Table Of Contents Poker tournaments are as popular as ever, thanks to them enabling players to turn a relatively small buy-in into a much more meaningful prize. Unfortunately, the length of time it takes for a major tournament to conclude often prevents would-be tournament grinders from joining the action. This is why the ¥33 CN¥ Million: Sunday Hyper PKO Showdown at WPT Global is so popular. WPT Global created the ¥33 CN¥ Million: Sunday Hyper PKO Showdown knowing its players love playing for big money but don’t necessarily have several hours spare to dedicate to doing so.

Table Of Contents The World Poker Tour (WPT) has made its way back to Cyprus, and poker players and fans have every reason to be excited. After a hugely successful debut last year, the WPT Prime Cyprus Championship has returned for round two, running from March 13-17 at the stunning Chamada Prestige Hotel & Spa. With a $1,100 buy-in and a guaranteed $1 million prize pool, the stage is set for another unforgettable poker showdown.

Sean Perry’s return to high-stakes poker was quick and costly on Wednesday’s Hustler Casino Live. The self-proclaimed sports betting guru lasted less than four hours before losing his entire $150,000 buy-in. Perry, who has nearly $7 million in live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob, made his first appearance on Hustler Casino Live. He took a last-minute flight to Los Angeles earlier in the day, an expensive trip. Perry’s Return to Poker Ends Poorly Perry, the son of old-school poker player Ralph Perry, is a polarizing figure in the sports betting and poker industries.

Dan “Jungleman” Cates is a poker player, podcaster, and now a rapper who refers to himself as “BBC” — and he’s skilled at two of those things. The future Poker Hall of Famer finished runner-up earlier this week in the Triton Poker Jeju Main Event for $3.5 million. He didn’t quite come out victorious — Huang Wenjie did — but he did spit some lyrics for the Triton audience during his postgame interview.

Table Of Contents The WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Hammond brought the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) to Indiana in a big way over the last two weeks. Betwen the festival kick-off on March 7 and its finale on March 10, the Horseshoe Hammond cut winner’s checks to the tune of $3,034,253. Along with all that green, the casino also handed out gold in the form of 18 WSOPC rings. One ring for each of the champions of the festival’s 18 numbered events.

Table Of Contents The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) is in its 18th season, making it one of the longest-running live poker tours. Two of its live stops, the UK Team Championship and the UKICOAP are already in the bag, but there is much more to come judging by the busy 2025 live event schedule APAT has released. The popular recreational player-focused tour is currently at the Green Isle Hotel in Dublin for its APAT Irish Open Championship.

Table Of Contents The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) is returning to Reno, Nevada this month for a festival taking place March 25-30. The Mission RunGood Reno, taking place at Atlantis Casino Reno, will culminate with the $600 buy-in RGPS Reno Main Event with a $150,000 guarantee. Ten Rings in Six Days The upcoming RGPS stop offers poker players a chance to win one of ten rings over the six-day festival.

Former JACK Casino poker dealer Jason Saliba changed his plea on Tuesday to guilty on charges related to stealing chips out of cash game pots. Saliba was charged in November with 14 casino gaming law violations, a fifth degree felony. He also faced a misdemeanor theft charge. The now fired Ohio casino employee originally presumed his innocence. But the defense and prosecution have been discussing a plea deal for the past few months, according to the Cuyahoga County Clerk of Courts.

Table Of Contents The Wynn Millions keeps on trucking with some of the biggest events of the series now complete. The series is running from February 17 to March 23 and has already paid out nearly $4 million in prizes with another two weeks of poker still to go. As well as big prizes, big names have also been showing up including a a return to form for poker legend Kathy Liebert who won the Seniors event for $39,097.

Table Of Contents The Olympic Voodoo Casino at Radison Blu Hotel in the Latvian capital Riga is where to be from March 22 through March 30 because that’s when the OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition 2025 festival takes place. Following a hugely successful 2024 series that saw over 450 players from 20 countries lock horns in a series of bounty tournaments, the OlyBet Showdown Riga Voodoo Spring Edition 2025 is upping the ante and putting on some events with larger buy-ins.

Fans of cash game shows like High Stakes Poker and No Gamble, No Future can rejoice as there is a new high-stakes cash game show debuting on PokerGO this week. Cash Flow, the first episode of which premieres on March 13, will feature an entertaining cast of characters that includes high-stakes cash game specialists Justin Young and Art Parmann, who last year launched the popular Table 1 podcast filmed at Aria Las Vegas.

Table Of Contents PokerStars has announced its decision to withdraw from the Polish market later this month, citing a “reassessment of priorities” In a statement, the site says the exit was not driven by any change to local regulations. Instead, the commercial decision is part of a programme to optimise PokerStars’ operations. The online poker site is owned by Flutter Entertainment, the world’s largest sports betting and iGaming company. Flutter has long held plans to “transform” PokerStars, including strengthening its competitive advantage in regulated markets.

