Table Of Contents Actor Jeremy Renner will host a Celebrity Poker Showdown in Las Vegas this month as part of a “Heroes Fore Kids” Charity Weekend. You can win a ticket to the celebrity charity tournament by playing in an upcoming PokerNews Meet-Up Game at Resorts World Las Vegas. The charity weekend runs Oct. 19-20 and will benefit the RennerVation Foundation, a non-profit that the Avengers star started in 2023 to serve northern Nevada’s disadvantaged youth.

Table Of Contents Caesars Southern Indiana is coming up on its second World Series of Poker Circuit event of 2024. After hosting a highly successful series in May of this year, the WSOPC Caesars Southern Indiana returns on October 17 for another 12 days of high-octane, mid-stakes poker. The final card will be dealt on October 28, at which point the good people of Indiana and their poker guests will have played 18 numbered events.

Table Of Contents Simone Andrian had played poker online for three years before taking his shot at the live felts in 2021. With almost no live tournament cashes on his resume, he achieved what most poker players only dream of by winning his first WSOP gold bracelet and €158,616 in a €1,650 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Max event during the 2021 WSOP Europe. Tonight, Andrian came full circle, winning the coveted 2024 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event bracelet and a career-best score of €1,300,000 at King’s Resort—the very place where his live poker journey began.

Table Of Contents WPT Global has partnered up with the Triton Poker Series to create one new tournament and a whole bunch of new promotions. During this season of the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, WPT Global will become the series’s latest sponsor. In this role, WPT Global will provide players with exclusive opportunities to qualify for live Triton events. Triton Poker is known for its series of international super high-roller tournaments with multimillion-dollar top prizes.

Hustler Casino Live co-owner Nick Vertucci is parting ways with the popular poker stream after being accused of sexual harassment and intimidation, PokerNews learned on Wednesday. Fellow HCL co-founder Ryan Feldman informed PokerNews that “effective immediately,” Vertucci would “no longer be involved with High Stakes Poker Productions.” “We look forward to continuing to deliver the best high-stakes poker content to the community,” Feldman said in a statement. Vertucci’s departure comes days after former HCL regular Julia McBride accused the controversial co-owner of sending her inappropriate text messages and making unsolicited advances.

Table Of Contents PokerStars is bringing Spin & Go’s to the live arena for the first time and you don’t have long to wait to see them in action because The Spin & Go Championship debuts during the upcoming European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague festival. The Spin & Go Championship is scheduled for December 14-15 and will see 81 players lock horns in three-handed tournaments and do battle for a slice of the €100,000 prize pool.

During the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe at King’s Resort, Rozvadov, 888poker ambassador Vivian Saliba captured her first WSOP bracelet. It was a case of fifth time lucky for the popular Brazilian who had previously navigated her way to four WSOP final tables but fell short of the bracelet each time. The final table of the €2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha went differently for Saliba. She eventually found herself heads-up against Germany’s Markus Anheier with a commanding 3:1 lead.

The WPT Global ambassador roster has gained even more star quality with the online poker site welcoming National Hockey League (NHL) legend Phil Kessel to the WPT Global community in Canada. Kessel, a three-time Stanley Cup winner, joins Phil Ivey, Brad Owen, Ethan Yau, Jon Van Fleet, Angel Guillen, Patrick Tardif, Xuan Liu, and Pete Chen in sporting the famous WPT Global patch. Kessel racked up almost 1,300 NHL regular season games for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Pittsburgh Penguins, Arizona Coyotes, and the Vegas Golden Knights, scoring 413 goals, providing 579 assists, and amassing 992 points.

Table Of Contents The race to be crowned the 2024 Grosvenor Casinos Player of the Year is nearing its conclusion, with Matthew Davenport and Callum Gordon neck-and-neck at the top of the National Poker League (NPL) standings. Whoever comes out on top once the final qualifying event crowns its champion will receive a £75,000 sponsorship package for 2025. The stakes are high, but these players know all about that. Since the turn of the year, players cashing in Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT), Grosvenor 25/50, 888poker UK Poker League (UKPL), UK Open, and Goliath events earn NPL leaderboard points.

