’s Why Not? Foundation are partnering on a poker charity venture at Wynn Las Vegas Friday night. The fourth annual upscale Poker Night fundraiser takes place inside the Intrigue Nightclub, one of the fanciest clubs on the Strip.

The Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WiPHoF), which was established in 2008 and currently has 25 members, has opened its public nomination process and will accept submissions until September 23. Anyone may submit a nomination and the Hall Committee will review all nominations for qualifications and consideration. WiPHoF Criteria Submit your WiPHoF nominations here! After careful screening by the WiPHoF Nominations Committee and current members of the Hall of Fame, qualified candidates are placed on the ballot.

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.

MILLIONS Online has returned to partypoker and brought with it a cool $5 million in combined guaranteed prize pools. Running from September 5 through to October 1, the latest installment of the partypoker MILLIONS Online features ten numbered events and dozens upon dozens of side events for you to get your teeth into. The ten numbered events are multi-day tournaments where you can enter as many Day 1s as your bankroll and time allows, but only your largest stack progresses to Day 2 should you make it through more than one flight.

Brazil’s “Entaotoma” sat down at the 888poker $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event sixth from eight in chips. Armed with 25 big blinds, they weren’t particularly short, but its challenging to think they seriously fancied their chances of walking away with a victory, especially as the top two stacks held 138 big blinds between them. However, tournament poker is a funny old game, and two hours after the first cards were pitched, “Entaotoma” emerged victoriously from the final table with a $8,154 payout and the title of champion.

Italy has long been prominent in poker’s international landscape. The European Poker Tour (EPT) made seven stops in Sanremo between 2008 and 2014 and hosted EPT Campione in 2012. Now, the flames of Italy’s poker legacy are being reignited, thanks to a new partnership between Casinò di Campione and Sisal S.p.A., which will bring the renowned PokerStars brand back to the forefront of live poker events in the country. Agreement Outline; More Details Coming Soon The agreement, signed on September 10, 2024, sees Sisal, a leading Italian gaming operator and part of the Flutter Group, joining forces with PokerStars to establish a dedicated poker room and host live tournaments at Casinò di Campione.

He might be lagging behind in the early WCOOP League standings, but Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis is leading by example in pursuit of back-to-back League titles. After picking up his first SCOOP title earlier this year, Veldhuis has advanced to Day 2 of Event #9: $5,200 Bounty Builder Super High Roller, with just ten players separating him from a maiden WCOOP title. Can Veldhuis Get It Done? Veldhuis isn’t the only player from the 2024 WCOOP League to advance to Day 2 of Event #9-H.

After four Day 1 flights with 243 entrants, the 34 players who advanced all came together for Day 2 of $2,200 Event #3 at Pennsylvania State Poker Championship here at Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia. The PokerStars sponsored event created a total prize pool of $500,000 resulting in Max Pinnola emerging victorious for a whopping $103,000 score. Pinnola and Matthew Sabia (2nd - $93,000) agreed on an ICM chop after 30 minutes of heads-up play.

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.

Andrew Moreno made a call for the ages during heads-up play Sunday in a $100,000 guaranteed Super September tournament at The Lodge Card Club near Austin, Texas. The no-limit hold’em two-day event paid its winner $30,544, a prize the champion wouldn’t have received if not for making one of the best calls you’ll ever see. Poker Star Makes a Brilliant Call Moreno, one of the top tournament players in the game, has made a number of brilliant plays the past few years.

On the last day of the https://www.pokernews.com/tours/ept/2024-pokerstars-ept-barcelona/, the conclusion of the €10,200 No-Limit Hold’em event played out in the Pau Cassals room at Casino Barcelona, where Erik Bauer put on a short-stack masterclass to emerge victorious and take home the €151,400 top prize. Bauer navigated through a field of 48 entries to take home the lion’s share of the €465,600 prize pool, and overcame Canada’s Dongwoo Ko in a short but gripping heads-up duel that spanned two levels.

