The break came at just the right time for Elias Gutierrez. The Team PokerStars Pro could feel the tournament slipping from his grasp. Gutierrez began his heads-up match with Russia’s Alexander Zubov with a massive chip lead, but Zubov steadily wore him down until he moved atop the leaderboard. Then came a 15-minute break, a chance for Gutierrez to regroup and refocus on capturing the biggest title of his poker title.

The upcoming Big Deal for One Drop at Resorts World Las Vegas will feature some big names, including Cirque du Soleil founder Guy Laliberte and inaugural Big One for One Drop champion Antonio Esfandiari. The $10,000 buy-in poker tournament, a partnership between the World Poker Tour (WPT) and One Drop Foundation, will take place on Nov. 22 during Formula 1 weekend in Las Vegas. “The Magician” and Cirque du Soleil founder will be joined by racing legends David Coulthard, Martin Brundle and Alex Wurz, WPT announced on Friday.

Table Of Contents Nine years ago, Ognyan Dimov burst onto the poker scene when he won the European Poker Tour Deauville Main Event. He had the big trophy that came with that spectacular accomplishment, but for nearly a decade and countless tournaments, another spadie had always eluded the Bulgarian. That changed today when Dimov emerged as the champion of the $20,000 No-Limit Hold’em event at EPT Cyprus. “But I didn’t have the spadie, so now I’m pretty happy,” Dimov said after he and Kayhan Mokri agreed to an ICM chop at the start of heads-up play, Dimov taking $253,876 and Mokri $260,800.

High Stakes Duel is back! The popular heads-up poker show hasn’t been seen since August 2023 when Daniel Negreanu defeated Eric Persson in Round 1 of High Stakes Duel IV and then Doug Polk to pocket $200,000. Before that, it was December 2022 when Jason Koon defeated Phil Hellmuth in Round 5 of High Stakes Duel III, giving the former a $1.6 million payday. Well, the show is returning with two poker heavyweights going head-to-head.

Table Of Contents After nine hours of play on Day 2, Marcelo Bonanata of Uruguay is the newest 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus champion after taking victory in the $10,200 Mystery Bounty for a total of $156,800, inclusive of bounties. Bonanata, who surged from the middle of the pack during the final table, defeated Latvian Aleksejs Ponakovs after a back and forth heads-up battle. Ponakovs is consoled with a $129,000 payday after scooping a $50,000 bounty, while Vladimir Korzinin of Estonia completed the podium places.

The WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas is less than a month away, and you could be jetting out to Sin City armed with a $3,000 WPT World Championship Prime package and the chance to play for a $10,400 Main Event seat for free, thanks to Brad Owen and WPT Global. WPT Global’s generosity knows no bounds, and this latest promotion is crammed full of value. On select Sundays, WPT Global players can lock horns in a special freeroll tournament at 3:00 p.

Table Of Contents The latest World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) stop kicked off today in Pompano Beach, Florida and will award nearly two dozen Circuit rings across an array of events. The WSOPC Pompano Beach stop, which runs Oct. 10-21 at Harrah’s Pompano Beach, will culminate with a $1,700 buy-in Main Event that comes with a $1 million guarantee attached. Win a Circuit Ring in Pompano Beach The Circuit stop in Pompano Beach kicked off today with two events, the $400 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em - 30K Opener and the $600 No-Limit Hold’em - Mini Main, an event that features a $350,000 guaranteed prize pool and offers four starting flights.

Table Of Contents Lena Ayad had never played before this week’s Celebrity Poker Tour H3 Game Night at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. But that didn’t stop the H3 Show executive assistant from winning the event for $5,000 and besting the H3 crew, which included co-hosts Ethan Klein and Hila Klein, before ultimately defeating head of production Dan Swerdlove during heads-up play. “I learned from the best, first of all, Ethan and Hila over here, and also I just kind of learned the mechanics of the game,” she told CPT in a winner’s interview.

