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Dec 30, 2024 7 min read Table Of Contents Every sport has its legends—icons who define the game and inspire generations. In soccer, Lionel Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo reign supreme. Michael Jordan and LeBron James tower above the rest on the basketball court. On the gridiron, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are synonymous with greatness.

Date Tournament Entries Prize Pool Overlay Winner Hometown Prize 11/27/24 Event #1: $400 NLH Ultimate Stack 226 $75,000 $420 Thanh Hoang Czech Republic $16,388 11/25/24 Event #2: $200 NLH Bounty 57 $10,000 $880 Jo Embrechts Belgium $1,380 11/26/24 Event #3: $200 NLH Bounty 59 $10,000 $560 Kristina Cullen United Kingdom $1,854 11/27/24 Event #4: $400

Dec 28, 2024 21 min read Table Of Contents 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 2024, that entails remembering those poker players, industry members, and personalities who unfortunately

Dec 27, 2024 In the 871st episode of the PokerNews Podcast, sponsored by the free-to-play WSOP App, Chad Holloway, Kyna England and Mike Holtz are all back at Level 9 Studio in Las Vegas to talk about the big stories and winners from both the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise and World Poker Tour

Dec 26, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents The Vamos Poker Tour and Faded Spade, the playing card company, are partnering up for 2025. Under the terms of a new deal, Faded Spade will be providing the tour with decks to be shuffled up and dealt at each of the VPT’s European stops next

Dec 25, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents The Seminole Hardrock Hotel and Casino in Hollywood Florida and the Charity Series of Poker (CSOP) is hosting a charity tournament and social on January 16, 2025. The event will be an unusual mixed event, combining poker with blackjack. The event is called the All In

Dec 24, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents As well as wishing players a festive ‘Merry Sportzmas‘ (yes, I rolled my eyes too), December also marks a big milestone for sweepstakes casino Sportzino, which is celebrating its first birthday. It’s been a busy first year for Sportzino, quickly carving out its place as one

Dec 23, 2024 2 min read Table Of Contents FanDuel Casino has announced the launch of NBA Super Slam, an exclusive new NBA-themed slot game developed in partnership with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and White Hat Studios. Exclusively available to FanDuel Casino players in select regions, including Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Ontario, NBA

Dec 22, 2024 5 min read Table Of Contents High Roller and Super High Roller poker tournaments are nothing new; they appear on the schedules of almost every major live tour. However, when you think about Super High Roller events, one name immediately springs to mind: the Triton Poker Super High Roller Series. Triton Poker

Dec 21, 2024 3 min read Antonio Esfandiari made his presence felt in a long-awaited return to Hustler Casino Live Friday night. “The Magician,” who is now more focused on raising a family than playing poker, hadn’t appeared on the show since April 2022. It took little time for the poker legend to spin up

Dec 20, 2024 6 min read Table Of Contents It’s hard to imagine anyone busier this December than World Poker Tour CEO Adam Pliska. A constant presence at the WPT World Championships (WPTWC), Pliska has been at the heart of the action at Wynn Las Vegas, engaging with players from all walks of life as

Dec 19, 2024 3 min read Table Of Contents On Thursday, Day 2 of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise Event #14: Super Saver $1,000,000 Invitational played out. The freezeout tournament – which invited either bracelet holders who participated in the Super Main Event, $100K Package Early Bird purchasers, or GGPoker Package winners to

Dec 18, 2024 2 min read The World Series of Poker (WSOP) is wrapping up 2024 down in The Bahamas with WSOP Paradise, but they’re already looking ahead to the New Year by announcing the dates for the 56th Annual WSOP in Las Vegas. For the fourth consecutive year, the summer WSOP will take place

Dec 17, 2024 2 min read Poker content creator extraordinaire Joey Ingram is rebuilding a stack after losing a cooler monster pot on Day 2 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn. The $10,400 buy-in tournament attracted 2,392 players and is scheduled to play five 90-minute levels on Tuesday. It’s unlikely the

Dec 16, 2024 2 min read Phil Hellmuth has a reputation for being on the tighter side of things, but that wasn’t the case in the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise $25,000 Super Main Event when he called off preflop with queen-deuce after starting the hand with 26 big blinds. The hand took

Dec 15, 2024 6 min read Table Of Contents For the second year in a row, 2006 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event champ Jamie Gold made his way to The Bahamas for WSOP Paradise. It was an easy decision for the bracelet winner, who won $12 million for winning the Main Event, a

Dec 14, 2024 2 min read Daniel Negreanu is in contention for his eighth gold bracelet and the second of the year. On Friday night at the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise, the GGPoker Ambassador took a break from live play and instead took time to play chess, stock up on groceries –

Dec 13, 2024 2 min read On Thursday night, before the action kicked off in the highly-anticipated ClubWPT Gold $5,000,000 Freeroll, players were invited to special event. For the third year in a row, the WPT World Championship hosted an epic players party at AREA15. Complete with a world-class DJ, DJ LEFIH, and complimentary food

Dec 12, 2024 4 min read Kristen Foxen, Jeanne David, and Starla Brodie were officially inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame (WiPHOF) on Wednesday during a ceremony sponsored by PokerStars at the Plaza Hotel and Casino in downtown Las Vegas. Brodie, a two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner, passed away

Dec 11, 2024 5 min read Table Of Contents The 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise, which is taking place on Paradise Island in The Bahamas, got off to a big start with the $500,000 buy-in Triton Million, which marked the WSOP’s first partnership with Triton Poker. It was a unique tournament that paired