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September 18, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The court case may have wrapped up but the court of public opinion isn’t done with the story of Mike Postle and his underhanded exploits at the poker tables of Stones Gambling Hall. And at least one of the alleged antagonists is refusing to stay silent. House tournament director Justin

September 18, 2020 Matthew Pitt The World Poker Tour (WPT) has updated both its Player of the Championship and the Rising Star leaderboards as the WPT World Online Championships enters its final week. Both leaderboards are still led by the same players as last week, but there are a few new additions to the chasing

Date Time CET event Name Buyin Game Type Guarantee 18-09-20 19:00:00 1 €300 E1 UOS Nano €0.5 Holdem Nano €300 18-09-20 19:00:00 2 €5,000 E2 UOS Low €10 Holdem Low €5,000 18-09-20 19:00:00 3 €15,000 E3 UOS Mid €50 Holdem Mid €15,000 18-09-20 20:30:00 4 €100 E4 UOS Omaha Bounty Nano €0.5 Omaha Bounty Nano

September 15, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Anyone who expected Mike Postle and Justin Kuraitis to ride off quietly into the sunset after they avoided millions of dollars in potential liability from a high-profile civil suit was disabused of that notion on Tuesday. Postle, alleged to have cheated dozens of players out of six figures at the

Yuri “theNERDguy” Dzivielevski‘s stellar year continued on Monday night where the Brazilian claimed his third WCOOP title of the series. Under the watchful eye of the PokerNews live reporting, Dzivielevski prevailed in WCOOP-48-H: $5,200 NLHE [8-Max, Progressive KO, Sunday Slam] for a score of $245,535, defeating another red-hot player heads-up, countryman Brunno “botteonpoker” Botteon, to

September 14, 2020 Yori Epskamp On Sunday, Sweden’s Niklas “Lena900” Astedt kept riding the wave of success in the World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) at PokerStars with a second victory in two days. The Swede captured his third overall WCOOP title by closing out WCOOP-44-H: $2,100 NLHE where he turned a sizable chip lead

September 13, 2020 Jason GlatzerShirley Ang Niklas “Lena900” Astedt Wins the PokerStars WCOOP-39-H: $5,200 NLHE [Progressive KO, High Roller] ($201,055) WCOOP-39-H: $5,200 NLHE [Progressive KO, High Roller] Final Table Results WCOOP Day 14 Results WCOOP-39-L: $55 NLHE [Progressive KO, Mini Thursday Thrill SE] WCOOP-39-M: $530 NLHE [Progressive KO, Thursday Thrill SE] WCOOP-43-L: $5.50 NLHE/PLO [6-Max]

September 11, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah This weekend, the World Series of Poker Global Casino Championship will take place on WSOP.com. Depending on whether the situation with COVID-19 clears up, it may be the final bracelet awarded in 2020. The online edition of the GCC is the first in the relatively short history of the WSOP

September 11, 2020 Matthew Pitt The 2020 WSOP Online has only just concluded but GGPoker has wasted no time in announcing its latest foray into the online poker tournament festival world. GGSOP, or Good Game Series Of Poker to give the series its full title, heads to GGPoker from September 12 and continues through to

September 10, 2020 Matthew Pitt The massive $10 million guaranteed 2020 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) Main Event is less than a fortnight away and PokerStars is making it possible for you to play in it for free. How? Via the exciting WCOOP Sweepstakes. WCOOP Sweepstakes are a new, fun way for PokerStars players

September 08, 2020 Chad Holloway In a special edition of the PokerNews Podcast, Sarah Herring, Chad Holloway, and Jeff Platt pay tribute to Mike Sexton, whose recent passing after a cancer battle left the entire poker world in mourning. Not only do they share their own personal experiences and favorite stories, but they also talk

September 07, 2020 Will Shillibier Day 1a of the World Poker Tour World Online Championships Main Event on partypoker kicked off yesterday with 521 players generating a prize pool of $5,210,000. 80 players advanced to Day 2 including partypoker Ambassadors Philipp Gruissem and Dzmitry Urbanovich. Leading the way is Slovenia’s Blaž Žerjav who bagged 4.4

September 06, 2020 Mo NuwwarahChad Holloway At the beginning of September, the poker world learned that Mike Sexton, one of the game’s greatest ambassadors, had been battling prostate cancer that had spread to other organs. As a result, the Poker Hall of Famer began in-home hospice a month earlier. Unfortunately, Sexton’s longtime friend Linda Johnson

September 05, 2020 Jason Glatzer The 2020 WSOP Online on GGPoker is coming near an end with just a handful of the 54 bracelet events yet to begin. There have been many well-known winners throughout the series along with some players getting their names on the poker map for the first time with impressive bracelet

September 04, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Two of the most-watched events in the GGPoker World Series of Poker bracelet schedule are wrapping up this weekend. One, of course, is the $5,200 Main Event, which built a record prize pool for an online poker tournament and sees the final 38 players coming back for a shot at

September 04, 2020 Matthew Pitt The WPT World Online Championships (WPTWOC) are taking place at partypoker with the massive series now into its eighth week. A pair of leaderboards, which have $100,000 worth of prizes, are in play for the best performing players of the series. Players earn points for the Player of the Championship

Sarah Herring, Chad Holloway and Jeff Platt discuss the latest news in poker including Poker Players Championship victory, Dimitar Danchev in the $10K, Spraggy already scooping a WCOOP win, Bryan Piccioli leading the WSOP Main Event and Antonio Esfandiari robbed in his Las Vegas apartment for more than $1,000,000 including his Big One for One

September 01, 2020 Hayley Hochstetler The Marathon Des Sables, French for “Marathon of the Sands.” is a six-day, 251 km (156 miles) ultramarathon held in the Sahara Desert within Eastern Morocco. Runners carry all of their food and supplies such as sleeping bags, medical kits, and safety equipment on their backs. Sound crazy? Poker player

August 31, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Back in the old Full Tilt Poker nosebleed glory days, brothers Hac Dang and Di Dang were among the most feared and successful poker players on the planet. According to HighStakesDB, they amassed a combined total of about $14 million in online cash game winnings. They traded blinds with Tom

August 30, 2020 Yori Epskamp After 23 starting flights over the past two weeks, tonight’s the night! The biggest event in online poker history, the 2020 WSOP Online Main Event on GGPoker, will see a field of 1,171 survivors return for Day 2 of this unique tournament. Incredibly, not only was the $25,000,000 guarantee met