Before the Thanksgiving leftovers could be re-heated, the 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Rock ‘n’ Roll Open got underway at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. And despite the overlap with the holiday weekend, the first flight had no trouble attracting top players from Florida and nationwide. Even though the tournament kicked off on Black Friday (no, not that Black Friday), there was no discount for the hundreds of players who made the trip to the South Florida property.

Table Of Contents The $1,100 buy-in, $5,000,000 GTD WPT Prime Championship will take place from Dec. 8-14 at the Wynn Las Vegas as a part of the WPT World Championship Festival (Dec. 3-23). Last year, Calvin Anderson topped a field of 10,512 entrants – nearly double that of 2022 – to win the 2023 WPT Prime Championship for $1,386,280. The WPT Prime proved so successful that it won the Global Poker Award for Best Mid-Major Tour/Circuit.

Poker private game high roller Dan Bilzerian has filed a lawsuit against his dad, Paul Bilzerian, over an “unlawful removal” from a cannabis company he co-founded, Ignite International Brands, Ltd. The elder Bilzerian is currently facing federal felony fraud charges for allegedly using Ignite to funnel money hidden from the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) from a 1990s eight-figure civil lawsuit. Paul Bilzerian, federal investigators claim, secretly controlled Ignite, and the poker playing son doesn’t seem to dispute those claims, court documents indicate.

Table Of Contents The GUKPT Grand Final in Luton has reached its business end, with the £1,500 High Roller dealing its final hand just as excitement for the £1,250 GUKPT Grand Final Main Event began to build at Grosvenor G Casino on Park Street West. Keith Johnson delivered another standout performance to claim his second major title of 2024, earning £46,420 after emerging victorious from the High Roller’s 104-entry field. Johnson navigated a fiercely competitive final table and triumphed over Mukhtar Ahmed in heads-up, claiming the lion’s share of the £149,760 prize pool and pushing his live tournament earnings past $300,000 for the year.

Table Of Contents Yesterday, Pokerstars announced a partnership with the National Hockey League’s Philadelphia Flyers. The deal will allow players on the PokerStars platform to win match tickets and signed Flyers memorabilia in a series of special online poker tournaments. Players can also win tickets and merch through a monthly sweepstakes hosted by PokerStars Casino. The merch and ticket tourneys will be available to players on the PokerStars client in Pennsylvania and New Jersey.

Table Of Contents The Venetian Las Vegas, which a few months ago debuted its new 50-table, 14,000 square foot poker room (the largest on the Las Vegas Strip), just wrapped up its latest DeepStack Showdown Series, which ran from October 11 through November 24. Through 79 events, the festival catered to a combined 8,997 entries and awarded $2,247,495 in prize money (not including satellites). They also forked over $31,665 in overlays.

Table Of Contents The brains behind Stretch Network always look for ways to enrich its customers’ playing experience, and they had done precisely that by launching two brand-new features for its online poker client. Players can now voluntarily reveal their hole cards at showdown and use bonus funds for cash game play. Show/Muck Comes to Stretch Network You can add another layer of strategy to your Stretch Network poker sessions by choosing to show your hole cards at showdown.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit festival at the Commerce Casino in California wrapped up proceedings yesterday. After two weeks and 18 ring events, the festival came to a close with its $1,700 Main Event crowning a winner. That winner was television producer and Canadian poker pro Matthew Salsberg, who took down the WSOP Circuit Commerce Main Event, earning $286,134 as well as pocketing the gold championship ring.

Table Of Contents Four elite competitors in their fields faced off in Las Vegas last week in Global Poker Table Talk Vegas, an event that paired Formula 1 drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr. with Olympic legend Michael Phelps and poker superstar Antonio Esfandiari. The GP Table Talk Vegas on Tuesday, Nov. 19 inside PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino kicked off race week as one of severalcelebrity-packed events as the city hosted F1 for the second straight year.

Table Of Contents The World Poker Tour (WPT) is back at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood, Florida for the 2024 WPT Seminole Rock ‘n’ Roll Open festival that got underway on Nov. 20 and runs through Dec. 4. The festival includes a $3,500 buy-in Championship Event with a $3 million guarantee from Nov. 29-Dec. 4, during which PokerNews will be on-site producing content. The festival has already named more than a dozen winners across events that have already generated over $3.

