Table Of Contents Ari Engel won yet another poker tournament on Thursday, this one an $1,100 buy-in Omaha/8 and Stud/8 Mixed event at the 2025 LA Poker Classic (LAPC). The tournament at Commerce Casino in Los Angeles, the 33rd of the series, played down to the final five on Wednesday. All remaining players returned to action the following day to determine a champion. Unstoppable Poker Pro Engel, a Canadian poker pro who holds the record with 18 World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) rings, took home $12,140 for his efforts.

Table Of Contents The PokerStarsSpring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) Warm-Up series will take place on PokerStars North America this month, giving online poker players a chance to win $5,000 Gold Passes to the Irish Poker Open in April. The series will take place Feb. 14-24 and features 53 events with buy-ins starting low and reaching up to $1,000. Action will culminate with $200 buy-in Main Events in various markets with guaranteed prize pools of $125,000.

Table Of Contents The Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT), which debuted in 2023 and then continued its first season through 2024, is gearing up for its second season, which officially kicks off tonight with Game Night V, a $10,000 winner-take-all all nine-handed Sit n’ Go with two alternates. Among those in the lineup are Shane Victorino, Waka Flocka Flame, Frazier Kay, Ethan & Hila Klein, Trent “BookItWithTrent” Attiyah, Bryce Hall, Jorge Masvidal, Steiny, Mackenzie Dern, and Tana Mongeau.

Table Of Contents Matt Berkey and Jared Bleznick battled on PokerGO’s High Stakes Duel 6 for 12 hours of high-stakes no-limit hold’em and pot-limit Omaha, with the former winning big. PokerGO split up the match into two days — six hours each — culminating with Wednesday’s finale that ended up lopsided but wasn’t one-sided. That differs from the Day 1 session on Wednesday, which ended with both players nearly deadlocked in the $200/$400 cash game.

Table Of Contents Poker tournament players were already delighted when they discovered that the Grosvenor UK Poker Open was returning in 2025, but their excitement reached fever pitch when they learned that the £1,500 Grosvenor UK Open Main Event’s prize pool carried a £1 million guarantee. The 2025 Grosvenor UK Open festival runs from February 16 through March 2 at the Grosvenor G Casino in Coventry. The first five days focus on satellites to the Main Event, which have 30 seats guaranteed to be won, and satellites awarding Mystery Bounty and Mini UK Open seats.

Table Of Contents The $15 million Bounty Builder Series is in full swing at PokerStars, with the first tournaments of a 150 numbered events schedule kicking off last weekend. Forty events have crowned their champions, and it has not taken long for the top-tier players to get their hands on titles and vast sums of money. Dimitar “KuuL” Danchev got the series off to a playing start by taking down the $5,200 PKO edition of the Titans Event.

Table Of Contents The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) is returning to Jamul Casino in southern California for the Mission RunGood San Deigo stop running Feb. 18-23. The RGPS stop will feature a dozen ring events across six days of action. It will culminate with the $600 buy-in RGPS San Diego Main Event, an event with a $150,000 guarantee that PokerNews will be on-site to report. Win a RunGood Ring in San Diego The series in San Diego will kick off with a satellite week running Feb.

Tony G has long played in the highest stakes poker games, so it won’t come as a surprise to anyone who has followed his career that he’s extremely wealthy. But the amount of money he claims to have made in the past year shocked the TikTok personality who recently interviewed him. The former Lithuanian politician and PokerNews founder is one of the most polarizing figures in poker. He was either a fan favorite or most despised player on TV during the poker boom era, depending on who you ask.

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Table Of Contents Indicted lawyer Tom Goldstein said on Wednesday he is millions of dollars in debt and asked a Maryland federal judge to reconsider his bail terms. Goldstein, a prominent attorney who has argued before the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) dozens of times, was charged last month in a 22-count indictment related to high-stakes poker winnings and losses. He is accused of committing tax fraud, preparing false and fraudulent tax returns, and failing to pay his taxes.

Table Of Contents If you haven’t entered a Grizzly Games VIII series event on Global Poker, you still have time. But before we get into the rest of the series, we’re going to look back at some recent winner who deserve recognition. The series, which applies to Gold Coin (GC) and Sweeps Coin (SC) players, began Jan. 27 and runs until Feb. 16 and is part of the 2024-2025 Global Poker Championship (GPC) season.

