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March 09, 2022 The €25,000 Single-Day High Roller of the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) Prague has come to an end after a full day of play. Some 35 entries generated a prizepool of €840,350 which was split up amongst the top six finishers. Finishing on top of all entries at the end of the

March 07, 2022 Jason Koon made a bold request for live tournament operators to take severe action against those who have been caught cheating at online poker: Ban them. The GGPoker ambassador fired off a polarizing tweet that sparked some interesting responses, of which we discuss in this edition of The Muck. There need to

March 06, 2022 The 2022 Wynn Millions Main Event, a $10,000 buy-in tournament with over $10 million in the pot, marches on Monday with the Day 2c session. When play begins at noon PT from the Wynn Las Vegas, dozens of talented poker players will take a seat. From 2015 WSOP Main Event champ Joe

March 05, 2022 The day before attempting to defend his title in the 2022 Wynn Millions, Andrew Moreno made an interesting post on social media talking about why he didn’t chip a big tournament he had won just over a week earlier. The tournament was the Venetian Event #27: $2,500 Ultimate Stack, which attracted 542

March 04, 2022 Two months following Run it Once’s global closure, Phil Galfond took a step towards launching the poker site in the United States. But he no longer holds ownership control over the poker site he founded in 2019. Run it Once, previously only available outside the US, has been sold to Rush Street

March 03, 2022 As Russia continues its violent attack on Ukraine, the European Poker Tour (EPT) Sochi stop has been canceled days after it was postponed until October due to the ongoing war. The EPT cancelation won’t be the only one on the horizon in Russia if some TwoPlusTwo members have any say. In a

March 02, 2022 The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit Harrah’s Cherokee in North Carolina wrapped up this week and saw Mark Davis of Birmingham, Alabama winning Event #12: $1,700 Main Event to earn his first gold Circuit ring and a massive payday of $334,678. The latest WSOP Circuit stop consisted of 16 ring events

March 01, 2022 Guests: Eugene Katchalov In the latest PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway chats with Eugene Katchalov, Ukraine’s all-time money leader, about his harrowing escape from Kyiv as Russia invaded. The World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner and World Poker Tour (WPT) champ documented his experience in real-time via Twitter, which gave his followers

February 28, 2022 Old school online poker legend Kelvin “aces_up4108” Beattie, a former No. 1 ranked Australian player and owner of the PokerNerve training site, passed away at the end of February after a long battle with cancer. “He fought so hard over the past 10 months, never giving up and we are devastated having

February 27, 2022 Warning: The following article contains graphic details involving murder and sexual assault. The man accused of killing professional poker player Susie Zhao had a pretrial hearing last week and received a new trial date. Jeffery Bernard Morris, 61, faces two counts of felony murder in Michigan’s Oakland County Circuit Court for the

February 26, 2022 Twenty years ago, television producer Steve Lipscomb introduced to the American audience a poker tournament show called the World Poker Tour (WPT). Two decades later and the WPT is still thriving and remains a fixture in the poker community. In 2002, Lipscomb hired poker pros Mike Sexton and Vince Van Patten, a

During last year’s World Series of Poker (WSOP), a rumor began to circulate that GGPoker ambassador Dan Bilzerian would take on billionaire Alec Gores in an unprecedented $100,000,000 heads-up poker match. Bilzerian has since said Gores is stalling, so the future of the match remains in doubt. If it does actually happen, Bilzerian could find

February 24, 2022 2/24/2022 Edit: Ukraine has banned all males aged 18-60 from leaving the country and those who fit into that demographic could be forced to serve in the military, meaning Katchalov likely won’t be permitted to flee. Eugene Katchalov is one of the millions of Ukrainians searching for safety as Russia invades his

February 23, 2022 In the latest PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway and Jesse Fullen take a deep dive into the recently-announced 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) schedule. There are 88 live bracelet events with buy-ins ranging from $400-$250,000 along with 14 online tournaments open to players in New Jersey, Nevada, and Pennsylvania. From the “Housewarming”

February 22, 2022 The latest edition of the GGPoker Super MILLION$ has reached its final table with only nine of the 235 starters remaining in contention for the $475,125 top prize. Super MILLION$ final tables are always star-studded affairs but the final table of the 31st episode of the tournament’s second season could be one

February 21, 2022 PokerGO Vice President Mori Eskandani told viewers Season 9 of High Stakes Poker is the “best ever.” If Monday’s season debut episode is any indication, the Poker Hall of Famer wasn’t kidding. The first episode, which is available on the PokerGO app, features a poker fan’s dream table, with legends of the

February 20, 2022 It wasn’t quite the Fyre Festival, but Sunday’s $200,000 guaranteed poker tournament at the Borgata in Atlantic City was marred by controversy and frustrated patrons. The $400 buy-in multi-flight tournament during the casino’s Presidents Day mini-series kicked off with Day 1a at 10 a.m. Sunday morning. A second Day 1 session was

February 19, 2022 Hustler Casino Live may have just unleashed a Shaun Deeb copycat. Dylan Gang brutally slowrolled Garrett Adelstein in a massive pot during Friday’s livestream, but “G-Man” took it in stride. Gang, if you’ll recall, was infamously involved in an altercation in October with then Los Angeles Lakers guard Rajon Rondo during a

February 18, 2022 The third annual Global Poker Awards took place on Friday, Feb. 18 at PokerGO Studio at the ARIA Resort and Casino, celebrating the achievements of poker players, content creators and media personalities across the industry. The ceremony, which was hosted by Jeff Platt and Drea Renee, marked the end of a two-year

In this week’s PokerNews Interview, Chad Holloway spoke to Steve Begleiter to talk Las Vegas,his poker origins and his World Series of Poker Main Event experience – facing up against the legendary Phil Ivey. — CHAPTERS — 00:00 – Intro01:10 – Where Steve has been03:47 – WSOP Main Event Final Table with Phil Ivey05:30 –