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March 31, 2023 Daniel Williams We at PokerNews are excited to announce that our Home Games Leaderboard is back in April and readers can continue to pit themselves against one another in our private PokerNews Home Games group on the PokerStars platform. Members can compete on the virtual felt on both mobile and desktop, and

March 30, 2023 Taking part in online poker leaderboards is an excellent way for players to potentially win bankroll-boosting prizes. And the new Kings of Cash leaderboard on WPT Global could just be what you needed to play marquee events on the platform. The promotion is available to residents of Mexico only and runs from

March 29, 2023 Brazilian grinder Ricardo “RFN1986” Nagamoto is on cloud nine today after becoming the PokerStars Sunday Million 17th Anniversary champion. Triumphing in such a prestigious tournament would be reason enough to celebrate, but the fact Nagamoto is now a millionaire, thanks to the $1,000,000 top prize, gives him even more reasons to bask

March 28, 2023 Lin Chen became the latest in a long line of Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Main Event champions when he triumphed in the 2023 GUKPT Blackpool Main Event. A popular stop on the GUKPT calendar, Chen outlasted 305 opponents on his way to the victory, which came sooner than anticipated with the

March 27, 2023 The Gran Via casino in Madrid is the place to be from April 10-16 because the 2023 Pokercode Madrid festival takes place during those dates. Following a successful Pokercode event in Bratislava in September 2021 and the fact Spain is a hotbed for poker action, the Pokercode team had decided to almost

March 25, 2023 Ontarian poker players can kick off their Spring in style on PokerStars.ca as the Ontario Spring Championship Of Online Poker (ONSCOOP) started on Saturday. Since PokerStars.ca—the Ontario-only arm of the PokerStars brand—only launched in June of last year, this will be the first ONSCOOP ever. As a result, PokerStars has the chance

March 25, 2023 Have you heard about JackPoker and its meteoric rise in the online poker world? You are about to. JackPoker is one of the fastest-growing online poker sites in the world today, and it is doubling down on its promise to provide a safe haven for recreational players all while offering the best

March 24, 2023 If you have been on the fence about joining your fellow PokerNews readers in our PokerStars Home Games now is the time to take the plunge and get in on the action because April is crammed full of added value. Every day in April, at 8:00 p.m. GMT, there is a PokerNews

March 23, 2023 Jörg Schneegass secured the largest result of his poker career with a five-handed deal in the 2023 Eureka Rozvadov Main Event. With a staggering 1,866 entries, the event broke the record for the largest standalone Eureka Main Event, smashing the previous year’s Eureka Rozvadov Main Event field of 1,096. Also making the

March 22, 2023 Freerolls are a great way to experience playing in a poker tournament without risking any of your bankroll. They are also brilliant for building a bankroll because they award real-money prizes. The problem usually lies in that freeroll tournaments do not run that frequently, that is unless you play online poker at

March 21, 2023 888poker guaranteed that it will award at least $1 million in prize money by the time the latest The Festival Online Series crowns its champion, and it should have no problem in achieving that goal if they opening three events are anything to go by. Why? Because all three tournaments smashed their

March 19, 2023 There’s been plenty of tournament action underway this week on BetMGM Poker Pennsylvania, including the currently underway Bounty Blitz series with plenty of guaranteed prize pools up for grabs. The series kicked off on March 16 with the $10,000 guaranteed Bounty Blitz #1: $100 PKO 6-Max and will wrap up on March

March 18, 2023 Ethan “Rampage” Yau, who won a cash game career-best $523,000, made a sick hero call with ace-high to win a massive pot against Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot during Friday night’s Hustler Casino Live stream. It was an evening to remember for Yau and one to forget for Airball, who lost a significant

March 17, 2023 In the early hours of Friday, March 17, the long battle at the final table of the €2,000 buy-in High Roller of the Marrakech Poker Open finally came to an end with the crowning of a well-known French figure, Moundir Zoughari, who took home the biggest trophy of his career as well

March 17, 2023 The Amateur Poker Association & Tour (APAT) has announced a bustling schedule of ten stops for 2023 coming off the back of a hugely successful APAT UK Team Championships event at Dusk Till Dawn, Nottingham. Not for the first time in APAT’s long and illustrious history, the amateur-focussed poker tour heads out

March 15, 2023 The opinions expressed in this publication are those of the author(s). They do not purport to reflect the opinions or views of PokerNews or its members. When you think about the world of poker, it’s easy to see the diversity of people who make up this dynamic community. From vloggers and podcasters

March 14, 2023 On Episode 8 of High Stakes Poker Season 10, which aired Tuesday night, Antonio Esfandiari and his good friend Bill Perkins gambled with drawing hands in a $606,000 pot. While that was far and away the most entertaining pot of the night, it wasn’t the only hand worth mentioning. For the fourth

March 14, 2023 The Cheltenham Festival is one of the world’s most famous horse racing meets, one packed with Grade 1 races featuring the best horses and jockeys. Cheltenham takes place from March 14-17, which is also when the bet365 Cheltenham Champions promotion runs, giving you a chance to play for a share of €2,500

March 10, 2023 Guests: Preston McEwen On the latest PokerNews Podcast episode of 2023, Chad Holloway, Jesse Fullen, and Connor Richards breakdown all the Global Poker Award winners, reveal that the PokerNews Cup will be returning to the Golden Nugget’s 2023 Grand Poker Series, and offer some highlights from the 2023 Wynn Millions. They also

March 11, 2023 As the threat of real-time assistance (RTA) to online poker continues to permeate, who is responsible for detecting and preventing cheating in the online poker space? Poker sites? Government regulators? Poker training software developers? This is a question that several prominent poker players and training site owners debated this week in the