Table Of Contents PokerNews predicted that the APT Taiwan Poker Classic Main Event’s attendance would be off the charts, and that prediction ran true with 1,991 entries and a massive NT$86,011,200 ($2,724,460) prize pool created. Germany’s Rene von Reden was the last player standing after the final hand concluded, and he raked in NT$14,413,200 ($453,960), the largest top prize ever awarded in Taiwan. The APT Taiwan paid out the top 295 finishers.

Table Of Contents Actor Jeremy Renner will host a Celebrity Poker Showdown in Las Vegas this month as part of a “Heroes Fore Kids” Charity Weekend. You can win a ticket to the celebrity charity tournament by playing in an upcoming PokerNews Meet-Up Game at Resorts World Las Vegas. The charity weekend runs Oct. 19-20 and will benefit the RennerVation Foundation, a non-profit that the Avengers star started in 2023 to serve northern Nevada’s disadvantaged youth.

Table Of Contents Caesars Southern Indiana is coming up on its second World Series of Poker Circuit event of 2024. After hosting a highly successful series in May of this year, the WSOPC Caesars Southern Indiana returns on October 17 for another 12 days of high-octane, mid-stakes poker. The final card will be dealt on October 28, at which point the good people of Indiana and their poker guests will have played 18 numbered events.

Table Of Contents Simone Andrian had played poker online for three years before taking his shot at the live felts in 2021. With almost no live tournament cashes on his resume, he achieved what most poker players only dream of by winning his first WSOP gold bracelet and €158,616 in a €1,650 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Max event during the 2021 WSOP Europe. Tonight, Andrian came full circle, winning the coveted 2024 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event bracelet and a career-best score of €1,300,000 at King’s Resort—the very place where his live poker journey began.

Table Of Contents WPT Global has partnered up with the Triton Poker Series to create one new tournament and a whole bunch of new promotions. During this season of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, WPT Global will become the series’s latest sponsor. In this role, WPT Global will provide players with exclusive opportunities to qualify for live Triton events. Triton Poker is known for its series of international super high-roller tournaments with multimillion-dollar top prizes.

Hustler Casino Live co-owner Nick Vertucci is parting ways with the popular poker stream after being accused of sexual harassment and intimidation, PokerNews learned on Wednesday. Fellow HCL co-founder Ryan Feldman informed PokerNews that “effective immediately,” Vertucci would “no longer be involved with High Stakes Poker Productions.” “We look forward to continuing to deliver the best high-stakes poker content to the community,” Feldman said in a statement. Vertucci’s departure comes days after former HCL regular Julia McBride accused the controversial co-owner of sending her inappropriate text messages and making unsolicited advances.

Table Of Contents PokerStars is bringing Spin & Go’s to the live arena for the first time and you don’t have long to wait to see them in action because The Spin & Go Championship debuts during the upcoming European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague festival. The Spin & Go Championship is scheduled for December 14-15 and will see 81 players lock horns in three-handed tournaments and do battle for a slice of the €100,000 prize pool.

During the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe at King’s Resort, Rozvadov, 888poker ambassador Vivian Saliba captured her first WSOP bracelet. It was a case of fifth time lucky for the popular Brazilian who had previously navigated her way to four WSOP final tables but fell short of the bracelet each time. The final table of the €2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha went differently for Saliba. She eventually found herself heads-up against Germany’s Markus Anheier with a commanding 3:1 lead.

The WPT Global ambassador roster has gained even more star quality with the online poker site welcoming National Hockey League (NHL) legend Phil Kessel to the WPT Global community in Canada. Kessel, a three-time Stanley Cup winner, joins Phil Ivey, Brad Owen, Ethan Yau, Jon Van Fleet, Angel Guillen, Patrick Tardif, Xuan Liu, and Pete Chen in sporting the famous WPT Global patch. Kessel racked up almost 1,300 NHL regular season games for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Arizona Coyotes, and the Vegas Golden Knights, scoring 413 goals, providing 579 assists, and amassing 992 points.

