Poker News

Feb 01, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents It’s almost time for the World Series of Poker Circuit festival at the Graton Resort & Casino in sunny California. The WSOP Circuit Graton will be just short of two weeks worth of low to mid-stakes poker tournaments with 18 gold WSOP Circuit rings up for

Jan 31, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents After three years of failing to get online poker through the state legislature, New York’s Senator Joseph Addabbo Jr. is back asking lawmakers to bring online poker to the state’s nearly 20 million residents. Addabbo, who spoke to PokerNews about his Senate Bill S2614, is not

Jan 30, 2025 2 min read Table Of Contents At the start of 2024, one of the most successful mid-stakes poker tours in the world had awarded $176 million in prize money since its inception in 2009. Now, less than a month into 2025, they’ve crossed the $200,000,000 milestone! Actually, through three stops already in

Jan 29, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents Brazilian poker players dominated the latter stage of the latest PokerStars Sunday Million, with five samba stars navigating to the $1 million guaranteed event’s final table. Two of those Brazilians, Yuri “tecaoo” Martins Gama and Thiago “KKremate” Crema found themselves heads-up. Between them, they took home

Jan 28, 2025 6 min read Table Of Contents There have been countless books about Las Vegas, but there’s never been one quite like The Las Vegas Book, a new, high-end coffee table book by Joris Dekkers. “It’s been a great project driving it forward from the first idea to towards completion and I’ve loved

Jan 27, 2025 6 min read Table Of Contents In the RunGood Poker Series Tulsa $800 Main Event, a total of 517 entrants smashed the initial guarantee, creating a $361,900 prize pool. Of those, 63 players cashed, each hoping to end the day with a shiny black ring on their finger. After ten hours of

Jan 25, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Kristen Foxen won the $10,100 PokerGO Tour (PGT) Kickoff Series finale for the second consecutive year on Saturday, and it paid $197,625. The almost certain future Poker Hall of Famer dominated a final table that included Jeremy Ausmus, Andrew Moreno, and four other high-stakes crushers. Intense

Date Time (ET) Event GC Buy-in GC Guarantee Sun 26 Jan 2025 2:00 PM Grizzly Opening GC 2,000,000 Freeroll [Turbo] 0   Mon 27 Jan 2025 7:30 PM GPC Grizzly 01-L: NLHE GC 4,000,000 Guaranteed 11,000 4,000,000 Mon 27 Jan 2025 8:30 PM GPC Grizzly 01-M: NLHE GC 10,000,000 Guaranteed 33,000 10,000,000 Mon 27 Jan

Jan 24, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Like father, like son. Phil Hellmuth ended up at the same table as his son, Phillip Hellmuth III, on Thursday in a $5,100 buy-in PokerGO Tour Kickoff Series event, and the father and son duo were eliminated by the same player. John Riordan took out the

Jan 23, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit at Harrah’s Pompano Beach kicks off in two weeks’ time. The festival will include 18 WSOPC ring events and almost daily satellite events. The first tournament will kick off on January 30. The event is the Double Stack Opener, a

Jan 22, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents From January 9-21, Florida’s Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood hosted the 2025 Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO), which was comprised of 54 events. The series catered to a combined 12,531 entrants and awarded $11,478,070 in prize money. Among those to win titles were Fabian Foster (Event #1:

Jan 21, 2025 5 min read Table Of Contents Years before he was federally indicted on tax evasion charges related to millions in poker winnings, Tom Goldstein’s high-stakes poker and gambling escapades were documented in Dan Bilzerian’s 2021 autobiography The Setup. The social media playboy, whose dad and former company are facing some legal issues

Jan 20, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents After being branded as the bubble boy of the Warm Up event earlier in this series, Sergei Varnaev raised himself from the dust of the desert to claim the coveted title of the 2025 Merit Poker Western Series $5,300 High Roller. In true Wild West fashion,

Jan 18, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents After a swift and commanding performance, Georgios Skarparis has secured the $2,200 Warm Up title at the 2025 Merit Poker Western Series. In a day that spanned just five levels inside the iconic Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino, Skarparis took the reins early and never let

Jan 17, 2025 7 min read Table Of Contents As one of the most established and respected private lawyers in the country, Tom Goldstein spent much of the past decade appearing before the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) and writing for a prominent legal blog that he co-founded. In the same time period, Goldstein played in

Jan 17, 2025 In the 874th episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway, Kyna England, and Mike Holtz talk about Phil Hellmuth‘s new poker sponsorship with Bet Rivers. That means he joins a team that includes another Phil in Phil Galfond. They then look at some in the poker world impacted by the fires in

Jan 16, 2025 2 min read Table Of Contents The first PokerStars at The Hippodrome series of 2025 is right around the corner, with the Winter Series running in London from January 30 to February 2. Although the Winter Series only spans four days, that quartet is crammed full of poker action, including a £550

Jan 15, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents A professional poker player with a violent criminal history is now being accused of scamming poker players from Las Vegas to Florida. Lenard Adams, aka “Lucky” in the poker world and the “Sweetheart Swindler” to police, was charged in 2017 with rape, fraud, intimidation, kidnapping, and

Jan 14, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Former King’s Resort owner Leon Tsoukernik is reportedly fighting for his life following a suspected overdose. Reports indicate that this overdose came as a result of the sedative propofol, the same drug that claimed the life of music icon Michael Jackson in 2009. This is a

Jan 13, 2025 2 min read Phil Hellmuth has become a brand ambassador of BetRivers, the name behind the newest online poker site in Pennsylvania. The 17-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner has been sporting a BetRivers hat in live tournaments the past couple of months. But now the presumed deal is official,