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December 17, 2022 France’s Mathieu Di Meglio has won the €3,000 EPT Mystery Bounty at PokerStars European Poker Tour Prague for €243,186 after defeating heads-up opponent Vlada Stojanovic of Croatia after what proved to be a back-and-forth heads-up battle. Di Meglio is primarily an online player and had $44,046 in Hendon Mob-reported live earnings heading

December 16, 2022 In his very first live tournament, in the very first APT Da Nang Vietnam Main Event, South Korea’s Doo Sik Nam topped a 411-player field to win 2,598,290,000 ₫ (~$109,128). He beat Vietnam’s Duc Trung Vu heads-up, beating his previous best position of third at APT Ho Chi Minh Main Event in

December 15, 2022 As it turned out, the $15 million guarantee in the WPT World Championship was merely a starting point. At around 7 p.m. PT during Wednesday’s Day 1c session, registration closed with 2,960 total entries, creating a World Poker Tour record-setting prize pool of $29,008,000. On the final Day 1 starting flight, there

December 14, 2022 Season 2 Stop 1 of the PokerStars VR Metaverse Poker Tour is done and dusted and it is fair to say it was a roaring success enjoyed by everyone who donned a VR headset and battled it out at the immersive virtual felt. More than 7,000 players competed over the 48 events!

December 13, 2022 Day 1a of the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas was a rousing success with 615 entrants, which included many of poker’s biggest stars such as Justin Bonomo, who bagged a monster stack. The $10,400 buy in tournament has a guaranteed $15 million prize pool, a live poker record. But after

December 11, 2022 Erik Seidel is known for many things in the poker world. He is a member of the Poker Hall of Fame. He sits fifth on the all-time money list with over $42 million in live earnings and is tied with Johnny Moss in fifth on the all-time World Series of Poker (WSOP)

December 10, 2022 The World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship is in full swing at Wynn Las Vegas, and reception to the new festival has been overwhelmingly positive. That’s not only because of the poker action – click here to see the full schedule – but also the events and amenities being offered to fans,

December 10, 2022 Four GGPoker players now have a coveted gold World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit rung after triumphing in the opening four ring-awarding events of the $150 million guaranteed WSOP Winter Circuit festival. Israel’s “Corenkas” is the biggest winner of the series so far, thanks to them taking down an abdominal snowman-sized $10,300

December 09, 2022 It’s time to get scratching for some free, instant-win prizes! Online scratch-offs deliver the same hidden prize thrills as their cardboard counterparts, only scratch-off games online can also utilise features like special symbols, animations, and more! What you’ll find on this page is an explanation of how scratch-off online games work, where

December 08, 2022 Sunday is traditionally the busiest day for an online poker tournament player, and it is the day that PartyPoker’s tournament schedule comes alive. The bustling schedule is packed with multi-table tournaments costing $0.55 to $530 throughout the week, but PartyPoker boosts guarantees and throws a few new events into the mix on

December 06, 2022 During “Max Pain Monday” on Hustler Casino Live, a regular on the show, Sashimi, wore a body suit that exposed fake large breasts, hilarious to some on poker Twitter and disturbing to others. A video from Monday night’s stream surfaced on the internet, which led to some interesting comments. @HCLPokerShow is the

December 05, 2022 At some point in your life, you may have asked yourself which animals you’d team up with in a fight to the death against an endless hoard of ravenous rats, wolves and buffalo. If you haven’t indulged in this enlightening thought experiment, don’t worry. There are dozens of poker players who have

December 03, 2022 The world’s largest guaranteed prize pool in history — $15 million WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas— will take place Dec. 12-20, and a number of the entrants in the field will have earned their way on ClubWPT. Next month, the World Poker Tour is set to host one of the

December 03, 2022 Guests: Andy WIlson On the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway and Jesse Fullen discuss their recent travels, offer highlights from the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rock ‘n’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood, and offer an interview with the winner of the $3,500 Championship, Andy Wilson,

December 02, 2022 Nemo “akaNemsko” Zhou a chess and poker player won a seat into the upcoming WPT World Championship on the WPT Global platform valued at $12,000. She decided to give it away via a contest, which her poker coach and alleged boyfriend Alex “Thallo” Epstein won, and now poker Twitter is crying foul.

December 02, 2022 888poker is celebrating its 20th anniversary with a raft of promotions that are dripping in value for its players. One of the six exclusive offers available right now gives you your best chance yet of traveling the world playing on the ever-popular 888poker LIVE circuit in 2023. The 888poker LIVE tour has

November 30, 2022 On Wednesday, the final six players from a 1,541-entry field returned for final table action in the World Poker Tour (WPT) 2022 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) $3,500 Main Event at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida. England’s Andy Wilson began with a healthy chip lead but faced

November 29, 2022 The penultimate stop of the World Poker Tour’s 20th season has a doozy of a final table! On Tuesday, 16 players from a 1,541-entry field returned for Day 4 action in the World Poker Tour (WPT) 2022 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) $3,500 Main Event at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel &

November 28, 2022 Frank Funaro of Sewell, New Jersey has been a young gun on the rise. The East Coast grinder, who used to be a staple at Atlantic City’s Borgata, had a career year in 2021 with $586,340 in tournament earnings. He’s following it up with another big year in 2022 where he’s not

November 27, 2022 Over a 24-hour period at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) in the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida, an epic player party took place and a brutal bubble hand saw players make the money in the $3,500 Main Event. PokerNews was on-site for