Table Of Contents The 2025 season of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) really hit its stride with the WSOP Circuit Horseshoe Tunica festival. The festival was host to a parade of unusual scenarios. Frank Hanna won Event #2 with a straight flush, a staggeringly rare occurrence; William Stanford won two rings back-to-back then followed it up with a third ring a few tourneys later, which doesn’t happen often; and Preston McEwen won his seventh ring ever, something only 48 other people have ever achieved.

Table Of Contents A massive bad beat jackpot at The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, Texas finally went off Tuesday night, and it paid out approximately $290,000 total, the biggest ever in the state. The hand occurred in a $1/$2/$5 pot-limit Omaha game with two players flopping a straight flush. A bad beat jackpot nearly hit at the same room in August for $118,000, but the hand ended in a true bad beat due to some unique rules.

Table Of Contents Harrah’s Cherokee is always one of the biggest stops on the World Series of Poker Circuit. This February’s edition of the WSOP Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee festival will be no exception, with a massive $5,870,000 in guarantees across 18 events. These guarantees include two seven-figure amounts — $1,000,000 for the $400 Mini Main and $1,500,000 for the $1,700 Main Event. The smallest of these prize pool guarantees is set at $20,000 for a $300 closed event (the Ladies event, to be held on February 21).

Table Of Contents The latest edition of the $100,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event drew in 1,018 entrants to 888poker, and Andorra’s “arcrom14” outlasted them all. The champion walked away with $9,780 after becoming the last player standing. Although “arcrom14” collected the regular prize pool’s top prize, they were not the tournament’s biggest winner. Ukraine’s “morteeezy” claimed that honor courtesy of pulling the $10,000 jackpot mystery bounty on Day 1 before busting in 18th place.

Over the last few years, Texas has become one of the major loci for live poker in the United States. This fact is reflected in the scale and frequency of the local poker festivals. A case in point: coming up this Thursday, the Winter Poker Open kicks off at Champions Club Texas in Houston. The festival is set to be massive with the Main Event sporting a $1 million guarantee.

Table Of Contents Monday’s High Stakes Poker episode on PokerGO, the fourth of Season 14, had a Friday night Hustler Casino Live vibe. Alan Keating, Ryan Feldman, Britney, and Peter, all of HCL fame competed in what was one of the most action-packed episodes of High Stakes Poker the past few seasons. One hand in particular stood out that will have those who study game theory asking “WTF.” Keating, as he always does, brought the action and made it difficult for his opponent’s to get a bluff through.

ACR Poker says it investigated the real-time assistance (RTA) allegations against sponsored pro Nacho Barbero and concluded that “at no point did he use real-time assistance (RTA) to aid his or any other player’s decision-making during live hands.” Barbero, Argentina’s all-time money leader with $21.6 million in Hendon Mob earnings, came under fire last week for posting a photo apparently showing a GTO Wizard solver output pulled up during an online poker session on the unregulated poker site.

There isn’t much Jesse Lonis hasn’t accomplished in the poker world over the past three years. He’s notched seven figures each year and is coming off a career year in 2024 where he amassed $7,586,501 in tournament earnings according to the Hendon Mob. He’s won live and online World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelets and rings, taken titles inside PokerGO Studio and on the Triton Poker Tour, and finished runner-up in the GPI Player of the Year last year.

A small township in Ohio, after months of debate, has officially banned the opening of new poker clubs. The same rule applies to medical marijuana dispensaries in Perkins Township, a community within the Sandusky metropolitan area. But local card players can still legally play live poker, they’ll just have limited options. Where Can Locals Play Poker Legally? Ship it Poker Club within the Perkins Twp. opened in March of last year.

Table Of Contents The PokerStars Live at The Hippodrome Winter Festival Main Event saw 313 entries processed, mostly from players who call the United Kingdom home. However, Australian Luke Tanner emerged victoriously after a three-hour final table. Tanner turned his £550 investment into a career-high prize worth £27,415. Tanner, who hails from Sydney, only had two results on his Hendon Mob profile before this £550 buy-in affair. He won an A$330 No-Limit Hold’em tournament at The Star Casino for A$14,500 in March 2019 and cashed in a low-stakes tournament in his native Sydney in June 2024.

