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November 06, 2023 The Merit Crystal Cove Hotel-Casino is gearing up for its latest spectacular poker festival, the Merit Poker Gangster Series. Running from November 22 through December 3, the Merit Poker Gangster Series boasts over $4 million in guaranteed prize pools, with each event featuring a guarantee. Best of all? PokerNews is jetting out

November 05, 2023 The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) Road Trip is in the home stretch with a stop at Horseshoe Iowa in Council Bluffs from November 14-19. The series will feature a $200 Opening Night Ambassador Bounty Ring Event, a $400 DeepStack with two opening flights, and a $50,000 guarantee, and a $700 Main Event

November 04, 2023 The World Poker Tour (WPT) plans to live-stream for 14 days during the WPT World Championship series next month, including one of the most historic poker tournaments ever. Action begins Nov. 29 and runs until Dec. 23 at Wynn Las Vegas, one of the top spots for poker on the Strip. During

November 03, 2023 RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) will stop at Jamul Casino in San Diego from November 14-19 for one of the last stops on its Road Trip series. The stop will feature 12 ring events, including a $250 DeepStack with two opening flights and a $25,000 guarantee, as well as a $150 Ladies Event

November 02, 2023 The Palm Beach Kennel Club‘s poker room will be packed to the rafters between November 16-20, as the Bar Poker Open heads there for the Florida edition of its World Championship. The $365 buy-in invite-only Florida World BPO Championship has a guaranteed top prize of $50,000 and an estimated prize pool in

November 01, 2023 Omar Eljach has overcome a 719-entry field and defeated Diana Volcovschi heads-up in Event #2: €550 Pot Limit Omaha 8-Max at the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe. Eljach earns his second WSOP bracelet, along with the €65,900 first-place prize here at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. The victory comes fresh off of

October 31, 2023 The announcement you have all been waiting for is finally here: the confirmed dates and schedule for the 2024 edition of the Irish Open. Keep March 25 through April 1 free in your calendar because that is when you need to be at the Royal Dublin Society in Ballsbridge, Dublin, the venue

October 30, 2023 Matthias Eibinger is on Cloud Nine today after taking down the Triton Super High Roller Series Monte-Carlo Main Event. Eibinger is a regular on the high-stakes tour, and although he has triumphed in Triton Poker side events, a Main Event title had eluded him until now. Eibinger came out on top of

October 29, 2023 You can now play satellite tournaments to the WSOP Paradise on WSOP.ca from Ontario. In the wake of the popular WSOP Online Ontario earlier this month, WSOP.ca has added a bunch of new satellites to the World Series of Poker’s Bahamian festival. The events even have their own tab on the WSOP

October 28, 2023 RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) nears the end of its Road Trip with a stop at Horseshoe Tunica from November 7-12. The six-day series will feature a $200 Series Opener with a $10,000 guarantee, a $250 DeepStack event with a $50,000 guarantee, and a $600 Main Event with a $200,000 guarantee from Nov

October 27, 2023 There is a value-packed promotion running at PartyPoker that gives fastforward players a chance to earn up to twice as many cashback points than usual. Boosted Hours fastforward is an ongoing promotion that sees fastforward cash game players earn up to double cashback points during five periods totaling 12 hours; that’s half

October 26, 2023 On October 7, 2023, the world was rocked when Hamas militants initiated a surprise invasion of Israel in which it has been reported in excess of 1,200 people were killed. Of those, at least 260 were murdered at the Tribe of Nova music festival, which had drawn more than 3,500 young listening

October 25, 2023 The three Bounty Builder Series Main Events kick off on October 29 October has been quite the ride for British professional poker player Andrew “stato_1” Hulme. He not only celebrated his wedding anniversary, but he and his wife, Holly, became parents for the first time, too. Throw into the mix the fact

October 24, 2023 Another thrilling PokerStars United Kingdom and Ireland Poker Tour (UKIPT) season concludes in November, meaning time is rapidly running out if you have becoming a UKIPT champion on your to-do list for 2023. The UKIPT is currently in Edinburgh until October 29, where PokerNews is reporting from the £1,100 Main Event, but

October 23, 2023 The Asian Poker Tour (APT) heads to Hanoi, Vietnam, to close out the 2023 season in style. The APT Hanoi Billions 2023 boasts of VND 60 billion ($2.5 million) in guaranteed prize money in what is one of the APT’s biggest poker festivals in its 15-year history. Running between December 1-10 at

October 22, 2023 If you are based in New Jersey and Michigan and want to join the action on PokerStarsUS, now is a great time to do so. PokerStarsUS, which serves the joint NJ-MI poker market, has just boosted one of its popular welcome bonus offers from $100 to $150. Following the announcement of additional

October 21, 2023 The PokerStars European Poker Tour at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel Casino & Spa, in Northern Cyprus, continued today with an action-filled Day 3 of the $3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty. A total of 981 entrants made up this field generating a prize pool of $2,664,396, of which $981,000 was set aside for

October 20, 2023 The PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) is only a few weeks away, and the excitement surrounding the returning tour is reaching fever pitch. November 4 sees the NAPT return to the United States after a 12-year hiatus, and while PokerNews will provide you with updates from the $1,100 Mystery Bounty, the

October 19, 2023 The fourth annual Gulf Coast Poker Awards in New Orleans, hosted by Barstool Sports personality Ben Mintz, brought about some deserved recognition for many players and industry personnel, including the comedic Caitlin Comeskey. Hosted at the newly renovated Harrah’s New Orleans (soon to be Caesars New Orleans), located in the famous French

October 18, 2023 Earlier this year, PokerStars announced that an exciting program created for women to learn more about poker would return in 2023, and it will soon culminate on Oct. 18 at European Poker Tour (EPT) Cyprus with a Showdown tournament, which will award a full package to EPT Prague in December The Women’s