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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

April 15, 2023 The World Poker Tour (WPT) is about to make its way down to sunny South Florida for an event no tournament player will want to miss. Starting April 13 at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, a 61-event series running through May 2 kicks off, and there are

April 14, 2023 Will Jaffe caused a heated debate on Twitter when he criticized modern high-stakes poker pros for, in his opinion, their lack of emotion during televised games. In this edition of The Muck, we share your two cents and give our thoughts on this controversial issue. To be clear, Jaffe is entitled to

April 13, 2023 The 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule was released in February, and now we know some details about when and where poker fans can watch the action. PokerGO has announced plans to cover 47 consecutive days of bracelet event action at the Horseshoe Las Vegas starting June 1 and running through

September 29 saw Robbi Jade Lew made a wild call for a $250K pot with Jack high. In the weeks and months that followed, poker pros and fans were skeptical that Robbi didn’t cheat. This week, Garrett made very strong comments about his current thoughts regarding the experience. Robbi says she planned to release this

April 11, 2023 From Mach 6-April 2, Venetian Las Vegas played host to the March DeepStack Showdown, which offered more than $3 million in guaranteed prize pools across 42 events. When all was said and done, the series catered to 4,989 entrants (not including satellites) and awarded $4,119,408in prize money. However, the Venetian did have

Date Time Event Tuesday, May 30, 2023 10:00 AM Event #1: $500 Casino Employees No-Limit Hold’em Tuesday, May 30, 2023 2:00 PM Event #2: $25,000 High Roller Six Handed No-Limit Hold’em Wednesday, May 31, 2023 10:00 AM Event #3: $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold’em ($1,000,000 GTD to winner) Wednesday, May 31, 2023 12:00 PM Event

April 09, 2023 The PokerStars US 2023 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) wrapped up earlier this week after awarding nearly $6.8 million in prize money across dozens of events in Michigan, New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Several players had multiple victories throughout the series and “LetsGoGlobal”, “mcleskey” & “tittybumpin2” respectively topped the High, Medium and