Table Of Contents Simone Andrian achieved his first breakthrough score in 2021. With less than €10,000 in career live tournament earnings at the time, he overcame a field of 535 entrants in a €1,650 No-Limit Hold’em six-max event to win his first WSOP gold bracelet and €158,610 here at King’s Resort. Three years later Andrian, now with over $1,300,000 in live tournament earnings, finds himself back in Rozvadov in the biggest spot of his career so far, leading the final six players in the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event with the WSOPE Main Event bracelet and top prize of €1,300,000 nearly within reach.

Table Of Contents Polarizing former Hustler Casino Live player Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot says the show’s co-owner, Nick Vertucci, should “step away” over sexual harassment allegations. Julia McBride (aka “Julia from Palmdale”), once a prominent player on Hustler Casino Live, shared text screenshots on X from a September 2023 conversation in which Vertucci made sexual remarks towards her. Many poker players, including Doug Polk, have spoken out against the HCL co-founder for “using a place of power to make unwanted sexual advances on women.

Table Of Contents Marius Schneider delivered a thrilling finale to the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe, capturing his first-ever bracelet in Event #15: €550 Closer at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. Schneider’s remarkable run earned him a career-best score of €44,000, as he overcame a tough heads-up battle against Romania’s Tiberiu Tirca, who took home €28,800 for his career-high cash. Schneider’s win was even more remarkable because he almost didn’t play.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Thunder Valley Casino (Northern California) series ended on Monday. Travis Egbert of Windsor, CA was the lucky winner, taking home his third WSOPC ring of 2024. Egbert’s previous two rings were also won at Thunder Valley in January 2024 as part of the previous WSOPC season’s Northern California leg. The $1,700 buy-in WSOPC Thunder Valley Main Event attracted 812 entries, generating a $1,230,180 prize pool and putting $214,565 up top for Egbert to win.

Table Of Contents A former regular on Hustler Casino Live, who spoke with PokerNews over the phone, accused co-owner Nick Vertucci of sexual harassment and said she was banned from the popular stream for rejecting his unwanted advances. Julia McBride, a southern California lawyer known on HCL as “Julia from Palmdale,” posted screenshots on X from a text exchange with Vertucci that appear to show the co-owner and co-founder making unsolicited advances.

Table Of Contents The Bonnington Hotel, Dublin, will be packed to the rafters between October 22-28 thanks to the 2024 edition of the International Poker Open (IPO) Dublin taking place. Players from around Ireland and much further afield will descend on the Bonnington for seven days of high-octane poker tournaments, including a €350 buy-in Main Event boasting a €250,000 guaranteed prize pool. PokerNews is delighted to provide live updates from the Main Event, here’s to reporting about your impressive victory.

Table Of Contents Players hailing from Brazil dominated proceedings in the latest edition of 888poker’s flagship online tournament. The $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event attracts players from far and wide, each hoping to turn $109 into a much larger payday. This week’s event drew in 1,029 entrants who created a $102,900 prize pool; Brazil’s Samba stars got their hands on more than their fair share. One of the $3,000 mystery bounty payments found its way to “aziz.

Table Of Contents Sameh Elamawy has been brought the action throughout Season 13 of High Stakes Poker, but the best play he’s made occurred during Monday’s newest episode. And it will go down as a Top 5 bluff in the iconic poker show’s history. The billionaire CEO of Scratch has shown no fear at the poker table competing for massive stakes against accomplished pros and fellow recreational players. He tangled in a memorable hand during Episode 9, which is now available on PokerGO, against Humboldt Mike, a pot that exceeded $800,000.

Table Of Contents Excitement is building on the Asian Poker Tour (APT) because the massive APT Manila festival is right around the corner, with the first of 109 tournaments shuffling up and dealing on October 28. By the time the curtain comes down at the City of Dreams Manila, the festival will have crowned 109 champions and awarded around $3 million to those finishing in the money places. You have already feasted your eyes on the bustling schedule and checked out the past APT Manila Main Event champions.

Table Of Contents As sure as the sun rises in the east and sets in the west, the Grosvenor G Casino in Blackpool hosts the penultimate stop of the Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) each November. Stops have come on gone on the GUKPT since its inception in 2007, but the Blackpool leg has remained constant, with the exception of the COVID-19 hit 2020. November is fast approaching, and as sure as eggs are eggs, the GUKPT’s penultimate stop of its 2024 tour takes place in the British seaside town of Blackpool.