Table Of Contents The race to be crowned the 2024 Grosvenor Casinos Player of the Year is nearing its conclusion, with Matthew Davenport and Callum Gordon neck-and-neck at the top of the National Poker League (NPL) standings. Whoever comes out on top once the final qualifying event crowns its champion will receive a £75,000 sponsorship package for 2025. The stakes are high, but these players know all about that. Since the turn of the year, players cashing in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT), Grosvenor 25/50, 888poker UK Poker League (UKPL), UK Open, and Goliath events earn NPL leaderboard points.

Table Of Contents Simone Andrian achieved his first breakthrough score in 2021. With less than €10,000 in career live tournament earnings at the time, he overcame a field of 535 entrants in a €1,650 No-Limit Hold’em six-max event to win his first WSOP gold bracelet and €158,610 here at King’s Resort. Three years later Andrian, now with over $1,300,000 in live tournament earnings, finds himself back in Rozvadov in the biggest spot of his career so far, leading the final six players in the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event with the WSOPE Main Event bracelet and top prize of €1,300,000 nearly within reach.

Table Of Contents Polarizing former Hustler Casino Live player Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot says the show’s co-owner, Nick Vertucci, should “step away” over sexual harassment allegations. Julia McBride (aka “Julia from Palmdale”), once a prominent player on Hustler Casino Live, shared text screenshots on X from a September 2023 conversation in which Vertucci made sexual remarks towards her. Many poker players, including Doug Polk, have spoken out against the HCL co-founder for “using a place of power to make unwanted sexual advances on women.

Table Of Contents Marius Schneider delivered a thrilling finale to the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe, capturing his first-ever bracelet in Event #15: €550 Closer at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Schneider’s remarkable run earned him a career-best score of €44,000, as he overcame a tough heads-up battle against Romania’s Tiberiu Tirca, who took home €28,800 for his career-high cash. Schneider’s win was even more remarkable because he almost didn’t play.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Thunder Valley Casino (Northern California) series ended on Monday. Travis Egbert of Windsor, CA was the lucky winner, taking home his third WSOPC ring of 2024. Egbert’s previous two rings were also won at Thunder Valley in January 2024 as part of the previous WSOPC season’s Northern California leg. The $1,700 buy-in WSOPC Thunder Valley Main Event attracted 812 entries, generating a $1,230,180 prize pool and putting $214,565 up top for Egbert to win.

Table Of Contents A former regular on Hustler Casino Live, who spoke with PokerNews over the phone, accused co-owner Nick Vertucci of sexual harassment and said she was banned from the popular stream for rejecting his unwanted advances. Julia McBride, a southern California lawyer known on HCL as “Julia from Palmdale,” posted screenshots on X from a text exchange with Vertucci that appear to show the co-owner and co-founder making unsolicited advances.

Table Of Contents The Bonnington Hotel, Dublin, will be packed to the rafters between October 22-28 thanks to the 2024 edition of the International Poker Open (IPO) Dublin taking place. Players from around Ireland and much further afield will descend on the Bonnington for seven days of high-octane poker tournaments, including a €350 buy-in Main Event boasting a €250,000 guaranteed prize pool. PokerNews is delighted to provide live updates from the Main Event, here’s to reporting about your impressive victory.

Table Of Contents Players hailing from Brazil dominated proceedings in the latest edition of 888poker’s flagship online tournament. The $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event attracts players from far and wide, each hoping to turn $109 into a much larger payday. This week’s event drew in 1,029 entrants who created a $102,900 prize pool; Brazil’s Samba stars got their hands on more than their fair share. One of the $3,000 mystery bounty payments found its way to “aziz.

Table Of Contents Sameh Elamawy has been brought the action throughout Season 13 of High Stakes Poker, but the best play he’s made occurred during Monday’s newest episode. And it will go down as a Top 5 bluff in the iconic poker show’s history. The billionaire CEO of Scratch has shown no fear at the poker table competing for massive stakes against accomplished pros and fellow recreational players. He tangled in a memorable hand during Episode 9, which is now available on PokerGO, against Humboldt Mike, a pot that exceeded $800,000.

