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September 07, 2023 The 2023 World Championship of Online Poker on PokerStars is just around the corner, doing its first shuffle and deal on Sunday, September 10. And while many of the world’s best poker players will be playing events that breach the five-figure buy-in mark, a vast majority of the poker community will be

*Date Event Buy-in Entries Player Winnings*     Monday, August 21 01L – GC 20,000,000 GTD GC 33,000 462 “FlushMe2Tears” GC 4,789,785     Monday, August 21 01H – GC 40,000,000 GTD GC 99,000 364 “Bokerpux” GC 11,631,510     Tuesday, August 22 02L – GC 12,500,000 GTD Progressive Bounty GC 33,000 449 “BekeraWorlds” GC

September 04, 2023 Andrew Robl had over $2 million in his stack when Episode 5 of High Stakes Poker Season 11 began, and he was hungry for more. The episode aired Monday night on PokerGO, and it was another worthwhile watch. Robl wasn’t the only player with a huge stack at the start as two

September 03, 2023 France’s Simon Wiciak ended up as the chip leader each of the last three days of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event and had no plans of giving up those chips. He wound up with every chip in play after defeating João Sydenstricker heads-up to win the event for

September 03, 2023 Simon Wiciak ended Day 4 of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event as the chip leader. He was still atop the leaderboard at the end of Day 5. And the Frenchman remains the man to beat as only six players remain to chase the trophy after an action-packed Day

September 01, 2023 Phil Hellmuth can’t even avoid trash-talkers in a poker room he co-owns. The “Poker Brat” lost a big pot to NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series driver Jason White (aka “J-White”) who then playfully taunted the Poker Hall of Famer during a live-stream at Champions Club in Houston, Texas. PokerGO handled the live-streaming duties

August 31, 2023 The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) will return for the first time in over a decade this coming November. In preparation, let’s take a look at the very brief but rather intriguing history of what was once an up-and-coming tour. This fall, Resorts World in Las Vegas will host an NAPT event,

August 31, 2023 Before the final day of the €50,000 Super High Roller Second Chance at the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona even began, Tom Orpaz sized up the trophy and looked forward to taking a winner’s photo with one of the massive trophies the EPT awards to Main Event winners. Orpaz had good

August 29, 2023 Another World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) stop has wrapped up with the completion of WSOPC Tulsa, which ran from Aug. 16-27 and consisted of more than a dozen Circuit ring events. The Circuit stop in Oklahoma culminated with the $1,700 buy-in WSOPC Tulsa Main Event, which drew 397 entrants for a

August 28, 2023 On Monday night, Season 11 of High Stakes Poker continued on PokerGO with Episode No. 4 of the new season. It was a continuation of last week’s lineup that included Jean-Robert Bellande, Charles Yu, Andrew Robl, Rob Yong, Rick Salomon, and Ferdinand Putra. Here are the stacks at the top of the

August 26, 2023 The World Series of Poker has come to Ontario! On August 12, the first online bracelet events shuffled up and dealt its first hand on WSOP.CA. This is just the first of eight bracelet events scheduled this year and the first time that Canadian poker players can compete for so many official

August 26, 2023 Jared Halter, 41, grew up in York, Pennsylvania, and was a multisport athlete who played soccer in college. He has a Ph.D. in Education and Sociology from Clemson University where he studied social inequality and wrote his dissertation on the American Dream (no, we don’t mean Dusty Rhodes). He also has a

August 25, 2023 Back in July, Lukas “RobinPoker” Robinson was announced as the first PokerNews Ambassador, a role that sees him streaming online poker on Twitch. Robinson made a name for himself in the streaming community in 2021 when he became the first player to stream his poker sessions for over 1,000 hours across 100

August 24, 2023 On Thursday night, High Stakes Duel 4 Round 2 took place at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. The first round, which took place back in May, saw Daniel Negreanu defeat Eric Persson to win $100,000, which was the buy-in for the second-round match against his one-time nemesis Doug Polk. Ali Nejad

August 23, 2023 Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk will battle it out for $200,000 on PokerGO’s High Stakes Duel 4 at 8 p.m. ET / 5 p.m. PT on Thursday night, and one player will be looking to get some revenge over a past seven-figure defeat against the other. In May, Negreanu defeated Eric Persson

August 22, 2023 Zach Gruneberg, a poker player from Pennsylvania with more than $2.2 million in lifetime tournament earnings, recently lost one of his cats, who escaped from his home while he was out in Las Vegas. What ensured was a frantic search-and-rescue effort that spanned a month and a half. More specifically, it was

August 21, 2023 Back in the “old” days, Jean-Robert Bellande ran ice cold on just about every televised poker show. On Episode 3 of High Stakes Poker Season 11, which aired Monday on PokerGO, it was a bit of a throwback for the high roller. “JRB” was joined on the felt by the same opponents

August 20, 2023 Fresh off of winning the largest-field World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in history, Daniel Weinman has signed to Poker Royalty as an ambassador. Poker Royalty, which was founded in 2003, is a poker marketing agency that represents many of the biggest stars of the game, including Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth

August 19, 2023 Allen Kessler was so thrilled with winning his fourth World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) ring on Saturday that he forgot to tell the server to leave off the “green stuff” at his victory dinner. The “Chainsaw” won his first WSOP anything tournament since midway through President Obama’s second term when he

August 18, 2023 Guests: Lukas “RobinPoker” Robinsin On the latest PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway and Connor Richards welcome Matt Hansen as a new co-host of the show. Matt has been doing a lot of work behind the scenes for PokerNews, and now we’re putting a microphone in front of him to draw on his deep