Table Of Contents The PokerStarsNorth American Poker Tour (NAPT) returns to Resorts World Las Vegas next month, and there have been dozens of opportunities to win seats into the $5,300 buy-in Main Event. Those opportunities included a Gold Pass giveaway on the PokerNews Podcast and Life Outside Poker podcast that saw Luis Rivera winning the $10,300 package to Las Vegas. Check out the winner reveal on the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast.

Table Of Contents Phil Hellmuth made his Season 13 debut on High Stakes Poker Monday night, and the game wasn’t kind to the Poker Hall of Famer. The 17-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner would correctly call his opponent’s bluff in one hand, but still lose the pot. Jennifer Tilly is also worthy of headlines for her play, especially one hand in which she engaged in an aces versus kings versus kings situation.

Table Of Contents The PokerGO Tour (PGT) continues inside PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas with a Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) series running Oct. 14-22. The PGT PLO Series II, sponsored by PLO Mastermind, culminates with today’s $25,200 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Championship, which got underway on Monday at 1 p.m. local time. The series has already seen some of poker’s biggest and most accomplished names winning PokerGO titles, such as Daniel Negreanu, who last night defeatedAlex Foxen in Event #6 - $10,100 Pot-Limit Omaha for $265,200.

Many poker games allow straddles. You only have to watch an episode of High Stakes Poker or a Hustler Casino Live cash game stream to see straddles in action. A straddle is where a player voluntarily posts a blind bet when they are not in the small or big blind. Straddles tend to be twice the size of the big blind, with an under-the-gun staddle being the most common. The boffins, or should that be wizards, behind GTO Wizard recently delved deep into whether or not you should straddle under the gun.

Table Of Contents Albania may not be the first country you link to high-stakes Pot-Limit Omaha action, but it will be once the Diamond Poker Series PLO Grand Slam concludes in Titana, the Albanian capital. The Diamond Poker Series is throwing everything at the PLO Grand Slam to ensure it is a roaring success, including offering free travel and accommodation while guaranteeing over €3 million across the week-long PLO festival.

Table Of Contents After entering the final day of the 888poker LIVE Coventry series second in chips, Chris Da-Silva was not ready to let another big opportunity slip away in the £888 Main Event. The veteran English player was around the chip lead all day at Coventry Building Society Arena, finally defeating Mindaugas Kurlenskas heads up while denying his opponent some history to finish an exciting 11 days of poker action.

Table Of Contents A staggering 456 high rollers came out to compete in the $10,300 EPT High Roller at the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus, but in the end, one man stood head and shoulders above the rest. Ryan Mandara dominated the final table, clinching the $709,285 top prize after making a heads-up deal with Poland’s Sebastian Malec. Inside the luxurious Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, Mandara added the stunning PokerStars trophy to his collection in dazzling fashion.

Table Of Contents The $10,200 No-Limit Hold’em was one of the final opportunities to win a trophy at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus, and nobody wanted it more than Mikalai Vaskaboinikau. Vaskaboinikau has been on a heater this year, taking down a Triton event for $4,737,000 in May worth more than half of his total live tournament winnings. Here at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, the hot run continued.

Table Of Contents Daniel Negreanu capped off a dominant final table performance in the PokerGO Tour $10,100 buy-in Pot-Limit Omaha tournament on Sunday with a victory and $265,200. The GGPoker ambassador defeated Alex Foxen heads-up to finish off the tournament. He beat a field of 104 entrants to claim the largest share of a $1,040,000 prize pool at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Negreanu Wins Again Winning high rollers is never easy even for the best in the world.

Table Of Contents In the world of poker, where superstition is rife and the saying “bad things come in threes” often holds true, Oliver Weis stands out as an exception. The German player, known as “sk2ll_m0dR” and a big winner in online poker circles, began an impressive 2024 with a victory in the €10,300 High Roller at EPT Paris, followed by an online bracelet win in the $5,000 Short Deck Championship.

