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June 04, 2022 As the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) inches closer, PokerNews is looking back at all the past WSOP Main Event champions since the turn of the century. While previous installments of this series have focused on the likes of 2000-02 winners Chris Ferguson, Carlos Mortensen and Robert Varkonyi or 2003-05 winners

June 03, 2022 Guests: Katie Kopp Chance Kornuth Shaun Deeb David Peters Darren Elias In the latest edition of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway and Sarah Herring come to you from the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) and offer thoughts on the early goings at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas. Guests on this episode

June 02, 2022 Texas Senator Ted Cruz appeared on the latest Season 13 episode of Poker After Dark, and like anything related to politics, it sparked a heated debate on both sides of the aisle. Cruz, a Republican and 2016 presidential candidate who lost his party’s nomination to Donald Trump, represents the Lone Star State

June 01, 2022 Starting on Friday, June 3, Natural8 will be hosting the popular Asia Poker League (APL) once again. While the series is set to kick off in a few days time, you can already find Stage 1s of the ¥2M GTD Zodiac Bounty MILLION$ in the tournament lobby. All Natural8 players will be

Worried about navigating the Ballrooms of Bally’s and Paris for the World Series? We’re on it. Norman Chad and Lon McEachern walk you through the casinos to help you get ready to crush it during your first time in the new location Chapters00:00 – Intro 00:57 – Caesars Reward Desk 01:41 – Ballroom Tour 04:43

May 30, 2022 It’s been less than 200 days since the last bracelet was dished out at the 2021 World Series of Poker, but poker’s largest and most prestigious festival is back again this week, and in its traditional summer slot no less. A lot has happened since the last time the WSOP was held

May 29, 2022 Getting to and from the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) will be a bit more complicated than in year’s past given the switch from the Rio to the Strip, and one method of transportation you might wish to consider is the monorail. The Rio, whether you loved it or hated it,

May 28, 2022 There’s no denying I’m a big comic book geek – I even wrote a poker-themed comic book called The World Series of Zombies (WSOZ) back in 2015. I was recently flipping through some comics at a flea market and came across a copy of The Spectacular Spider-Man #21, which was released back

May 27, 2022 888poker is the place to be this weekend if you like affordable, well-structured online poker tournaments with juicy guaranteed prize pools. Seven events from the $1.5 million guaranteed XL Spring series take place over the weekend, and seven players are going to win big. The weekend’s festivities kick off at 7:00 p.m.

May 26, 2022 888poker has pulled off a major coupe by signing British pro Ian Simpson to its roster of brand ambassadors. 888poker unveiled Simpson at the recent 888poker LIVE Barcelona festival where Sandro Hauser took down the Main Event for €56,800. Simpson left a career in teaching to pursue a professional poker career after

May 25, 2022 Longtime professional poker player Cory Zeidman has been indicted for allegedly operating a sports betting “fraud scheme” in which he defrauded victims out of millions over a 15-year span. An indictment in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York unsealed on Wednesday, May 25 charges Zeidman with

May 24, 2022 Andrew Neeme is the latest poker vlogger to join the growing team of ambassadors of the World Poker Tour (WPT). WPT announced on Tuesday, May 24 that Neeme would be joining the WPT ambassador roster, less than a month after the leading poker tour announced that fellow poker content creator Brad Owen

May 23, 2022 While he’s won a record 16 World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelets, Poker Hall of Famer Phil Hellmuth has never won WSOP Player of the Year, though he’s come close on several occasions. Just last year he set a 52-year WSOP record with seven final table appearances, but his stellar performance

May 22, 2022 There’s no denying that poker players and fans love Player of the Year races, just ask Shaun Deeb and Daniel Negreanu who often compete for World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year. Likewise, points leaderboards, like the one at Super High Roller Bowl Europe won by Phil Ivey, help fuel

May 21, 2022 Former professional poker player and attorney Todd Terry passed away this week after a nearly decade-long battle with a devastating neurological disease. Terry, who made numerous deep runs at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) and on the World Poker Tour (WPT) and was a known and respected voice in the poker

May 20, 2022 Not to go all cheesy cliche, but as we discovered on our weeklong journey across the Lone Star State back in March, everything really is bigger in Texas…including the poker (and the pickup trucks). Texas poker is about as similar to Las Vegas poker and other towns as Tom Dwan’s style of

May 19, 2022 Nineteen months after a controversial payout debacle involving shorted silver, players from the Midway Poker Tour have been made whole by co-founder Dan Bekavac, who over the past few months has won two mid-major tournament titles. PokerNews has confirmed directly with affected players that they were either made whole or consider the

  Date Time Event # Tournament Buy-In   5/31/2022 11am 1 Dealer’s Choice – 6 Handed $5K Guarantee $250     1pm 2 Daily No Limit Hold’em $10K Guarantee $150     6pm 3 Big-O $200     7pm 4 Nightly No Limit Hold’em $3K Guarantee $125   6/1/2022 11am 5 HORSE $5K Guarantee $250

May 17, 2022 Chance Kornuth has already won more than $800,000 in live tournament earnings this year, but the top poker pro is chasing an even bigger score. Kornuth’s luxurious Nevada mansion overlooking the Las Vegas strip is currently listed on the real estate market. The asking price? A cool $3.5 million. According to the

May 16, 2022 The final day of Event #8: $1,650 Mystery Bounty $1 Million Guaranteed has now come to an end here at The Lodge Poker Club in Round Rock, Texas, after 14 hours of exciting poker. There was a total of 659 entries and Day 2 saw just 85 left to duke it out.