Table Of Contents Following a hugely successful debut in London, where Getnet Kasa bested 490 opponents in the £500 buy-in Main Event, the new PartyPoker Tour headed to the Manchester235 Casino for the PartyPoker Tour Manchester leg. The £500 buy-in Main Event drew in a crowd of 243 entrants who created a £107,248 prize pool. Deniz Orhan came out on top and walked away with £19,843 after a heads-up deal with Ronnie Marland.

Table Of Contents The latest 888poker UK Poker League (UKPL) Main Event has crowned its champion, with Harry Sandford forever being known as the 2025 UKPL Edinburgh Main Event champion. Sandford came out on top of a 262-strong crowd in the £560 buy-in Main Event to take home £23,960 of the £124,440 prize pool. Sandford’s prize represents the largest of his live poker career so far. At the turn of the year, Sandford finished fourth in the 888poker UKPL Portsmouth Main Event for £20,005, and this score beats that impressive sum.

Table Of Contents After a rapid final day, Manuel Ferrari of Italy has battled through a tough final table to take victory in the PokerStars Open Main Event Malaga 2025, securing a huge career-best €206,300 payday after a heads-up deal with his fellow countryman, Ermanno Di Nicola. Ferrari came into heads-up play with a slight lead, and he banked €197,300 in the deal to Di Nicola’s €188,360, with play continuing for €9,000 and the trophy.

Table Of Contents Welcome back to PokerNews’ daily recap of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) action. June 22 was the 27th day of the 2025 WSOP; it was a day where dozens of the game’s superstars took to the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas to start their quest for glory. Of all the events that were in play on Day 27, only one awarded its bracelet. Dylan Linde became a three-time WSOP champion after coming out on top in Event #57: $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller.

Table Of Contents To say Dylan Linde got off to a good start this summer would be a major understatement. Over the first three weeks of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), Linde achieved not one, but two final tables, first in the $2,500 No-Limit Hold’em event and later in the $1,500 Monster Stack. Linde navigated through thousands of entries in those events, winning nearly $400,000 total but coming up just short of winning a third WSOP bracelet both times.

Reigning World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo flipped his way into this year’s championship event, meaning he won’t even have to put up the $10,000 buy-in to defend his title. Tamayo announced on Sunday that he won a WSOP Online $160 All-In Flipament, a flip-and-go-style event that puts players all-in blind and that needs 64 players to run, according to Kevin Mathers. Tamayo demonstrated his luck a year ago when he navigated the largest WSOP Main Event field in history to win $10 million.

Table Of Contents Day 26 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas was a three-bracelet day. The biggest story of the day was Benny Glaser’s victory in Event #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball where he won his third bracelet of the series and eighth overall. Kristopher Tong beat a 21-bracelet final table to win his first WSOP gold in the Event #55: $10,000 H.

Table Of Contents First the $1,500 Dealers Choice, then the $1,500 Mixed PLO8 and now, its the $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball (2-7, A-5, Badugi). Three bracelets in three weeks, all in fields with more than 500 entries. That’s the historic heater Benny Glaser finds himself on at the 2025 World Series of Poker, as he became just the eighth player in WSOP history to win three gold bracelets in a single summer.

Table Of Contents Nearly seven hours after Event #48: $1,000 Senior’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship brought back as many hopefuls to the Horseshoe Event Center, the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Las Vegas has crowned another winner. Brett Lim started the final day second in chips and overcame multiple obstacles to defeat Elan Lepovic in heads-up with both players earning the lion’s share of the $6,666,000 prize pool in a gargantuan field of 7,575 entries.

Table Of Contents The final table of Event #55: $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship was full of notable names and accomplished mixed game stars, with a total of 21 World Series of Poker bracelets between the last eight contenders. As the tournament played on at Paris and Horseshoe Las Vegas, the battle came down to a pair of players looking for their first. Both had come close in the past, but it was finally time for Kristopher Tong to take down this prestigious championship.

Table Of Contents It’s a feat so rare that only a handful of poker legends have pulled it off and now Adrián Mateos has added his name to the list. With his fifth World Series of Poker bracelet secured 10 days before turning 31, Mateos becomes only the fifth player in history to win five WSOP titles by age 30, joining the elite company of Phil Ivey (28), Phil Hellmuth (29), Allen Cunningham (30), and Daniel Alaei (30).

Table Of Contents A recreational poker player has accused a well-known Los Angeles high-stakes cash game pro of angle shooting during Day 1c of the $1,500 Millionaire Maker at the 2025 World Series of Poker. Brent Philbin, who has $226,155 in live earnings according to The Hendon Mob, took to both X and the r/poker subreddit to call out GGPoker ambassador Andy Tsai — better known as Andy Stacks — for what he claims was unethical behavior at the table.

It’s not the first time Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek has shoved blind at the 2025 World Series of Poker, but on this occasion, the two-time bracelet winner had reason to smile when the cards hit the felt. Arguably matched only by Martin Kahbrel in terms of entertainment value so far this summer, the ultra-aggressive Moncek was all in for his tournament life in the $50K High Roller PLO, despite not having looked at his cards.

