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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).

November 28, 2020 Matthew Pitt Christmas is fast approaching and it’s the season to be jolly, as the song goes. Never mind jolly, some of you are going to be over the moon if you win some of the awesome prizes on offer in our Social Media Giveaways. We’ve got some fantastic prizes to giveaway

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

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