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December 04, 2021 Jon Sofen Justin Bonomo took down a $100,000 buy-in high roller at the Bellagio’s Five Diamond World Poker Classic in Las Vegas Friday night for $928,200. In doing so, the likely future Poker Hall of Famer regained his spot atop the all-time live tournament list. Bryn Kenney, who sits at $56.9 million

December 03, 2021 Chad Holloway On December 2, golf pro Kevin Na posted on social media that his friend, Dusty Schmidt, had passed away at the age of 40. The cause of death for the online poker legend was not immediately known. Na wrote: “He was a top Jr. rank golfer who played pro golf

December 02, 2021 Will Shillibier Less than three days after winning the second WSOP bracelet of his career in Event #8: €2,500 Short Deck, Julien Martini has won his third after defeating Ole Schemion heads-up in Event #12: €2,000 8-Game. The result means that Martini moves ahead of Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier and Roger Hairabedian to

December 01, 2021 Chad Holloway The 2021 Rock “N” Roll Poker Open (RRPO) is nearing its end game with the $3,500 World Poker Tour (WPT) Championship reaching its final table. Meanwhile, the side events continue to chug along including two big buy-in tournaments. Click here for a look at the early side event winners. Ali

November 30, 2021 Christian Zetzsche A new gold bracelet winner has been crowned as Romania’s Sergiu Covrig prevailed in heads-up against Michael Strauch to claim his first WSOP hardware in the early morning hours at the King’s Resort in Rozvadov. An additional day was needed to determine the champion in the latest 2021 World Series

November 29, 2021 Chad Holloway From November 23-28, Darren Elias hosted his “The End Boss Poker Series” on the BetMGM platform in a trio of states — Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Each state held its own seven-event series with buy-ins ranging from $150-$1,060, and as a whole it proved to be a success as

November 28, 2021 PokerNews Staff In 2019, 27 amateurs and 27 of the world’s best pros competed in the biggest buy-in event in history. Now, the Triton Million – A Helping Hand for Charity poker tournament is being released as a 10-episode series on Triton Poker’s YouTube Channel. A total of 54 players stumped up

November 27, 2021 Chad Holloway The 2021 Wynn Fall Classic ran from late September through November 21. During that time, more than 21,000 entrants competed and in excess of $25 million in prize money was awarded. PokerNews was on-site to provide live updates from some of the marquee events including: [embedded content] There was a

November 26, 2021 Calum Grant EPT Prague, scheduled to run December 8-19 in King’s Casino at the Hilton Prague, has been postponed into the next year. The decision was made by PokerStars due to recent restrictions put in place by the Czech Republic government. The restrictions were put into place again due to growing coronavirus

November 25, 2021 PokerNews Staff As the saying goes, it’s the most wonderful time of the year! That’s why PokerNews is back with some great ideas for holiday gifts for your friends, family, colleagues or loved ones! From chip sets to poker training sites and enthralling poker books – there’s something for everyone! D&B Poker

As another incredible series comes to an end in Las Vegas – here is a collection of highlights from the World Series of Poker 2021. Follow PokerNews at: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/pokernewsdo…Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pokernewsdotcomTikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@pokernews.comTwitter: https://twitter.com/PokerNews Our coverage of the WSOP is powered by ClubGG.

Leo Margets is making waves as the FIRST lady to win an open WSOP event in 2021! She’s been denied her first bracelet in 2018 after going heads up, but coming short of her first victory. Leo meets with Erin to revel in the glory of her first WSOP gold. You can find live reporting

November 22, 2021 Jon Sofen The final online bracelet event on WSOP.com concluded early Monday morning with Daniel “SilasSilver” Turner taking down the $1,000 Mini Main Event, a no-limit hold’em tournament, for $142,663. Only one more live bracelet event has yet to start before the 2021 World Series of Poker officially wraps up — Event

November 21, 2021 Jason Glatzer Day 52 of the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) featured another full day of poker action at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in sunny Las Vegas with Nov. 18 featuring five bracelet events. Two huge events awarded bracelets on Saturday. Adrian Mateos won his fourth piece of WSOP

November 20, 2021 Calum Grant Day 51 of the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) featured another full day of poker action at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in sunny Las Vegas with four events playing out to their conclusion. Day 1a of The Closer and the $50,000 Pot-Limit Omaha High Roller also played

Day 51 of the 2021 WSOP is action packed, as Benny Glaser leads the $10K Razz in the quest for his 4th WSOP bracelet. A star-studded field returns for Day 2 of the $250,000 Super High Roller, with faces like Justin Bonomo and Daniel Negreanu making it to the final 15. Event 79, the Hall

The winner of the 2021 WSOP Main Event: Koray Aldemir takes home the famous Main Event bracelet and $8,000,000! Koray’s win in the Main Event drives him right to #4 in Germany’s all-time money list. Eli Elezra is the 2021 inductee into the Poker Hall of Fame, and movie star Vince Vaughn takes a new

Event #76, the $10,000 Super Turbo Bounty NLH (freezeout) at the World Series of Poker 2021 is a special format in that it’s both a turbo structure with added bounty element. We asked some of the players during the event for their tips on how to adapt to the structure. Featuring Fedor Holz, Manig Loeser,

November 16, 2021 Calum Grant Final Table Profile Koray Aldemir Seat: 2 Chip Count: 140,000,000 Big Blinds: 175 Age: 31 Hometown: Berlin, Germany (resides Vienna, Austria) Koray Aldemir’s Main Event Story “It feels crazy; I can’t believe it still. It feels pretty good though.” The words of Koray Aldemir upon not only making the 2021

BBO Poker Tables, the leading brand of premium, customized poker tables in the US based in Las Vegas, NV has teamed up with WSOP and CBS commentators Lon McEachern and Norman Chad to bring a Lon and Norman Signature Line poker table designed by the legendary pair. BBO Poker Tables will be giving away the