Table Of Contents The Asian Poker Tour (APT) is back in Taipei, and if past editions are anything to go by, this year’s festival promises to be bigger and better than ever. From April 25 to May 4, 2025, APT Taipei—held at the brand-new Red Space—will feature 126 events and more than TWD 126 million (~USD 5.4 million) in guaranteed prize money. The headline event? A massive TWD 70 million (~USD 2.

Mario Mosböck was seemingly destined for stardom regardless of the path he took. As a youngster, Mosböck played professional football (soccer to our American brethren) for SKN St. Polten II, scoring 21 goals in 48 appearances for the Austrian outfit before breaking into the first team. Although his professional football career ended in 2017, only three years after it began, Mosböck has made amends by achieving superstar status in the poker world by scoring a different kind of hat trick.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit is returning to one of its biggest locations in March. From the 20th to the 31st of March, the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Las Vegas is bringing 18 ring events — including some of the biggest buy-in events on the circuit — to the Horseshoe’s ample event space. The ring events come with a total of $2,275,000 in guarantees, including six events with six-figure guarantees.

Table Of Contents Australian poker pro James Obst continued his mixed game dominance as he took down the $25,000 10-Game Mix Championship in PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for $462,000. The victory early Thursday morning in the PGT Mixed Games series finale gave Obst, who rarely plays tournaments outside of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), his third tournament victory in under a year and his third win of his last four cashes.

Table Of Contents Bryn Kenney extended his lead atop The Hendon Mob all-time leaderboard with a victory on Thursday in the $50,000 Triton Poker Jeju No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Bounty Quattro event for $839,000. The high roller now has over $75 million in live tournament cashes, a sizable advantage over Justin Bonomo who is in second place with just over $65 million. Kenney Dominates Triton Poker Event Kenney is on a heater this week as he first finished runner-up in Event #8: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em 7-Handed for $1,897,430.

The dates are out for one of the most anticipated online poker series in the game, the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars North America. The dates, you ask? March 21 to April 7, and the tournaments will be available to those in Michigan, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Ontario, Canada. Three separate PokerStars platforms with three separate seven-figure guarantees across numerous juicy tournaments for nearly three weeks. Here’s What to Expect A full schedule isn’t yet out for the upcoming SCOOP series, but it will be coming soon, so stay tuned.

Table Of Contents The SiGMA Poker Tour (SPT) is making its first-ever stop in São Paulo, Brazil, from April 9-14. If you’re looking for big tournaments, fun vibes, and maybe a few famous faces, this is the place to be. The action goes down at the Monte Carlo Poker Club and Hilton Morumbi, with the $250,000 GTD Main Event headlining the schedule. And for the first time in South America, players are getting a Hendon Mob Championship event.

Table Of Contents GGPoker is stepping up its game when it comes to keeping online poker fair. The platform just announced a new partnership with GTO Wizard, aimed at cracking down on Real-Time Assistance (RTA) tools and making sure everyone plays on a level field. If you’re using outside help to gain an edge, your days might be numbered. Taking Action Against Cheaters As part of this new alliance, GGPoker has already banned 31 accounts caught violating fair play rules.

Table Of Contents The first of three PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) festivals in 2025 is rapidly approaching. APPT Cambodia is scheduled to take place at Phnom Penh, NagaWorld, between May 2 and 13. Over $1.5 million is guaranteed across a packed schedule, which includes a $1 million guaranteed APPT Cambodia Main Event. The 2025 edition of APPT Cambodia marks the fourth time PokerStars has headed to Phnom Penh since 2022.

Shaun Deeb is not having any of it from the crowd that argues poker reporters are responsible for calling out a critical error they witness during a tournament they’re covering. The debate over the issue stems from an apparent mistake made deep in the recent World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Main Event in Maryland where Maurice Hawkins won his record-tying 18th ring for $140,752. But the controversy sparked when the eventual champ busted Divyam Satyarthi in third place on a hand where the losing player hit what should have been a winning flush.

Women in Poker Hall of Famer Kathy Liebert took down the Wynn Millions Seniors Event for $39,097. The two-day $1,100 buy-in event had a guaranteed prize pool of $100,000 and drew 158 players. It took place during the Wynn Millions festival running Feb. 17-23 in the luxurious Wynn Poker Room. The Women in Poker Hall of Famer aptly posed with pocket queens in front of her golden Wynn trophy in the winner’s photo.

Table Of Contents The WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Baltimore $1,700 Main Event saw a dramatic final table at which Maurice Hawkins won his 18th WSOPC ring, making him the joint record holder for most WSOPC ring along with Ari Engel. This was also Hawkins sixth main event victory on the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) and brings his total live cashes to $6,280,454. Unfortunately, Hawkins’s achievement was overshadowed by an old court case and an error at the final table that resulted in Divyam Satyarthi being eliminated in third place despite holding the best hand.

Table Of Contents BetRivers Poker ambassadors Phil Hellmuth and Phil Galfond squared off against each other on March 2 in a $25/$50 cash game on the Pennsylvanian platform. With stacks of $5,000, the format was a heads-up cash game freezeout—no add-ons, no topping up—and two matches were set to go down. In the end, it was Hellmuth who emerged victorious, winning both matches in a clean sweep. Before the cameras rolled, there was some back-and-forth behind the scenes about which game to play.

