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August 03, 2022 While Hustler Casino should have been celebrating the one-year anniversary of its game-changing poker stream Hustler Casino Live, the famous Los Angeles casino was busy announcing the abrupt cancelation of its $250,000 guaranteed poker tournament “due to unexpected circumstances.” The event in question is part of Larry Flynt’s Grand Slam of Poker

August 02, 2022 The Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open’s (SHRPO) first event — $400 Deep Stack No-Limit Hold’em — set a new Florida state record with 7,703 entries. That surpassed the previous record set last November in the first event of the Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open, which attracted 6,196 entries. That crushed the former

August 02, 2022 This week’s GGPoker Super MILLION$ final table is, once again, a star-studded affair where five of the seats are occupied by stars that have already experienced the thrill of becoming a Super MILLION$ champion. Those five former champions have triumphed a combined eight times in this tournament. Should they triumph again tonight,

August 01, 2022 Lewis Powell Hometown hero Adam Maxwell won the PokerStars UKIPT Nottingham Main Event on its return for £98,150 at Dusk Till Dawn poker club. The 27-year-old Nottingham local managed to come out on top of the 582 entrants field to take home the trophy in front of his friends. The professional poker

July 30, 2022 Mikki Mase, whom you may have watched on Hustler Casino Live, claims he can beat an unbeatable game — baccarat. He certainly has many doubters, but he also has some receipts to back it up. The poker player and Instagram sensation spoke with PokerNews during the recently-completed World Series of Poker (WSOP)

July 29, 2022 Following a successful June event at the Golden Nugget in Las Vegas, the PokerNews Cup is back, this time a $550 buy-in series opener August 29 at the Luxon Pay Mediterranean Poker Party. The tournament, hosted at the Merit Royal Diamond hotel in Cyprus, features a $250,000 guaranteed prize pool and runs

July 28, 2022 The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure (PCA) and PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) are both returning in 2023 after a three-year hiatus, and with the return comes an opportunity for 40 players in Michigan, Pennsylvania and New Jersey to win a $30,000 Platinum Pass to The Bahamas. The $25,000 buy-in PokerStars Players Championship,

July 27, 2022 Within two hours of winning his first World Series of Poker bracelet in an online event in Pennsylvania on July 18, Ryan Messick was headed to the airport after booking a last-minute flight to Las Vegas. By winning the $500 buy-in tournament, advertised as the “Summer Saver,” Messick became one of the

July 26, 2022 Lose, lose some more, hit a decent score, lose again, and then win life-changing money. That pretty much sums up the summer for 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champion Espen Jorstad, and it goes to show that persistence can pay off in poker. The current world champion disclosed his

July 25, 2022 In case you missed it, the WPT Summer Festival on WPT Global kicked off on July 20. The latest real money online poker room is currently running its first summer series and has a host of amazing events lined up. As well as a $1 million guaranteed Main Event, the platform is

July 24, 2022 If you’re hoping Doyle Brunson will sign a copy of Super System for you, good luck with that after the poker legend discovered his autograph is up for sale on eBay. The 10-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner was perturbed to find out that multiple “fans” were attempting to flip

July 23, 2022 PokerNews is known throughout the world for our industry-leading live updates for both live and online events. In fact, right now we’re offering various updates right here. Over the years, we’ve captured memorable hands, many of which have become a part of poker history. In this column, we will bring you some

July 22, 2022 Without question, the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP), the first year it took place on the Las Vegas Strip, was a rousing success. There were so many memorable moments, more than we could possibly capture in one reasonable article. So we’ll stick with the stories that seemed to most capture the

April 26, 2022 The ever-popular Unibet Open returns to Malta for the fifth time in September and everything points to it being an incredible stop, not least because this is the 15th season of the Unibet Open in addition to Unibet Poker celebrating its 25th anniversary. September 29 through October 2 are the dates the

July 20, 2022 Maria Ho had a solid 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) on the felt, but her biggest score of the summer had as much to do with the performance of others as her own. The PokerGO commentator won the $25,000 WSOP Fantasy League, which featured 14 teams, for $200,000. Daniel Negreanu, who

July 19, 2022 This past weekend, the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) $1,110 Main Event at Bally’s Black Hawk in Colorado attracted 585 entrants over three starting flights. On Sunday’s Day 2, Eric Maier of Littleton emerged victorious to claim a $106,858 top prize and his first MSPT title. Maier previously final tabled the MSPT Season

July 18, 2022 Event #85: $1,500 The Closer has come to an end at the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and New Jersey’s Minh Nguyen was the winner of one of the last bracelets of the summer. The event drew 2,039 entries and generated a prize pool of $962,280. Nguyen outlasted 17 returning players

July 17, 2022 Mike Patrick While a fourth day of play was needed, it didn’t take Lawrence Brandt long in poker overtime to finish off his final two opponents to claim his second bracelet of the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP), winning Event #84: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. for $205,139. Brandt, who at the end of

Norwegian Espen Jorstad has won the 2022 World Series of Poker Main Event for $10,000,000 after an enthralling final day display at Paris & Bally’s, Las Vegas. He defeated Australian Adrian Attenborough heads-up to top a field of 8,663 players, the second-largest in WSOP history. Attenborough would have to settle for $6,000,000 while third-place finisher

July 15, 2022 Matthew Su entered the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table on Friday with big dreams and a big stack. But he ran into some misfortune and was eliminated in ninth place. The deep run paid out $850,675, his only live tournament score of any significance. Still, the high-stakes