Table Of Contents Hustler Casino Live (HCL), typically broadcast from its Los Angeles casino, ventured to the Mediterranean for a special livestreamed cash game at the newly opened Onyx Club in Cyprus. Featuring a star-studded lineup of VIPs and professional players, the $100/$200 + $200 Big Blind Ante cash game promised action, but one $200K pot between British businessman Rob Yong and HCL founder Ryan Feldman became the night’s highlight moment.

Table Of Contents The PokerNews Online Championship came to a thrilling conclusion at 888poker on November 27 with the crowning of the $300,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event champion. Only eight of the 1,410 starters returned for the final day’s play, and 888poker Twitch viewers were treated to an ICM masterclass from Brazilian “muchbetter07”. “muchbetter07” amassed a big stack early into the final table’s proceedings, and they wielded those chips incredibly well.

Table Of Contents Yucel “Mad Turk” Eminoglu got the 2024 GUKPT Grand Final off to the best of starts by winning the £560 Midi Main event for £26,330. The poker veteran, who qualifies for Super Seniors events, showed the young guns of Luton how to get the job done. The tournament saw 247 entries compete for a piece of the £118,560 prize pool. The likes of Michael Howard, Alex Montgomery, and Dean Clay finished in the money places but ran out of steam before the nine-handed final table was set.

A winner has been crowned during the 2024 The Hendon Mob Championship Cape Town Million at the GrandWest Casino by Sun International. With a price tag of ZAR 8,000 ($440), one of the key events on the schedule of the final SunBet Poker Tour stop in 2024 doubled it’s initial guarantee and generated a ZAR 2,009,280 ($111,193) prize pool thanks to an overall field of 299 entries. The trophy remained on home soil as Muaaz Gani and Sugen Singh agreed to a heads-up deal with the former claiming the bragging rights as narrow chip leader at the time.

Table Of Contents The 2024 edition of the long-running Master Classics of Poker (MCOP) in Amsterdam concluded over the weekend, and one of the final champions of the series had a familiar face. The €345 No-Limit Hold’em Single Re-Entry event drew in 235 entries; PokerNews’ Senior Content Manager Yori Epskamp was among them. After a gruelling session that headed into the night, Epskamp found himself in possession of all the chips and an oversized cheque displaying a €13,638 first-place prize.

Table Of Contents It’s over. Three matches, three defeats, and a $350,000 overall loss on High Stakes Duel 5 is enough for Patrik Antonius. The Poker Hall of Famer dropped Tuesday’s Round 3 contest, a $400,000 pot, to sports cards hobbyist Jared Bleznick in a battle of attrition, and then promptly waved the white flag. Round 4, an $800,000 prize pool, will not take place. Poker Stars Fight for Early Pots Bleznick defeated Antonius in Round 1, a $50,000-per-person buy-in, two weeks ago.

Table Of Contents The first-ever PokerGO Tour (PGT) PLO Roundup at Champions Club Texas in Houston wrapped up with Lawrence Chang taking down the $3,300 buy-in Main Event for a career-best $300,000. The pot-limit Omaha series in Texas was a success with big prize pools and plenty of entries, including notable names like reigning WSOP Main Event champion Jonathan Tamayo, Isaac Kempton and Josh Arieh. The six-time bracelet winner complimented the dealers, staff and food and even dubbed the Houston poker club the “new PLO capital of the world.

There is plenty of value up for grabs at the WPT World Championship this December with the ClubWPT Gold $5 Million Invitational Freeroll, and now there’s even more value to be had with a WPT Prime Last Longer Freeroll being offered by StakeKings. The last longer freeroll is for the $5 million guaranteed $1,100 WPT Prime Championship at Wynn Las Vegas Dec. 8-14. If you register for the freeroll by Dec.

Table Of Contents Imagine sitting down to play in a student poker society, only to be up against one of the world’s greatest players—Steve O’Dwyer . That’s precisely what happened when O’Dwyer, along with PokerStars Ambassador Fintan Hand,Dara O’Kearney and Thomas Murphy, joined the Dublin City University (DCU) Poker Society for a special Punters vs. Pros tournament. As a former DCU Alumni, Hand placed an extra €20 bounty placed on O’Dwyers head, and few could have predicted the scale of the excitement it would generate.

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Table Of Contents November 25 was another busy day at the 888poker tables thanks to three PokerNews Online Championship events crowning their champions, including the $50,000 Mystery Bounty Mini Event, and the huge $300,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event whittling its field to the eight-handed final table. By the time the final flight ended, some 2,030 players had bought into the $25 buy-in, $50,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Mini, with 436 of those progressing to Day 2.

