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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

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