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March 25, 2024 The $1,200 Destination RunGood: Jacksonville Main Event ended in the late hours of Sunday evening and Dimas Martinez Jr. is the champion after he came from behind to defeat Ritesh Patel in heads-up play at bestbet Jacksonville. Martinez overcame a 4-to-1 deficit for the win shortly after he folded pocket kings in

March 23, 2024 Day 1 of the $3,500 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Rolling Thunder Championship is in the books. A total of 367 players came to play at the Thunder Valley Casino Resort in Lincoln, California on Saturday. But only 171 bagged chips and will come back on Sunday at 11 a.m. local time

March 22, 2024 At PokerNews, we’re committed to promoting responsible gaming. We encourage all our readers to gamble responsibly and within their means. Gambling should always be a fun and enjoyable activity. It’s important to set limits on time and money spent gambling.Visit our dedicated safer gaming hub for more information about safe and responsible

March 21, 2024 Shared liquidity in online poker may be coming to Pennsylvania thanks to a state lawmaker’s efforts to “nudge” Governor Josh Shapiro into entering the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA). While there is technically nothing stopping Pennsylvania from entering the multi-state compact with Nevada,New Jersey, Delaware, Michigan and West Virginia, House Bill 2078,

March 20, 2024 It’s game over for Kevin Martin and his livestreamed poker bankroll challenge after 500 hours and just $500 of poker profit. The GGPoker ambassador took on one of the wildest bankroll challenges in poker history. Dubbed “Poker from Zero,” he set out to turn $0 into $5,000 and he livestreamed his entire

March 19, 2024 The latest Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) event took place inside the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas over the weekend, and a third consecutive woman champion was crowned. Maria Ho defeated the single-table field of TikTok stars and poker vloggers to win $10,000 and the golden CPT belt. The poker commentator and Women

March 18, 2024 High Stakes Poker Season 12 has been action-packed through the first four shows. But it really picked up in Episode 5, which aired Monday night on PokerGO. The table remained the same from Episode 4, with Andrew Robl having everyone easily covered and nearly $1 million in front of him. Vivian Yang,

March 17, 2024 St. Patrick’s Day was a lucky and special one for poker couple Karina Jett and Chip Jett, who watched their 20-year-old daughter, Athena Jett, dazzle in her American Idol audition. The Las Vegas modern jazz singer put on quite a performance in her first appearance on the musical TV competition show, which

March 16, 2024 Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot ran into some coolers during Saturday’s high-stakes live-stream at The Lodge Card Club near Austin, Texas. One of those hands, a pot of over $350,000, put him in the tank for more than 20 minutes. The Lodge, hosting the first of two big game streams this weekend, provided

March 15, 2024 The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is leaving Las Vegas and heading to Texas for the first-ever PGT Texas Poker Open at Champions Club Texas in Houston. The series, running April 24-May 5, will be headlined by a $3,300 buy-in Texas Poker Open Main Event with a $2 million guarantee attached and eight starting

March 14, 2024 Get ready for the 2024 Australian Poker Open! It’s right around the corner, taking place from March 26 until April 7 at Doltone House in Sydney, Australia with A$2 million in guarantees by far one of the biggest series in recent Australian poker history. PokerNews is set to cover three incredible events:

March 13, 2024 Connecticut’s Soheb Porbandarwala won his 12th World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring this week as he took down the $1,700 buy-in WSOPC Horseshoe Hammond Main Event for $257,725. The WSOP Hammond stop in the Chicago area ran Feb. 29-March 11 and consisted of more than a dozen ring events that generated

March 12, 2024 The latest PokerGO Tour (PGT) series wrapped up this week with the completion of PGT Mixed Games 2024, a series that ran Feb. 28-March 8 and consisted of various mixed game events with buy-ins ranging from $5,100 to $25,300. While he didn’t take home any trophies, the true dominator of the high-stakes

March 11, 2024 It’s good to be Andrew Robl, a statement proven true again on Monday’s High Stakes Poker episode, the fourth of Season 12, which aired on PokerGO. The high roller who is one of the most skilled cash game players in history did what he so often does on televised poker shows —

March 08, 2024 In the 819th episode of the PokerNews Podcast sponsored by sponsored by PokerStars, Chad Holloway welcomes two new co-hosts to the show in poker players Kyna England and Mike “Brock Lesnar” Holtz. The new PN Pod crew dives into the latest news, gossip, and stories from the poker industry. That includes Chad

DATE TIME[EST] TOURNAMENT BUYIN(GC) GUARANTEE Sun 10 Mar 2024 15:30 Micro Thunder Opening Event GC 500,000 Guaranteed [Rebuy, 6-Max, Turbo] 250 500,000 Sun 10 Mar 2024 16:30 Micro Thunder 1-L GC 625,000 Guaranteed [Mystery Bounty, Deep] 1100 625,000 Sun 10 Mar 2024 17:30 Micro Thunder 1-M GC 1,250,000 Guaranteed [Mystery Bounty, Deep] 3300 1,250,000 Sun

March 08, 2024 The PokerNews Podcast debuted in 2010 during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, and since then the show has produced 819 episodes! Throughout the years there have been several different combinations of hosts, from Donnie Peters & Matthew Parvis to Sarah Herring & Jeff Platt, but for the first time

March 07, 2024 Athena Jett, who gave an exclusive interview to PokerNews, will appear in the audition round of American Idol, a music competition TV show in its 22nd season, March 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox. If that last name sounds familiar to poker fans, it’s because the 20-year-old from Las Vegas is

March 06, 2024 Daniel Negreanu wasn’t kidding when he said changes were coming following a rough 2023 year. The Poker Hall of Famer took second place on Wednesday behind Philip Sternheimer in a $10,200 buy-in PokerGO Tour Dealer’s Choice event. Action took place inside the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas with 47 players registered, seven

March 05, 2024 In the No. 818 episode of the PokerNews Podcast sponsored by Global Poker, Chad Holloway, Connor Richards, and Matt Hansen dive into the latest news, gossip, and results from the poker industry. That includes talking about the earlier leader in the cross-book bet between Landon Tice & Jeremy Becker, Mori Eskandani and