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May 24, 2024 Guests: Nikki Limo In the 831st episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which is sponsored by PokerStars, Chad Holloway and Kyna England are joined by Nikki Limo, who is filling in for Mike Holtz, at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to talk about her time as the Loose Cannon on the PokerStars

May 23, 2024 They’re back. The PokerNews staff has returned with some predictions ahead of the 2024 WSOP, featuring previous favorites such as Player of the Year and Main Event entries, but also some 2024-specific ones featuring a certain highly-publicized prop bet and a certain 17-time WSOP bracelet winner. This year we spoke to ten

May 22, 2024 Are you excited for the EAPT UK Main Event this weekend? Here’s how you can be part of the £500,000 GTD Main Event! This giveaway will see one lucky UK PokerNews reader win their way to the Main Event, receiving a £560 ticket to use at Dusk Till Dawn — but only

May 21, 2024 The 2024 edition of the Grosvenor Poker Goliath is only weeks away with the first of eighth flights scheduled to shuffle up and deal on July 27. The Goliath has gone from strength to strength since its launch in 2011, and everything points to the 2024 Goliath being the biggest ever. Grosvenor

May 20, 2024 Over $43.5 million in total live earnings, four World Series of Poker bracelets, a Main Event win on the European Poker Tour, and now a second Triton Poker title. Adrian Mateos has a poker resume that only a handful of poker players can best. The Spanish maestro once again proved why he’s

May 19, 2024 Phil Hellmuth was the star of the show in what was a thrilling Episode 2 of the PokerStars Big Game on Tour, which airs on Fox Sports 1. The “Poker Brat” made some difficult but correct calls, pulled off a solid bluff, and hit a generous river card en route to a

May 17, 2024 Just weeks before the 2024 World Series of Poker, one of last year’s bracelet winners has put his WSOP hardware up for auction to raise money for cancer research. Last July, Paul Berger won the summer closer $1,000 Super Turbo No-Limit Hold’em for his first bracelet and $212,645 after defeating a tough

May 17, 2024 Plenty more card-playing action took place on the virtual felts for the 2024 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) on PokerStars yesterday, with several poker variants taking centre stage. Champions were crowned in Razz, Mystery Bounty, and Fixed Limit Hold’em events, which saw some familiar faces add to their legacies while Team

May 16, 2024 Jonathan Willis, better known to many in the United Kingdom as Jonty, is on cloud nine right now having become a World Poker Tour (WPT) champion. Willis was the last player standing in the WPT500 event at the WPT Montreal festival, taking home CAD$105,860 ($77,384), which includes a $10,400 entry to the

May 15, 2024 The XL Spring Series is underway at 888poker, and eight players have become champions, padding their bankrolls with princely sums, giving themselves plenty of ammunition for the remainder of the online poker festival. The series has already awarded a trio of five-figure scores. “DarshanS” banked $11,200 after winning the $40,000 Opening Event

May 14, 2024 Viewers and fans of the Triton Super High Roller Series can be forgiven for expecting a big name winner of the opening event of the latest festival. But the winner of Event #1: $25,000 GGMillion$ Live is arguably one of the biggest names of all. Chris Moneymaker. The 2003 WSOP Main Event

May 13, 2024 The MILLIONS Online has returned to PartyPoker, bringing with it ten events and a host of side events between May 9 and June 4. The ten numbered events have buy-ins from $11 to $530 and guaranteed prize pools worth as much as $500,000. The first events, the $162 buy-in, $100,000 guaranteed Opener

May 12, 2024 One week ago, Jovan Kenjic shined under the spotlights of EPT Monte-Carlo, finishing in fourth place of the €5,300 Main Event for €340,500. After this final table, he flew to the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel in Northern Cyprus, hoping for more deepruns. But more than another deeprun, he became the new champion

May 10, 2024 It’s been 12 years, but the PokerStars Big Game on Tour is back, with the first episode of one of the most popular poker TV shows airing on Fox Sports 1. It’s been a long time coming, since the show was shot during the NAPT festival in Las Vegas in November 2023,

May 10, 2024 One of the richest short deck live poker tournaments has crowned a champion at the lavish five-star Jin Bei Palace Hotel in Sihanoukville, Cambodia. After two days of fireworks at the tables in the inaugural 2024 Jin Bei Cup $50,000 Short Deck Main Event, Kobe topped a 105-entry field to claim the

May 09, 2024 The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) continues its international tour with a trip to Paris, France, from May 19 through May 28. The Stade Jean-Bouin in the French capital plays host to ten WSOPC ring-awarding events, including a €1,200 buy-in Main Event that PokerNews‘ live reporting team will bring you updates

May 08, 2024 Welcome back to PokerNews‘ coverage of the 2024 PokerStars Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP). The 2024 SCOOP is only a couple of days old yet some of the prizes awarded have been out of this world, and will only continue dazzling PokerNews readers as the biggest buy-in events crown their worthy

May 07, 2024 Mystery bounty tournaments are relatively new at PokerStars but that has not stopped the online poker giant from running three dozen such tournaments during the 2024 Spring Championship Of Online Poker (SCOOP). Every Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, mystery bounty tournaments are on the SCOOP schedule, waiting for you to get involved and

May 06, 2024 888poker is gearing up for the latest edition of its ever-popular XL Spring Series. Running from May 12-28, the XL Spring series features 43 numbered events and more than a dozen side events thawith combined guaranteed prize pools tipping the scales at over $2.3 million. The 888poker XL Spring Festival shuffles up

May 05, 2024 Rising Swiss poker prodigy Luca Marki has been making quite the name for himself on the European poker circuit this year. After a second-place finish for €606,750 in the €10K EPT High Roller earlier this year in Paris, Marki one-upped himself with a payday of €1,085,970 in the final €25K High Roller