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August 29, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The World Series of Poker Main Event has produced countless amazing moments over the years. There’s something indelible about becoming a world champion in any competitive arena, after all. But even among those moments, a few stand out as the most poignant or the most historically significant. Here, PokerNews will

August 28, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Popular poker pro Antonio Esfandiari was burglarized of about $1 million in valuables and the likely perpetrator was apprehended on Sunday, according to a report in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Svitlana Silva, 46, was booked on suspicion of the burglary, which took place July 14 at Esfandiari’s condo in Panorama

August 27, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Few players have endured the poker roller coaster to the degree of Dustin “neverwin” Woolf. He’s won hundreds of thousands of dollars in a single night, suffered through a superuser scandal, busted monstrous rolls, played the biggest games and eventually walked away burnt out and ready to leave the game

August 26, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The regulated online poker market in the U.S. has been a hotbed of action this summer thanks in large part to a slew of bracelet events, but PokerStars PA contributed to the bonanza over the weekend with a special tournament that ended on Monday. Players there were treated to “Pennsyl-MANIA

August 25, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah High-stakes no-limit hold’em action continued last week on Run It Once Poker with three more matches of the Legends Showdown. After a strong first week, Pauli Ayras put together another good performance to cement himself as the favorite to grab the top seed before the knockout round. On the other

August 24, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah The professional poker community continues to butt heads with GGPoker brass. A couple of weeks back, the rising poker site made headlines for a dispute with high-stakes pro Tobias Duthweiler. The German cash game reg accused the site of stealing $180,000 from him, with GGPoker maintaining it simply followed company

August 23, 2020 Chad Holloway At the beginning of the year, the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) was primed for Season 11 and even hosted three stops before the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted things, just like it did for so many other tours and venues. Next weekend, the MSPT Season 11 will continue, at least for one

August 22, 2020 Matthew Pitt The race to become the GGPoker WSOP 2020 Online Player of the Series is well and truly on. We’ve passed the halfway stage and both leaderboards have taken shape. Daniel Dvoress is the man to catch in the overall leaderboard, which includes every bracelet-awarding event, while Luis “Xapliskinha” Assuncao Garla

August 21, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Last month, PokerNews published a two-part feature detailing the oral history of ChipTic. A program that promised to revolutionize the way poker was presented to fans, ChipTic got off to an auspicious start before ultimately meeting a massively disappointing end well short of the expectations of nearly everyone involved. Despite

August 20, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Records are made to be broken, and it only took about a week for the record of biggest online no-limit hold’em pot to get smashed. On Aug. 13, a pot of nearly $850,000 went down on GGPoker, breaking a 12-year-old record from the Full Tilt Poker glory days when Tom

August 19, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah While the Galfond Challenge remains on hiatus for at least a little while longer, poker fans thirsting to follow some high-stakes action during the lull got a bone thrown their way last week with the advent of the Legends Showdown on Run It Once Poker. What is Legends Showdown? In

August 18, 2020 Matthew Pitt Being able to play from almost anywhere is one of the best features of playing online poker. All you need is a computer and an internet connection and you’re good to go. But what if you’re heading out of the house, or simply can’t be bothered to fire up your

August 17, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Legally speaking, it seems the Mike Postle case may be wrapped up soon. On Friday, the same day a Nevada judge dismissed one lawsuit against Postle, CardPlayer reported that the California portion of the case nears its own end. According to the report, based on court documents, Judge William B.

August 16, 2020 Yori Epskamp It’s time for the biggest event of the 2020 World Series of Poker Online on GGPoker! Tonight, the first flight of the 2020 WSOP Online Main Event, with an astonishing $25,000,000 in guarantees up for grabs, will kick off at 7 p.m. GMT. It’s a prize pool certainly worthy of

August 15, 2020 Yori Epskamp David Peters has done it again! The tournament legend from Toledo, OH, ranked 7th on The Hendon Mob’s all-time money list with $33,737,539 in lifetime winnings, captured his second gold bracelet in Event #54: $10,000 Heads Up No Limit Hold’em Championship for $360,480, Peters followed up on his 2016 bracelet

August 14, 2020 Chad Holloway On Friday, the United States District Court in Nevada granted Mike Postle’s motion to dismiss against Marle Cordeiro in Case No. 2:20-CV-640 JCM (EJY). If you recall back in April, TMZ first reported that Cordeiro had filed suit against Postle seeking $250,000 in punitive damages as well as a trial

August 13, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Among the exciting features offered on GGPoker is an integrated staking platform that lets players and observers buy and sell action to tournaments. While this practice has long been a staple of tournament poker, an operator integrating it into the client at no additional charge for the buyers and sellers

August 12, 2020 Matthew Pitt Look no further than the 63rd bracelet-awarding event of the summer if you’re looking to take a trip to Value Town. This tournament takes place online at GGPoker and see you play for a share of a guaranteed $5 million for only a $500 buy-in, less if you manage to

It looks like the BIG 50 is going to be the tournament all small stakes poker players will want to play, as it offers them the chance at winning a bracelet for the lowest buy-in in WSOP history. Just $50 will give you a chance at winning a slice of a $1,000,000 guarantee. There are

August 10, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah COVID-19 forced the postponement of the 2020 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. In lieu of being able to live report this year’s summer series, PokerNews has decided to relive some of the memories of past WSOPs. This Day in WSOP History will harken back to the most poignant