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January 05, 2024 There was no need to hit a bad beat jackpot to win a massive prize for one lucky poker player at The Lodge Card Club in Texas. All it took was a random drawing. The poker club co-owned by Andrew Neeme, Brad Owen, and Doug Polk hosted one of the best promotions

January 04, 2024 The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) returns in 2024 with its first stop on the Destination RunGood tour in Tulsa, Oklahoma from January 16-21 at Hard Rock Casino. The series will feature all of the popular RGPS tournaments, including the $200 Ambassador Bounty on Tuesday, January 16 and a two-day $300 DeepStack with

January 03, 2024 The final tabulations were wrapped up this week and Bin Weng and Kristen Foxen are now officially crowned as Global Poker Index (GPI) Players of the Year, while Nick Pupillo survived a late run from Preston McEwen to close out 2023 as the Mid-Major points champion. The final announcement was a formality

January 02, 2024 After losing over $2.2 million last year in poker tournaments, Daniel Negreanu made it clear in a YouTube video that he’s going to make some adjustments to his strategy in 2024. The Poker Hall of Famer shared his composite results from 2023 in a 23-minute video, and brought up some potential changes

January 01, 2024 If you follow me on X at @ChadAHolloway, you know that I often post poker-themed thrift store finds. I’m fond of thrifting, and with Vegas being a transient city, I can tell you that the dozens of secondhand shops are ripe for the picking. I usually hit at least a thrift store

December 31, 2023 As December ends, PokerNews offers a look back at its Top 10 Stories of 2023. The PokerNews Podcast crew – which lost Jesse Fullen a couple months back but welcomed Matt Hansen alongside co-hosts Chad Holloway and Connor Richards – thought we’d do the same by sharing our six favorite episodes of

December 30, 2023 Xuan Liu, a Canadian poker pro based in Toronto, works with Poker Power, A5 Labs, and WPT Global, the last of which recently set her a challenge to play poker in every province and territory of her home country. The challenge took her from St John’s Newfoundland on the east coast to

December 29, 2023 Online poker has come a long way since the “POTRIPPER” superuser scandal of 2007, and yet… GGPoker today sensationally issued an announcement stating that a player called “Moneytaker69” had been banned, with almost $30,000 in unfair winnings confiscated. Details of the scandal came to light following a post on the 2+2 poker

December 28, 2023 There has been plenty of holiday poker action on Global Poker as the site is winding down its 25 Days of Poker running throughout the month of December with prizes ranging from Global Poker sweaters to Global Poker mittens. The series, running Dec. 1-31, has consisted of daily spins and freerolls and

December 27, 2023 Few things came as bigger surprise this year than the monumental success of Game of Gold. For twelve episodes some of the biggest names and personalities in poker competed in a series of team challenges. Along the way, some were eliminated while others earned gold coins. In the final episode, the gold

December 26, 2023 In 2022, cheating scandals in poker — online and live — were getting out of hand. Allegations against high-profile players such as Bryn Kenney, Jake Schindler, and Ali Imsirovic rocked the poker world. And we certainly can’t forget about the J4 incident on Hustler Casino Live. As such, poker operators and pros

December 25, 2023 Sean Perry is out of the Circa Survivor football contest after the Denver Broncos lost 26-23 on a last-minute field goal by the New England Patriots. The high-stakes poker player had refused to chop the $9.3 million prize when 13 contestants remained. Of the ten entries that were left in the contest

December 24, 2023 Twelve years is a long time in any industry, let alone in poker. But after more than a decade, 2023 saw the return of the North American Poker Tour (NAPT). Announced by PokerStars in August this year it marked the triumphant return of the PokerStars live brand to the United States. Sure

December 23, 2023 2023 was not the year of poker cheating scandals that 2022 proved to be with multiple high-stakes pros being accused of cheating and the infamous Garrett-Robbi hand on Hustler Casino Live. However, the year ended with a scandal involving private games, marked cards and millions of dollars. Earlier this month, HCL regulars

December 22, 2023 Ren Lin had already proved to be a skilled poker player before entering the $50,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) Alpha8 tournament. But now he can add the first seven-figure cash to his The Hendon Mob resume. The Chinese pro defeated a field of 69 players at Wynn Las Vegas on Thursday

December 21, 2023 The holidays are a time for giving, and TigerGaming is giving you the chance to play in its two biggest tournaments for a fraction of their buy-in via a pair of reload bonus offers. You must hurry if you want to take advantage of this generous offer because December 4 is the

December 20, 2023 The World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship Festival at Wynn Las Vegas may be shining a light on both the $10,000 WPT World Championship and $1,000,000 WPT Big One for One Drop, but recently there was a slew of side events that crowned some big-name winners. We previously recapped winners such as

December 19, 2023 The 2023 Global Poker Index (GPI) Player of the Year race is Bin Weng’s to lose as the players wind down a bumper year for live poker throughout the world. Weng is on top of a crowded leaderboard of poker’s best, but his big wins and deep runs throughout 2023 may be

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December 17, 2023 One of the final events of the 2023 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague has wrapped, with Pablo Silva defeating Sweden’s Mounir Tajiou heads up to claim the €10,200 NL Hold’em II title. The tournament attracted a total of 46 entries, with only the top six sharing a prize pool of €446,200.