Making a World Series of Poker final table and being inches away from a WSOP Gold Bracelet is a dream many poker players share but realized by few. Zewei Ding found himself in that position today, but his dream nearly turned into a nightmare as soon as the final table began. Just one hand in, Ding faced what seemed like the ultimate cooler, with his pocket kings up against Dirk Schumacher’s pocket aces.

Over the past week, Zine-Din Benrebai showed everyone what it means to live the poker dream. Prior to coming to the France Poker Series in Aix-les-Bains, Benrebai had competed in a €150 buy-in tournament wherein he was lucky enough to win a lottery for a buy-in into the FPS Main Event. Benrebai took the opportunity and made his way to the Casino Grand Cercle, where he bested a 660-entry field to take down a PokerStars Main Event trophy and the €122,150 first-place prize resulting from a €633,600 prize pool.

Few would argue that Phil Hellmuth is the G.O.A.T. of the World Series of Poker (WSOP). But Bryn Kenney doesn’t think the “Poker Brat” is that great overall as a poker player. Kenney, who holds the record for live tournament cashes at $67 million, according to The Hendon Mob, appeared on the Digital Social Hour Podcast with Sean Kelly. The New York poker pro addressed a handful of topics, including losing $3.

“Omaha! Omaha! Omaha!” It’s not just Peyton Manning screaming for some “Omaha.” Poker players on Global Poker are about to experience the return of the Maverick O Series III, an Omaha-only event. The series kicks off Oct. 6 with a 6-Max Turbo freeroll at 6 p.m. ET. Those who compete in Global Poker’s Gold Coins (GC) or Sweeps Coins (SC) will have plenty of Omaha tournaments to enter, including pot-limit Omaha, fixed-limit O/8 and fixed-limit Omaha.

PokerStars listened to feedback from female poker players on how to draw women to the game, and now the poker site is responding. The upcoming PokerStarsNorth American Poker Tour (NAPT) Las Vegas festival will feature a $330 buy-in Women’s Event on Nov. 5. Notably, the event has a $30,000 guaranteed prize pool attached. Last year’s NAPT Women’s Event had a $360 price tag and drew 94 entrants for a prize pool of $28,200.

“Playing with him is unbelievably unpleasant… I think it’s ridiculous that he’s allowed to play in the tournament,” Dan Smith once said about Martin Kabrhel during the €250,000 Super High Roller at the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP). It’s a sentiment that captures the mixed feelings many have about Kabrhel, who embodies the idea that “one man’s hero is another man’s villain.” Despite the controversy that seems to shadow him, Kabrhel further cemented his legacy by winning his third bracelet in the 2024 WSOP Europe’s biggest buy-in event, the €50,000 NLH Diamond High Roller.

There’s another opportunity to for poker players to win a PokerStarsNAPT Gold Pass thanks to a giveaway by former NFL tight end Rob “Gronk” Gronkowski. Gronkowski, a FanDuel ambassador, will be giving away the $10,000 Gold Pass to a random player who responds to an upcoming post on X with the name of any player in the NFL league they think will score a touchdown on Oct. 6 and follow FanDuel Casino on X.

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) is underway across the US and recently saw Michael Estes winning the WSOPC Hammond Main Event for $198,576. Now, the WSOPC Thunder Valley stop is taking place in northern California and has already produced several Circuit ring winners. The WSOPC Thunder Valley stop has created $927,490 in prize money so far across seven events and culminates with the currently underway $1,700 buy-in Main Event.

After the success of the SCOOP League earlier in the year, the inaugural WCOOP league expanded to six teams and once again pitted PokerStars Ambassadors against one another with over the course of the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Now after four long weeks of competition, Team peace&loove captained by Sebastian “peace&loove” Huber has emerged triumphant. He spoke exclusively to PokerNews and reflected on the competition and what it means to be WCOOP League champion.

The latest bracelet from the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe has found a new home—on the wrist of Darius Neagoe. Neagoe emerged victorious over a field of 458 entrants in Event #11: €1,100 No-Limit Hold’em Turbo Bounty Hunter to take home his first WSOP bracelet. Romania’s Neagoe snagged the €63,650 top prize from the €430,520 prize pool after somewhat cruising through a short-stacked final table. He wrapped things up fast heads-up, defeating Nikolay Traskevich on the very first hand.

