Last weekend, the poker world learned that Lori Geer Smith (March 12, 1959 - November 7, 2024) passed away from cancer at her home in Chico, Texas. Lupe Soto, founder of the Women in Poker Hall of Fame, shared the news on the Ladies International Poker Series (LIPS) page: “Heaven has gained an angel… Lori Geer Smith who is a friend to so many of our poker sisterhood has passed and we’ll miss her deeply.

Table Of Contents For the last six weeks, the World Series of Poker has been holding its 2024 WSOP Online series for US players. The series was made up of 33 bracelets events held for the Michigan-Nevada-New Jersey axis and four additional bracelet events for players located in Pennsylvania. Since September 29, players in these states have been battling it out for WSOP gold from the comfort of their own homes and — if previous online series are anything to go by — public bathrooms and local parking lots as well.

Table Of Contents The PokerNews Online Championships launches on 888poker this Sunday, November 17, ushering in an action-packed festival featuring $1 million in guaranteed prizes across 43 events. This Sunday alone, players can compete in four opening tournaments, offering more than $200,000 in guarantees across three Mystery Bounty events and a High Roller. Adding to the excitement, the $300,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event is already underway, with three starting flights completed and another two pencilled in for this weekend.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circut (WSOPC) is returning to Harrah’s Cherokee later this month for a series that will run Nov. 28-Dec. 9. The WSOPC Cherokee stop will feature nearly two dozen Circuit ring events with more than $4.1 million in guaranteed prize money. The series will culminate with a $1,700 buy-in Main Event with a $1.5 million guarantee, while other highlights include a $500,000 guaranteed Mini Main Event and a $500,000 guaranteed Monster Stack event.

Table Of Contents Vladimir Korzinin has captured the attention of seemingly the entire poker world due to a series of deep runs at Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo, punctuated by a victory in $150,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed for $4.3 million. Poker fans quickly dubbed the white-bearded high-stakes newcomer as “Gambledore” as he put top pros like Patrik Antonius and Fedor Holz to the test on their own turf.

Table Of Contents The 2024 PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas wrapped up this past weekend, and it proved a successful affair with all events surpassing their guarantees, players coming from around the world, and 20 Gold Pass winners cashing for a combined $241,600 in the $5,300 NAPT Main Event! PokerNews live reported several tournaments throughout the series, and during that time our reporters captured several big hands. For example, we already published an article on Jeremy Becker getting his aces cracked by Jonathan Little early in the $25,000 Super High Roller.

Table Of Contents What’s better than four cards? Five? Or how about six? Well, if you’re a fan of five or six-card Pot-Limit Omaha or are keen to try out the variant, then 888poker has the perfect update for you! On Wednesday, the operator rolled out the latest development across its cash games, and the lobbies are already filling up fast. For those new to PLO5 or PLO6 but have some experience with PLO, you don’t need to worry about rule or game changes.

Table Of Contents Estonia’s Vladimir Korzinin, a white-bearded high-stakes newcomer, continued his domination at the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo with a victory that earned him $4,350,000 and his second seven-figure score in the past week. Korzinin topped a field of 122 runners in the $150,000 No-Limit Hold’em 8-Handed event and defeated a final table that included Stephen Chidwick, Fedor Holz and Bryn Kenney, who earlier in the series became the first player to cross $70 million in live earnings by winning the $125,000 Main Event.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship will return to Wynn Las Vegas in a few weeks, and something sure to get players excited is a new poker documentary that released on Wednesday. The Ultimate Stack by POKERfilms was written, directed, and produced by noted poker documentarian Michael Bailey, who last year released the six-part Bracelet Hunt: A Poker Docuseries. The new documentary focused on the 2023 WPT Championship with the aim of showing a poker tournament from the beginning to the end through the eyes of the chips.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) event at the Choctaw Casino and Resort has run its course, with the Main Event ring, along with the top prize of $237,307, going to Philip Bertram. The festival, which kicked off on October 30, awarded $3.1 million in prizes before the close of play late on Sunday. Along the way, the festival also found fingers for 18 new WSOPC rings.

