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October 24, 2020 Chad Holloway Whenever a new poker book hits the market, I’m almost always excited to read it. However, truth be told, A Girl’s Guide to Poker by Amanda Botfeld was not one of them. The reason is simple – I’m not a girl. I tried to see if my longtime PokerNews colleague

October 23, 2020 Chad Holloway At the beginning of the month, the inaugural Midway Poker Tour, which had a charity connection with 4 KIDS Sake, Inc., found itself at the center of a payout controversy in its $1,100 buy-in Main Event, a tournament that attracted 266 runners. The top 31 players were guaranteed $2,300 in

October 22, 2020 Chad Holloway Guests: Kim Stone Hayden Fortini In the latest edition of the PokerNews Podcast, Jeff Platt and Chad Holloway chat with guests Kim Stone and Hayden Fortini about the inaugural Lonestar Poker Series, which kicks off this weekend at Prime Social Club in Houston. They also offer an update on the

October 21, 2020 Jason Glatzer The Bounty Hunters Series at GGPoker has been a huge success thus far. The festival guarantees at least $40 million across hundreds of events from Oct. 11-25 at GGPoker. The rake throughout the festival is just five percent! This is the standard rake for bounty tournaments at GGPoker with most

October 20, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah As live poker slowly creeps back amidst the ongoing pandemic, the successful completion of any poker series in the U.S. is news. At Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino Tampa, the team wrapped up Pinktober over the weekend, its annual festival benefiting charity while awarding hundreds of thousands of dollars

October 19, 2020 Jason Glatzer Most poker players just want to play in a fair game. They don’t want to be targeted by sharks that are using a combination of poker tracking databases and seating scripts to target the best tables. There isn’t anything wrong with this at sites that allow these types of external

October 18, 2020 Will Shillibier GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu has made his personal views on VPNing perfectly clear in a recent podcast. On the latest episode of The Orbit, a round-table discussion hosted by Cardplayer Lifestyle’s Robbie Strazynski, Negreanu stated that he “didn’t give a crap” where players were located, as long as they were

October 17, 2020 Matthew Pitt Now is the time to act if you don’t have online poker accounts at bet365 Poker, Betfair Poker, and GGPoker because this trio of sites have some excellent promotions taking place along with sizeable welcome bonuses and packages. Keep reading to discover what you can get involved in and how.

October 16, 2020 Matthew Pitt What better way to enjoy the weekend than by entering a trio of superb online poker tournaments. Players are spoiled for choice right now with operators going out of their way to provide a massive selection of tournaments for their customers. By all means check out the offering of all

October 15, 2020 Mo Nuwwarah Online poker in Germany has been thrown into a state of upheaval following the reveal that new legislation significantly alters the playing parameters there. Among the regulations are strict table and deposit limits, changes to the seating system and more stringent know-your-customer (KYC) requirements. The changes go into effect Oct.

October 14, 2020 Matthew Pitt Cyprus’ “blakjak19” is the latest poker star to win a massive prize online at GGPoker. Blakjak19 topped a ridiculously stacked field of 137 of the world’s best tournament players in the $10,300 Super MILLION$ High Rollers event and padded their bankroll with a colossal $344,407. Super MILLION$ High Rollers Final

October 13, 2020 Will Shillibier Many Americans will be familiar with Sen. Lindsey Graham, who has served as the United States Senator from South Carolina since 2003. In fact, he was featured on a list of “political jokers” that PokerNews looked at earlier this month. As Graham prepares not only for a hard-fought Senate race

October 12, 2020 Will Shillibier The GGPoker Super MILLION$ continues to attract some of the biggest names in poker, and this Tuesday’s final table is no different. Stephen Chidwick has cashed for a record eleventh time in the Super MILLION$, but this is only his second final table. He will start second in chips behind

October 11, 2020 LearnWPT Today you’ll be playing as the Big Blind at a tournament final table defending against a raise from a 30BB stack on the Button. Due to the presence of shorts stacks at this table, there is large ICM pressure on your opponent. This ICM pressure allows you to generally be more

Date GMT Event # Event Name Buy-In GTD Oct-11 12:00 BHS 001 Opener $210 $210.00 $100,000 Oct-11 12:30 BHS 002 PLO 6-Max $105 $105.00 $25,000 Oct-11 13:00 BHS 003 Turbo $5.25 $5.25 $10,000 Oct-11 13:00 BHS Event Speed Racer SE $52.50 [10 BB] $52.50 $10,000 Oct-11 13:30 BHS 004 Sunday Six Shooter Special $105 $105.00

October 09, 2020 Jason Glatzer Poker players around the world are getting geared up for big Sunday at 888poker as Day 2 of the $1 million guaranteed Millions Superstorm $320 Main Event will kick off at 8 p.m. GMT on Oct. 11. This event is the crown jewel of the 888Millions Superstorm that has been

October 08, 2020 Chad Holloway This past weekend, the 2020 PACOOP wrapped up. The series catered to 21,326 entrants over its 50 events while awarding $2,040,033 in prize money. Highlights from the online festival include Zach “KennytheRipper” Gruneberg, who was this week’s guest on the PokerNews Podcast, winning three titles, and “LetMeWin3437” taking down the

October 07, 2020 Matthew Pitt The gambling industry has been left reeling by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic but the latest financial figures for 888 Holdings, parent company of 888poker, seem to buck that trend. The latest figures take us up to June 30, 2020 and are impressive considering the current trading conditions. Overall group revenue

October 06, 2020 Matthew Pitt There are seven awesome new Daily Specials tournaments for you to get your teeth into at Paddy Power Poker, seven events with combined guarantees in excess of €30,000. Daily Specials, as the name suggests, take place every day of the week and give you the chance to win big in

October 05, 2020 Jason Glatzer The inaugural WPT World Online Championships (WOC) was all the rage at partypoker the past two months with over 34,000 unique players getting into the action from July 17 to Sept. 24. To say the WPTWOC was a success would be an understatement as the festival attracted 285,846 total entries