Table Of Contents Head to the Grosvenor Casino Merchant City in Glasgow, Scotland, from March 13 if you want to be part of history. March 13 is the date of the opening day of the 2025 888poker LIVE Glasgow festival, marking the first time the popular tour has stopped off in Glasgow. The 11-day festival will see grinders from the United kingdom and further afield battle it out at 888poker-branded felts across several tournaments, including the £250,000 guaranteed £888 buy-in Glasgow Main Event.

Table Of Contents The first OlyBet Showdown of 2025 is in the bag, with the OlyBet Showdown Vilnius Ace Breaker Main Event crowning its worthy champion on February 2. Finland’s Rasmus Sihvonen is that champion. He navigated past 295 opponents to turn his €555 investment into a career-best €28,760 score. Sihvonen only had eight live cashes dating back to July 2023 before this Main Event. Those cashes weighed in at a combined $31,831.

Table Of Contents The National Poker Series has its new champion! The inaugural edition of the festival, hosted by Texapoker at the Pasino Grand in Aix-en-Provence, saw 469 entries in the €800 King 6-Max Main Event. The 469-entry field was packed with both quantity and quality but only 12 players returned for Day 3, all chasing the prestigious title. After a grueling final table, Kevin Naegelen emerged victorious, defeating Florian Ribouchon heads-up.

Table Of Contents Global Poker is an exciting social poker site that provides most Americans with an opportunity to play poker online legally, either by playing for fun with Gold Coins or playing with an opportunity to redeem prizes for cash with Sweeps Coins. Not only is Global Poker a social poker site where players can redeem cash prizes, but their games are fun and exciting, and the website is safe and easy to use.

Poker vlogger Mariano Grandoli made a bold call with 10-high in a six-figure pot during Saturday’s livestream at the Lodge Card Club that paid off against the poker room’s co-owner, Doug Polk, who chuckled when he saw his opponent’s cards. High-stakes livestreamed action returned to the Round Rock, Texas poker club. The game featured some fan favorites on the show, including Polk, Grandoli, T-1000, and Taras. Seven players battled for over six hours in a $50/$100/$200 no-limit hold’em cash game.

A one-of-one Doyle Brunson autographed poker trading card sold on eBay last week for $1,603 at auction, making it one of the highest selling poker cards ever. The five-day auction ended Jan. 29 after 41 bids were placed on the rare collector’s item. Twenty one unique bidders attempted to purchase the 2010 Razor Favorite Hand Auto signed by the late Poker Hall of Famer. Brunson, a 10-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, passed away in 2023 at age 89.

Table Of Contents It’s almost time for the World Series of Poker Circuit festival at the Graton Resort & Casino in sunny California. The WSOP Circuit Graton will be just short of two weeks worth of low to mid-stakes poker tournaments with 18 gold WSOP Circuit rings up for grabs. The series kicks off on lucky February 13 and runs until February 24. During that time, players will win a minimum of $1.

Table Of Contents NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, is putting the final preparations for the upcoming World Poker Tour (WPT) Cambodia Championship. The luxury resort plays host to first WPT stop of 2025 from February 6 through to February 24. The bustling schedule includes the year’s first WPT Prime leg. WPT Prime Cambodia Championship is a $1,100 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament boasting a $750,000 guaranteed prize pool. It features a trio of Day 1s, each shuffling up at 11:30 a.

Table Of Contents Former King’s Resort owner Leon Tsoukernik said he is “absolutely fine” and feeling “fantastic” two weeks after awakening from a 40-hour coma. The businessman and longtime poker industry leader spoke to Forbes Česko after collapsing in his Czechia home earlier this month and being hospitalized in critical condition following a reported overdose of the same drug that killed pop star Michael Jackson. Former King’s Owner Making Quick Recovery A translated version of the Jan.