The Global Poker Eagle Cup VIII series wrapped up this week and saw PokerNews Ambassador Kyle “KAA17” Anderson winning three trophies and the Gold Coins Player of the Series distinction. Anderson streamed for 78 hours and made eight final tables, finishing first on the leaderboard ahead of Shane “MrBig327” Santos with three trophies and six final tables and “clabbers2” with three trophies and four final tables. On the Sweeps Coin side of things, “FrancisXavier” won the title with two trophies and four final tables, while PokerNews live reporter and Global Poker streamer Claudio “AudioCloud” Elizalde finished second with the same number of trophies and final tables.

Table Of Contents Sports card shop owner Jared Bleznick showed some aggression during Tuesday’s High Stakes Duel 5 opening round while defeating poker legend Patrik Antonius for $100,000 in a four-hour battle. The no-limit hold’em/pot-limit Omaha mix game on PokerGO cost $50,000 per player to enter. Each player received $50,000 in chips, and the increasing blinds started at $100/$200. High Stakes Duel is a heads-up competition that began in 2020 with Phil Hellmuth defeating Antonio Esfandiari three consecutive times for a $350,000 profit.

Table Of Contents Kristen Foxen and Jeanne David have been chosen as the 2024 inductees into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WiPHoF), with Starla Brodie set to make history as the first-ever recipient of the newly introduced Pioneer Award. The induction ceremony will take place next month, celebrating the achievements of these trailblazers. Founded in 2008, the WiPHoF honors women who have made lasting contributions to the poker world.

Table Of Contents PokerStars has announced the first three European Poker Tour (EPT) stops on its highly anticipated 2025 schedule, with the iconic tournaments returning to EPT Paris, EPT Monte-Carlo, and EPT Barcelona. This announcement follows another successful year for the tour, including a memorable celebration of EPT’s 20th anniversary in 2024. As excitement builds, PokerStars has confirmed more events are yet to be revealed. “We’re excited to announce the first part of the calendar with the return of EPT Paris, Monte-Carlo, and Barcelona for 2025”, said Live Events Senior Business Development Manager, Julien Liarte.

Table Of Contents Ring #3! After a first WSOP-C win in a heads-up tournament in 2018 and a second one in Rozvadov in 2019, Mario Perati added a third ring to his collection by winning the 2024 WSOP-C Sanremo €1,000 Main Event, organized by Texapoker at Casinò Sanremo. Out of 1,050 entrants, which generated a total prize pool of €888,300, Perati claimed the first-place prize of €123,140*. It wasn’t an easy victory, as Francesco Di Domenico held a massive chip lead for most of the day until he lost a big pot to Hervé Gouzil to finish in fourth place for €46,070.

Ethan “WPT123” Yau will “one day” learn who is trustworthy, but not this day, apparently. The popular poker vlogger tweeted out his “Scammer of 2024” award recipient, and the winner is a bookie who allegedly owes him thousands of dollars. Neema Khazaie, an agent for Diamond Sportsbook, is supposedly refusing to pay out his winnings after willfully accepting deposits during a lengthy downswing. Poker Vlogger Allegedly Scammed WPT123, who went from low-stakes to playing in nosebleed games on shows such as Hustler Casino Live within months, claims Khazaie provided “great customer service” for 6-8 months while the vlogger lost “piles” of money.

Table Of Contents Say what you will about Bryn Kenney, but the All-Time Money List leader consistently proves he knows how to perform on poker’s biggest stages. With his latest victory in the Triton Poker $125K Monte Carlo Main Event, his fourth on the tour, Kenney made history as the first player to surpass the $70 million mark in live tournament earnings. As always at Triton events, poker’s elite turned up to compete, but Kenney once again emerged victorious.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit is back in Las Vegas November 21-December 3 for the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas. Hosted by the Horseshoe Las Vegas — now located on the strip where the old Bally’s Las Vegas used to be — the 12-day festival of mid-stakes poker will award 18 WSOPC rings. The biggest and brightest of these rings will be the one awarded to the champion of the $1,700 buy-in Main Event, which starts on Friday, November 29 and offers up a $500,000 guarantee.

