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November 22, 2023 A Brazilian poker player and bracelet winner was suspended indefinitely from the Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) after he added extra chips to his stack at the currently underway BSOP Millions festival in Sao Paulo. The incident occurred on Day 2 of the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) BRL 5,000 buy-in Mystery

November 21, 2023 It was expected to be wild from start to finish, and the final day of the Bar Poker Open Florida World Championship more than lived up to those expectations, crowning Ian Auvil of the No-Limit Pub Poker Tour its newest champion. After a thrilling roller coaster of a final table, Auvil defeated

November 20, 2023 Hundreds of thousands of Formula 1 fans gathered on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday night for the long-anticipated Las Vegas Grand Prix as three-time world champion Max Verstappen of Oracle Red Bull Racing picked up his 18th win of the season. The race capped off an exciting and event-filled weekend in

November 19, 2023 From March 31-April 6, 2024, the World Poker Tour (WPT) will take over an entire Virgin Voyages cruise ship – the 1,400-cabin Valiant Lady – for a six-day poker festival that features $1.5 million in guarantees, including a $5,000 buy-in, $1,000,000 GTD WPT Main Event. It’s called the “WPT Voyage” and it

November 18, 2023 While the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix got off to a bumpy start with the first two practice races, things were fully back on track by Friday evening’s FP3 and a captivating Qualifying Race that produced several notable upsets. Up in the Red Bull VIP Hospitality suite, several members of the PokerStars

November 17, 2023 After an exciting week of buildup that included the unveiling of PokerStars-branded ‘Poker Chip’ wheel covers and an RB19 car hanging from the ceiling at Omnia nightclub, the F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix kicked off on Thursday evening with two practices around the Las Vegas Strip. The long-anticipated Las Vegas Grand Prix

November 16, 2023 The field for the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop that will take place in December at the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas keeps growing as five more players confirmed their participation in the seven-figure event. High-stakes veteran Jason Koon will once again be taking

November 15, 2023 Another World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) stop wrapped up this week with WSOPC Lake Tahoe, a stop that consisted of more than a dozen Circuit ring events at Harveys Lake Tahoe from Nov. 2-13. The WSOPC Lake Tahoe stop culminated with the $1,700 buy-in Main Event, which drew 362 entries for

November 14, 2023 There’s a newly minted member of the WPT Champions Club and it is Frederic Normand, winner of the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour bestbet Scramble for $351,650. The Canadian defeated Heng Zhang heads-up to win the title, and it ended in thrilling fashion. On top of the six-figure career-best score, the champion

November 13, 2023 Three long days of play are complete in the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble and the original 365-entry field has dwindled down to the final table of six. Day 3 on Monday was intense as the pressure mounted given the pay-jumps at stake from start to finish. The money

November 12, 2023 The $5,300 High Roller at PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas has come to an end and Samuel Laskowitz is the winner after six players returned for the Day 3 finale at Resorts World Las Vegas. The tournament drew 150 entries and the top 20 players took a piece of the

November 11, 2023 Four months after narrowly missing the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event final table, Alec Torelli is off and running in his quest to run deep in another major poker tournament. On Saturday, Torelli bagged one of the largest stacks on Day 1b of the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT)

November 10, 2023 If you haven’t yet bought into the Bin Weng hype, now’s a good time to do so. The Philadelphia area poker pro who has dominated tournament poker all year, on Friday, bagged the chip lead on Day 1a of the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble in Jacksonville. Weng is

November 09, 2023 The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Europe is currently taking place at King’s Casino in Rozvadov with 15 bracelet events. The series will wrap up on November 14, and right now nearly 10 tournaments are in the books. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team was on hand all series long to capture all

November 08, 2023 The New York City Marathon may have wrapped up on the weekend, but a handful of poker players at King’s Resort in Rozvadov have added a different kind of miles onto their bodies over the last few days. Yesterday’s six-max bracelet event saw a select few take part in a 17-hour poker

November 07, 2023 It took three hours, but Jesse Lonis won his latest poker trophy and some extra savings for his two young daughters after defeating David Stamm in the $10,300 Super High Roller as part of the 2023 PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas at Resorts World. Lonis came out on top of

November 06, 2023 Does Rick Salomon ever run bad? Of course, but you wouldn’t know that if this week’s High Stakes Poker episode was your first introduction to the high roller. Season 11’s Episode 12, which PokerGO released Monday night, featured a loose table with the same seven players as last week playing just about

November 05, 2023 The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) Road Trip is in the home stretch with a stop at Horseshoe Iowa in Council Bluffs from November 14-19. The series will feature a $200 Opening Night Ambassador Bounty Ring Event, a $400 DeepStack with two opening flights, and a $50,000 guarantee, and a $700 Main Event

November 04, 2023 While the main focus of the WSOP Paradise series in December will be on chasing gold bracelets, there are plenty of activities and sights worth checking out in the Bahamas after busting out of a tournament. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is hosting its first bracelet series ever in the Bahamas

November 03, 2023 The North American Poker Tour (NAPT) will relaunch at the Resorts World this weekend after taking 12 years off in the wake of online poker’s demise in the United States in 2011. PokerNews will be on hand with live reports and other stories from the NAPT, just like in 2010, so there