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February 28, 2023 Last week, the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) hosted its first-ever award dinner as well as a charity poker tournament. The CSOP 2022 Awards, which took place at Brasil Steakhouse, honored charities, players, volunteers, sponsors, photographers, and emcees. Among those in attendance were founder Matt Stout, California legend Barry Woods, emcee Brandon

February 27, 2023 Are you thinking of heading to Dublin this April for the 2023 Irish Open at the Royal Dublin Society? If so, what are you doing to prepare for the busy schedule that runs from April 3-10? How about getting into the spirit and getting in some tournament practice at PokerStars in the

February 25, 2023 During Friday night’s marathon stream, the Lodge Live cracked 100,000 YouTube subscribers while the Texas poker room’s owner, Doug Polk, won nearly $500,000. The game, which started as $200/$400 no-limit hold’em became $500/$1,000 as the drinks kept flowing, featured a stacked lineup that included Ben Lamb, Bill Perkins, Dan “Jungleman” Cates, Keith

February 25, 2023 On Saturday, March 4, One Step Closer Foundation is joining forces with PokerGO and ARIA for the All In for CP Charity Event, which will be held inside PokerGO Studio (just one day after the Global Poker Awards will take place in the same space). The event costs $1,000 to enter –

February 24, 2023 The PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Paris has been taking place all week long, and there has been a lot of action. We recently talked about much of it in the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, which you can listen to here. The PokerNews Live Reporting Team has been on-site to

February 23, 2023 Nate Silver, founder of the FiveThirtyEight political polling analysis blog, took nearly a $50,000 loss during Wednesday’s poker stream at The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, Texas. The $50/$100 no-limit hold’em game, which took place in the Lodge Live’s newly decorated set, featured a stacked lineup that included Jamie Kerstetter, poker

Make it two EPT titles for Chris Brewer here at the PokerStars European Poker Tour Paris, as the High Roller regular took down the €50,000 Super High Roller for a massive €959,520. Brewer defeated Jules Dickerson heads-up to earn his biggest-ever career tournament score, which when converted to U.S. dollars equates to more than $1,000,000

Date Time (ET) Event Buy-in Guarantee Tue 21 Feb 17:15 MB Festival #6 – $1,200 Mystery Bounty 11 $11 $1,200   18:00 MB Festival – $100 Mystery Bounty 1 $1 $100   18:15 MB Festival – $250 Mystery Bounty 3.3 $3.30 $250   19:00 MB Festival – $2,000 Mystery Bounty 22 $22 $2,000   19:30

February 20, 2023 Andrew Robl never needed his $500,000 add-on during the three-day No Gamble No Future $1 million buy-in cash game as he cruised to victory, profiting $1,796,000 overall ($1,296,000 from the cash game) in what was a dominant performance. The special live-streamed show on PokerGO, dubbed “Cash of the Titans,” and hosted by

February 19, 2023 PokerNews caught up with PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton during the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure for a sitdown interview about his life as an ambassador, his journey to where he is now and whether he’s looking forward to upcoming PokerStars Live events in Paris and Cyprus! A 12th place finish in the PokerStars Players

February 18, 2023 PokerStars in Pennsylvania has been crushing it lately, as evidenced by our recent article highlighting winners from two very successful back-to-back weeks of Thursday Thrill Winners. However, believe it or not, poker isn’t the only available on PokerStars PA. Over in the casino section, there’s a full array of games on offer,

February 17, 2023 The World Poker Tour’s popular WPT Prime returns to the Gold Coast in Australia following a hugely successful trip only eight months ago. The Star Gold Coast casino will be packed to the rafters with some supremely talented poker players, who each have their eye on becoming a WPT champion down under.

February 16, 2023 WPT Ambassadors Andrew Neeme and Brad Owen are preparing to host one of their famous Meet-Up Games (MUG) at the upcoming WPT Prime Cambodia festival. WPT Prime returns to NagaWorld Integrated Resort in Phnom Penh, Cambodia between March 9-21, with Neeme and Owen’s eagerly anticipated Meet-Up Game pencilled in for March 15.

February 15, 2023 Earlier this month, the poker world received the news that longtime grinder Mike McClain passed away from stomach cancer. McClain had a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering and previously worked in the computer industry before taking up poker full-time. “Mike had been a poker mentor to me. Just listening to him

February 14, 2023 If you love the competitive nature of leaderboard challenges and contests, then TigerGaming is the online poker room you need to check out. The leaderboards, exclusive to the platform, are all about giving back to players while they play their favorite games. Each month, more than $80,000 is up for grabs in

February 13, 2023 PokerNews have been named ‘Best Poker Affiliate’ at the 2023 iGB Affiliate Awards in London, rounding off another stellar year for the industry’s leading poker media site. Nominated alongside iBetMedia and Worldpokerdeals, the site wins the award for the seventh time in its history. Powell-Bevan “Proud” of Industry-Leading PokerNews Head of PokerNews

February 10, 2023 Guests: Eric Persson On the latest PokerNews Podcast episode of 2023, Chad Holloway, Jesse Fullen, and Connor Richards wrap up the 2023 PokerStars Players No-Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC), which was won by Aliaksandr Shylko. Hear what the champ had to say after the win. They also make predictions for the 4th Annual

February 11, 2023 After wrapping up at Jamul Casino in San Diego, the award-nominated RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) will stick around in California and will head up to Graton Casino in the Bay Area for the latest stop in its “Checkpoint” season taking place Feb. 28-March 8. It’s an exciting time for the RGPS team

February 10, 2023 PartyPoker recently revamped its multi-table tournament (MTT) schedule, adding hundreds of new tournaments, and increasing weekly guarantees to more than $3 million. The new-look schedule has a trio of brand-new majors for you to get your teeth into. Today, PokerNews takes a deeper look into all three of those events. The Big

February 09, 2023 Anyone looking for some high-octane poker action should look at the upcoming 2023 Tampa Poker Classic. Held at the famous Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Tampa, Florida, the 2023 Tampa Poker Classic builds on a hugely successful 2022 edition, which saw guarantees blown out of the water. The 2023 Tampa