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July 25, 2023 Time is rapidly running out if you want to pad your poker bankroll with the bet365 Summer Games promotion. The promotion ends at 09:59 a.m. GMT on July 31, so you had better hurry if you want to get your hands on a prize. There are four poker missions waiting for you

July 23, 2023 It’s been an exciting week of tournament poker action in South Korea with the World Poker Tour (WPT) Korea stop taking place at Jeju Shinhwa World. In the KRW 3,400,000 (USD $2,643) buy-in WPT Korea Main Event, China’s Yin Tao who walked away with the trophy and $232,667 in an event that

July 22, 2023 The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) is currently at Thunder Valley in Northern California to wrap up its Checkpoint season, and before this weekend’s $600 buy-in, $500K GTD The HendonMob Mid-Major Championship, a special event was held. On Thursday, the three-time GPI Award winner for “Best Mid-Major Poker Tour” – which recently announced

July 21, 2023 It’s starting to feel like the old High Stakes Poker days all over again. Tom Dwan can’t seem to lose when the cameras are rolling and has absolutely crushed three straight days of Hustler Casino Live’s epic pot-limit Omaha games. Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot, on the other hand, has been on quite

July 20, 2023 An apparent armed robbery attempt at Texas Card House near Houston took place early Thursday morning, and it created a scary and nearly deadly situation. According to our sources, a security guard was shot during the incident at the poker club’s Spring, Texas location on Spring Cypress Road. PokerNews received confirmation that

July 19, 2023 The 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) may have just concluded, but the PokerNews Live Updates roll on as from July 20-23, the $600 buy-in, $500,000 GTD The Hendon Mob Mid-Major Championship will take place at Thunder Valley Casino Resort just north of Sacramento, California. “The Hendon Mob Mid-Major Championship is our

July 19, 2023 On the final day of the 2023 World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, tables had been rolled away, chairs were stacked throughout the room, and the sound of chips riffling had ceased… that is, all except for one table. In the corner of a now mostly empty

July 17, 2023 Event #90: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em Championship at the 2023 World Series of Poker at the Horseshoe and Paris, Las Vegas attracted a massive field of 550 runners, generating a total prize pool of $5,155,000. On Monday, July 17, just four players returned for an unscheduled fourth and final day. While each

July 17, 2023 Event #88: $1,500 The Closer has come to an end at the 2023 World Series of Poker and America’s Pierre Shum was the winner of one of the last bracelets of the summer and a refreshing $606,810. The event drew 3,531 entries in just two days and generated a prize pool of

July 15, 2023 The $111,000 buy-in WPT Alpha8 for One Drop at Wynn Las Vegas continued on Saturday with Day 2, which saw a half dozen players take advantage of late registration. They included Cary Katz, Biao Ding, Nick Petrangelo, Christoph Vogelsang, Taylor von Kriegenbergh, and Phil Ivey, who had busted late on Day 1.

July 15, 2023 Final Table Profile: Toby Lewis Seat: 2 Chip Count: 19,800,000 Big Blinds: 20 Age: 34 Hometown: Eastleigh, United Kingdom Twitter: @810ofclubs   Toby Lewis’s Main Event Story Toby Lewis’s run to the 2023 WSOP Main Event final table is no fluke. The British poker pro has been a crusher for years and

July 14, 2023 Seven tournament days have concluded for the largest WSOP $10,000 Main Event in history, and the gargantuan field of 10,043 has been whittled down to the final 15 contenders. They are competing for a large portion of the $93,399,900 prize pool at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas, but the eventual winner

July 13, 2023 Most people who play poker have at one time or another wondered if they should go pro. The more optimistic players might do so after a good session, while others might wait till the first time their monthly winnings outstrip their monthly paycheck. However, before you take the plunge, there are some

July 12, 2023 Day 5 of the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event has come to a close at Horseshoe, Las Vegas, with the field whittled down to its last 149 players. Holding the top spot heading into Day 6 is Zachary Hall, who ended the session with a stack of 16,310,000. Interestingly, Hall

July 10, 2023 Popular chess streamer Alexandra Botez made a deep run at the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event, but she came up short when her pocket kings lost to a runner-runner straight. Botez, a high-rated chess player from Canada, has been making a name for herself in poker with strong finishes in

July 09, 2023 High-stakes crusher and poker icon Tom Dwan was unable to make it through Day 3 of the 2023 World Series of Poker Main Event, busting just before the dinner break. Dwan entered the biggest Main Event ever on Day 2 and spun up his starting stack to 426,500 by the time the

Norman Chad and Jesse Fullen go head-to-head talking about the latest hot topics live from the World Series of Poker. Main Event Day 1A brings a massive bad beat, Hellmuth brings his circus to WSOP, Rigby’s Dirty Diaper returns and more in the eleventh episode of the (Norman) Chad & Jesse Poker Show.

July 07, 2023 One of the most exciting things about the World Series of Poker is seeing a plethora of celebrities, athletes and musicians all participating in the game we love to play. And this year has been no exception with the likes of James Woods, Broadway star Aaron Tveit and UFC fighter Colby Covington

July 07, 2023 It was a record-setting day at the 2023 World Series of Poker as Day 1d, the final starting flight, amassed over 4,100 entries in Event #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship. The old mark of 8,773 entries in 2006 was shattered in the early stages today, with the current number of

July 06, 2023 The third of four starting flights in Event #76: $10,000 WSOP Main Event World Championship has come to an end, and it proved to be the biggest one yet after drawing approximately 3,080 players here at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. Of those players, it was Christopher Brammer who rose to