Table Of Contents The PokerStars Sunday Million Season continues producing big winners, with Lithuania’s “Valius188” being the latest grinder to pad their bankroll with a he prize. “Valius188” was the last player standing from a field of 10,060 in the $109 Super Sunday, a progressive knockout edition of the ever-popular Sunday Million. The 10,060-strong crowd created a $1,006,000 prize pool where half went into the regular prize pool and the remaining 50 percent was placed on the heads of each entrant in the form of a bounty.

Table Of Contents The third annual series of $1 million buy-in cash games on Hustler Casino Live will return April 28 to May 2 on YouTube. Alan Keating and Nikhil “NikAirball” Arcot will headline the action, but the full lineups haven’t yet been announced. Ryan Feldman and his former co-owner Nick Vertucci put together the first ever livestreamed seven-figure minimum buy-in cash games in May 2023. Thousands of poker fans tuned in to watch high rollers play for unimaginable stakes.

Table Of Contents It is common practice for holidaymakers to treat themselves to some expensive aftershave or a bottle of plonk from the Duty-Free section when they’re going on vacation. Still, not many help themselves to £53,000 and a trophy 24 hours before jetting off. According to the Irish Poker Tour’s live updates team, Andrew Toole asked the Irish Poker Tour team to take his trophy back to Ireland with them because he was flying to Thailand a few hours after taking down the £400 IPT Glasgow Main Event.

Table Of Contents Every poker player dreams of winning a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet. But how much are WSOP bracelets worth, how many bracelets are awarded and what are the easiest ways to win a bracelet? All of those questions and more will be answered in this helpful guide. Winning a WSOP Bracelet Let’s take a look at the different ways to win WSOP bracelets, whether online or at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas.

Table Of Contents Low-stakes players can sometimes feel forgotten about when it comes to online poker tournament series and festivals. That’s not the case for 888poker players because they have a low-stakes tournament series dedicated to them, and it comes with a $100,000 guaranteed Main Event costing only $25 to enter. The latest instalment of the ChampionChip Games lands at 888poker on March 16. Between the opening day and the last event crowning its champion on March 25, 888poker players will battle it out across 36 excellent events.

Table Of Contents If you love poker, then you’ll want to mark your calendar for the Winamax Grand Final, happening March 29 to April 7, 2025, at the Pasino Grand Partouche in Aix-en-Provence. This festival, run in partnership with Texapoker, promises ten days of non-stop action, featuring everything from deep-stack battles to high-roller showdowns. Whether you’re chasing glory in the €500 Main Event, taking a shot at the €1,000 High Roller, or grinding your way through the €400 Marathon, there’s a seat for everyone at the tables.

Table Of Contents The Triton Poker Jeju Super High Roller Series has been full of surprises, with a string of first-time winners making their mark at the biggest Triton series in history. Players like Zhao Hongjun, Tuck Wai Foo, Jeremy Ausmus, Sean Winter, Anatoly Filatov, and Joao Vieira all grabbed their first-ever titles during the series, but the biggest story of all might be Huang Wenjie. Huang, making his Triton debut at this festival, pulled off a stunning victory in the $100K Main Event, taking home $5.

Table Of Contents The PokerStars Sunday Million Season continued over the weekend, and there was a familiar name at the top the $1,050 Super Sunday payout table. Ukraine’s “drew.derzh” is a PokerStars regular with multiple SCOOP and WCOOP titles to their name, and also a WSOP bracelet if the player is who we believe it is. Regardless of their true identity," drew.derzh" awoke this morning with $69,947 more in their PokerStars account courtesy of taking down the $1,050 Super Sunday PKO event.

Table Of Contents One of the most popular stops in World Poker Tour history is returning to the WPT schedule for the first time since 2017. The Bay 101 Shooting Star has a rich history dating back to 1997, but it hasn’t been held since 2020 when the COVID pandemic interrupted the final table and forced the final 10 players to end things with a chop. The Bay 101 Shooting Star event had been running for seven years before the 8th Annual event joined the schedule in 2004 as part of the WPT’s second season.

Table Of Contents The race for the World Series of Poker Circuit’s all-time ring leader has seen another shift at the top. Ari Engel has now pulled ahead of Maurice Hawkins, taking the lead with 19 WSOP Circuit rings. Just a week ago, the two were neck-and-neck, but Engel’s victory on Saturday has made him the frontrunner. Engel reached an unprecedented milestone during the 2025 March Online Super Circuit on WSOP.

Table Of Contents The latest stop of the SunBet Poker Tour at the Time Square Casino in Pretoria, South Africa has crowned a winner and it took fewer than five hours for Stephen Courtney to defeat Harold Brooks in heads-up play to come out on top of an 312-entry strong field. Both players shared the biggest piece of the ZAR 4 Million ($217,580) prize pool and agreed to a deal prior to the heads-up duel, which lasted fewer than 20 minutes thereafter.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) festival at the Turning Stone Resort Casino will kick off in Verona, New York on March 13. The festival starts with Event #1: $400 No-Limit Hold’em 30K Opener at 11:00 a.m. on the 13th. It builds to the $1,700 Main Event which has three Day 1 flights from March 20 to 22. Then the festival wraps up on March 24 with the Event #18: $400 No-Limit Hold’em Double Stack.