In 2008, Obama was battling McCain for the leaderboard of the free world, Robert Downey Jr. first donned the Iron Man suit, and French poker pro Patrick Bueno found himself under the bright lights of the final table in one of the most prestigious tournaments on the calendar. Bueno finished in eighth place in the $50,000 H.O.R.S.E. Championship in that year’s World Series of Poker, playing with the likes of Scotty Nguyen, Erick Lindgren, Matt Glantz, and Barry Greenstein.

A poker player has entered a guilty plea in connection to basketball player Jontay Porter’s lifetime ban from the NBA for betting on games. Long Phi Pham (“Bruce”), who claims to be a poker pro, was arrested at JFK airport and charged with wire fraud conspiracy, a federal crime, in June. He admitted to the charge on Wednesday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

PokerNews ambassador Keith “whoopsboom” Becker is one step closer to winning a trip to NAPT Las Vegas after the Pennsylvania streamer won a $100 Path to NAPT satellite to earn a PokerStars Silver Power Pass to NAPT. The satellite, a $100 buy-in event on PokerStars PA and step four of the Path to NAPT, awarded two Silver Passes redeemable for NAPT Regional events and bi-weekly $1,000 satellites to the NAPT. The second pass went to fellow Pennsylvania grinder Mike “Dionysus1888” Lavin.

James Obsts WPT Australia Championship victory had all the hallmarks of a storybook triumph. The 34-year-old from Melbourne tore through the competition to secure a title on Australian soil, hopping on a two-hour northbound flight to attend the event at Star Gold Coast, where he would go on to win AUD $585,359 ($398,488) and the third major live poker title of his career. Obst is more than 15 years removed from his explosion into the poker consciousness, as a teenage crusher of online poker.

As we enter the last quarter of the year, it’s time to take a look at how the Global Poker Index world rankings are looking, as well as who is in with a chance of winning 2024 Player of the Year honors come the end of it. September was a massive month with EPT Barcelona and the Poker Masters at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas, and some of the biggest and best poker players out there were in action.

Action is on a player, and they move all in. Or do they? In fact, they’ve left 1-2 big blinds behind, or sometimes a solitary chip. It’s becoming increasingly more popular but why? In a GTO Wizard video, they take a look at this “Fake All-In” trend and analyze why players do it and what difference it can make to your play. GTO Wizard: How to Play Pocket Jacks Is it Stalling?

The next step on the Asian Poker Tour (APT) is a big one and it’s also brand new! The APT Phu Quoc festival will take place on the picturesque Vietnamese island to close out 2024. The event takes place straight off the back of APT Manila and runs from the 8-17 of November, in partnership with the VPT. The festival boasts VND 44 billion (~$1.7 million) in guarantees and takes place at the Corona Resort & Casino.

Samuel “€urop€an” Vousden sat down at the 2024 PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event with a reputation for being one of the toughest competitors in the tournament poker world. He leaves it as a world champion, a five-time WCOOP winner, and with $1,070,058 to show for his efforts in the $10,300 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Main Event. Vousden was fifth in chips when the star-studded final table commenced under the watchful eyes of the PokerStars Twitch stream, with a stack over three times smaller than chip leader Guillaume “Nolet20” Nolet.

A total of 515 hopefuls descended on the baize at King’s Resort for the €1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty at the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE), but only one player cracked the code. Amir Mozaffarian emerged victorious, securing his first-ever WSOP bracelet along with a hard-fought €69,050 top prize. Having come agonizingly close earlier in the series with a runner-up finish in the €5,000 PLO, Mozaffarian finally struck gold. Over two intense days, he skillfully navigated the stacked field and the pressure of high-stakes bounty hunting to clinch poker’s ultimate prize—the elusive gold strap.

The second largest bad beat jackpot in live poker history — CAD $2,275,388 (approximately $1.7 million USD) — hit recently at Playground Poker Club in Quebec, Canada. Playground has played host to many of the biggest bad beat jackpots ever, and that includes the biggest of them all. One poker player took the largest share of a $1.9 million (USD) bad beat pot in August 2023, a record that still stands.

Casino operator Jack Binion and fellow Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu will host the Keep Memory Alive charity poker tournament Nov. 8 at in Las Vegas. The festivities begin at 5 p.m. and will feature some world-class poker players such as World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion Ryan Riess and high-stakes legend Jason Koon. All proceeds from the evening will go to charity. Playing Poker for a Good Cause The charity event will take place at the Keep Memory Alive Event Center at 888 W.