Table Of Contents The 2024 Norwegian Poker Championship took place recently in Norway with nearly 4,000 participants and ten new national champions crowned. There were plenty of notable Norwegian players present, including high-stakes pro Kayhan Mokri, 13-time WCOOP champion Tobias Leknes and former WCOOP POY Mikal Blomile, who took down a Deepstack event for 360,000 NOK (around $32963 USD). A total of 3,693 players participated in the series, making for over 11,500 entries across 29 tournaments.

Table Of Contents It’s been a long and intense week of poker, but the crown jewel of the 2024 European Poker Tour Cyprus is now within grasp as just six of the original 1,284 entrants remain in the $5,300 Main Event. Tomorrow, they will return to the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel and Spa and battle on the felt for the trophy, $1,030,000 first-place prize, and title of EPT Main Event Champion.

The PokerStars Big Game on Tour cash game show is coming back in 2025, and you — yes, you — have an opportunity to get in on the high-stakes action even if you can’t afford to play. PokerStars, as the online poker giant did one year ago, will be hosting three free qualifiers to find the next “Loose Cannon” (details on how to enter below). All qualifying tournaments take place at Resorts World in Las Vegas during the upcoming North American Poker Tour (NAPT) series, which runs Nov.

Table Of Contents There’s plenty of action coming up on Global Poker as the social poker site as multiple festivals running this fall, including the Grand Prix Turbo Series Austin Edition that kicked off today and the Eagle Cup VIII that will run Oct. 21-Nov. 10 and feature nearly a billion in Gold Coins guarantees and 2.3 million in Sweeps Coins guarantees. Before that, the Grand Prix Turbo Series Austin Edition will run through Oct.

Table Of Contents The countdown has begun for the second annual PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) stop at Resorts World in Las Vegas, and this year’s edition comes with $4 million in guarantees. Action begins on the Strip Nov. 1, and the series runs through Nov. 10. There will be many similarities to the 2023 festival at Resorts. But also plenty of new tournaments on the schedule, which you can view below.

Table Of Contents Whittled down from an initial field of 894 entries, Guo Liang Wei was the last man standing in the 40th event of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus; the $3,000 Mystery Bounty. Among his rail in the auditorium of the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, Wei lifted his first PokerStars silver Spadie, as well as claiming the first place prize of $265,972. Just a week prior, Wei narrowly missed out on his first major title on the EPT circuit, finishing sixth in the $1,100 Eureka Main Event for $78,770.

Table Of Contents In an announcement during EPT Cyprus, PokerStars revealed a groundbreaking addition to its brand new poker series, the Women’s Winter Festival. Set to debut in London this November, the festival will feature the brand’s first-ever women-only £1,100 High Roller event, kicking off on November 21 at The Hippodrome. This Women’s Winter Festival was first introduced back in September at EPT Barcelona, where PokerStars outlined its vision to “encourage women to participate in live poker games with aspirational outcomes.

Table Of Contents Everyone knows that backing a player on StakeKings who goes on to profit in their chosen tournament yields money; that’s the very nature of staking. But did you know that the best stakers receive cash bonuses into their StakeKings account every month? The StakeKings leaderboard awards cash bonuses to the top 25 backers each month it runs. You receive one leaderboard point for every $1 you receive back in winnings, plus an additional 250 points for every package where you are the last person to buy out the package.

Table Of Contents In the scorching heat of Cyprus, PokerStars Ambassador Elias Gutierrez stayed cool to claim his second high roller title of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus. Earlier in the week, at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, Gutierrez banked $417,570 for winning the $25,000 Super High Roller Warm Up. A few days later, he emerged victorious in the $25,000 Super High Roller Second Chance, pocketing $390,200 and another Spadie trophy.

Table Of Contents Dusk Till Dawn plays host to the PokerStars UK & Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) from November 8-18, which features, among its many tournaments, a £1 million guaranteed UKIPT Nottingham Main Event. UKIPT Nottingham first featured back in 2010 during the tour’s debut season. The Nottingham leg has always proven popular despite a five-year hiatus between 2016 and 2021. Indeed, some of the largest top prizes the UKIPT has awarded have been in Nottingham’s Main Event.