Table Of Contents Argentina’s “m.gargiulo24” was the biggest winner during the penultimate week of the PokerStars Stars Season courtesy of being the last player standing in the $109 Sunday Million Mystery Bounty Edition. This event attracted 9,305 entrants, leaving PokerStars nursing a near $70,000 overlay on the $1 million guaranteed prize pool. Fifteen of the mystery bounties were worth five figures, and two of the finalists helped themselves to them. “jvgcook” collected a $10,000 prize before busting in fifth, with “DoBog0916” revealing a $20,000 mystery bounty before their untimely demise in seventh.

Table Of Contents After four days of intense play at the Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino, Zhen Chen emerged victorious in the $5,300 High Roller at the 2024 Merit Poker Gatsby Gala Series, topping a 103-entry field to claim the trophy and the top prize of $132,300. The final table showcased players from nine different nations, highlighting the international appeal of the Merit Poker Series. Ultimately, it was China that triumphed, with Chen dispatching Russia’s Aleksandr Chernikov in a brief heads-up battle.

Table Of Contents Poker is booming in Brazil. In this vast country, stretching from the sweltering Amazon to the teeming metropolis of Sao Paulo, the biggest city in the Western Hemisphere, the game has captivated a population of more than 200 million and turned the biggest stars into national heroes. And there is no clearer sign of the game’s growth here than the BSOP Millions. Over the last two weeks, featuring 90 tournaments with combined guaranteed prize pools of R$60,000,000, thousands of players have descended on Sao Paulo’s WTC Sheraton.

Table Of Contents The Women’s Winter Festival, sponsored by PokerStars, at Hippadrome Casino, continued today with a first-of-its-kind event; the £220 50/50 NLH Freezout. This innovative poker format invited male and female duos to team up and compete in the same tournament, pioneering their stacks for their share of the prize pool but working together to win a special last-longer style side bet for the best-performing duo. This high-energy one-day event saw 64 males and 64 females come together in pairs to create a final field size of 168 players, generating a prize pool of £32,256.

StakeKings is making following poker tournaments more exciting by giving players a chance to sweat different teams of players. The latest match-up pitted team captains Ryan Stiner and Steven Jones, best known for his deep run in the 2023 WSOP Main Event, against one another in the $2,000 Lone Butte Poker High Roller at Arizona’s Gila River Resorts & Casino that took place Nov. 22-24. Team Jones consisted of Jones, Colton Blomberg, Tyler Hancock, Justin Pechie, Jonah Labranche and Tanner Lefferts, while Team Stiner was made up of Stiner, Lawrence Brandt, Brandon Mitchell, Kai Cohen, Danny Allen and Greg Orlick.

The $600 Main Event for the RunGood Poker Series at Jamul Casino has concluded. After three Day 1 flights over two days, the event drew 339 entrants, creating a prize pool of $176,280. The 44 players who advanced to Day 2 today were all guaranteed a minimum cash of $900, but it was Maksim Tatarintsev who ultimately claimed the top prize of $37,250, defeating Josh Mok in heads-up play. The Russian native Tatarintsev said after his victory, “This is the first time I have ever played in a live poker tournament.

Table Of Contents Doug Polk will enter Monday’s $1 million guaranteed Mayhem Main Event final table at The Lodge Card Club with a sizable chip lead in pursuit of his first live poker tournament win since 2017. The three-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner is playing for a shot at a $195,700 top prize with nine players remaining at the Austin, Texas area card room. He turned his appearance at the final table, which begins on livestream at 2:30 p.

Table Of Contents Italian grinder Enrico “WhaTisL0v3” Camosci added to his already glowing reputation by helping himself to two top prizes at PokerStars this weekend. Camosci, who is based in Malta, was the last man standing in the $1,050 Sunday Warm-Up High Roller before taking down the star-studded $5,200 Titans Event. Combined, Camosci’s scores weighed in at almost $98,000. Elsewhere, the Stars Season Sunday Million Mystery Bounty Edition didn’t go to plan for Team PokerStars’ Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg; he busted way before the money.

Table Of Contents The Women’s Winter Festival, sponsored by PokerStars, unfolded at London’s Hippodrome Casino, bringing together women from across the globe for four thrilling days of poker action. The £400 Main Event was the festival’s centerpiece, spanning all four days. Players participated in three Day 1 flights, with Day 1a drawing 42 entrants, Day 1b attracting a massive 148-player field, and Day 1c adding 81 more. This brought the total field size to 271, leaving the total prize pool at £100,000.