Backlash against unregulated poker sites continued on Friday when poker star Nacho Barbero was exposed on X for having a GTO Wizard chart up while playing on ACR Poker, the US-facing poker site he represents. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, however, denied using the RTA to assist his own play. But he and the company he promotes — ACR Poker — are facing criticism from the poker community for its response to the allegations.

Table Of Contents After three years of failing to get online poker through the state legislature, New York’s Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. is back asking lawmakers to bring online poker to the state’s nearly 20 million residents. Addabbo, who spoke to PokerNews about his Senate Bill S2614, is not alone in his efforts. Seven other states are considering legalizing online poker, according to gaming industry analyst Steve Ruddock: Virginia, Massachusetts, Indiana, Maryland, Wyoming, Hawaii and New Hampshire.

Table Of Contents Welcome to the Streamer Showcase, a brand-new monthly series from PokerNews! Each month, we’ll spotlight the biggest moments from your favorite poker content creators, bringing you the biggest bluffs, mind-blowing hero calls, and the kind of wild hands that make poker streaming so entertaining. Whether it’s a deep tournament run, a legendary misclick, or just pure streaming gold, we’ve got it all covered. Stay tuned as we break down the most exciting highlights from the poker streaming world—because sometimes, the best hands aren’t the ones you see at the final table!

Brian Hastings shared some videos on X that show possible collusion occurring on Ignition, an unregulated poker site available in the United States. The six-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner posted a thread with a few clips of what he refers to as “fake hands” that transpired during a $1,055 buy-in tournament near the money bubble. “Happening again in Ignition $1055. Players 110-118 all seated at same table playing fake hands like this.

Table Of Contents At the start of 2024, one of the most successful mid-stakes poker tours in the world had awarded $176 million in prize money since its inception in 2009. Now, less than a month into 2025, they’ve crossed the $200,000,000 milestone! Actually, through three stops already in the New Year, the MSPT has awarded a total of $201,250,183. Most recently, poker pro Faraz Jaka topped a 636-entry field to win the MSPT Bally’s Black Hawk Casino $1,110 Main Event for $127,849.

Table Of Contents Poker just got a little bit smarter at 888poker. Players everywhere now have access to a brand-new Heads-Up Display (HUD), giving them real-time insights into their opponents’ playing styles. Whether you’re on desktop, mobile, or playing straight from your browser, this game-changing tool is built right in—no extra software needed. A HUD for Everyone & Key Features For years, serious online poker players have used HUDs to track their opponents’ tendencies and gain an edge.

Table Of Contents Before the 2025 UK Poker Championships (UKPC) at Dusk Till Dawn, you would have been forgiven for not knowing much about Jake Betts. According to The Hendon Mob Database, Betts had seven in-the-money finishes between September 2019 and December 2024 totalling $5,260. Had is the operative word in that last sentence because Betts now has eight cashes, including an impressive victory worth a cool £85,270. Betts was one of 1,332 entrants in the £560 UKPC Main Event.

Table Of Contents Five days ago, on Day 1a of the €5,200 Opener event at the PLO Grand Slam, Tom-Aksel Bedell was awarded a free ticket to the €10,300 Championship event for having fired the most bullets. The eight entries Bedell made were worth their weight in gold. The Norwegian high roller turned his freeroll into €438,000 after claiming victory over 191 entries in the PLO Championship, bringing home a beautiful Diamond Poker Series trophy to add to his vast collection.

Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) festival came to a close Monday at Thunder Valley Casino with a big winner in December continuing his prowess in tournament poker. The WSOPC Thunder Valley festival awarded 16 gold rings to some lucky and skilled players as well as awarding millions of dollars in prizes. The Main Event went to Akbar Zamani for $187,882, while elsewhere at the series Scott Stewart won his seventh WSOPC ring just one month and one day after winning $2.

Table Of Contents Brazilian poker players dominated the latter stage of the latest PokerStars Sunday Million, with five samba stars navigating to the $1 million guaranteed event’s final table. Two of those Brazilians, Yuri “tecaoo” Martins Gama and Thiago “KKremate” Crema found themselves heads-up. Between them, they took home $$140,246 of the seven-figure prize pool. This week, the $109 Sunday Million was played to a progressive knockout format. PokerStars processed 9,749 entries, resulting in a $25,100 overlay on the $1 million guarantee.