Table Of Contents There’s less than two weeks until the Women’s Winter Festival and PokerStars has upped the ante for the festival by adding their first-ever Women’s High Roller as a precursor to the £100,000 guaranteed Women’s Winter Festival Main Event. The new addition to the schedule will feature some of the best and most recognised female poker players battling it out in a high-stakes arena, and some huge names have already confirmed their attendance.

Table Of Contents Leg 9 of 2024 GUKPT season wrapped up in Blackpool, England on Sunday and crowned a new Main Event champion after Ravi Sheth topped the 299-entry field. The Grosvenor Poker live event generated a £314,250 prize pool that paid out returns to the top 38 players. Sheth entered the final table as the chip leader and never took his foot off the gas. He last defeated Zhicheng Mao to win the title, trophy, and £68,580 winner’s prize.

Table Of Contents The RunGood Resort has made its home this week in Cleveland, Ohio at JACK Casino. Nine events were throughout the trip here, with the flagship being The $1,000 buy-in RGPS Main Event, which saw three flights over three days. The 510 players came out to smash the guarantee and create a prize pool of $474,962. At the start of the day, only 67 players were guaranteed cash, and from that starting field, players were whittled down over 13 hours until there was just one standing.

Table Of Contents How would you prepare for a $10,300 NAPT High Roller finale with $385,750 on the line? Most players might opt for some last-minute study and a solid night’s sleep. But for eventual champion Sam Soverel, the approach was anything but typical. After a night of soaking in the Las Vegas nightlife, Soverel didn’t exactly rock up to Resorts World for the final day of the 2024 PokerStars North American Poker Tour bright-eyed and bushy-tailed.

Table Of Contents After the confetti had rained down, the trophy had been raised, and the lights had gone off at the second edition of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas $5,300 Main Event, Nick Marchington had one reaction to what his run was like: it felt like a dream. The 26-year-old UK pro started the final table as a massive chip leader and never lost it, putting on one of the most dominant final table performances in recent memory on his way to being crowned NAPT champion and taking home the $765,200 top prize.

Table Of Contents The 2024 PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas $5,300 Main Event attracted 895 runners, of which 115 had won PokerStars $10,000 Gold Passes via different routes such as Path to the NAPT Satellites, supporting live events, and partner promotions Of those, 20 managed to make the money cashing for a combined $241,600! Unfortunately, Houston’s Luis Rivera, who has won his Gold Pass via a PokerNews Podcast giveaway, was not one of them.

Table Of Contents What a year it’s been for Patrik Antonius. The poker icon took down the $100K Super High Roller in April at EPT Monte Carlo. A few months later, he was deservingly inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame. Then, on Saturday, Antonius reached new heights with his best-ever tournament score after taking down the $200K Triton Invitational in dominating fashion. Antonius was the last player standing in the biggest buy-in event of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series Monte Carlo, outlasting 101 other entries to lock up the lion’s share of the $20.

Table Of Contents Nick Marchington was a fresh-faced 21-year-old when he burst into the poker spotlight by making the final table of the WSOP Main Event. Five years later, the British pro is on the verge of another shot at stardom as he takes a massive chip lead into the final table of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas Main Event. Marchington, using relentless aggression in the day’s closing levels, built up a stack of 9,990,000 as he leads the remaining six players with a shot at the trophy and $765,200 first prize.

Table Of Contents After three days of four-card poker, an anonymous player was crowned the Diamond Poker Series €10,300 PLO Grand Slam Champion at Arena Casino Tirana. The player who went by the nickname “Benjamin N” throughout the tournament secured himself the largest part of the €1,203,200 prize pool in a four-way deal before finishing in style by shipping the trophy and the extra €20,000 which the players had reserved for first place, totaling his winnings to €219,200.

