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Jul 23, 2024 2 min read As excitement gears up for the upcoming WPT World Championship in Las Vegas, the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) has partnered with the World Poker Tour to give players opportunities to win a seat into the $10,400 buy-in championship event. In addition to awarding seats to two of the year’s

Kyle Anderson Jul 22, 2024 3 min read Hey, everyone. I’m Kyle Anderson, PokerNews ambassador and Ontario resident. Here is an update on everything that’s happened in the poker world in Ontario in the last month. Kyle Anderson coming to you from the 2024 WSOP! Remember, ON players can legally play real money poker in

Jul 19, 2024 3 min read Legendary UFC ring announcer Bruce Buffer has taken the internet by storm this week, sharing an incredible multi-handed blackjack win on his social media channels. Known as the “Veteran Voice of the Octagon,” Buffer posted a video of his four-handed blackjack triumph to millions of followers on X and

Jul 20, 2024 3 min read The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) not only concluded its series in Las Vegas this week, the segregated market of Pennsylvania also wrapped its seven-event bracelet schedule that had run from June 2-July 14. Pennsylvania‘s Zach “CaptainLevi” Gruneberg, the reigning WSOP PA Online Player of the Year, captured

Jul 19, 2024 4 min read There is no rule against a player’s rail watching the livestream or reviewing solvers during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table. But Alan Keating is not a fan, and he isn’t the only one. Jonathan Tamayo won the 2024 WSOP Main Event for $10 million

Jul 18, 2024 3 min read The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) is officially over, some 51 days after the first of 99 live bracelet-awarding events shuffled up and dealt at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. The series has had it all, from multiple bracelet winners, old school heroes becoming champions again, and

Jul 17, 2024 3 min read One day is all that is left of the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event, and the series as a whole. We’ll know who the winner is on Wednesday evening. It will be Niklas Astedt, Jordan Griff, or Jonathan Tamayo, that much has been decided. None of

Jul 16, 2024 2 min read A brand new reality TV show on USA Network, a cable channel in the US, will feature one of the most polarizing players in poker. Robbi Jade Lew, who was accused of cheating by Garrett Adelstein in an infamous Hustler Casino Live game nearly two years ago, is set

Jul 15, 2024 3 min read In any other year, Scott Seiver could have quit competing by now and just gone ahead and given his acceptance speech for World Series of Poker (WSOP) Player of the Year. But this is 2024, and despite having won three bracelets (and finishing third in an event on Sunday),

Jul 14, 2024 3 min read Could we be on the verge of history? It’s been 29 years since a woman last made the final table of the WSOP Main Event. Since then, there have been close calls, with a cruel twist of fate meaning three women have fallen just short in tenth place. First,

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 12th episode, Connor speaks with actress and conservationist Shannon Elizabeth on the 25th anniversary of American

Jul 12, 2024 5 min read The World Series of Poker has released the names of the latest online bracelet event winners, with some big names coming out on top and adding WSOP bracelets to their names. This brings the total number of online bracelets awarded so far to 20, with only 10 more remaining.

Welcome to Day 4 of the 2024 WSOP Main Event! We captured the moment that the bubble burst in the Main Event and the flip between the joint bubble players for the $10,000 seat to next years Main Event. We asked players how they felt after cashing in the biggest tournament of the year and

Welcome to Day 3 of the 2024 WSOP Main Event! We spoke to some previous Main Event winners to ask them how to survive the biggest bubble of the year! We also caught up with some of the more well-known names in the field to ask how they were feeling ahead of Day 3 and

It’s Day 2 of the biggest poker tournament in the world, the World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event! We spoke to @BotezPoker about her heads-up match with @dnegspoker – while elsewhere the Main Event broke it’s entry record for the second year running. Catch up on everything that happened on Day 2 of the

Jul 08, 2024 3 min read When all else fails, you’ve got to call in the “Dawg” to save the day. Barstool Sports sent two of its personalities out to Las Vegas for the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event — Adam “Smitty” Smith and Ben “Mintzy” Mintz — and both were eliminated

Jul 07, 2024 3 min read After cashing for over $5 million and winning his first World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet, the pressure was on for Chris Hunichen’s Fourth of July mansion party this summer to be the biggest one yet. “It better be,” Hunichen told PokerNews after his bracelet victory. “Otherwise, I failed

Jul 06, 2024 3 min read Poker player and former PokerNews editor Mo Nuwwarah says he was one of two victims of a car break-in outside an Italian restaurant in Las Vegas. And it’s part of a string of similar incidents in the neighboring Chinatown district. The Nebraska native told PokerNews he’d just arrived in

July 05, 2023 Exactly four years ago to the day, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event experienced one of its wildest sessions ever. One player was tossed from poker’s most prestigious tournament for, no joke, exposing his genitalia in the middle of a hand and then throwing his shoe at the dealer. And

Jul 04, 2024 3 min read Last updated Jul 04, 2024 All the super pros at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) on Wednesday were dominated by a group of players from Hustler Casino Live. Four players who often compete on the popular livestreamed poker show from Hustler Casino in Los Angeles had deep