Table Of Contents Benny Glaser’s remarkable 2025 WSOP is continuing this Saturday as the seven-time bracelet winner has reached the final table of Event #56: $2,500 Mixed Triple Draw Lowball. The British pro, who has already taken down the $1,500 Dealer’s Choice and $1,500 Mixed: PLO Hi-Lo 8 or Better at this year’s series, will now be hoping to complete a hat trick of bracelets and strengthen his case for the 2025 WSOP Player of the Year title.

Table Of Contents PokerStars is giving players in Las Vegas the chance to punch their ticket to one of the hottest events on the poker calendar, the 2025 North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Main Event, by taking part in an exclusive ambassador meet-up game this month. The event runs on Saturday, June 28, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. inside the poker room at Resorts World Las Vegas, where an 8-handed $2/$5 No-Limit Hold’em cash game will award one player a $5,300 Main Event seat.

Table Of Contents Day 25 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas saw three new gold bracelets find three new wrists on which to rest. Matt Vengrin won a bracelet in the $1,500 Pot Limit Omaha event. Vengrin has three previous runner-up finishes in WSOP events, but this was his first time taking a WSOP event down outright. Samuel Rosborough and Dennis Weiss also claimed their first U.

Table Of Contents There have been plenty of crazy hands at the 2025 World Series of Poker. Just think back to Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek a few weeks ago, when he moved all in blind and somehow ran into aces, kings, queens and jacks. But the wildest hand of the summer, where one player made a Royal Flush against not one but two full houses, might not have happened in Las Vegas at all.

Table Of Contents It took nearly two decades and three agonizing runner-up finishes, but Matt Vengrin is finally a World Series of Poker champion. Vengrin outlasted a field of 1,564 entries in Event #54: $1,500 Pot-Limit Omaha 8-Handed to claim his long-awaited first bracelet and a career-best $306,791 payday. The final day began with 11 hopefuls, but by night’s end, it was Vengrin standing tall at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, having defeated Bryce Yockey heads-up for the title.

Table Of Contents A record-breaking turnout for Event #51: $25,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha has drawn to a close with Dennis Weiss reigning victorious for his second World Series of Poker bracelet. The German PLO specialist overcame a field of 489 entries with a prizepool of over $11.4 million, beating some of the best players in the game, to take home a cool $2,292,155. Weiss was faced with the difficult task of staring across the table at another four-card expert in the likes of Michael Duek, who also has plenty of experience under the spotlight.

Table Of Contents Male poker player Albert “albiexchewy” Ng has sparked online controversy after winning a $1,000 seat to the WSOP Ladies Championship via an open online satellite held on June 19, 2025. The satellite, which drew 51 entrants on WSOP.com, awarded a single $1,000 seat to the Ladies Championship, set to run June 26–30 at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Ng, who is also playing today’s $1,500 Millionaire Maker, claimed the top prize despite not being eligible to play the event without paying a significant premium.

Table Of Contents For many, the purest form of tournament poker is a freezeout, where there’s no rebuys nor second chances. That spirit was alive and well in Event #52: $1,500 No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout at the 2025 World Series of Poker, which drew an impressive 2,320 entries and generated a $3,077,145 prize pool. In the end, Samuel Rosborough reigned supreme and received a $410,426 first prize from the $3,077,145 total prize pool to go with his impressive new bracelet.

Table Of Contents Twenty years ago, Scott Lazar doubled up eventual champion Joe Hachem and coolered Mike Matusow at one of the most entertaining and memorable World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final tables ever. Two decades later, the 2005 sixth-place finisher in poker’s most prestigious event ran deep in another WSOP event. This one, Event #48: $1,000 Senior’s No-Limit Hold’em Championship, a tournament that attracted 7,575 entrants. Lazar, who spoke to PokerNews on a Day 3 break, busted in 31st place for $21,950, his second-largest tournament cash since his televised $1.

Pat Pezzin lets out a wry chuckle when told his daughter was just nine years old the last time he spoke to PokerNews. She’s 21 now, freshly graduated from university, and Pezzin’s first stop after the 2025 World Series of Poker will be back home to Canada to celebrate her achievement. If it seems like a long time since Pezzin was last cashing on poker’s biggest stage, that’s because it has been - long enough for a little girl to grow into a college grad.

Table Of Contents After nearly two decades in the poker industry, working hundreds of tournament stops from Las Vegas to Rozvadov, Andy Tillman was just tapped as the new World Series of Poker (WSOP) International Circuit Tournament Director. Tillman, a longtime WSOP tournament director who had already overseen international WSOP stops, was given the official title as the WSOP and GGPoker announced the remaining 2025 WSOP Circuit schedule, which includes 17 U.

