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April 26, 2024 There are one million reasons to join the Mega Wheel Madness at 888casino this springtime with a seven-figure prize pool ready and waiting for new & existing players right now! Created by top developer Pragmatic Play, Mega Wheel is one of 2024’s hottest live game shows, offering the chance to win epic

April 25, 2024 The annual Crypto Series of Poker (CSOP) at CoinPoker is in full swing and gearing up for its main event this Sunday, April 28 at 18:30 GMT. That Sunday tournament is a $100,000 GTD No Limit Hold’em event, with a $500 buy-in. One lucky player can satellite in for free on Twitter

April 24, 2024 The WPT Voyage was a roaring success, with players from far and wide embarking on the Virgin Voyages Scarlet Lady cruise ship in Miami before sailing in luxury to the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas. Thanks to WPT Global, some of the PokerNews team, including our excellent ambassador Lukas “RobinPoker” Robinson, were

April 23, 2024 The PokerStars Sunday Million Season concluded on April 22 with the crowning of the $109 buy-in, $1.5 million guaranteed Sunday Million Season Finale. The title of champion and a $177,532 payout are heading to Hungary after “KMSZI11” came out on top under the watchful eyes of the PokerStars Twitch stream. The Sunday

April 22, 2024 The popular Poker in the Ears Podcast, a PokerStars production, released its 305th episode on Thursday, and it was headlined by guest Lexy Gavin-Mather. Gavin-Mather is an author, poker pro, and teaches a poker training course. She joined hosts Joe Stapleton and James Hartigan for an interesting conversation about her experiences with

April 21, 2024 The highly acclaimed and award-winning PokerStars live-streaming team has been on the move in 2024, kicking off their year with a bang at EPT Paris and the Irish Open. Now, they’re ready to capture all the excitement from EPT Monte Carlo. Expect nothing less than top-notch coverage as PokerStars brings you the

April 19, 2024 The biggest and most popular World Poker Tour (WPT) stop of the year is underway in Hollywood, Florida with the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. The series features the $3,500 buy-in WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship, a $3 million guaranteed event that kicked off on Friday with Day 1a.

April 19, 2024 Get ready to mark your calendars because 888poker LIVE is gearing up for its next exciting stop in the vibrant city of Barcelona, Spain! From May 8-20, 2024, all roads lead to the illustrious Casino Barcelona, nestled along the picturesque seafront. This edition promises to deliver an unforgettable fusion of thrilling poker

April 18, 2024 May 4 is often called “Star Wars Day” but May 4 this year won’t involve Stormtroopers, Darth Vader, or light sabers, but high-octane poker action from the EAPT Grand Final and EAPT Cyprus events. The EAPT has gone from strength to strength in recent years, and things are about to explode in

April 17, 2024 The seventh of eight events on the 2024 PokerGO U.S. Poker Open schedule was a $15,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em affair that saw 64 entrants create a $960,000 prize pool. Eric Afriat was the last man standing and the recipient of $288,000, the sixth-largest score of the Canadian businessman’s live poker career. Afriat

April 16, 2024 The 13th anniversary edition of the PokerStars Sunday Storm ended with a Brazilian champion, runner-up, and fourth-place finisher. Some 46,679 players, including re-entries, bought in for $11 and fought tooth and nail to capture a slice of the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Day 1 concluded on April 14 with only 1,997 of

April 15, 2024 Paul McAulay is the 2024 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Edinburgh Main Event champion. According to The Hendon Mob Database, the Scotsman’s victory, the first of his career, came with £34,810 in prize money, the second-largest haul of his career. Thirteen is considered an unlucky number, but the opposite is true in

April 13, 2024 Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek put on a clinic Friday night on Hustler Casino Live, basically playing every hand — even raising preflop half the time — and crushing a table full of mostly amateur poker players. Wearing his trademark University of Texas hat, the Longhorns fan played an unusual style on a

April 12, 2024 When you’re one of the most popular athletes in the world and someone captures a video of you playing online poker during your child’s birthday party, there’s a good chance it will go viral. That’s exactly what happened to Brazilian soccer legend Neymar, an avid poker enthusiast. The former PokerStars ambassador spent

April 12, 2024 There are times in a poker tournament player’s career when the stars align and they can seemingly do nothing wrong. India’s Ankit Ahuja has just experienced one of those times firsthand, demolishing the final table of the £1,650 High Roller event at the 2024 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Edinburgh festival. A

April 11, 2024 Last week Lorenzo Di Blasi won the €120 Flight to MPP, the first tournament of the Eurasian Poker Tour (EAPT) festival at Portomaso Casino in Malta. Outlasting 390 players, he took home €8,500, hoping for more on the Main Event. It seemed almost impossible to win both tournaments, but Di Blasi managed

April 10, 2024 Cash game players at Paddy Power Poker win up to €275 every day thanks to the Daily Cash Leaderboards. While the €175 awarded to Hold’em players and €100 dished out to Omaha players are not huge amounts, the fact you can win slices of those prize pools just for playing your usual

April 08, 2024 Brandon Adams and Andrew Robl each had well over $1 million on the table during the eighth episode of High Stakes Poker Season 12, and the deck would align for those two high rollers to play a monster pot. The same episode, which aired on PokerGO Monday night, also featured the always

April 07, 2024 The $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Voyage Championship attracted 968 runners over three starting flights before surviving players returned for Day 2 to compete for a share of a $968,000 prize pool. When the dust settled, Brazil’s Gregory De Faria finished as the last player standing to claim the title and $155,400 first-place

April 06, 2024 An interesting debate sparked on poker X recently over what poker players should do if they go broke — get a job or play cards for a living? In this edition of The Muck, we share the social media response to the question, and then at the end of the article ask