Table Of Contents A few weekends back, the MSPT traveled to Hollywood Casino St. Louis for the $1,110 buy-in 2025 Missouri Poker State Championship. The tournament attracted 630 entrants over a trio of starting flights and awarded a prize pool of $605,720. One player to cash that tournament was Keith Heine, who finished in 38th place for $2,502. While it was a rather lackluster finish for the man from Hillsboro, Missouri, it marked his 25th Main Event on the MSPT.

The first-ever $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games attracted 29 entrants to PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Only the final five players that made it to Day 3 got a piece of the $2.9 million prize pool. “Texas” Mike Moncek had finished both Days 1 and 2 atop the chip counts, and he was perennial favorite to claim the title. Things looked good for Moncek throughout the final table, including a hero call during three-handed play that became an instant classic (see it below), but the wheels fell off in heads-up play.

Table Of Contents Indicted high-stakes poker-playing attorney Tom Goldstein continued to win millions gambling and failed to disclose those winnings in recent years while being federally investigated for tax fraud, prosecutors alleged in new court documents. On Feb. 27, Goldstein appealed his release conditions and argued that a condition requiring his electronic devices to be monitored was “drastic.” Prosecutors disputed this in a filing on Thursday and again accused Goldstein of having access to undisclosed cryptocurrency accounts and of being a “serious” flight risk.

Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot will grace the Hustler Casino Live stage on March 28 for the first time in a year following a ban from the poker room. The polarizing figure had previously been a regular headliner on the popular poker livestream the previous two years. But a ban from Hustler Casino in Los Angeles for undisclosed reasons prevented the Southern California high roller from competing on the show. Polarizing Poker Player is Back Hustler Casino Live, now partially owned by GGPoker’s parent company, announced the return of the player dubbed “The King of LA” on X with a hype video narrated by Lon McEachern.

The first-ever $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games at PokerGO Studio is down to the final five! The tournament, which followed the conclusion of the PokerGO Tour Mixed Games Series in which Chino Rheemfinished atop the leaderboard for the second time in three years, attracted 29 entrants and will award a $2.9 million prize pool. Day 2 ended the same way it started – with “Texas” Mike Moncek on top.

Table Of Contents The Triton Super High Roller Poker Series has long been synonymous with high-stakes action, elite competition, and an unmatched player experience. But even by Triton’s lofty standards, the turnout for its latest stop at Landing Casino in Jeju, South Korea has been staggering. The attendance record was broken twice in two days, with Jeremy Ausmus defeating a 391-player $25,000 field early in the festival, and the $100,000 Main Event attracting a staggering 285 entries.

Table Of Contents Big news for UK poker! Dusk Till Dawn (DTD), one of the country’s premier poker venues, will host THE first-ever standalone The Hendon Mob Championship (THMC) series this March. Running from March 19-23, 2025, the five-day festival will feature seven exciting THMC trophy events, including the £100,000 guaranteed THMC Main Event. Whether you’re a regular at the tables or just in it for the fun, there’s something here for everyone.

Table Of Contents Doug Polk had an easier time playing heads-up poker against Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu than he’s been having this week versus “Birdman23” and all the “vlog watchers” on ClubWPT Gold. The Upswing Poker founder is four days into a $100,000 “Code Doug” heads-up challenge on the new social poker site. To sum up how it’s been going for Polk, he was closer to reaching his goal before the first card was dealt on Tuesday.

The first-ever $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games kicked off on Thursday at PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. The tournament, which followed the conclusion of the PokerGO Tour Mixed Games Series in which Chino Rheemfinished atop the leaderboard for the second time in three years, attracted 25 entrants on Day 1 with late registration open until the start of Day 2. After eight levels of play, 17 players bagged with Mike “Texas Mike” Moncek and his stack of 1,438,000 leading the way.

Table Of Contents This International Women’s Day, PokerStars is shining a spotlight on female players with an exclusive online poker event – the KJ Open. Named in honor of PokerStars Ambassador and Director of Poker at the Hippodrome Casino Kerryjane Craigie, this special tournament is dedicated to promoting and celebrating women in poker, offering players a chance to compete for seats at one of the biggest live events of the year.

Table Of Contents As a poker media veteran of 15+ years and an online player for a little longer than that, I’ve seen the industry go through many changes. Limit Hold’em was the game of choice for many when I was a rookie. When they ran, hundreds of people observed $10/$20 cash games because those stakes were seen as crazy, and there was no such thing as re-entry or progressive knockout tournaments.

Table Of Contents After more than a week of nonstop poker action in the heart of Estonia, the Kings of Tallinn wrapped up in the best way possible—with one heck of a players’ party at the OlyBet Bar & Grill. The energy was electric from the start, with free-flowing drinks, great food, and a live band featuring Estonian pop royalty. And just when you thought the night couldn’t get any better, the mic opened up for a karaoke session that kept the party going well into the early hours.