A six and a half hour €10,200 sprint to a Spadie was the final event to crown a champion at PokerStars EPT Barcelona as Jeremie Zouari claimed his second EPT title in the €10,200 Turbo 6-Max, defeating a field of 32 entries including fellow Frenchman Thomas Eychenne after a short heads-up match. For the win, Zouari claimed €107,200 from the €310,400 prize pool and his second career Spadie, following up on his 2023 €3,000 Mystery Bounty title.

The final day of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour has concluded here at Casino Barcelona. Hours after Stephen Songwas crowned the newest EPT Main Event champion, the final table of the €10,300 EPT High Roller was still ongoing with some of the best players in the world battling for one of the most prestigious trophies of the festival. Mike Watson was already having a good series before this tournament, albeit with many close calls and no outright victories.

The 2024 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) shuffled up and dealt at PokerStars for the first time on September 8, marking the start of the eagerly anticipated WCOOP League. Over the next three-and-a-half weeks, teams selected by Ben “Spraggy” Spragg, Fintan “easywithaces” Hand, Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot, Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber, Andre “AAkkari” Akkari, and Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis will earn points based on their finishing positions in WCOOP events as they bid to become the 2024 WCOOP League champions.

Twenty years ago, Alexander Stevic etched his name in poker history by winning the inaugural European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event. The 2004 series featured just five events, a humble beginning compared to today’s expansive, star-studded EPT circuit. That modest start became a springboard for aspiring poker players, transforming young upstarts into legends of the game. Household poker names like Jason Mercier, Victoria Coren-Mitchell, and Hall of Famer Patrik Antonius launched their careers and began their rise up the ranks after finding success on the EPT’s iconic blue felt.

The WSOP Circuit Playground festival has come to a close, crowning 15 new WSOP Circuit champions and awarding almost $5 million in prize money. The Main Event was won by James Pillon, taking home C$333,240 but there were a whole host of other winners at the festival, including Progressive Knockout and Mystery Bounty events. WSOP-C Playground Event #12: $600 No Limit Hold’em 8-Max Results Event #12: $600 8-Max was one of the bigger events of the WSOP Circuit festival at Playground, attracting 290 entries.

The captains are ready and the teams are set, and both Lex Veldhuis and Benjamin Spragg are ready to battle once again as the PokerStars WCOOP League takes centre stage this month. And the pair have both selected strong teams, with Veldhuis selecting Denis “aDrENalin710” Strebkov as his first pick, after Strebkov’s SCOOP Overall Leaderboard winning performance helped him to SCOOP League victory. Meanwhile, Spraggy will be hoping the likes of Kelvin “kelvin_fp:ar” Kerber and Simon “C.

The plan at the start of Day 6 of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event was to play down to the final six players, and for a while it looked like that might not happen until a flurry of dramatic eliminations in the final level of the night got the field down to that magic number. When they return on Sunday, it will again be Stephen Song holding the chip lead as he’ll bring 15,150,000 into play.

Spain’s Soraya Estrada has a long history with PokerStars. In 2023, she won a Platinum Pass to the 2023 PokerStars Players Championship (PSPC) in the Bahamas, ultimately cashing for $35,100. That year, she also notched the biggest cash of her career, finishing fifth in the 2023 Estrellas Madrid Main Event for €35,010, and earlier this year, through the PokerStars Power Path, won a Silver Pass to the 2024 edition of ESPT Madrid.

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.

The mystery as to who would win the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona €3,000 Mystery Bounty has been solved. Murilo Milhomem has won his maiden EPT title for €321,658. He bested 1,113 players over three days to secure the win and a coveted PokerStars Spadie. Milhomem defeated Jacob Stone heads-up for a career-best score, overcoming a chip deficit just shy of three-to-one. In finishing second, Stone also claimed a career best score of €200,700, a welcome addition to Stone’s sole cash of €6,680 during this EPT stop in the €1,100 Estrellas Poker Tour Main Event.

PokerNews ambassador and streamer Lukas “RobinPoker” Robinson is gearing up for a full slate of online poker action in the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), and his viewers can have a sweat for the series. Robinson is selling action for 18 events through StakeKings, meaning that members of the public can buy a piece of his action in hopes of a deep run for the young Liverpool grinder. Best of all, Robinson is selling at zero markup and will be streaming the action.