Table Of Contents While tournament directors and dealers oversee the game’s integrity, poker’s live reporters are there to chronicle the action without shaping it. Yet, what happens when a mistake is glaringly obvious? Is there ever a moment when a journalist should step in, or is their duty always to remain silent? This ongoing debate recently surfaced again after Divyam Satyarthi was wrongly eliminated in third place from the WSOPC Maryland Main Event by eventual winner Maurice Hawkins.

Table Of Contents GGPoker has made another major play within the poker industry as the online poker giant’s parent company, NSUS Group, Inc., has purchased a stake in the popular Hustler Casino Live show. The new owners of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) bought the equity in the company from co-founder Nick Vertucci, who stepped down as co-owner in October following sexual harassment allegations made by a player on the show.

Imagine finishing 12th in a high-stakes poker tournament yet being that event’s biggest winner. That is precisely what happened to Lithuanian superstar Matas Cimbolas in the $40,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Bounty event, part of the Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju festival. Cimbolas crashed out of the tournament in 12th place. He got the last of his chips in with pocket kings, which were ahead of Rokas Asipauskas’ queen-jack and the ace-queen of Mikita Badziakouski.

Table Of Contents For poker’s elite, the Triton Poker Series is the ultimate proving ground—a stage where the world’s best battle not only for seven-figure prizes but for the prestige of high-roller supremacy. The spotlight often shines on those who hoist the coveted trophies, but some of the most accomplished Triton regulars are still searching for their breakthrough win. Whether it’s a string of near-misses or simply the fickle hand of variance, these players remain among the best to never claim a Triton title—yet.

Table Of Contents Daniel Negreanu earned his first poker tournament win of 2025 on Tuesday when he steamrolled the seven-player final table, until heads-up play, in the $15,200 buy-in Dealer’s Choice PokerGO Tour event for $292,500. The GGPoker ambassador cruised through a tough final table that included 2025 Poker Hall of Fame candidate Nick Schulman, Maxx Coleman, Yuri Dzivielevski, and three other mixed game crushers. Poker Legend Cruises to Victory PokerGO is currently hosting a seven-event Mixed Game Series, and the recently completed tournament was Event #6.

Controversy struck after the completion of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Maryland Main Event, and it wasn’t because polarizing poker player Maurice Hawkins won to secure his 18th ring. The record-tying victory was called into question on Tuesday morning as it was revealed that third-place finisher Divyam Satyarthi had the best hand at showdown when he was eliminated. How it All Went Down According to WSOP live updates of the event, Satyarthi was all in against Hawkins with Q*♣10♥* against the A*♥3♠* of Hawkins.

Table Of Contents *PokerNews’*Connor Richards grabbed an exclusive interview with embattled poker pro Brad Booth, who said on the Life Outside Poker podcast that he’s going to do his best going forward to pay back outstanding years-old debts, including the $21,000 he still owes Doug Polk. The once prominent high-stakes poker pro has owed Polk $28,000 for more than a decade, a debt that has been trimmed down by about one-third thanks to sporadic payments over time.

Table Of Contents On February 23, Brazilian Dalton “Daltonhb” Hobold wrote himself into PokerStars’ history books after becoming the inaugural champion of the Sunday Million Phased event, part of the Sunday Million Season. Fast forward to last weekend and “Tchelo Shelby” captured the latest Sunday Million title, keeping it in Brazil for the next week. “Tchelo Shelby” came out on top of a 9,954-strong crowd, firing a singular $109 bullet and turning that into $85,320, including bounty payments.

Table Of Contents Played four and bricked four. That was Anatoly Filatov’s record last time he played in a Triton Super High Roller festival. That was in Cyprus almost two years ago. But he’s back in Jeju and back with a bang after defeating a 389-player field in the $25,000 WPT Global Slam to win $1,882,000. “It feels amazing,” said Filatov, who has Koren heritage through his mother’s side. “I’m here in Jeju and this win is really great.

Table Of Contents Ukraine’s “aghero.agnis” won the first $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event888poker has run since the hugely successful PokerNews Online Championship (PNOC). The Ukrainian left a trail of 992 opponents in their wake as they turned their $109 buy-in into a $7,680 score. Most of the largest bounties had already been won during Day 1, including the $10,000 jackpot bounty. The eventual champion’s fellow Ukrainian, “RudMaxud,” received that princely sum before busting in 13th place.

Table Of Contents The Triton Poker Jeju festival in South Korea continued to be one of the most exciting high-stakes festivals of the year with record-breaking numbers, big-name winners and new faces to the international high roller circuit. Jeremy Ausmus won his first Triton title and second high-stakes tournament of the year in the $25,000 buy-in Event #3 for $1,892,000, while Azerbaijan’s Ramin Hajiyev took down the $30,000 buy-in Event #5 for $1,517,000.

