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August 14, 2022 Event #1: $400 No-Limit Hold’em has come to an end at the bestbet Jacksonville Summer Heater Poker Series and Bobby Tieu defeated Chater Suphakorn in heads-up play to outlast 124 Day 2 players and win $50,801. The tournament drew a total of 750 entries, with 361 unique players generating a prize pool

August 13, 2022 Almost 60 years ago, Poker Hall of Famer Jack Binion, 85, became the president of Binion’s Horseshoe at the age of 26. Seven years later, alongside the casino’s namesake founder and Jack’s father, Benny Binion, the World Series of Poker (WSOP) was launched. PokerNews recently had the chance to catch up with

August 12, 2022 You can go ahead and forget about the preview article we wrote a few days back on the $1.6 million High Stakes Duel III rematch between Phil Hellmuth and Scott Seiver, scheduled for August 22 on PokerGO, because the game has been called off. Citing personal reasons, three months after his Round

August 11, 2022 The World Poker Tour (WPT) and Wynn Resorts in Las Vegas have finalized the schedule for its December, record-breaking poker festival. In total, the series, which runs December 1-20, features 23 tournaments and $22 million in guarantees. Although there are a number of major events, including the WPT Ladies Championship and what

August 10, 2022 PartyPoker is the online poker site for you if you love grinding it out in progressive knockout tournaments. Fresh from the McLaren Turbo Series, PartyPoker is hosting the Grand Prix KO Summer Edition from August 11 through August 29. The PartyPoker Grand Prix KO Summer Edition features 14 numbered PKO events with

August 09, 2022 Matt Hanks attempted to turn his middle pair into what would have been an epic bluff in an $830,000 pot during the newest No Gamble, No Future episode on PokerGo. Unfortunately, for him, Eric Persson got sticky with an over-pair. No Gamble, No Future, hosted by Jeff Platt and Brent Hanks, debuted

Date Tournament Entries Prize Pool Winner Hometown Prize 2-May Event #1: $400 NLH Monster Bounty 89 $29,815 Kevin Wang Las Vegas, NV $7,100 2-May Event #2: $300 NLH Bounty 58 $14,500 Daniel Mingus Denver, CO $2,641 5-May Event #3: $400 NLH Ultimate Stack 428 $141,240 Christopher Bowen Las Vegas, NV $20,892 3-May Event #4: $300

August 07, 2022 The latest North Florida poker tournament action will get underway later this month with the bestbet Jacksonville Summer Heater Poker Series, which is slated to take place Aug. 11-21. The Summer Heater Poker Series will consist of 11 events, culminating with the $1,500 buy-in Summer Heater Main Event running Aug. 19-21. With

August 06, 2022 The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) will be stopping at Iowa’s Grand Falls Casino just outside Sioux Falls, South Dakota later this month for the for $1,110 buy-in MSPT Grand Falls No-Limit Hold’em Main Event, which will culminate August 19-21. In addition to the marquee Main Event, MSPT Grand Falls will feature a

August 05, 2022 Take a look at what is going on at the PokerStars Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Manila festival if you need proof that live poker is booming in the Philippines. PokerStars placed a ₱20 million ($359,559) guarantee on the ₱65,000 buy-in ($1,168) APPT Manila Main Event, but a bumper crowd of 355

August 04, 2022 Colby Covington, one of the top welterweights in the UFC, is having quite a week at the poker tables during the 2022 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open. On Thursday, he won his third-ever Hendon Mob recorded live poker tournament, this one at the Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Hollywood, Florida,

August 03, 2022 Exactly 365 days ago, Ryan Feldman and Nick Vertucci launched a new cash game poker show in Los Angeles called Hustler Casino Live that has since completely changed the livestreamed poker landscape. The road to building a YouTube subscriber list of over 150,000 in one year wasn’t easy and certainly never was

August 02, 2022 The latest World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit stop in Oklahoma’s Choctaw Durant has wrapped up and saw Daniel Marx as one of its final winners as the Dallas native took down the $1,700 buy-in Main Event to win his first ring and $246,820. Not only did Marx pick up the biggest

August 01, 2022 €395,747. That is the prize “Alister333” got their hands on after conquering the 2022 Battle of Malta Online Main Event at GGPoker. Such a huge prize was made possible by 7,104 players buying in for €550 and creating a €3,711,840 prize pool, far greater than the advertised €2,500,000. Some 1,132 players took

July 30, 2022 Mikki Mase, whom you may have watched on Hustler Casino Live, claims he can beat an unbeatable game — baccarat. He certainly has many doubters, but he also has some receipts to back it up. The poker player and Instagram sensation spoke with PokerNews during the recently-completed World Series of Poker (WSOP)

July 30, 2022 This summer, the 2022 Wynn Summer Classic ran alongside the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP). This year’s Wynn Summer Classic consisted of dozens of events with buy-ins ranging from $500 to $5,500, including poker variants like Pot-Limit Omaha, Limit Omaha 8 or Better, H.O.R.S.E. and 8-Game Mix. The series offered over

Sarah Herring talks to a new face in the poker world who has been seen recently on some big cash games on the Hustler Casino Live Stream, Mikki Mase. The poker world took notice when Mikki managed to pull off some crazy bluffs against poker pro and Survivor star Garrett Adelstein among others. Mikki explains

July 28, 2022 There are only five featured events remaining on the schedule of the Battle of Malta Online at GGPoker, including the massive €2,500,000 guaranteed Main Event. “Runnersx2” is one player who is likely to buy into the €555 Battle of Malta Online Main Event after taking down the largest prize of the festival

July 27, 2022 Within two hours of winning his first World Series of Poker bracelet in an online event in Pennsylvania on July 18, Ryan Messick was headed to the airport after booking a last-minute flight to Las Vegas. By winning the $500 buy-in tournament, advertised as the “Summer Saver,” Messick became one of the

July 26, 2022 The 2022 PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) heads to the Casino Barcelona from August 8 through August 21 and is widely anticipated to be one of the biggest-ever EPT Barcelona stops on record. However, before the EPT gets underway, the Casino Barcelona is hosting the action-packed Spanish Poker Championship from July 25