Table Of Contents Excitement is building on the Asian Poker Tour (APT) because the massive APT Manila festival is right around the corner, with the first of 109 tournaments shuffling up and dealing on October 28. By the time the curtain comes down at the City of Dreams Manila, the festival will have crowned 109 champions and awarded around $3 million to those finishing in the money places. You have already feasted your eyes on the bustling schedule and checked out the past APT Manila Main Event champions.

Table Of Contents As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the Grosvenor G Casino in Blackpool hosts the penultimate stop of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) each November. Stops have come on gone on the GUKPT since its inception in 2007, but the Blackpool leg has remained constant, with the exception of the COVID-19 hit 2020. November is fast approaching, and as sure as eggs are eggs, the GUKPT’s penultimate stop of its 2024 tour takes place in the British seaside town of Blackpool.

Making a World Series of Poker final table and being inches away from a WSOP Gold Bracelet is a dream many poker players share but realized by few. Zewei Ding found himself in that position today, but his dream nearly turned into a nightmare as soon as the final table began. Just one hand in, Ding faced what seemed like the ultimate cooler, with his pocket kings up against Dirk Schumacher’s pocket aces.

Over the past week, Zine-Din Benrebai showed everyone what it means to live the poker dream. Prior to coming to the France Poker Series in Aix-les-Bains, Benrebai had competed in a €150 buy-in tournament wherein he was lucky enough to win a lottery for a buy-in into the FPS Main Event. Benrebai took the opportunity and made his way to the Casino Grand Cercle, where he bested a 660-entry field to take down a PokerStars Main Event trophy and the €122,150 first-place prize resulting from a €633,600 prize pool.

Few would argue that Phil Hellmuth is the G.O.A.T. of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). But Bryn Kenney doesn’t think the “Poker Brat” is that great overall as a poker player. Kenney, who holds the record for live tournament cashes at $67 million, according to The Hendon Mob, appeared on the Digital Social Hour Podcast with Sean Kelly. The New York poker pro addressed a handful of topics, including losing $3.

“Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!” It’s not just Peyton Manning screaming for some “Omaha.” Poker players on Global Poker are about to experience the return of the Maverick O Series III, an Omaha-only event. The series kicks off Oct. 6 with a 6-Max Turbo freeroll at 6 p.m. ET. Those who compete in Global Poker’s Gold Coins (GC) or Sweeps Coins (SC) will have plenty of Omaha tournaments to enter, including pot-limit Omaha, fixed-limit O/8 and fixed-limit Omaha.

PokerStars listened to feedback from female poker players on how to draw women to the game, and now the poker site is responding. The upcoming PokerStarsNorth American Poker Tour (NAPT) Las Vegas festival will feature a $330 buy-in Women’s Event on Nov. 5. Notably, the event has a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool attached. Last year’s NAPT Women’s Event had a $360 price tag and drew 94 entrants for a prize pool of $28,200.

“Playing with him is unbelievably unpleasant… I think it’s ridiculous that he’s allowed to play in the tournament,” Dan Smith once said about Martin Kabrhel during the €250,000 Super High Roller at the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP). It’s a sentiment that captures the mixed feelings many have about Kabrhel, who embodies the idea that “one man’s hero is another man’s villain.” Despite the controversy that seems to shadow him, Kabrhel further cemented his legacy by winning his third bracelet in the 2024 WSOP Europe’s biggest buy-in event, the €50,000 NLH Diamond High Roller.

There’s another opportunity to for poker players to win a PokerStarsNAPT Gold Pass thanks to a giveaway by former NFL tight end Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski. Gronkowski, a FanDuel ambassador, will be giving away the $10,000 Gold Pass to a random player who responds to an upcoming post on X with the name of any player in the NFL league they think will score a touchdown on Oct. 6 and follow FanDuel Casino on X.

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) is underway across the US and recently saw Michael Estes winning the WSOPC Hammond Main Event for $198,576. Now, the WSOPC Thunder Valley stop is taking place in northern California and has already produced several Circuit ring winners. The WSOPC Thunder Valley stop has created $927,490 in prize money so far across seven events and culminates with the currently underway $1,700 buy-in Main Event.