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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

October 29, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah On Nov. 3, either Donald Trump will win re-election, or Joe Biden will take over office and become the 46th president of the United States. In this two-part series, PokerNews will gaze into the crystal ball and try to divine what effect either candidate’s victory will have on the future

Date DoW Start Time Event Name Entries Prize Pool Winner Prize 10-Oct Sat 19:00 NJCOOP 01: $100 NLHE [NJCOOP Warm-Up], $25K Gtd 276 $25,336.80 zhatka $4,467.47 10-Oct Sat 20:30 NJCOOP 02: $50 NLHE [8-Max, Turbo, Progressive KO, NJCOOP Warm-Up], $12.5K Gtd 245 $12,500.00 StarBoltPoker $2,349.58 11-Oct Sun 14:00 NJCOOP 03: $150 NLHE [8-Max, Deepstack], $20K

October 27, 2020 Giovanni Angioni 83-year old billionaire Sheldon Adelson has reportedly hired a consultant to explore the unthinkable: a full exit from the U.S. gambling industry. Adelson’s Las Vegas Sands Corp. is allegedly looking into selling all its assets in Las Vegas, including the iconic Venetian Resort Las Vegas, the Palazzo, and the Sands

October 26, 2020 Will Shillibier Ever since PokerStars cancelled several European live events back in March, players have been waiting patiently for the announcement of a major online poker festival to take their place. And after the recent success stories of SCOOP, the Stadium Series and WCOOP, PokerStars has now unveiled the EPT Online. The

October 25, 2020 LearnWPT This week you’re playing heads up for the win in a tournament. As you play these hands, you will alternate being in the Big Blind seat and on the Button and will mimic the game flow of heads up play. Be sure to recognize which seat you are in before taking