Table Of Contents WPT Global is heading to Canada, Playground in Montreal to be exact, between July 20 and August 3 for the inaugural WPT Global Summer Million Festival. The fortnight-long festival is expected to pay out CAD$1,500,000, including at least CAD$600,000 in the Main Event alone, while WPT Global is adding more than CAD$200,000 through exciting online promotions. WPT Global Summer Million Festival Schedule Date Time Event Sun 20 Jul 4:00 p.

Table Of Contents June is Pride Month. Dedicated to celebrating and commemorating LGBTQ+ pride, Pride Month is over 50 years old and originated after the Stonewall riots, a series of gay liberation protests that took place in 1969. PokerNews is again publishing a series of articles to mark Pride Month, showcasing the role LGBTQ+ individuals play in our industry and the discrimination they have faced. They will also highlight what they feel can be done to foster greater inclusivity for the LGBTQ+ community in poker.

Table Of Contents Day 24 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas will mostly be remembered for Brian Rast staging an epic comeback to become a bracelet winner for the seventh time. Rast, a member of Poker’s Hall of Fame, clawed his way back into contention against Andrew Yeh before defeating him in Event #50: $10,000 Razz Championship. $10K H.O.R.S.E. Championship Reach Final 16 With Maximilian Schindler Leading Maximilian Schindler is more used to racking up dozens of online WSOP cashes, yet here is is leading the final 16 players in Event #55: $10,000 H.

Table Of Contents Six bracelets. Three PPC titles. Induction into the hallowed chambers of the Poker Hall of Fame. Brian Rast had accomplished it all throughout his poker career, cementing his status as one of the game’s all-time greats. But not even he ever had quite a day like the one he just had to finish off Event #50: $10,000 Razz Championship at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP).

Table Of Contents Phil Ivey is starting to heat up at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and he could be just one day away from capturing his 12th gold bracelet. The Poker Hall of Famer, with 10 players remaining at the time of publishing, held the chip lead in Event #51: $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller, a tournament with 489 entrants. Bryn Kenney, who is closing in on $80 million in live tournament cashes, busted in 11th place ($134,007).

Phil Hellmuth shared some juicy news with Daniel Negreanu involving an investment into America’s future he helped propose with Senator Ted Cruz (R). The conversation between the poker legends, recorded on Negreanu’s phone, took place on Thursday at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). Hellmuth is fresh off a third-place finish in Event #47: $2,500 Limit Omaha 8/Stud 8, narrowly missing out on his record-extending 18th bracelet. But on this day, he’s talking politics.

Table Of Contents The 100-bracelet schedule at the 2025 World Series of Poker has reached the halfway stage, but there have also been plenty of online bracelets handed out so far this summer. After Corey Thompson nearly won two of the first three online bracelets awarded, here’s a recap of some of the latest winners including Brek Schutten, Jonathan Little and a close call for Josh Arieh. Schutten Wins Second Bracelet in $1,000 PKO One year after Brek Schutten won his first bracelet in the $25,000 High Roller for $1,405,641, he’s got his hands on a second after victory in Event #4 - $1,000 NLHE PKO.

Former NFL running back Adrian Peterson was involved in a fistfight during a May 27 poker game, according to a video obtained by TMZ. It appears that alcohol was involved. Peterson, dubbed “All Day,” has run into multiple alcohol-related incidents recently. The former Minnesota Vikings star was pulled over under suspicion of and charged with fourth-degree driving while impaired in April, a misdemeanor. He also appeared on the Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) in Las Vegas twice in May but didn’t cash.

Table Of Contents The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) has passed its halfway stage, and several top pros have scrubbed their name from the dreaded “Best Player Without a Bracelet” list by capturing some WSOP gold. However, there are still some top-tier grinders whose wrist is still missing poker’s most sought after piece of jewelry, including these ten heroes and heroines. Darren Elias Darren Elias, known by many as “The End Boss,” has won four World Poker Tour (WPT) Main Event titles and amassed over $13.

Table Of Contents Day 23 of the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas saw one bracelet awarded and another seven bracelet-awarding events whittle their respective fields down to more manageable numbers. Event #37: $1,500 Monster Stack finally crowned its champion a day later than scheduled, and Klemens Roiter is that champion. Day 4 ended with seven hopefuls who Davd Uvaydov led back into battle, but the night belonged to Roiter who captured his first bracelet and $1,204,457.

Table Of Contents After four grueling days of action on the felt here at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, only seven players returned for the fifth and final day of Event #37: $1,500 MONSTER STACK. When the dust settled, it was Klemens Roiter of Austria who accomplished what all of his competitors set out to do - take home the seven-figure payday and the bracelet. In what proved to be one of the most popular events at the 2025 World Series of Poker thus far, Roiter navigated his way through an enormous field of 9,920 entries to capture the first-place prize of $1,204,457.

Table Of Contents Playing the $250,000 Super High Roller turned out to be a bad bet for Sean Perry. The self-proclaimed sports betting guru arrived on Monday to enter Day 2 of the largest buy-in tournament at the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP). He lost all of his chips about five minutes after he sat down. But he’ll have an opportunity to win it all back soon (or lose more).