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May 13, 2024 The RunGood Poker Series $800 Main Event at Graton Casino and Resort in Rohnert Park, California has come to its end. 773 entrants made sure that prize pool guarantee was passed, as a total of $541,100 was collected to be awarded to the final 97 players. As the dust settled, it was

April 29, 2024 Finnish superstar Patrik Antonius has been crowned the €100,000 Super High Roller champion here at the 2024 PokerStars European Poker Tour Monte Carlo, taking home €1,967,440 and the prestigious title after defeating Christoph Vogelsang heads up. Antonius’ victory adds to his already stellar poker resume, and cements his status as one of

April 28, 2024 Should Shaun Deeb finish in ninth place, which pays $40,000 in the $3,300 buy-in Texas Poker Open Main Event, the East Coast poker pro would actually lose money. The tournament at Champions Club, one of the top Texas poker rooms and is co-owned by Phil Hellmuth, attracted 735 entries, most of which

April 27, 2024 There are poker ambassador announcements, and then there are poker ambassador announcements. Danish poker legend Gus Hansen — who needs no introduction — has joined Team Winamax as their latest sponsored pro in a surprise move from the site that also features Adrian Mateos, Mustapha Kanit and Davidi Kitai. “It’s the best

April 26, 2024 Canadian high stakes poker player Matthew Bergart was murdered in a targeted heist, and police say he was just at the “wrong place at the wrong time.” He was just 30 years old. The online poker pro was shot dead inside a Toronto townhome early Thursday morning. Police were called to the

April 25, 2024 Canadian poker-pro Arlie “Prince Pablo” Shaban has been having a good spring, and he has the livestream recordings to prove it! The Team PokerStars Pro just won big in the PokerStars Ontario ONSCOOP series with a red-hot run in which he earned himself thousands of dollars and emerged as the ONSCOOP (M)

April 24, 2024 The New Jersey online poker market was down a bit in March compared to the same month last year, but still put up some impressive numbers. There are five operational legal poker sites in the Garden State, licensed through three Atlantic City casinos (Borgata, Caesars, and Resorts World). As has been the

April 23, 2024 Life Outside Poker w/ Connor Richards is a new podcast for PokerNews that focuses on poker players with successful careers and lives outside of poker. For the third episode, Connor spoke with high-stakes poker player, politician and entrepreneur Antanas “Tony G” Guoga. In the interview, Tony G spoke about growing up in

Date Start Time (ET) Start Time (WET) Event 05-May 08:05 13:05 SCOOP 02-L: $5.50 NLHE [SCOOP Kickoff], $50K Gtd 05-May 08:05 13:05 SCOOP 02-M: $55 NLHE [SCOOP Kickoff], $200K Gtd 05-May 08:05 13:05 SCOOP 02-H: $530 NLHE [SCOOP Kickoff], $250K Gtd 05-May 10:05 15:05 SCOOP 03-L: $22 NLHE [Sunday Warm-Up], $150K Gtd 05-May 10:05 15:05

April 21, 2024 The highly acclaimed and award-winning PokerStars live-streaming team has been on the move in 2024, kicking off their year with a bang at EPT Paris and the Irish Open. Now, they’re ready to capture all the excitement from EPT Monte Carlo. Expect nothing less than top-notch coverage as PokerStars brings you the

April 19, 2024 The biggest and most popular World Poker Tour (WPT) stop of the year is underway in Hollywood, Florida with the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. The series features the $3,500 buy-in WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship, a $3 million guaranteed event that kicked off on Friday with Day 1a.

April 19, 2024 The $3 million guaranteed World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Championship got underway today, and no one is more excited about it than ClubWPT Qualifier Ray Cochrane. The 65-year-old made the drive to Hollywood, Florida from Colorado and wasted no time hopping into the first of two flights in

April 18, 2024 Poker player Nick Yunis surrendered his big stack in the middle of a $500,000 guaranteed tournament. That’s not the real story, however. He exited the event with 105 players remaining due to the birth of his child. The tournament in question is the $1,100 Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em at the Seminole Hard

April 17, 2024 The PokerStars Sunday Million Season kicked off a little under six weeks ago, and like all good things, it must come to an end. PokerStars has awarded some massive prizes throughout the series, but the biggest could be yet to come. Why? Because the Sunday Million Season Finale shuffles up and deals

April 16, 2024 The RunGood Poker Series is running hard this month. The RGPS Reno and the RGPS Council Bluffs finish on April 28. But before they even round off their action, another RunGood series kicks off in St. Louis, Missouri. The RGPS St. Louis runs from April 26 to May 5, 2024. The series

April 15, 2024 Three individuals were arrested at a poker game raid inside a South Carolina office building after community members tipped off police of the alleged illegal activity. The incident took place on April 10 in Irmo, a suburban town of about 12,000 residents in the Columbia Metropolitan area. South Carolina has strict anti-gambling

April 12, 2024 When you’re one of the most popular athletes in the world and someone captures a video of you playing online poker during your child’s birthday party, there’s a good chance it will go viral. That’s exactly what happened to Brazilian soccer legend Neymar, an avid poker enthusiast. The former PokerStars ambassador spent

April 13, 2024 Michael “Texas Mike” Moncek put on a clinic Friday night on Hustler Casino Live, basically playing every hand — even raising preflop half the time — and crushing a table full of mostly amateur poker players. Wearing his trademark University of Texas hat, the Longhorns fan played an unusual style on a

April 12, 2024 Do you have an appetite for NFTs? Have you always wanted to play under the bright lights of the PokerGO Studio? If you answered yes to both questions, then we have the perfect poker event for you. Taking center stage in Las Vegas this May is the 2024 NFT Poker Championship, a

April 11, 2024 It’s a busy month for the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS), which is headed both to Horseshoe Council Bluffs April 23-28 and to Atlantis Casino in Reno on the same dates. The RGPS Reno series will culminate with a $600 buy-in Main Event, which comes with a $150,000 guarantee attached. In addition to