Poker News

February 14, 2024 Poker After Dark: Game of Gold, a GGPoker creation, was the talk of the poker community in the fall, and it will soon return for an eagerly anticipated second season. Show details haven’t been released, but PokerNews spoke with the reigning champion, Maria Ho, at the Leigh Steinberg Super Bowl Party on

February 13, 2024 It was an exciting weekend in Las Vegas as hundreds of thousands of football fans made their way to the city for the most-watched Super Bowl in history. As one might expect from a massive sporting event in the world’s gambling capital, poker made up an integral part of the Super Bowl

February 12, 2024 Just days after a split with GGPoker, high-stakes crusher and 10-time Triton champion Jason Koon has signed a representation agreement with Poker Royalty. Koon will add himself to the poker marketing agency’s impressive list of stars which already includes Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Antonio Esfandiari, and 2023 WSOP Main Event champion Daniel

February 11, 2024 CardPlayer Lifestyle will be holding its seventh Mixed Game Festival in Las Vegas later this month, giving low-stakes poker players an opportunity to explore new poker variants and trade pots with poker legends. The Mixed Game Festival VII will take place Feb. 25-29 at Resorts World Las Vegas, one of the premier

February 10, 2024 By now you’ve no doubt heard about the World Poker Tour (WPT) and their upcoming WPT Voyage, which will take place from March 31-April 6, 2024 as they take over an entire Virgin Voyages cruise ship – the 1,400-cabin Valiant Lady – for a six-day poker festival that features $1.5 million in

February 09, 2024 The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is right around the corner, and the poker world is once again crying out for the annual schedule release. Unlike some heavy hints in recent years, this one provides little information to work with, other than the overall May 28-July 17 window. We know the

February 08, 2024 Super Bowl Sunday is all about the football, the partying, the food … and the gambling. Billions of dollars are wagered on the NFL’s championship game annually, and not just on the point spread or the over/under. There are hundreds of various wagers available at certain online sportsbooks or local gambling establishments.

February 07, 2024 High-stakes poker player and GGPoker ambassador Jason Koon announced on Wednesday that he had parted ways with GGPoker as fellow high-stakes ambassador Fedor Holz announced a new role with the popular poker site. “GGPoker and I have gone our separate ways,” Koon wrote on X on Wednesday morning. “I wish them continued

February 06, 2024 Phil Hellmuth’s had enough of Isaac Haxton wearing a facemask at the poker table, and the “Poker Brat” called out his fellow high-stakes pro, arguing that “no one should be able to cover their face,” except for rare instances. The 17-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner spoke with poker journalist

February 05, 2024 Many poker players are getting ready to embark on the $1.5 million guaranteed WPT Voyage, a six-day poker festival on the open seas with stops in the Cayman Islands and The Bahamas. Those who haven’t booked their WPT Voyage trip yet are in luck thanks to a Valentine’s Flash Sale. The Valentine’s

February 04, 2024 Matt Berkey came after his poker coaching competitor Jonathan Little earlier this week, and perhaps that served as a bit of motivation for the latter, who conquered the 2024 PokerGO Cup finale and overall series crown on Saturday. Daniel Negreanu, who came to Little’s defense, was quite thrilled with the outcome, to

February 03, 2024 Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot, who wasn’t even involved in the hand to the flop, lashed out at poker vlogger Mariano Grandoli for taking too long to call an all in bet with pocket kings during Friday’s Hustler Casino Live stream. There were some mixed reactions to Airball’s critical comments in the YouTube

February 02, 2024 Two things are clear: Matt Berkey is passionate about the game of poker, and he seems to regularly find himself involved in social media flame wars with his peers. But has the Solve for Why founder’s recent actions on X gone too far, or do the people he’s trashed have it coming?

February 01, 2024 Hustler Casino Live once again found itself in the middle of controversy as one of the show’s most popular former players publicly feuded with the show’s producer and co-owner, Ryan Feldman. Garrett Adelstein called out Feldman and fellow stream player Chris “Luda Chris” Chen on X on Wednesday after attention was brought

January 31, 2024 The 2024 Lucky Hearts Poker Open champion is Raminder Singh, a skilled professional who won the $3,500 buy-in event on Jan. 24 for $486,353 via a three-way chop. Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida hosted 52 LHPO events, attracting thousands of players to the Sunshine State’s most prominent card

January 30, 2024 Another World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) stop is in the books with the completion of WSOPC Tunica, which ran Jan. 18-19 and consisted of more than a dozen ring events that produced more than $2 million in prize pools. The stop at Horseshoe Tunica in Mississippi culminated with the $1,700 buy-in

January 29, 2024 Nadya Magnus is continuing her tradition of giving away coveted tournament seats to women in the poker community. This year, the 2021 GPI Female Player of the Year will award two $10,000 World Series of Poker Main Event seats to two lucky women. Magnus teased the giveaway on X by writing that

January 28, 2024 One of the premier and exclusive annual pre-Super Bowl parties, hosted by legendary sports agent Leigh Steinberg, will feature a poker tournament for the first time in the event’s 37-year history. World Series of Poker (WSOP) champion Jamie Gold has been selected by Steinberg to emcee the poker festivities. PokerNews, along with

January 27, 2024 Las Vegas is preparing for a busy Super Bowl weekend, and a part of that will be plenty of celebrities coming into town. That’ll be especially true on Thursday, February 8th when the Celebrity Poker Tour host their second invitational at PokerGO Studio with a livestream starting at 6 p.m. PST. The

January 26, 2024 The first final table of the 2024 PokerGO Cup in Las Vegas includes known crushers like David Peters and Fabian Quoss, but most of those tuning in will likely be cheering for another player. Terminally ill Cody Daniels crossed off a bucket list item by playing the $5,100 buy-in event inside the