Table Of Contents Federal investigators have a mountain of evidence against Dan Bilzerian’s father, Paul Bilzerian, and the cannabis company the poker player runs in a high-profile wire fraud case. Paul Bilzerian and Ignite International Brands, Ltd. were charged last month with defrauding the United States by allegedly falsifying who controls the business and misleading investors. PokerNews has obtained a 40-page complaint filed in the United States District Court Southern District of New York that lays out the evidence, which includes email exchanges and a timeline of the alleged illegal activity.

Table Of Contents The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) continues on into the fall and will festival at JACK Cleveland Casino in Ohio. The RGPS Cleveland stop, which gets underway on Halloween and runs through Nov. 11, will feature more than a dozen events and plenty of satellite opportunities. The stop will culminate with a $1,000 buy-in Main Event with a $400,000 guarantee attached. Additionally, the series will award a Golden Player of the Series, who will receive a $10,000 Gold Pass package to NAPT Las Vegas and a chance to win a spot in the PokerGO Dream Seat Invitational.

PokerStars ambassador and author Maria Konnikova won her first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet earlier this week. But the victory was surrounded by a bit of criticism from Norman Chad, who opposes unlimited reentry/rebuys. Chad was none too thrilled with Konnikova buying in four times en route to winning the $888 buy-in online poker tournament. Despite Chad’s comments, the popular poker ambassador does in fact own a gold WSOP bracelet.

PokerStars’ generosity is there for all to see during the upcoming Stars Season, with the online poker giant giving away thousands of dollars in tournament tickets between October 27 and December 1. Boosted guaranteed prize pools are expected, too, adding even more value to PokerStars tournament grinders’ schedules. The Season features dozens of multi-table tournaments across 30 Episodes, running from October 27 to December 1. Throughout the Stars Season, some $350,000 worth of tickets will be awarded, including a quarter of a million dollars worth via the popular Ticket Machine promotion.

Table Of Contents Coventry has again proved a happy hunting ground for 888poker ambassador Ian Simpson. At the 2023 edition of the 888poker LIVE Coventry festival, Simpson won the £550 Dragon tournament for £21,360. Fast forward to today, Simpson has emerged victoriously from the £200 Dragon Rumble, a result worth £4,380. Everyone knows that although Simpson takes his poker seriously, he plays with a smile on his face and loves a joke.

Table Of Contents Jim Weger rode in the Pawn Stars Poker Run in Las Vegas every year and wasn’t going to make an exception for last weekend’s 10th-anniversary event. However, he didn’t make it to the annual gathering of Las Vegas bikers. The night before the poker run, Weger died in a motorcycle accident on his way home from work in Pahrump, a small town on the Nevada-California border. He had been registered for the Oct.

Table Of Contents An online World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet event was canceled on Tuesday after it didn’t draw enough entrants to start. The $5,300 No-Limit Hold’em High Roller was part of a fall bracelet series on WSOP Online running Sept. 29-Nov. 12 and was open to players on the Michigan-New Jersey-Nevada network. It needed eight players to begin and only had four entrants before the tournament’s 7 p.m. Eastern start time.

Table Of Contents The Choctaw Casino Resort in Durant, Oklahoma will host its second million-dollar WSOPC event of the year in November. The event will be part of the World Series of Poker Circuit Choctaw Durant which kicks off thirteen days of poker starting on Oct. 30. The WSOP Choctaw Durant is one of the bigger stops on the circuit with 18 ring events and over $2 million in guarantees.

Table Of Contents The 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour is in full swing at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel and Spa, with the $5,300 Main Event currently midway through Day 2. After late registration closed earlier, the series showstopper recorded 1,284 entries and generated a $6,227,400 prize pool, of which more than $1 million awaits the eventual champion. One player looking to do all it takes to become the next EPT Champion is Peter Tschernigg.

Benjamin “bencb789” Rolle is an elite-level professional poker player and founder of the RaiseYourEdge poker training site. Rolle is respected and feared by his peers in equal measure. Today, he gives away some trade secrets to PokerNews readers for free. After playing poker for over 15 years, Ive learned some lessons that go far beyond the game itself. I started grinding $1 Sit & Gos (SNGs) and eventually worked my way up to playing $5,000 SNGs before transitioning to tournaments.

