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February 22, 2023 From January 9 through February 12, Venetian Las Vegas played host to the 2023 DeepStack Showdown, which was a 57-event series that offered millions in guarantees All told, the series catered to 7,274 entrants (not including satellite entries) and awarded $3,544,569 in prize money. The series, which also hosted a pair of

February 21, 2023 Antonio Esfandiari has been a regular on High Stakes Poker over the years, and on Tuesday night the partially retired poker pro made his Season 10 debut on PokerGO, and wasted no time splashing chips around. Bill Perkins, Roger Sippl, and Robert Sanchez also appeared on the poker show for the first

February 20, 2023 Andrew Robl never needed his $500,000 add-on during the three-day No Gamble No Future $1 million buy-in cash game as he cruised to victory, profiting $1,796,000 overall ($1,296,000 from the cash game) in what was a dominant performance. The special live-streamed show on PokerGO, dubbed “Cash of the Titans,” and hosted by

February 19, 2023 On Sunday night, Patrik Antonius made poker history by winning a $1,978,000 million pot, the largest-ever broadcast on a United States live stream. It beat out the previous record of $1,158,000 from Hustler Casino Live (HCL) by $820,000! In terms of the largest pot ever broadcast, that record of $2,353,500 is from

February 18, 2023 After getting several complaints from players about the currently underway European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris festival, PokerStars issued a statement apologizing for “the subpar experience some of you have had at EPT Paris.” The festival is taking place at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile, a venue that hasn’t been the most popular

February 17, 2023 The Global Poker Awards coming to Las Vegas on March 3 aren’t the only poker awards show in town. On Tuesday, February 21, the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) will host its first-ever award dinner as well as a charity poker tournament. The CSOP 2022 Awards will honor charities, players, volunteers, sponsors,

February 16, 2023 One year ago, Doug Polk bet $200,000 on dropping 50% body fat within 365 days against fellow poker player Bill Perkins. He revealed on Thursday that he fell just short of victory. There weren’t many stipulations to the bet, which began on Feb. 11, 2022. By 1:30 p.m. CT on Feb. 10,

February 15, 2023 Chris Moneymaker has been forced to cease poker operations at his Kentucky card room, Moneymaker Social Club, following threats of criminal action from local authorities. The poker room, located in Paducah, had just opened in September and had originally received approval from the then McCracken County Attorney Sam Clymer. But Clymer’s replacement,

February 14, 2023 For the second straight day, Phil Hellmuth lost six figures on a live-stream, but on Tuesday night’s Live at the Bike show, he quit the game after losing a monster pot to Eric Hicks. Robbi Jade Lew, making her first live-stream appearance since the infamous Sept. 29 Hustler Casino Live stream, was

February 13, 2023 Following the huge success of sending hundreds of players to the record-breaking WPT World Championship, WPT Global is giving their players more opportunities to achieve their poker dreams with exclusive WPT Live Tour Qualifiers. Players can win their way to WPT featured stops around the world by getting their hands on a

February 12, 2023 One PokerStars Live event down — many, many more to come in 2023. The PokerStars Players NL Hold’em Championship and PokerStars Caribbean Adventure are in the books, with the attention now turning to EPT Paris and beyond. The year looks to be an action-packed one, not just for poker players and fans,

February 11, 2023 After wrapping up at Jamul Casino in San Diego, the award-nominated RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) will stick around in California and will head up to Graton Casino in the Bay Area for the latest stop in its “Checkpoint” season taking place Feb. 28-March 8. It’s an exciting time for the RGPS team

With the PokerStars No Limit Hold’em Championship in the rear-view mirror, and the inaugural European Poker Tour stop in Paris just over the horizon, we sat down with Team Pro Sam Grafton to chat about his deep run in the recent PSPC, how he views his role as an ambassador and the upcoming new stops

February 09, 2023 It was barely a month into his time as a PokerStars Ambassador that David Kaye was met by the biggest PokerStars news story to come out of the United States in a number of years. The announcement that the player pools in Michigan and New Jersey were to merge was met by

February 08, 2023 The 30th Anniversary Los Angeles Poker Classic (LAPC) at The Commerce continues into February before the festival wraps up on March 5. This week, legendary actor James Woods and Razz specialist Lynda Tran teamed up to take down Event #45 $600 Partners HEROS. The duo takes home $1,700 each after getting through

February 07, 2023 PokerGO aired Episode 3 of High Stakes Poker Season 10 Tuesday night, but it will host a truly high stakes game on Feb. 17. When we say “high stakes,” we mean nosebleed level, times ten. No Gamble No Future, a usually pre-recorded and edited for TV cash game show with hosts Jeff

February 06, 2023 Mike Patrick He’s a high school football and baseball coach by profession, but Justin Macella of McRae, GA is also now a major tournament poker champion after defeating a field of 327 players to take down the $2,000 bestbet Winter Open Main Event for a career-best $122,017 score. In an interesting twist

February 04, 2023 The final $25,000 High Roller at the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has come to an end and Ognyan Dimov is the champion after he defeated Ren Lin in heads-up play. Dimov outlasted a returning field of 17 on Day 3 to take home the top prize of $990,655. The field of 187 players

February 04, 2023 The 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) is in the books. While Aliaksandr Shylko wound up winning the prestigious tournament for $3,121,838, there were 175 players who walked away with a piece of the $24,843,000 prize pool, including some of the more than 400 Platinum Pass winners. One of them was

February 03, 2023 Three and a half years after the previous PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship, a new Player’s Champion has been named. Belarus’ Aliaksandr Shylko took down the 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship for $3,121,838 after reaching an ICM deal with Germany’s Max Menzel (2nd – $2,859,990) and Brazil’s Philipe Pizzari (3rd –