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March 21, 2024 The 888poker Mystery Bounty Festival is crowning champions left, right, and center, but there is one tournament where we won’t know who the winner is until March 26: the Mystery Bounty Festival Main Event. The 888poker Mystery Bounty Festival Main Event, costing £215 to enter and guaranteeing at least $300,000 will be

March 20, 2024 A few eyebrows were raised when the Irish Poker Tour decided to run a €100,000 guaranteed poker tournament that only cost €100 (€80+€20) to enter, and do so over the St. Patrick’s weekend celebrations. The tournament needed 1,250 entrants to hit the ambitious guarantee; had founder Fintan Gavin lost the plot? It

March 19, 2024 The poker industry works tirelessly to make the game and the environment it’s played in open, accessible and welcoming to players of all genders and backgrounds. That’s why events like the one coming up at Horseshoe Casino Baltimore to mark Women’s History Month are so exciting. Not only does the event feature

March 18, 2024 Last week, Doug Polk revealed that he’s been a losing player lifetime in livestreamed ring games by around $400,000. On Sunday, the Upswing Poker founder won big in a marathon session at The Lodge Card Club. But was it big enough to get unstuck? Not only did Polk book a sizable profit,

March 11, 2024 Online poker players living in Ontario have a fantastic tournament series on the horizon, one with over $200,000 in guaranteed prize money. 888poker Ontario is hosting the Mystery Bounty Festival from March 17 through March 25, with every tournament played as an exciting Mystery Bounty event. The 888poker Ontario Mystery Bounty Festival

March 16, 2024 Triton Poker Jeju has been a glittering display of poker’s top talents, and fans have been treated to some extraordinary card playing over the last 11 days in South Korea. The Super High Roller series has been a shining example of the fortitude, strength, and bravery required to reach the top of

March 15, 2024 The PokerGO Tour (PGT) is leaving Las Vegas and heading to Texas for the first-ever PGT Texas Poker Open at Champions Club Texas in Houston. The series, running April 24-May 5, will be headlined by a $3,300 buy-in Texas Poker Open Main Event with a $2 million guarantee attached and eight starting

March 14, 2024 There’s plenty to look forward to across the calendar year when it comes to 888poker. Not only has a full season of 888poker LIVE events already scheduled, but the brand also launched a UK Poker League, which has been a success so far. And with the countdown underway for their festival in

March 13, 2024 There’s good news and bad news for Kevin Martin on his 24/7 live-streaming bankroll challenge. The good news is he’s reached 100,000 YouTube subscribers. But the bad news is he’s only about 20% of the way to his $5,000 online poker goal after 13 days. Martin, a reality TV star who appeared

March 12, 2024 The Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) launched in 2007 and is still going strong today. Now in its 18th season, the popular tour has visited dozens of cities across the United Kingdom, with the seaside town of Blackpool ever-present throughout its existence. Blackpool is famous for its pleasure beach, “The Big One”

March 11, 2024 The 2024 Kings Of Tallinn was the tenth iteration of the ever-popular live poker festival. Its €1,100 buy-in Main Event will be remembered for being the biggest on record and for ending a long-running hoodoo over Lithuanian players. Some 914 players bought into the 2024 Kings of Tallinn Main Event, obliterating the

DATE TIME[EST] TOURNAMENT BUYIN(GC) GUARANTEE Sun 10 Mar 2024 15:30 Micro Thunder Opening Event GC 500,000 Guaranteed [Rebuy, 6-Max, Turbo] 250 500,000 Sun 10 Mar 2024 16:30 Micro Thunder 1-L GC 625,000 Guaranteed [Mystery Bounty, Deep] 1100 625,000 Sun 10 Mar 2024 17:30 Micro Thunder 1-M GC 1,250,000 Guaranteed [Mystery Bounty, Deep] 3300 1,250,000 Sun

March 08, 2024 The PokerNews Podcast debuted in 2010 during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, and since then the show has produced 819 episodes! Throughout the years there have been several different combinations of hosts, from Donnie Peters & Matthew Parvis to Sarah Herring & Jeff Platt, but for the first time

March 08, 2024 The site? Unregulated. The agreed sum? Unknown. The player? Tom “durrrr” Dwan. The 37-year-old has $6.5 million in live earnings and was spotted patched up by the unregulated poker site while playing at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju, South Korea. “I happen to be really optimistic on the next

March 07, 2024 A federal case against poker pro Cory Zeidman for allegedly running a massive fraud scheme involving sports betting appears to be headed to a plea deal. Zeidman, a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, was indicted in May 2022 for holding a “leadership role in an organization known as the ‘Phoenix Organization’ through

March 06, 2024 Wisconsin‘s Potawatomi Casino Hotel has announced the return of poker to Milwaukee with news that its latest renovation will feature a two-story sportsbook and a brand-new poker room that will open on Friday, May 3. The return of poker to the Cream City is the final stage of a $190 million renovation

March 05, 2024 The 2024 Irish Poker Open is less than three weeks away, and PokerStars got into the spirit by running a 17-event online edition of Europe’s longest-running poker tournament. Over $1.1 million was distributed throughout the Irish Open Online, with $27,678 of that princely sum now nestled in the PokerStars account of Thiago

March 04, 2024 WPT Global hosts some fantastic online poker tournaments, which will become increasingly popular through March because of a special promotion promising to give multi-table tournament grinders 100% of their rake back! From March 4-31, 100% of the tournament rake WPT Global collects will be divided between three freerolls that have $100,000, $150,000,

March 03, 2024 It’s been a good week for Poker Hall of Famers, and specifically those who were inducted in 2018. John Hennigan and Mori Eskandani went back-to-back at the 2024 PokerGO Tour (PGT) Mixed Games series in Las Vegas, with Hennigan first taking down the $5,100 8-Game event for $120,150 before the PokerGO president

March 02, 2024 Day 6 of the $1 million guaranteed PokerNews Online Championship at 888poker was a busy one, with five events crowning their worthy champions. Four of those tournament were six-handed mystery bounty events, with the unique Cut to the Chase event being the fifth and final tournament of the evening. Four of the