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.

Last year’s €500 WSOP Europe Colossus bracelet winner has added another piece of jewellery to his collection. Ermanno Di Nicola came into Day 2 as the chip leader of the 2024 WSOPE €1,650 NLH 6-Max and finished it as the champion. He earned €111,250, including a WSOPE Main Event Ticket for his efforts in addition to a coveted gold bracelet, after besting a field of 351 entrants over two days and scooped the lion’s share of the €494,910 prize pool.

Last night, all three WCOOP Pot-Limit Omaha Main Events were crowned champions, with over $1.5 million in prize money awarded between them. The WCOOP NLHE Main Events have all reached their final tables on PokerStars, with Guillaume “Nolet20” Nolet leading the final nine in the $10,300 WCOOP NLHE Main Event. With one more night of action, and the final table livestreamed with cards-up coverage on Twitch. Jones Denies Dam Back-to-Back PLO Main Event Glory There was a familiar face leading the final seven in the $10,300 WCOOP PLO Main Event, with last year’s winner Martin “Imbajimbaa” Dam (pictured)looking to lock up back-to-back titles.

Nearly three years ago, Alessandro Pichierri was overjoyed to capture his first bracelet at King’s Resort during the 2021 World Series of Poker Europe (WSOPE). Today, he surpassed that achievement with a victory in Event #8: €25,000 NLH GGMillion€. Pichierri overcame a star-studded field of 38 entrants to claim his second WSOP gold bracelet and a career-best prize of €335,900. Choosing to register as late as possible on Day 2, Pichierri stayed under the radar for most of the day, entering the final table in the middle of the pack.

Jesse Jones capped off a $73,448 win in the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) St. Louis Main Event over the weekend, and now the mid-stakes poker tour will turn its focus to a popular destination six hours away. Tulsa’s Hard Rock Hotel and Casino will play host to the next RGPS event Oct. 8-13, and the series includes a $100,000 guaranteed Main Event. The Oklahoma casino is a popular spot for RGPS regulars.

The ninth Cardplayer Lifestyle Mixed Game Festival is returning to Resorts World Las Vegas and will take place from Nov. 3-7 in the middle of NAPT Las Vegas. Not only that but Cardplayer Lifestyle has partnered with PokerStars to run three co-branded tournaments during the festival, which takes place Nov. 1-10 at Resorts World Las Vegas. Mixed Things Up at Resorts World The Mixed Game Festival, which takes place several times a year, is a favorite of serious poker enthusiasts looking for a switch-up from Texas Hold’em.

There was action everywhere you looked on Monday night as all six WCOOP Main Events continued on PokerStars, and titles continued to be won in the most prestigious online poker festival around. Team easywithaces and Team tonkaaaa picked up titles courtesy of Patrick “pads1161” Leonard and Niklas “Lena900” Astedt respectively. This was Leonard’s second of the year and Astedt’s fourth, with both players winning the 11th WCOOP titles of their careers.

Pot Limit Omaha events made up 20% of the 2024 World Series of Poker Europe schedule, and the third and final four-card fiesta has wrapped up inside King’s Resort, Rozvadov. Dennis Weiss claimed the third and final PLO bracelet in Event #6: €5,000 Pot Limit Omaha, and followed in the footsteps of Volodymyr Kokoulin and Vivian Saliba, who triumphed in the €500 and €2,000 buy-in editions. Germany’s Weiss bested a star-studded field of 141 Omaha enthusiasts for his first WSOP bracelet alongside the €159,897 first-place prize from the €629,565 prize pool after defeating his copatriot Amir Mozaffarian in heads-up play.

The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Hammond Main Event, a $1,700 buy-in tournament, concluded Monday evening with Michael Estes securing the ring for $198,576. Series action inside the Horseshoe Hammond casino in Indiana, near Chicago, wrapped the same day with the 19th and final ring being awarded to Erik Hagerman who took down the $400 No-Limit Hold’em 30k Closer for $14,245, beating out 182 entrants. Estes Takes it Down There were 746 entrants in the Main Event, but none of them could outlast Estes, who defeated Grant Keller heads-up for the title.

Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot was in search of a lucky river card just to chop a $716,000 pot against Andrew Robl, while Jennifer Tilly couldn’t catch a break on the newest edition of High Stakes Poker on PokerGO. Episode 8 of Season 13 featured a monster bluff — one of the best in High Stakes Poker history — and multiple pots that cracked $500,000. Every player made their presence felt during Monday’s episode, which isn’t often the case when each show is crammed into just 45 minutes of play.

Winning a World Series of Poker bracelet is a dream for nearly every poker player, and the same was the case for Michal Schuh. Today, his dream became a reality when he took down Event #5: €550 NLHE Colossus at the World Series of Poker Europe for €171,350, besting a field of 2,799 entries. Poetically, he did so at King’s Resort in his home country of Czechia. Schuh, a retired pro who now plays the game recreationally, overcame Dutchman Erik van Hulst in a back-and-forth heads-up battle.

From a starting field of 861, there remains just one champion of the 2024 Unibet Deepstack Open Marrakech. After three long days of play, Nicolas Barkusky reigns victorious at the Casino de Marrakech. He takes home the first place prize of 705,000 MAD, equivalent to just over €65,000. Barkusky came into the day with a middling stack but he was short for the majority of the day. He came into the final table with just 16 big blinds.

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A long day was ahead of the players who made Day 2 of the event, with the total number of entrants for the 3rd RunGood Poker Series St. Louis Main Eventtallied up to 547 creating a prize pool of $388,370. Judging by how deep the players were, it was assumed that the tournament would be a grind, and it was. At just after 1 a.m. (roughly 13 hours of play), the field of 67 was whittled down to just one sole survivor here at The Hollywood Casino.

If youve been playing online poker for a while but still find yourself stuck at low stakes, youre not alone. Many players struggle to break out of the small stakes grind, often feeling frustrated by a lack of progress despite hours of study and practice. However, breaking through to higher stakes doesnt require reinventing your game from scratch. Instead, its about identifying key habits and thought patterns that could be holding you back.

A culmination of four starting flights saw 1,516 hopefuls make their way through the doors of the Banco Casino and onto the felt, competing for their share of the €667,040 prize pool. Three lengthy days of play concluded with Aliosha Staes lifting the trophy and laying claim to the first-place prize of €90,0000; a handsome return on the initial €500 investment to this Winamax Poker Open Main Event, here in Bratislava.

The penultimate stop of the 2024 888poker UK Poker League (UKPL) saw the fledgling tour head to the Grosvenor G Casino in Reading from September 24, and everything was wrapped up six days later. The final champion of the seven-event festival was that of the £560 UKPL Reading Main Event. Robin Gue is that man. The 888poker UKPL Reading Main Event drew in 327 entrants, meaning the top 51 finishers bagged a cash prize.

They say it’s not over until it’s over, but it looks like the WCOOP League trophy will be heading the way of Team peace&loove after four gruelling weeks of competition. Sebastian Huber’s team were 1,090 points ahead of their nearest rivals going into Sunday’s events and now have a 1,140-point lead thanks partly to the incredible “FAL1st” taking down his fifth WCOOP event of the 2024 series. “FAL1st” was one of 393 entrants in WCOOP 113-H: $530 NLHE 7-Max Hyper Turbo Mystery Supersonic, a twist on the usual Sunday Supersonic.