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January 18, 2023 The PartyPoker Championship (PPC) Winter Edition is over after the champion of the $500,000 guaranteed Main Event crowned its champion on January 17. Six Day 1s accommodated 1,089 entrants, who created a guarantee-busting $544,500 prize pool that the top 164 finishers shared. Ireland-based Rytis Strigunas is the player that will forever be

January 17, 2023 Lewis Powell Karl Guiness defeated a huge 1,148 field to be the last man standing to win the GGPoker £560 United Kingdom Poker Championship Main Event for £84,875 in Nottingham at Dusk Till Dawn poker club. Guiness started the day as an above-average stack and managed to maneuver his way through the

January 16, 2023 Almost every online poker site has a loyalty program that rewards its players for frequenting the site. PartyPoker rewards its players with up to 55% cashback on their real-money play every Monday; do you know the fastest way to accumulate precious cashback points? The original PartyPoker cashback program awarded one cashback point

January 15, 2023 In January 2022, Pennsylvania’s David “DrKool” Kuder quit his job as a poker dealer at Wind Creek Casino and decided to play the game full-time. He had been playing online poker since the Moneymaker Boom and opted to stick with that, spending the year playing a full schedule on WSOP PA. Twelve

January 14, 2023 Imagine how amazing it would be to jet off to The Bahamas to play in the PokerStars Players Championship, a $25,000 buy-in tournament awarding life-changing prizes. Now think how awesome it would be to get your hands on a $30,000 PSPC Platinum Pass, which included accommodation, travel expenses, and more, and do

January 13, 2023 Winning a package to a major live event is likely to see you compete in the biggest tournament of your life; it may even be your first-ever prestigious poker tour appearance. Perhaps you have won a package-awarding satellite to the Irish Open online at PokerStars or are on cloud nine after getting

January 12, 2023 The countdown to the 2023 Irish Open, Europe’s longest-running poker tournament, is on, with the first of 39 scheduled events scheduled to shuffle up and deal on April 3, less than three months away. A €1 million guaranteed Irish Open Main Event is the crown jewel during a spectacular eight days of

Date ET Buy in Event Guarantee Jan 15 18:30 $109 XL Winter #1 – $35,000 Mystery Bounty Opening Ceremony $35,000 Jan 15 19:00 $22 XL Winter – $2,000 Mystery Bounty $2,000 Jan 15 19:00 $55 XL Winter #2 – $6,000 Mini Mystery Bounty Opening Ceremony $6,000 Jan 15 19:00 $525 XL Winter #3 – $15,000

January 10, 2023 Have you been crushing it at the poker table lately? If so, you’re probably thinking about whether or not you should play poker games with higher stakes than what you’re usually used to. This is an important question that poker players ask themselves constantly as moving up in stakes offers the chance

January 09, 2023 Whether you’ve dealt JJ five times in a poker game or getting to the showdown with the same showdown, you are placed with four missions – can you complete them all? If you have what it takes to complete these four missions, this rewards you to unlock free avatar packs with bet365

January 07, 2023 The 2023 PokerGO Tour Championship freeroll in December, a season-ending event, will have a $1 million prize pool. Last month, the 2022 campaign concluded with Jason Koon taking down the same event but with a $500,000 award in the winner-take-all format. This year, PokerGO is doubling the pot and also increasing the

January 06, 2023 After an incredible run during Season 13 of the Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) that featured 11 Main Event cashes, Josh Reichard has been named MSPT Player of the Year. The distinction comes just a few months after the Wisconsin native became the tenth poker player to be inducted into the MSPT Poker

January 06, 2023 There’s no better way to kickstart your 2023 than by winning a luxury package to the 2023 888poker LIVE Madrid festival. Head to 888poker and you can win a package worth €1,600 from as little as one cent. 888poker LIVE 2023 Schedule Returns to Madrid, London, Barcelona & Bucharest 888poker LIVE Madrid

January 05, 2023 The United Kingdom Poker Championships (UKPC) returns to action after a nearly five-year hiatus, and PokerNews‘ live reporting team are on the ground covering the £560 buy-in £500,000 guaranteed UKPC Main Event from the uttering of those immortal words “shuffle up and deal” until the eventual champion is in possession of every

January 04, 2023 While millions of people worldwide downed tools for the festive period, hundreds of PartyPoker players used their spare time to hit the online poker tables with renewed vigour and battled it out in the PartyPoker Championship (PPC) Winter Edition events. The biggest buy-in event of the PPC Winter edition took place on

January 03, 2023 British star Talal “raidalot” Shakerchi kicked off 2023 in style by taking down the $2,023 NLHE 8-Max New Year Special event at PokerStars. The tournament, one of three New Year Specials held at PokerStars on January 1, 2023, was ridiculously stacked, as you would expect from such a high-stakes affair. Any of

January 01, 2023 Don’t slow roll or angle shoot, and please tip your dealer. There you go, that’s the whole gist of poker etiquette. Alright, that’s not true as there is far more to it that we’re going to discuss below. You’ve probably heard poker players refer to something being “poor etiquette” at the poker

December 31, 2022 What an epic year it’s been for Hustler Casino Live, far and away the most popular live-streamed poker show in the world. Massive pots, arguably the most memorable hand in modern poker history, Phil Hellmuth receiving what some might consider karma, a tight-imaged player pulling off an insane bluff, and a hero

December 30, 2022 The New Year is not only an opportunity for poker players to look ahead, perhaps setting new resolutions and goals, but also a chance to look back at the year gone by. In 2022, that entails remembering those players who passed on. Here’s a look at some of those we lost over

December 30, 2022 Every poker player around the world is putting together plans to have their best ever year at the tables. What better way to kick-start 2023 than by reeling in a guaranteed $1 million prize during the first week of the New Year? It is possible thanks to The Return: a Borgata Championship