Table Of Contents One of the things that made the 2024 PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas so special was the fact the buy-in for the Main Event was raised from $1,650 to $5,300. As a way to make the increased entry fee accessible to everyday players, PokerStars was busy awarding $10,000 Gold Passes via different routes to players from all around the world. When the tournament kicked off, 115 Gold Pass winners had been minted from Path to the NAPT Satellites, supporting live events, and partner promotions (such as Louis Rivera via the PokerNews Podcast giveaway).

Table Of Contents The 2024 PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas will wrap up on Sunday, but in addition to the marquee events such as the $5,300 Main Event and $10,000 High Roller, there have been more than two dozen side events that crowned champions. We previously recapped wins by Ryan Hughes and Richard Bai, among others, but here is a look at some other players to capture side event titles in recent days at the 2024 NAPT at Resorts World Las Vegas.

Table Of Contents The 2024 PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas $5,300 Main Event will play down to a winner this weekend, but there has been plenty of side event action throughout the past week. PokerNews has live reported several of those tournaments, and during that time our live reporting team has captured some big and game-changing hands. For example, we already published an article on Jeremy Becker getting his aces cracked by Jonathan Little early in the $25,000 Super High Roller.

On Thursday night, Ari Engel was at Resorts World Las Vegas competing in the PokerStars NAPT Las Vegas $550 Cardplayer Lifestyle H.E.R.O.S. event, which attracted 108 runners. However, it wasn’t the only tournament he was playing. Engel, who is the WSOP’s all-time Circuit ring winner with 18, was also grinding online in the current WSOP Online bracelet, a series that began back on Sept. 29 offering up a 33-bracelet-event schedule that’ll wrap early next week on Nov.

Daniel Negreanu is stepping outside the poker world to launch a non-poker podcast with his wife, Amanda Negreanu, called the Mania Podcast. The show will kick off Nov. 11 on YouTube and other podcast platforms. Negreanu previously co-hosted the popular DAT Poker Podcast, but he’s moving on to something new, and something that won’t have much, if anything, to do with poker. Many poker fans may recognize Amanda Negreanu (Leatherman) from Daniel Negreanu’s daily World Series of Poker (WSOP) vlogs in the summer.

Table Of Contents The Asian Poker Tour (APT) has achieved an exciting milestone with the APT Manila 2024 festival, now recognized as the largest and richest poker series ever held in the Philippines. Over 11 action-packed days at the stunning City of Dreams Manila, the festival attracted a remarkable 8,102 entries from 1,321 unique players across 53 countries. This year’s event generated a jaw-dropping total prize pool of PHP 349,691,602 (around USD 5,944,757), showcasing just how popular poker has become in the region.

Table Of Contents What’s the best feeling in poker? Flopping a set? Hitting a gutshot on the turn? Or maybe rivering a straight flush to beat your opponent’s quads? All three are definitely up there, but Jamie Dale might have a different perspective after delivering a masterclass in the GUKPT Blackpool £1,500 High Roller, where he secured his seat at the table for a fraction of the buy-in. On Wednesday, Dale entered a £180 satellite to Grosvenor Poker’s biggest buy-in event of the festival and was among the five players to earn a ticket to the target tournament.

World Poker Tour (WPT) fans can tune in to CBS Sports Network starting this month to watch upcoming WPT televised shows. The major cable network and the popular poker tour, according to a press release, have agreed to a multi-year television deal. Action will begin on CBS Sports Network with edited episodes of the WPT’s Season XXI. WPT Action on CBS Sports Network CBS Sports Network has been home to the World Series of Poker (WSOP) since 2021 (previously ESPN).

This Sunday, Nov. 10, the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) Event #74: “Poker for Patriots” at the Fair Barn in Pinehurst, North Carolina. The $300 buy-in tournament will support the Veteran Golfers Association (VGA) and the V Foundation while awarding a $10,000 seat into the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event! Both organizations enhance lives through community and support: the VGA fosters camaraderie among veterans and their families by hosting over 1,500 tournaments for its 20,000 members, while the V Foundation has awarded over $353 million in cancer research grants, ensuring 100% of donations go directly to top scientists.