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December 08, 2020 Jonathan Little Sometimes when you river the nuts you should go for a check-raise, but how do you know when? In this week’s strategy column, I discuss it using a hand from a $5/$10 no-limit hold’em cash game I played. Here’s how it went down. Action was eight-handed when it folded to

December 07, 2020 Chad Holloway Popular $10,000 High Roller tournaments were slated to return to ARIA Resort & Casino in early December, but after tournaments were suspended at the venue (the $10K High Rollers will be rescheduled in 2021), a competing room opted to step up and fill the void. To cater to players who

December 06, 2020 Christian ZetzscheJason Glatzer The second of three starting days of the 2020 World Series of Poker World Championship $10,000 Main Event at GGPoker is in the books with 42 players out of 171 entries advancing to Day 2. This increases the total field size to 417 entries with 104 contenders through thus

December 03, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The battle between Phil Galfond and Chance Kornuth at $100/$200 pot-limit Omaha for the Galfond Challenge has been a swingy one thus far, and the latest swing appears to be going in Galfond’s favor. After dropping to about $350,000 in losses on two separate occasions, Galfond roared back with a

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December 03, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah With the 2020 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event already underway and just a few weeks from its finale stages, it’s no surprise that the team at WSOP.com has put a focus on awarding satellite packages to the initial round of play on Dec. 13. However, a high-profile hiccup

December 02, 2020 Will Shillibier Up until now, the world’s collective response to combatting the threat of the coronavirus has been lockdowns and self-isolation for those who had been potentially exposed to a virus that has killed almost 1.5 million people and infected more than 63 million. Now comes the next stage of the fight:

December 01, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah As the $200/$400 heads-up no-limit hold’em match between Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu got rolling, the latter looked every bit the feisty underdog of his big-screen hero Rocky. Negreanu had dominated Polk in the opening 200 hands played live in Las Vegas, and he’d followed up with competitive results across

November 30, 2020 Will Shillibier The first starting flight of the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event took place yesterday on GGPoker with 62 players advancing to Day 2. It’s the first step on a journey that will take one player to King’s Casino in Rozvadov and onwards to the Rio All-Suite Hotel and

November 29, 2020 Chad Holloway At the final table of the 1997 World Series of Poker Main Event, which was played in the summer heat on Fremont Street outside Binion’s Horseshoe, Stu Ungar prevailed to capture a $1 million top prize and his third WSOP Main Event title (he also won in 1980 and 1981).

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November 27, 2020 Matthew Pitt Millions of shoppers are preparing to grab themselves a bargain in the worldwide Black Friday sales. One such bargain is a free $50 voucher from PokerStars just for creating your account and playing a single Spin & Go tournament. Yes, really! PokerStars has come up with a fantastic Black Friday

November 26, 2020 Matthew Pitt Diego Ventura wrote himself into partypoker’s history books on November 25 when he came out on top of a stacked final table to become the 2020 Caribbean Poker Party Main Event champion. Ventura shone brightly throughout this $5,300 buy-in event, topping the chip counts at the conclusion of each day.

November 25, 2020 Chad Holloway From November 12-22, Pearl River Resort in Philadelphia, Mississippi played host to the 2020 Pearl River Poker Open. The nine-event series catered to 3,492 entrants – including players from as far away as Michigan, New Hampshire, Arizona, and Missouri – and awarded $865,851 in prize money. The series kicked off

November 24, 2020 Will Shillibier This weekend, the 2020 World Series of Poker Main Event kicks off on GGPoker, as the first flight of a live-online hybrid that looks set to crown the Main Event champion for 2020. This unorthodox Main Event will begin across both WSOP.com and GGPoker, culminating in not only two live

November 23, 2020 Chad Holloway This past weekend, bestbet Jacksonville hosted a live tournament series in the Fall Frenzy II, which was comprised of three events – a $240 NLH Warm-Up, $360 Monster Stack, and $1,500 Main Event. The series culminated on Sunday with the conclusion of the 2020 bestbet Fall Frenzy $1,500 Main Event,

November 22, 2020 LearnWPT Today you’ll be playing a common spot in a cash game where it folds to the Small Blind who raises and you reraise from the Big Blind. Given how wide the Small Blind can open raise in this spot, your reraising range in position should include many premium hands, suited connectors,

November 21, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah While the heads-up $200/$400 no-limit hold’em match between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk started off swimmingly for the former, things have turned in a hurry once play moved online. Over the course of two sessions played on WSOP.com, the favored Polk took back the six figures he lost live in

November 20, 2020 Chad Holloway The first ever European Poker Tour (EPT) Online series ended with “WhatIfGod” being crowned champion of the highly anticipated EPT Online Main Event for over $1 million. The series awarded a total of $26,760,806 in prize money between the EPT Online ($21,226,100) and the Mini EPT ($5,534,706). The EPT Online

November 19, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah In-full live major poker tournaments will return to the U.S. with a World Poker Tour event in January. In a Monday presser, host venue Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood announced they’d be joining forces with the WPT once again for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open. The event will fill its traditional