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Sep 21, 2024 3 min read Where did Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot get his high-stakes poker bankroll? That’s been a topic of discussion among the poker community for a couple years, and the answer hasn’t been clear. The former Hustler Casino Live regular appeared on the Table 1 podcast and gave hosts Justin Young and

Sep 20, 2024 2 min read Daniel Negreanu is in Canada livestreaming the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online Bracelet Series on GGPoker, and his first day ended quicker than he’d hoped following a possible slowroll. The Poker Hall of Famer and GGPoker ambassador entered the $5,000 WSOP Online Main Event, a no-limit hold’em tournament

Sep 19, 2024 3 min read Jim Collopy wasn’t among the 10 players who cashed in the 2024 Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT series finale. But it didn’t matter as he’d locked up the Purple Jacket, awarded to the top performer throughout the series, before the $25,200 No-Limit Hold’em final table concluded when Aram

Sep 18, 2024 3 min read The 2024 Borgata Poker Open (BPO) ran from September 3-17 at the Borgata Hotel Casino & Spa in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The 30-event series started with Event #1: $800 NLH Kickoff Deepstack, which saw Guan Huang top a 1,727-entry field ($1,208,900 prize pool) to capture a $192,236. Another

Sep 17, 2024 4 min read Isaac Haxton continued his dominance of the toughest tournaments in the world with a Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT victory on Tuesday. Event #6: $15,100 No-Limit Hold’em played down to six on Monday, and the remaining players returned to the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas for Day 2,

Sep 16, 2024 3 min read The 2024 Poker Masters Presented by PokerStars NAPT continues on this week inside the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas after several players picked up trophies and seven-figure scores during the first half of the series. The series kicked off with two qualifiers battling it out in Event #1: $5,100

Sep 15, 2024 5 min read As the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) on PokerStars resumed yesterday after a brief pause on Friday, the competition in the WCOOP League stepped up a notch. With the latest points added, the standings at the top are incredibly close. Team peace&loove retains the lead with a narrow

Sep 14, 2024 2 min read Never assume victory until the river card is dealt, which one player learned in a wild all-in hand during Friday night’s Hustler Casino Live stream. The $50/$100 ($100 big blind ante) no-limit hold’em cash game featured actor Emile Hirsch, star of the new poker movie, Dead Money, which came

Sep 13, 2024 3 min read The Casino de Marrakech in the Moroccan capital will be awash with poker players from far and wide between September 20-29 because the Unibet DeepStack Open series is in town. A bustling schedule of 34 events and satellites await anyone traveling to Marrakech, and PokerNews‘ live reporting team will

Sep 12, 2024 2 min read A Texas man was charged with first-degree murder for allegedly killing a player accused of cheating a poker game on Sept. 8, according to Austin’s ABC affiliate (KVUE). The Austin Police Department (APD) say Martin Tovar, 26, shot and killed 25-year-old Steve Gonzalez, the player accused of cheating, following

Sep 11, 2024 12 min read A can of worms was opened in the poker world a few weeks ago when a clipped video featuring Ludwig Ahgren called out unregulated poker site ACR Poker for allegedly refusing to pay him out. Ludwig later clarified his comments that he had been paid for his services but

Sep 10, 2024 4 min read Donald Trump (R) is a near heavy favorite to defeat Kamala Harris (D) in the November US presidential election, according to avid poker enthusiast and political polling guru Nate Silver. Silver, who recently appeared on the PokerNews Life Outside Poker podcast and talked about the presidential election and political

Sep 09, 2024 5 min read After four Day 1 flights with 243 entrants, the 34 players who advanced all came together for Day 2 of $2,200 Event #3 at Pennsylvania State Poker Championship here at Live! Casino and Hotel Philadelphia. The PokerStars sponsored event created a total prize pool of $500,000 resulting in Max

Twenty years ago, Alexander Stevic etched his name in poker history by winning the inaugural European Poker Tour (EPT) Main Event. The 2004 series featured just five events, a humble beginning compared to today’s expansive, star-studded EPT circuit. That modest start became a springboard for aspiring poker players, transforming young upstarts into legends of the

Sep 07, 2024 4 min read The plan at the start of Day 6 of the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Barcelona Main Event was to play down to the final six players, and for a while it looked like that might not happen until a flurry of dramatic eliminations in the final level

Sep 06, 2024 3 min read A few months after dumping more than $2 million into the Hustler Casino Live Million Dollar Game, Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek returned to poker’s most-watched cash game live stream. As usual, Moncek was the center of attention, playing 99% of hands in the $10/$20/$40 game, which featured notable players

Sep 05, 2024 2 min read Phil Laak hadn’t won a poker tournament since 2010 when he entered the $560 buy-in Mega Millions XXVII at Parkwest Bicycle Casino. He left the legendary Los Angeles casino on Wednesday having ended the drought by taking it down for $380,245. The $2 million guaranteed no-limit hold’em tournament, along

Sep 04, 2024 6 min read In the middle of August, it was revealed that poker player Robbi Jade Lew was cast on a new reality TV show on the USA Network – The Anonymous, a competition in which the players compete to potentially win up to $100,000. While Lew proved to be a threat

Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level. In the 16th episode, Connor speaks with Hustler Casino Live co-founder Ryan Feldman about sports journalism, interviewing star

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