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August 20, 2022 Two more GGPoker players became World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winners over the past couple of days, joining Stefan Schillhabel and Claas Segebrecht in the winner’s enclosure. Austria-based Italian Jacopo “JESUSYAAZY” Achille and Rafael “BruxoR10” Caiaffa triumphed in their respected WSOP bracelet-awarding event and forever get to call themselves a world

August 19, 2022 Fast forward three years, and [B]Simon Brandstrom[/B] appears to have picked up where he lift off. After becoming the 11th Swedish player to win a European Poker Tour Main Event with his victory at EPT Barcelona, he followed that up with a maiden WPT title in Nottingham, England. Follow updates on the

August 18, 2022 PartyPoker is the place to be right now if you are a fan of progressive knockout tournaments. Why? Because the Grand Prix KO Summer Edition festival is in full swing. The Grand Prix KO Summer Edition series features 14 numbered PKO events with juicy guarantees across a range of buy-ins. The crown

August 17, 2022 GGPoker is awarding 33 gold World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelets between August 7 and September 27, and two players have already secured their piece of much sought-after poker jewelry. Stefan Schillhabel and Claas Segebrecht are the first two recipient of shiny, gold WSOP bracelets. Shillhabel took down the $500 Housewarming event

August 16, 2022 Anyone who is on the fence about entering the WPT Summer Festival Main Event online at WPT Global needs to hurry up and jump into the action because there are only a handful of Day 1s remaining on the schedule. The WPT Summer Festival Main Event commands a $330 buy-in, but for

August 15, 2022 There are loads of free social casinos out there that give you a chance to earn in-game coins and progress up the levels. There are also some that have additional features, where you can end up winning real cash prizes. The great thing about these sites is that you don’t have to

August 14, 2022 David Salituro Try and try again. Or, if you’re Mike Watson, try four times and you might end up as the €50,000 Single-Day High Roller champion at the PokerStars and Barcelona©Casino European Poker Tour and €872,940 richer. Watson didn’t get off to a promising start to this tournament. He was eliminated just

August 12, 2022 You can go ahead and forget about the preview article we wrote a few days back on the $1.6 million High Stakes Duel III rematch between Phil Hellmuth and Scott Seiver, scheduled for August 22 on PokerGO, because the game has been called off. Citing personal reasons, three months after his Round

August 11, 2022 The World Poker Tour (WPT) and Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas have finalized the schedule for its December, record-breaking poker festival. In total, the series, which runs December 1-20, features 23 tournaments and $22 million in guarantees. Although there are a number of major events, including the WPT Ladies Championship and what

August 11, 2022 Ancient civilisations are endless sources of fascination for modern day people, and it’s interesting to look back at how our ancestors of thousands of years ago lived. The mysterious times have been represented in entertainment regularly over the years and are often used as inspiration for slots. Indeed, ancient themes that involve

August 09, 2022 Matt Hanks attempted to turn his middle pair into what would have been an epic bluff in an $830,000 pot during the newest No Gamble, No Future episode on PokerGo. Unfortunately, for him, Eric Persson got sticky with an over-pair. No Gamble, No Future, hosted by Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks, debuted

August 09, 2022 There are many people who consider Niklas Astedt to be the G.O.A.T. regarding online poker, and anyone who follows the GGPoker Super MILLION$ will agree with those sentiments. Astedt has reached 21 Super MILLION$ final tables, emerge victoriously from five of those, and earned $4,956,857 from this weekly high-stakes event. Astedt has

August 07, 2022 Beating a tough opponent such as Scott Seiver in consecutive matches isn’t an easy task, but that is exactly what Phil Hellmuth will attempt to accomplish August 22 on High Stakes Duel III Round 5 with $1.6 million on the line. With the date and time (8 p.m. ET) officially set at

August 06, 2022 Dan Shak, who was quite active at the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP), was charged by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) with “spoofing,” a term for when securities buyers place market orders and then cancel them before the order is fulfilled. Spoofing is illegal and can carry steep penalties. The

August 05, 2022 Landon Tice discussed a $100,000 prop bet with Patrick Leonard to live at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas, the home of the World Series of Poker (WSOP), for one year, but the restrictions are quite strict. Winning this six-figure wager, although not an official bet just yet, might be more difficult than

August 04, 2022 I reported my first World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event for PokerNews back in 2010, and for more than a decade, I’ve either reported on or played each Main Event since. However, this summer my 12-year streak came to an end when I left Las Vegas early. The day the 2022

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