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Feb 28, 2025 2 min read The first event of the Triton Poker Jeju festival, a $15,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em tournament, set a tour record with 379 entrants (266 unique players). Through three events, it’s not even the largest tournament of the series. Records are being broken in South Korea this week as the new

Feb 27, 2025 2 min read The poker world received sad news on Thursday when word spread that Graeme “Kiwi” Putt passed away. Though he hailed from New Zealand, Putt was well-known throughout the Asia-Pacific region, particularly in Australia. A cause of death has not been revealed. “Sad to hear we lost Graeme Putt today,

Feb 26, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) festival at Harrah’s Cherokee made headlines, though not for the usual reasons. On Day 2 of the event, a man entered the tournament area during a break and started flipping tables, damaging property and scattering chips. The man turned

Feb 25, 2025 2 min read Doug Polk has another online poker challenge planned, this one on ClubWPT Gold, a new social poker site that is, at the very least, entertaining the poker community on X. The heads-up poker legend and co-owner of The Lodge Card Club near Austin, Texas is setting out to win

Feb 24, 2025 5 min read Table Of Contents Alan Keating made one of the best televised poker calls seen in a while during Monday’s episode of High Stakes Poker, and it was one of many monster pots in the nosebleed-stakes cash game. The sixth episode of Season 14 provided action from start to finish,

Feb 23, 2025 2 min read The World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Main Event at Harrah’s Cherokee erupted into chaos on Sunday as a man flipped over three poker tables in an apparent fit of rage. The incident took place on Day 2 of the $1,700 buy-in Main Event with 65 players left. A

Feb 22, 2025 2 min read Jean-Robert Bellande headlined the first high-stakes Venetian Poker Live stream Friday night, and he played, and won, the show’s first six-figure pot. The no-limit hold’em cash game, played at $100/$200 stakes, aired on PokerGO. Bellande, who has been a regular in various poker shows and streams for the past

Feb 21, 2025 3 min read Back in 2008, a poker book was published with little to no fanfare. Confessions of a Crossroad Gambler was written by “Gentleman” Jack Newton, a high-stakes gambler from the post-depression era through the birth of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the 1970s. The book was filled with

Feb 20, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents Justin Zaki won the eighth and final event of the 2025 PokerGO Cup — $25,200 No-Limit Hold’em — on Thursday. But Joey Weissman, who finished in second place, was the star of the series. Weissman began the series last week by losing heads-up to Michael Moncek

Feb 19, 2025 2 min read Table Of Contents The Global Poker Grizzly Games VIII series was a rousing success on the US-facing social poker site. But for some players, namely the Gold Coin (GC) and Sweeps Coin (SC) champions and overall series winners, it was an even bigger success. Global Poker hosted the massive

Feb 18, 2025 3 min read Chamath Palihapitiya floated the idea of starting a unique high-limit poker tournament circuit that would prohibit players from wearing facemasks or using recreational drugs. The billionaire entrepreneur who is close friends with Phil Hellmuth tweeted out some general details about his proposed poker tour. He asked his followers to

Feb 17, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek didn’t win PokerGO Cup Event #5: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em. But he took third place in the 100-entrant tournament, continuing his dominance the past week against a series full of top pros. The Texas Longhorns fanatic doesn’t like to be referred to as

Feb 16, 2025 2 min read The poker world received sad news over the weekend when it was announced that actor Kevyn Major Howard (January 27, 1956 – February 14, 2025) passed away on February 14. Howard died in Las Vegas after being hospitalized for several weeks with a respiratory illness. “It is with a

Feb 15, 2025 2 min read Ali Imsirovic, the high-stakes crusher who admitted to some cheating allegations against him, entered Saturday’s Day 1 flight in the $1,500 Champions Club Winter Poker Open Main Event. But he was quickly tossed from the event by the tournament director and banned from the Texas poker club. The Bosnian

Feb 14, 2025 2 min read Poker players in several US states and Ontario can look forward to the upcoming Red Spade Sunday on PokerStars North America, featuring three tournaments of various buy-in levels and $325,000 in guaranteed prize money. Red Spade Sunday will kick off with a $100 buy-in Red Spade Special event with

Feb 13, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents No, you weren’t experiencing deja vu on Thursday at the PokerGO Cup when Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek and Joey Weissman battled heads-up for the title in Event #2: $10,100 No-Limit Hold’em. The same two players finished first and second place on Wednesday in Event #1: $5,100

Feb 12, 2025 3 min read Table Of Contents A heart condition won’t get in the way of Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek, who won another poker tournament on Wednesday. The poker player who isn’t actually a Texan but did attend the University of Texas took down the first PokerGO Cup event of the series, a

Feb 11, 2025 6 min read Table Of Contents Less than a month after being federally indicted for alleged tax evasion related to high-stakes poker matches, attorney Tom Goldstein was accused of “more of the same conduct” after investigators said they discovered previously undisclosed cryptocurrency wallets that sent and received millions in transactions this past

Feb 10, 2025 4 min read Table Of Contents Alan Keating returned to the High Stakes Poker streets for the fifth episode of Season 14, released Monday on PokerGO, and he played, and lost, a $700,000 pot after getting it all in drawing dead. But there was another equally entertaining pot that nearly became the

Feb 09, 2025 3 min read Daniel Negreanu was among the numerous poker players on social media who were none too thrilled with Kendrick Lamar’s musical performance during the Super Bowl LIX halftime show. The Philadelphia Eagles dominated the two-time defending champion Kansas City Chiefs on Sunday in New Orleans, 40-22, with an efficient offensive