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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

April 10, 2024 Cash game players at Paddy Power Poker win up to €275 every day thanks to the Daily Cash Leaderboards. While the €175 awarded to Hold’em players and €100 dished out to Omaha players are not huge amounts, the fact you can win slices of those prize pools just for playing your usual

April 09, 2024 Princess Love may be going through a divorce with R&B star Ray J, but the reality TV actress turned poker player says the celebrity couple are still “best friends,” despite tabloid rumors. Love, who filed for divorce from Ray J in February after eight years of marriage, spoke about the divorce filing,

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April 07, 2024 The $1,100 buy-in WPT Prime Voyage Championship attracted 968 runners over three starting flights before surviving players returned for Day 2 to compete for a share of a $968,000 prize pool. When the dust settled, Brazil’s Gregory De Faria finished as the last player standing to claim the title and $155,400 first-place

April 05, 2024 The popular Global Poker x U.S. Poker Open online poker series is returning to the social poker site April 8, and there will be some juicy prizes up for grabs. In total, Global Poker is guaranteeing Gold Coins (GC) 202,500,000 and Sweeps Coins (SC) 405,000 throughout the series, which runs through April

April 05, 2024 Ever since bursting onto the poker scene on Hustler Casino Live, few personalities, as of late, evoked as much intrigue and speculation as Nik Airball. Renowned for his huge swings and sometimes questionable behaviors on the felt, Airball has carved out a niche as one of the game’s most captivating and polarizing

April 04, 2024 The fantastic Playground Poker Club in Montreal, Canada, is set to be crammed to capacity with poker players from far and wide between April 8-23 because the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) is in town. The Playground Poker Club has hosted dozens of prestigious live poker events over the years, but

April 03, 2024 Do you remember how WPT Global offered its tournament players 100% rakeback on their tournament entries during March, doing so the rake generated to fund three massive freerolls? Well, throughout April, WPT Global players buying into tournaments will see 100% of their buy-in go towards the prize pool because WPT Global is

April 02, 2024 PokerNews is thrilled to announce the addition of two talented individuals to our ambassador team: Kyle Anderson and Keith Becker. The pair join Lukas Robinson in representing poker’s leading news and reporting site. Anderson, based in Ontario, and Becker, representing Pennsylvania, are set to become ambassadors for their local poker scenes. With