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April 18, 2024 May 4 is often called “Star Wars Day” but May 4 this year won’t involve Stormtroopers, Darth Vader, or light sabers, but high-octane poker action from the EAPT Grand Final and EAPT Cyprus events. The EAPT has gone from strength to strength in recent years, and things are about to explode in

April 17, 2024 The seventh of eight events on the 2024 PokerGO U.S. Poker Open schedule was a $15,100 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em affair that saw 64 entrants create a $960,000 prize pool. Eric Afriat was the last man standing and the recipient of $288,000, the sixth-largest score of the Canadian businessman’s live poker career. Afriat

April 16, 2024 The 13th anniversary edition of the PokerStars Sunday Storm ended with a Brazilian champion, runner-up, and fourth-place finisher. Some 46,679 players, including re-entries, bought in for $11 and fought tooth and nail to capture a slice of the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool. Day 1 concluded on April 14 with only 1,997 of

April 15, 2024 Paul McAulay is the 2024 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Edinburgh Main Event champion. According to The Hendon Mob Database, the Scotsman’s victory, the first of his career, came with £34,810 in prize money, the second-largest haul of his career. Thirteen is considered an unlucky number, but the opposite is true in

April 13, 2024 Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek put on a clinic Friday night on Hustler Casino Live, basically playing every hand — even raising preflop half the time — and crushing a table full of mostly amateur poker players. Wearing his trademark University of Texas hat, the Longhorns fan played an unusual style on a

April 12, 2024 When you’re one of the most popular athletes in the world and someone captures a video of you playing online poker during your child’s birthday party, there’s a good chance it will go viral. That’s exactly what happened to Brazilian soccer legend Neymar, an avid poker enthusiast. The former PokerStars ambassador spent

April 12, 2024 There are times in a poker tournament player’s career when the stars align and they can seemingly do nothing wrong. India’s Ankit Ahuja has just experienced one of those times firsthand, demolishing the final table of the £1,650 High Roller event at the 2024 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Edinburgh festival. A

April 11, 2024 Last week Lorenzo Di Blasi won the €120 Flight to MPP, the first tournament of the Eurasian Poker Tour (EAPT) festival at Portomaso Casino in Malta. Outlasting 390 players, he took home €8,500, hoping for more on the Main Event. It seemed almost impossible to win both tournaments, but Di Blasi managed

April 10, 2024 Cash game players at Paddy Power Poker win up to €275 every day thanks to the Daily Cash Leaderboards. While the €175 awarded to Hold’em players and €100 dished out to Omaha players are not huge amounts, the fact you can win slices of those prize pools just for playing your usual

April 08, 2024 Brandon Adams and Andrew Robl each had well over $1 million on the table during the eighth episode of High Stakes Poker Season 12, and the deck would align for those two high rollers to play a monster pot. The same episode, which aired on PokerGO Monday night, also featured the always

April 07, 2024 The $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Voyage Championship attracted 968 runners over three starting flights before surviving players returned for Day 2 to compete for a share of a $968,000 prize pool. When the dust settled, Brazil’s Gregory De Faria finished as the last player standing to claim the title and $155,400 first-place

April 06, 2024 An interesting debate sparked on poker X recently over what poker players should do if they go broke — get a job or play cards for a living? In this edition of The Muck, we share the social media response to the question, and then at the end of the article ask

April 05, 2024 The popular Global Poker x U.S. Poker Open online poker series is returning to the social poker site April 8, and there will be some juicy prizes up for grabs. In total, Global Poker is guaranteeing Gold Coins (GC) 202,500,000 and Sweeps Coins (SC) 405,000 throughout the series, which runs through April

April 05, 2024 Welcome to the ultimate guide to the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo festival, where we cover everything from event locations and schedules to dining, accommodation, and must-visit spots in Monte Carlo. 2024 EPT Monte Carlo Tournament Schedule EPT Monte Carlo, hosted by PokerStars, takes place at the Sporting Monte-Carlo and

April 03, 2024 The third and final day of the WPT Voyage $5,000 Main Event saw the final nine players from a 293-entry field return to play down to a winner. Farid Jattin began the day as the chip leader, while reigning WPT World Champion Dan Sepiol was looking to follow up his $5.3 million

April 03, 2024 It hasn’t been all fun and games on the currently underway World Poker Tour (WPT) Voyage, or maybe it has been. Much of the fun on the weeklong venture through the Caribbean took place on the first night, which featured a pajama-themed WPT Voyage Meet-Up Game followed by the WPT Voyage PJ

April 02, 2024 They went back and forth, both Simeon Spasov and Giorgiy Skhulukhiya trying to finish off the Merit Poker Carmen Series with a victory in the Merit Poker Cup and waging an epic heads-up duel. It took until the clock passed midnight here at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino, but Spasov

March 31, 2024 The popular 2024 Wynn Millions Poker Series wrapped up early this month after dozens of events that smashed the $8 million in series guarantees. The series, which ran Feb. 19-March 24, had no shortage of highlights, including Neel Murthy shipping the $3,500 Wynn Millions Championship for $502,856, as well as Adrian Lopez

Welcome back to the PokerNews Podcast! This week, hosts Chad Holloway, Kyna England and Mike Holtz discuss Jason Koon’s exuberant entrance at Triton Poker, Daniel Negreanu winning his second major tournament of the year, and Alexandra Botez becoming the latest GGPoker Ambassador. Also, see Negreanu sit down with Botez while playing heads-up poker and discussing

March 29, 2024 The latest World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) stop wrapped up this week with WSOPC Turning Stone, a series in New York that consisted of 18 ring events that generated $5.8 million in prize money. The WSOPC Turning Stone series culminated with the $1,700-buyin Main Event, which drew 1,188 runners for a