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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 –

February 02, 2023 The 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) attracted 1,014 players, a mix of poker pros and amateurs, many of who got in after winning a Platinum Pass. Also sprinkled throughout the field were a number of celebrities including UFC announcer Bruce Buffer, Survivor all-star “Boston” Rob Mariano, and David Costabile, who

February 01, 2023 Day 3 of the PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship has come to an end and Petar Kalev leads 52 players into Thursday’s Day 4. The surviving runners will return on Thursday at 12 p.m. local time for the penultimate day of this prestigious event. The Bulgarian bagged the top stack of 3,360,000

January 31, 2023 It was a short but action-packed Day 2 at the 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship in The Bahamas that saw only six one-hour levels played out. A total of 1,014 entries were recorded when late registration closed with just 255 advancing to Day 3. Leading the pack is Krasimir Yankov who

January 30, 2023 The long-awaited 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship in The Bahamas kicked off in specular fashion today and attracted 1,005 runners, 678 of whom found bags after eight one-hour levels of play. Leading the way are Britain’s Chris Moorman and America’s Tony Tran who tied for the chip lead with 356,000, followed

January 29, 2023 Back in 2018, Australian poker legend Jackie Glazier appeared on Survivor Australia: Champions vs. Contenders, which saw 12 average Joes (the Contenders) square off against 12 extraordinary players (the Champions). While she was ultimately voted off midway through the game that season, Glazier is getting a second chance as a part of

January 28, 2023 There were 22 players who returned to the felt for the third and final day of the $3,000 PCA Mystery Bounty and it was Samuel Cobian who topped them all to take home the first-place prize of $239,658. Cobian overcame a star-studded field of 763 entries to record his largest career poker

January 27, 2023 From January 12-24, the Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood in South Florida played host to the 2023 Lucky Hearts Poker Open (LHPO). Through its 43 events, the 2023 LHPO catered to a combined 16,320 entrants and awarded $14,776,880 in prize money. That made it the biggest LHPO in history based on the number