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May 05, 2023 Mike Matusow used patience and persistence to grind out a $20,000 win against Shaun Deeb on the High Stakes Duel IV undercard Friday afternoon on PokerGO. “The Mouth” didn’t pick up many monster hands — neither did his opponent — but he avoided having one of his patented meltdowns. The $10,000 buy-in

May 04, 2023 Baseball legends Roger Clemens, Greg Maddux, and Frank Thomas were among the superstar athletes in attendance Sunday night at Circa Las Vegas’s Legacy Club for the Baller Dream Foundation Celebrity Poker Tournament, which raised over $175,000 — and counting — for a good cause. Former offensive lineman Evan Mathis, who spent 12

May 03, 2023 Alan Keating made his High Stakes Poker debut on Tuesday — Episode 13 of Season 10 — where he did some punting, including a huge misstep misreading his hand in a monster pot. High Stakes Poker returned to its regularly scheduled taped version, five days after PokerGO hosted what turned out to

May 02, 2023 On Tuesday, the World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown saw the final 16 players from a 2,290-entry field return to play down to the final table of six. It took approximately six hours, but eventually, the finalists were set with Bin Weng and his stack of 46.05 million

May 01, 2023 While many of the biggest stars from poker’s golden era of the mid-2000s are only mentioned in “Where Are They Now?” pieces, Patrik Antonius is not one of them. In fact, the Finland all-time money leader is as relevant as ever. Not only is Antonius still regularly competing in the televised cash

April 30, 2023 On Saturday night, Day 1b of the World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown was taking place in the main ballroom at the Seminole Hard Rock in South Florida. Across the hall, Event #48: $250 Ladies No-Limit Hold’em was also playing out. That tournament attracted 83 entries and offered

April 29, 2023 The World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 Poker Showdown at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood attracted more than 1,100 entrants on Saturday’s Day 1b, and two of the competitors in the field were ClubWPT qualifiers Metti Saliu and Jon Batye. The night before, the WPT took the two qualifiers on a catamaran ride complete

April 28, 2023 For the first time in 11 matches, Phil Hellmuth won’t appear on PokerGO’s High Stakes Duel, a heads-up poker show. Instead, the fourth series of games will pit Daniel Negreanu against Eric Persson starting May 8. Also for the first time, HSD will have an undercard with Mike “The Mouth” Matusow taking

April 27, 2023 Ethan “Rampage” Yau has quickly risen to the highest stakes and regularly finds himself competing against some of the best players in the world. In this hand from a World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 buy-in bounty event, Yau battles against one of the top high-stakes tournament players: Sean Winter. Yau finds

April 26, 2023 Eric Persson pulled off a brilliant bluff against Jean-Robert Bellande during the newest High Stakes Poker episode, and made sure his opponent knew just how proud he was of the play. Episode 12 of Season 10 aired on PokerGO Tuesday night, and it provided some juicy hands, none more so than the

April 25, 2023 Following the heavily reported Disney layoffs, political polling journalist Nate Silver might soon have more free time to play poker. FiveThirtyEight (or 538) is the site founded in 2008 by Silver, who had previously played limit hold’em online for a living. In 2013, he sold his sports and political analytics website to

April 24, 2023 The MicroMillions Marathon took place online at PokerStars over four days from April 20-23, during which time no fewer than 84 low-stakes, affordable events crowned their champions. Although every MicroMillions Marathon champion was worthy of such a title, the attention of the low-stakes poker tournament community was fixated on the Main Event

April 21, 2023 The latest $100,000 guaranteed Mystery Bounty Main Event on 888poker wrapped on Monday, April 17, with the format continuing to provide excellent action for users of the platform. Mystery Bounty tournaments have found a spiritual home on 888poker, with Pot-Limit Omaha editions of the event running daily on the site as well.

April 22, 2023 The Global Poker x PokerNews Cup began back on April 10 and is slated to run through the end of the month. PokerNews and Global Poker have joined forces to offer an online PokerNews Cup, that is comprised of 32 exclusive trophies and GC100,000,000 and SC250,000 Finals. What’s more, PokerNews is offering

April 21, 2023 Guests: Adam Hendrix Dakotah O’Dell On the latest PokerNews Podcast episode, Chad Holloway, Jesse Fullen, and Connor Richards give an update on the PokerNews Cup on Global Poker, look ahead to the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP), and preview the High Stakes Poker Live Stream on April 27 set to feature

April 20, 2023 Last October, the Watauga Social Lounge Poker Club in Watauga, Texas – which is situated between Fort Worth and Dallas – was raided by police during Day 2 of one of their bigger tournaments. Dozens of staff members were arrested, approximately $150K-$200K in equipment, $205,000 in cash was seized, and 49 players

April 19, 2023 On Tuesday night, Episode 11 of High Stakes Poker Season 10 aired on PokerGO. It featured the same lineup as the previous episode, which saw Jean-Robert Bellande become a magnet for pocket aces. Others in the game included Daniel Negreanu, Andrew Robl, Jennifer Tilly, Stanley Tang, Stanley Choi, and Eric Persson, who

April 18, 2023 It was only a matter of time before Wisconsin’s Josh Reichard joined Maurice Hawkins at the top of the all-time World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) Ring list, and he has done it. Reichard won a record-tying 14th Circuit ring, his second in the past year, by taking down the $1,700 buy-in

April 17, 2023 Following a bout with an undisclosed illness, Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot returned to Resorts World in Las Vegas Sunday to compete against his new bitter rival Matt Berkey in a high-stakes heads-up feud, and he booked a six-figure win. Airball entered the contest earlier this month against the Solve for Why founder,

April 15, 2023 Reigning world chess champion Magnus Carlsen is proving to be a force to be reckoned with on the poker table. Carlsen was one of several notable non-poker pros who played on Hustler Casino Live this week during the Creator Poker Night, including Tik Tok star Bryce Hall and fellow chess pro Alexandra