Want to have some fun with the hosts of the PokerNews Podcast and Life Outside Poker? Well, now is your chance. A PokerNews meet-up game will take place on Saturday, October 12 at Resorts World Las Vegas in anticipation of its hosting of next month’s North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Las Vegas festival. PokerNews Podcast co-hosts Chad Holloway, Kyna England and Mike Holtz will attend, as will Life Outside Poker host Connor Richards, not to mention any poker friends they may rope into making an appearance.

Unlucky for some, but for 13 players who were crowned champions last night, it was a very special night of World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) action on PokerStars! The festival takes its final rest day today, with action resuming on Saturday where all eyes will be on Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot to see if he could win an incredible fifth WCOOP title this year. Meanwhile, Team peace&loove once again outscored their nearest rivals and now hold more than an 1,000-point lead in the WCOOP League standings, surely cementing their victory in the inaugural contest.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) heads to Montreal this October, with WPT Playground running from October 14-31. Every tournament carries a guarantee on its prize pool, including the WPT Main Event that will award $1,500,000 to those lucky and skilful enough to navigate their way into the money places. You likely already know you can win your way into WPT live events online at WPT Global, but the online poker room is pulling out all of the stops for the WPT Playground festival.

The month of September is recognized as “Suicide Prevention Month” – a time to place the spotlight on the multiple resources available to those who may need crisis support or want to help someone they know. Given the poker community has recently lost several players who died by suicide, PokerNews felt compelled to consult an expert for information and details regarding suicide risks, warning signs, and more. As such, we reached out to the Nevada chapter of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) and spoke with Dr.

With EPT Barcelona now in the rearview mirror, PokerStars is gearing up for the next chapter of the European Poker Tour. The upcoming stop sees the brand return to Cyprus for the second time, following last year’s highly successful debut event that was a huge hit with players. The 2024 edition, which runs from October 9-20, promises to be just as spectacular. Set against the stunning backdrop of the five-star Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, it’s the ultimate destination for anyone seeking the excitement of a grand live poker holiday.

After nearly seventeen hours of play today, Event #4: €2,000 Pot Limit Omaha finally came to its conclusion at the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe. Brazil’s Vivian Saliba emerged victorious outlasting a field of 229 entrants to capture her first WSOP bracelet here at the King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Saliba takes home the €91,400 first-place prize money from the €398,231 prize pool after defeating Germany’s Markus Anheier in a short heads-up battle that spanned over two levels.

This week, Grosvenor Poker Pro Katie Swift came within touching distance of history. She narrowly missed out on becoming the first female winner of a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) title when she finished second in the GUKPT Luton Main Event. Now reflecting on her deep run, Swift said she’s on cloud nine and has been inundated with messages of support after her deep run. “I can’t stop smiling!” Swift told PokerNews.

After Lex “L. Veldhuis” Veldhuis captured his first World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) title earlier in the series, and Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot added another four to his tally, Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber is the latest Team PokerStars member to become a 2024 WCOOP champion. Huber has racked up over 50 cashes during the current WCOOP, but none will ever be as memorable as his result in the WCOOP 88-L: $11 H.

Poker fans don’t have to wait much longer for the second installment of the Triton Poker Cash Game Invitational. The five-day high-stakes affair begins Oct. 1 at the Jeju Shinwa World Resort in South Korea, and concludes Oct. 5. Triton will livestream each session starting at noon PT. Triton Poker Cash Game Details The first Cash Game Invitational, which took place during the Triton Montenegro tournament series, brought about some of the biggest pots ever seen on livestream.

Back on September 13, the WPT Foundation partnered with Russell Westbrook’s Why Not? Foundation for the NBA star’s 4th Annual Poker Night, which raised funds for the Why Not? Foundation. The event took place at Wynn Las Vegas, which will play host to this December’s WPT World Championship. Alongside his wife Nina Westbrook, the 2016-2017 Most Valuable Player (MVP) runs the Why Not? Foundation, which is a nonprofit designed to create pathways of empowerment for underserved communities with a focus on education, workforce development programs, and mental health and wellness resources.

It was a “glimpse behind the curtain”. That’s what Bloomberg Senior Writer Kit Chellel told PokerNews about his latest article published late last week. In ‘The Russian Bot Army That Conquered Online Poker’, the award-winning journalist writes about Bot Farm Corporation (or BF Corp.), a Siberian bot farm founded by Russian students that offers botting services to players. It also offered bots to poker sites to artificially inflate their liquidity.

