Poker News

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

November 26, 2022 The World Poker Tour (WPT) $3,500 Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida attracted a massive field on Saturday’s Day 1b flight, and one man in action was former champ Michael Newman. Five years ago in 2017, Newman topped a field of

November 25, 2022 A new bill being proposed in Texas could threaten the existence of dozens of poker rooms and social clubs that have sprouted up throughout the southwestern state in recent years. While collecting rake is illegal in Texas, the law does allow for gambling to occur in a “private place” where every player

November 24, 2022 PokerStars is often at the forefront of innovation regarding online poker, and the gaming giant is most definitely the market leader in the rapidly-emerging virtual reality world. PokerStars has embraced the technology, and following a hugely successful PokerStars VR Metaverse POker Tour Season 1, Season 2 lands on your VR headset from

November 23, 2022 Playing poker in Texas is known to be pretty wild and this hand highlights exactly that when Rosey from Next Gen Poker finds a very sticky opponent who decides to float on the turn when Rosey holds the mighty pocket kings! In this poker cash game hand from the Texas Card House

November 22, 2022 Poker is filled with prop bets. In fact, we recently published an article about five of the craziest prop bets of all time. One of those involved Michael Noori trying to eat $1,000 worth of McDonald’s food over a 36-hour period, a rather unhealthy undertaking. Several other popular bets have gone the

November 21, 2022 With the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship Festival at Wynn Las Vegas just weeks away, the poker tour announced that the upcoming festival will feature “a number of female-focused initiatives,” including giveaways, the largest-ever Ladies Event prize pool and a meet-up game hosted by poker commentator Jamie Kerstetter. The initiatives are