The very best poker players of the world are in action at the 2024 World Series of Poker, and no more so than in the various High Roller tournaments. These include the $250,000 Super High Roller which gets underway later this month (June 21), but there was still plenty of $25,000 High Roller action on display. In the latest GTO Wizard Hand Analysis we take a look at a massive pot that saw Alex Foxen dust off the six-bet with three tables remaining.

Table Of Contents WPT Global President Alex Scott made an appearance on Daniel “Jungleman” Cates’ podcast “Saving Online Poker” and delved into the current state and future of online poker. It focused heavily on WPT Global and what it’s done since launching in April 2022, to rival established giants such as GGPoker and PokerStars. Scott explains that the platform is focused on creating an environment where experienced players can excel, offering high-action games that differ from more traditional formats.

Table Of Contents It seems like the Asian Poker Tour (APT) breaks records each time it runs a festival, and there’s every chance that trend continues in November when APT Phu Quoc 2024 takes place in Vietnam. The Corona Resort & Casino is putting together final preparations for the festival, which runs from November 8-17. At least 44 billion Vietnamese dong ($1.7 million) will be awarded during this time. APT Phu Quoc 2024 features 82 tournaments and satellites, with the APT Main Event being the festival’s crown jewel.

Table Of Contents The $800 Main Event of the RunGood Poker Series at the Hard Rock Casino and Hotel Tulsa has concluded. This event attracted 472 entrants across three Day 1 flights, generating a prize pool of $330,400. The 56 players who returned for Day 2 secured a minimum cash of $1,248, with the grand prize set at $65,829. That top prize was awarded to Eric Bunch, who triumphed over Harold Harvey in heads-up play, claiming his first RunGood Poker Series ring.

Table Of Contents For the third time, the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) made its way to the Reno’s Atlantis Casino and Resort to run its $600 Main Event. Overlay was nowhere to be found this time around as 301 entrants made their way into the tournament, ensuring that 39 players would be getting a piece of the $153,510 prize pool. After a relatively short Day 2, the field was reduced to just one player whose name was Dustin Cavanaugh, who won $33,450 and his first RunGood ring.

Table Of Contents Every poker player has a different reason for why they play the game. Some do it exclusively for the money and to make a living. Others like the social aspect and how poker helps bring people together. Still others enjoy the competition and the thrill of winning. Mikalai Vaskaboinikau has no doubt about which category he falls under. He wants to win and lift the trophy at the end.

A former poker pro with over $2.4 million in lifetime earnings recently became a champion. No, he didn’t win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet, though he’s come close on several occasions including a 13th-place finish in the 2005 WSOP Main Event for a career-high $400,000. Instead, this player has ascended to the top of the Pickleball world! Here are some other hints as to who it is: He has written a Sunday poker column for the Boston Herald, penned two books, hosted a long-running poker radio show, and co-hosted ESPN Inside Deal.

Table Of Contents After a grueling 16-hour Day 2, four players returned to the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa for an unscheduled third day of the $2,200 Eureka High Roller at the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Cyprus. With the biggest prizes of the $2,610,600 prize pool still on the line, it took less than two hours for Portugal’s Diogo Coelho to emerge as the champion, besting a field of 1,374 entries.

Table Of Contents I don’t play as much poker as I used to. Like many members of the poker media, I got my start in a playing capacity, usually £0.10/0.20 while at university. Over time, I eventually moved up to where they respected my raises - £35 tournaments at my local casino in Reading, United Kingdom. And that’s where I found myself earlier this month on a quiet Monday night, back in the first cardroom I ever played in, unaware of the massive pot I was about to play.

Table Of Contents Every player wants to head into a major online poker tournament festival in hot form and with an ample bankroll to fall back on. 888poker has unveiled the schedule for the popular KO Games, and Ukbekistan’s “PokerKron” has warmed up for the series in some style. “PokerKron” was one of 1,045 entrants in the latest installment of the $100,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event at 888poker. That sizable crowd ensured the guarantee was surpassed by $4,500, and “PokerKron” was the main beneficiary of the juicy prize pool.