Table Of Contents Major poker tournament action returned to the popular Global Poker site on Sunday with the start of the Maverick O Series IV. The series is just getting started and will feature numerous events for Gold Coin (GC) and Sweeps Coin (SC) players daily until March 9. The name of the game in this series is not no-limit hold’em. We’re playing variations of pot-limit Omaha, including standard PLO and PLO-8.

Table Of Contents Phil Hellmuth made his High Stakes PokerSeason 14 debut on Monday, but he didn’t last long after suffering two coolers against the same opponent. The seventh episode of the season on PokerGO featured a new lineup as the Hustler Casino Live crew exited the game. Hellmuth was joined by a star-studded cast of characters that included potential 2025 Poker Hall of Fame inductee Scott Seiver, Jared Bleznick, Kento Mori, Seth Gottlieb, Markus Gonsalves, and Justin Gavri.

Table Of Contents The Wynn Millions has been rolling for two weeks now. Sixteen events are complete out of a total of 50 and $1.6 million in prizes has been doled out. All that gold has been counted up before the five biggest events of the festival have even kicked off. These are the five events with guarantees of at least half a million — the $600 NLH, the $1,100 NLH, and the $2,000 NLH events, each with a $500,000 guarantee, plus the $1 million guaranteed $1,600 Mystery Bounty and the $2 million guaranteed $3,000 Championship.

On Sunday, March 2, tragedy struck at Texas Card House (TCH) Dallas after poker player Mark “Doc” Toulouse, 73, passed away during TCH’s $300 NLH tournament, which attracted 1,648 runners. “According to the report I received, Mark collapsed during the tournament, was taken to a local hospital, and passed away,” Todd Witteles of PokerFraudAlert.com reported. “When the incident occurred, players were already in the money. Mark’s stack blinded out, and he officially finished in 26th place, for a cash of $1,475.

Table Of Contents The CNP Winamax Main Event in Seville delivered on all fronts—massive numbers, high drama, and a worthy champion. Portuguese pro Andre Cuco outlasted 919 entries to take home the title and the prestigious CNP trebol trophy at Casino Admiral. This event didn’t just beat last year’s turnout—it smashed it. Cuco played a brilliant final table, balancing patience with aggression. He came in with the second-biggest stack, trailing only Jaime Lozano, who ultimately finished as the runner-up.

GGPoker’s rescheduled $5 million guaranteed GGMasters Anniversary event, a $150 buy-in tournament, experienced technical difficulties on Monday for the second time. The tournament restarted briefly over an hour later, and stacks were rolled back to Level 17. But the online poker giant then decided to just pull the plug altogether. The site crashed with over 20,000 players registered last week in the very same event (hence, the need to reschedule). Over 12,000 players still remained on Day 2 before the second incident occurred.

Table Of Contents The Mediterranean Poker Party (MPP) returns to the Merit Royal Diamond Casino and Spa from May 3, bringing with it more than $10 million in guaranteed prize pools, including a monster-sized $5,300 buy-in, $5 million guaranteed MPP Main Event. The 2025 edition of the MPP runs from May 3 through May 13 and wastes no time in exploding into action with the first of several seven-figure guaranteed events.

Table Of Contents After twelve years of bringing high-quality, mid-stakes poker to the United States, the RunGood Poker Series is going on the buses for its first overseas jaunt to Japan. The RGPS is sponsoring a multi-day event at the Japan Open Poker Tour Grand Final festival in Tokyo. The winner of the RGPS Colossus will win an RGPS ring, while the whole field will have a shot at taking home some RunGood merch.

Table Of Contents PartyPoker player “yowont” enjoyed double delight in the online poker site’s Micro Series Main Event on March 2, taking down the tournament and pulling the largest mystery bounty prize from its envelope. The impressive double whammy resulted in “youwont” collecting $8,564 for their $22 investment, more than twice as much prize money as any other player. The Micro Series saw PartyPoker host 60 numbered events, most with low, medium, and high buy-ins.

Table Of Contents The year is well underway for Kerryjane Craigie, PokerStars Ambassador and Director of Poker at the Hippodrome Casino. With leaderboards heating up, thrilling competitions on the horizon, and a much-anticipated summer trip to Las Vegas in the works, there’s no shortage of action ahead. There are also opportunities in The Ladies Club to travel to Las Vegas, while with WPA International Craigie remains committed to fostering a vibrant and inclusive poker community.

Table Of Contents The Mediterranean Poker Party (MPP) returns to the Merit Royal Diamond Casino and Spa from May 3, bringing with it more than $16 million in guaranteed prize pools, including a monster-sized $5,300 buy-in, $5 million guaranteed MPP Main Event. The 2025 edition of the MPP runs from May 3 through May 13 and wastes no time in exploding into action with the first of several seven-figure guaranteed events.

Table Of Contents Grosvenor Casinos placed a £1 million guarantee on the 2025 edition of the Grosvenor UK Open Main Event, a £1,500 buy-in tournament held in Coventry. By the time late registration closed on the final Main Event flight, 951 players had bought in, including 240 re-entries, resulting in a £1,219,660 prize pool and a £219,720 top prize. Andrew “Stato_1” Hulme wrote his name into Grosvenor’s history books by becoming the last player standing.