Ask any poker player about bad beats and they will likely tell you they have taken the worst of them imaginable. But the beat taken by Isaac Baron during the 2024 WSOP Online International Main Event may actually take the cake. The hand in question took place at the final table of the $5,000 buy-in event, which drew 6,146 entries over 17 flights to leave just over $4 million up top for the champion.

After busting the 2018 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in 46th place when Michael Dyer cracked his pocket aces with pocket tens, James Obst began questioning whether he wanted to remain a professional poker player. In July of 2018, Obst revealed he was leaving poker and turning his attention to professional tennis. Obst played at the 2019 WSOP in Las Vegas but then wasn’t seen at the poker tables until he returned to “Sin City” for the 2023 WSOP.

The titles keep coming for Parker “tonkaaaa” Talbot in the 2024 World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) after the PokerStars Ambassador picked up his fourth of the series last night. His victory in Event 85-M secured him $6,392 and the eighth WCOOP title of his career, drawing him level with Shaun “shaundeeb” Deeb and Rui “RuiNF” Ferreira in the all-time standings. However, it still wasn’t enough for his WCOOP League team to put a dent in Team peace&loove, who narrowly extended their lead over Team tonkaaaa at the top of the counts.

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).

Clinton Keown from Evansville, Indiana, passed away on September 22 in an automobile accident. A renowned athlete for both basketball and baseball, Keown was also a popular poker player in the community. Keown, born February 25, 1980, had $171,271 in lifetime earnings according to the Hendon Mob, which included a career-high $36,480 for finishing ninth in the 2005 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit $10,000 Championship Event at Horseshoe Southern Indiana.

Hustler Casino Live returned to YouTube Monday night following a one-week suspension for the first night of High Stakes Week. The stream will likely be remembered for some big pots and one player going into the tank in a hand for about half the five-hour session. That comment was hyperbolic and a bit excessive, perhaps even more so than the 11 minutes and 20 seconds it took Linglin Zeng to make her decision in a $180,000 pot with pocket jacks.

Volodymyr Kokoulin was a card away from elimination. Instead, he became the newest World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE) bracelet winner after taking down Event #2: €550 Pot-Limit Omaha. Kokoulin built up a big chip lead three-handed and defeated Poland’s Tomasz Kozub heads-up to win his first WSOP bracelet and €56,100 top prize. “Super good. I dreamed about this since I started playing. So it’s super cool. I feel very pleased,” Kokoulin said after prevailing over the 642-entry field.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) is going to set another record this coming December with a freeroll tournament that will have thousands of poker players interested in making a trip to Las Vegas. Wynn Las Vegas, during the WPT World Championship Festival, will play host to the first ever $5 million poker tournament freeroll Dec. 13-15. First place is guaranteed to make at least $1 million. The historic freeroll comes just one year after the World Poker Tour hosted the record-setting $40 million guaranteed WPT World Championship, a $10,400 buy-in tournament that attracted 3,835 entrants.

After six days that included five Day 1 flights, the $1,200 Main Event at The Commerce Casino Hold’em Series has been completed. There were 517 entrants for this event that generated a prize pool of $542,850. Day 2 started with 51 players and ended in a three-way ICM chop with Sungmin Cho taking home the championship trophy and the top prize of $87,315. At the time of the ICM chop, Cho from Seoul, South Korea, was the chip leader and was crowned the champion of the tournament.

The first gold bracelet of the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe has been presented at King’s Resortin Rozvadov. This marks the seventh time Europe’s largest poker venue has hosted the series and will award 15 WSOP gold bracelets. And claiming the first bracelet of the festival was Przemyslaw Szymanski, who emerged as the first champion after prevailing in Event #1: The €350 NLH Opener. The tournament attracted 3,509 entries, narrowing besting last year’s count of 3,503.

The XL Autumn Series has exploded into action at 888poker, with six of 29 scheduled events crowning their worthy champions. Anyone who comes out on top in a large-field multi-table tournament deserves plaudits, especially so when they come back from being the third-shortest stack at the final table to win. The Opening Event Sale Mystery Bounty only cost $55 to enter yet guaranteed $100,000 in its prize pool. A total of 1,822 entries were processed, and that field was cut to the final table of eight on Day 1.

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.

It was an action-packed night at the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP), with 22 new champions crowned and several familiar faces reclaiming their spots in the winner’s circle. For the first time since 2020, high-stakes phenom Adrian “Amadi_017” Mateos emerged victorious in a WCOOP event. The future Poker Hall of Famer captured his fifth WCOOP title, boosting his point tally for Team easywithaces. Meanwhile, “FAL1st,” a player who has been consistently making headlines in recent weeks, secured his fourth title of this year’s series.

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.