A few months after dumping more than $2 million into the Hustler Casino Live Million Dollar Game, Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek returned to poker’s most-watched cash game live stream. As usual, Moncek was the center of attention, playing 99% of hands in the $10/$20/$40 game, which featured notable players like Kelly Lucas (formerly Minkin) and Ethan “Rampage” Yau. Moncek was involved in every pot except one, breaking his own VPIP record of 89% set in April.

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.

As the main tournament room became increasingly empty heading into the wee hours of the morning, Ottomar Ladva looked as fresh and sharp as he did when he first entered €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em II. It was readily apparent that Ladva set his sights on winning the final high-roller of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Barcelona. Following a marathon 13-hour day, the focused 27-year-old did just that after besting a 60-entry field and defeating Artsiom Lasouski heads-up to claim his third EPT title.

The teams are set for the inaugural WCOOP League as a handful PokerStars ambassadors gear up to battle for bragging rights and to make their teams proud during the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Team captains Ben “Spraggy” Spragg, Fintan Hand, Parker “Tonka” Talbot, Sebastian Huber, Andre Akkari and Lex Veldhuis, who earlier won the first-ever SCOOP League, selected their teams in a snake draft at PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona.

After four hours of explosive action, the €10,200 Pot-Limit Omaha wrapped up at the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) at Casino Barcelona. Gergo Nagy started the day with the second-shortest stack out of fifteen players. At the start of the final table, he was easily the shortest stack with just four big blinds. By the end of the day, he held every chip in the tournament, defeating Patrick Kennedy after a back-and-forth heads-up duel to take home his first PokerStars spade and the top prize of €268,600.

The PokerStars European Poker Tour in Barcelona has been a grand celebration of the tour’s 20th anniversary, Spanish culture, and on-the-felt triumphs. And now, PokerStars is championing women’s poker with a major announcement unveiled during a special Ladies Day Breakfast meet and greet ahead of the €550 Women’s event at Casino Barcelona. Led by ambassador Kerryjane Craigie, the spadie brand revealed the schedule for the Women’s Winter Festival, designed to “encourage women to participate in live poker games with aspirational outcomes.

Phil Laak hadn’t won a poker tournament since 2010 when he entered the $560 buy-in Mega Millions XXVII at Parkwest Bicycle Casino. He left the legendary Los Angeles casino on Wednesday having ended the drought by taking it down for $380,245. The $2 million guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament, along with two final single-day events, brought about the conclusion to the Legends of Poker Series, which began July 12. Behzad Teranie finished runner-up in what turned out to be a back-and-forth heads-up battle for the title.

The laid-back atmosphere of the €50,000 Super High Roller Second Chance at the PokerStars European Poker Tour in Barcelona disguised the fact that over a million euros were on the line. Despite the high stakes, the fast-paced, two-day event (which could have easily wrapped up in just one day) felt more like an upscale Sit ’n’ Go than the intense showdown you’d expect from a high-roller tournament. At the end of it all, it was another day in the office for high-stakes pros Leonard Maue and Nick Petrangelo — who both emerged victorious over the 26-entry field after agreeing to an ICM deal heads-up.

As the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) celebrates its 20th anniversary at EPT Barcelona, it’s a milestone not just for the world of poker but also for those who’ve contributed to its evolution. Among them is Cedric Billot, Associate Director of Live Events Operations for PokerStars, whose journey with the EPT began while it was in its infancy. An EPT Kid at Heart Billot proudly describes himself as an “EPT kid.

The poker community received sad news this week when word surfaced that Jason “Clozer” Kapoor, a well-known player from both the Michigan poker community and the Midwest circuit, ended his own life at 29 years old. Born December21, 1994, Kapoor left home when he was just 14 years old and worked 70 hours a week at a Dunkin Donuts during his teenage years. He began selling cars before eventually turning to poker full-time in 2019.