Table Of Contents The SunBet Poker Tour stop at GrandWest Casino in Cape Town tends to be the largest of the year, and the 2024 edition will be no different after a very busy start to the series for Africa’s Richest Poker Tour. It has teamed up with The Hendon Mob to bring in some international players, some of which made the trip to South Africa for this stop to combine sightseeing with their love for the card game.

Table Of Contents Dawid Smolka made his first Merit Poker final table in the spring of 2022, finishing seventh in the 2022 Retro Series $10,500 High Roller for $31,100. Over the next two years, Smolka established himself as one of the most consistent players in Merit Poker events, making four more final tables in Cyprus, including two third-place finishes. However, a victory had eluded him—until today. Smolka triumphed in the 2024 Gatsby Gala Series $2,200 Warm-Up at the Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino, overcoming start-of-day chip leader Daniele Grasso heads-up to claim his first Merit Poker title and the top prize of $179,650.

Table Of Contents The PokerNews Online Championship continued at 888poker over the weekend, with several players padding their bankrolls with sizeable scores. Lithuania’s “oK_No_Call” received the largest single payout of the weekend because they were the last player standing in the $525 buy-in Big Shot High Roller. Some 32 of the 38 scheduled events are done and dusted. The $300,000 guaranteed Main Event and its smaller yet still juicy $50,000 guaranteed Mini Main Event see the last of their starting flight conclude today (November 25).

Table Of Contents The Women’s Winter Festival at the Hippodrome Casino in London has drawn poker players from all over the globe, each bringing their unique energy and passion to the inaugural event. It’s resulted in the Main Event being the largest women’s event in history outside of Vegas. It’s a celebration of women in poker, that unites female poker players from around the world. Here we take a look at some of the women who have traveled from far and wide to play in the event.

Table Of Contents Global Poker celebrated Formula 1 weekend in Las Vegas thanks to a partnership between the social poker site and Scuderia Ferrari. The week of F1 action, which culminates with Saturday night’s race getting underway at 10 p.m. Vegas time, included a Global Poker Table Talk event inside PokerGO Studio with Ferrari drivers Charles Leclerc and Carlos Sainz Jr., Olympic legend Michael Phelps and poker superstar Antonio Esfandiari.

The PokerNews Podcast has already awarded two seats into the upcoming $5,000,000 ClubWPT Gold Invitational Freeroll, and now we’re giving you a shot at a third simply by offering a guess to this trivia question – how many engraved plates are on the WPT Mike Sexton Champion’s Cup? In order to win you must be signed up for ClubWPT Gold. If you’re not already, you can do so for FREE by clicking here.

Table Of Contents The Grand Victoria Casino in Chicago saw Jeremy Lenz win his first World Series of Poker Circuit ring in the WSOPC Grand Victoria’s $1,700 Main Event. The main event reached a prize pool of $1,146,855 after 757 players ponied up the $1,700 buy in. Lenz, whose previous biggest score was just $7,712, earned $194,977 for beating the field. Lenz turned 39 and reached the final table of the tournament on Day 2.

Table Of Contents The Women’s Winter Festival at the Hippodrome has brought together women from all walks of life, united by their love of poker Among the competitors this year was Grosvenor Poker Pro Katie Swift, a familiar name on the British tournament circuit, who was joined by both her mother, Susan O’Connor, and her sister. From Satellites to the Hippodrome “I actually qualified online for the Women’s Winter Festival,” says O’Connor.

Table Of Contents The WPT Prime World Championship returns to the WPT World Championships at Wynn Las Vegas from December 8-14. With a $5,000,000 guaranteed prize pool, this event has become one of the most sought-after mid-stakes majors on the tournament circuit. The WPT Prime World Championship has quickly become one of the most popular mid-stakes events and is the reigning Global Poker Award winner for Best Mid-Major Tour/Circuit. The tournament attracts a wide range of players eager to compete for both the title and a significant payout.

Table Of Contents On Friday night, as drivers prepared for the Qualifying race in the Formula 1 Las Vegas Grand Prix, a mix of celebrities, F1 personalities, poker professionals, and philanthropists gathered at Allē Lounge on 66 at Resorts World for the inaugural $10,000 Big Deal for One Drop Charity Poker Tournament. The tournament was hosted by Cirque du Soleil and One Drop founder Guy Laliberté and emceed by 17-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth, who sported a custom One Drop and WPT Foundation jersey with, of course, No.