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November 18, 2020 Matthew PittJason Glatzer The GGPoker Super MILLION$ is already massive in its own right. It attracts the world’s best players every week and awards some mouth-watering prizes. This latest edition of the $10,300 buy-in tournament was part of the High Rollers Week and this made the event huge. A field of 581-players

November 17, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The heads-up no-limit hold’em grudge match between Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu started amicably enough, but the two rivals have hit a bit of an impasse, if a Twitter dust-up is to be believed. The opposing parties weren’t, however, Negreanu and Polk. Instead, a tweet from Bill Perkins, who is

November 16, 2020 Chad Holloway Last week, the WSOP announced details surrounding an official $10,000 buy-in 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event. The freezeout tournament will be an online-live hybrid, and PokerNews has put together this guide containing all pertinent information. As expected, reactions to the announcement were polarizing. Daniel Negreanu, a GGPoker

November 15, 2020 Chad Holloway December is shaping up to be a busy month for poker in Las Vegas. In addition to the news that the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Main Event will have a live component at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino, ARIA Resort & Casino has announced the return

November 14, 2020 Giovanni Angioni Wishing you could find all the key info about the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event in one place? You’ll love this WSOP 2020 schedule. As announced here on PokerNews on Friday, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) are coming back soon with an unprecedented mix of online

November 13, 2020 Will Shillibier It has been announced that the 2021 Aussie Millions will not take place in its usual January position in the poker calendar and instead will be “placed on hold” according to a statement released by Crown Melbourne. In a brief statement available on the casino website, they said due to

November 12, 2020 Chad Holloway Prior to winning the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event for $10 million, Germany’s Hossein Ensan may not have been known to American fans, but he was a familiar name in Europe due to his success on the European Poker Tour. With the EPT Online happening now, we thought

November 11, 2020 Chad Holloway Guests: Hossein Ensan Kevin MacPhee Mike McDonald Lee Jones In this special edition of the PokerNews Podcast, Sarah Herring and Chad Holloway talk about all things European Poker Tour (EPT) in honor of the EPT Online, which is running now through November 18. They not only talk about their favorite

November 10, 2020 Chad Holloway While the Nov. 3 election was centered on the tight race between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, there was actually a much smaller issue on the ballot in Colorado. Colorado Amendment 77 was a vote to allow citizens in the state’s three gaming hubs – Black Hawk, Central City, and

November 09, 2020 Chad Holloway Over the summer, PokerNews reported hundreds of hands in the 2020 World Series of Poker Online bracelet events. Surprisingly, one of the most interesting hands we captured was a chopped pot. The hand took place in Event #24: $400 NLH 8-Handed, a tournament that attracted 2,408 entrants and offered up

November 08, 2020 Jason Glatzer High stakes excitement will once again be showcased at GGPoker thanks to the online poker network hosting High Rollers Week from Nov. 8-15. The eight-day festival is full of action with 20 tournaments boasting combined guarantees of $22 million! To say the buy-ins for these events are big would be

November 07, 2020 Will Shillibier The Saturday Session on GGPoker contineus to excite and enthrall poker fans from all over the world. Joining the GGSquad to play fun games, and join in the microstakes action on one of the best poker sites around has made it a must-not-miss event in the weekly poker schedule. The

November 06, 2020 Chad Holloway From November 8-16, the European Poker Tour (EPT) Online will offer $20 million in guarantees over 20 tournaments. The series will culminate with the $5,200 buy-in 2020 EPT Online Main Event on Sunday, November 15 at 18:05 (GMT), and you have a chance to play in that tournament for free!

November 05, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The time for talk has ended, as Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk finally took to the felt to begin the process of settling their much-anticipated grudge match. Twenty-five thousand hands of heads-up $200/$400 no-limit hold’em awaited, and Wednesday saw the first 200 play out live at the PokerGO studio in

November 04, 2020 Will Shillibier New customers to the free online World Series of Poker app can get their hands on 1,000,000 chips absolutely free when they sign up today. What’s more, PokerNews is offering existing customers 300,000 free chips when they use bonus code ‘WSOOOP’. This is all part of a series of exciting

November 03, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Nov. 3 has finally arrived, and Election Day means the end of a long journey for many. For the candidates themselves and their campaign staffs, it’s the end of months and months of exhaustive work. For Americans, the end of months of being inundated by ads and solicitors. For many

November 02, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Three more Las Vegas poker rooms are no more. According to a report from CardsChat, MGM properties Excalibur, Mandalay Bay and The Mirage have shuttered their poker rooms for good. They’d all been shut down since March due to the COVID-19 pandemic but company officials had called them “temporary” and

November 01, 2020 Chad Holloway Live tournament poker has already returned to Las Vegas with several properties holding in-house events. Leading the way is the Venetian, which kicked off its latest DeepStack Extravaganza on October 26. The series will run through November 29 and offer more than $1.6 million in guarantees. That includes a pair

A relatively recent transplant to Texas Sarah Herring heads to Prime Social Club to check out the inaugural Lonestar Poker Series. The series was started by Kim Stone who realized there was a hole in the poker community in Texas because no known tournament operators were willing to have a tournament in the market which

October 30, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The sit-n-go may not be as ubiquitous as it once was in the online poker diet for the average punter, but it’s still a standard part of any operator’s list of offerings. That’s particularly true of late given the increased popularity of the lottery format that can award massive prizes