August 31, 2021 Matthew Pitt Artur Martirosian is in the middle of a purple patch of form. The talented Russian won the $100,000 Super High Roller event at the Super High Roller Bowl Europe festival, finished sixth in the $2,100 WPTWOC 7-Max Championship, and now finds himself second in chips going into the final table
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August 30, 2021 Brandon Temple The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) made its East Coast debut in style this week as the Seminole Coconut Creek $600 Main Event was a packed affair. Day 2 saw 74 players return from an original starting field of 519 entrants (205 on Day 1a, 314 on Day 1b), and after
August 29, 2021 LearnWPT The selected hands for this week demonstrate correct strategy for 3-betting in a tournament scenario where you are on the Button against an open raise from a wide range in the Cutoff with a big blind ante in play. The Cutoff made a standard open raise to 2.5BBs then you 3-bet
August 28, 2021 Matthew Pitt Day 1C of the 2021 Goliath Online was the busiest flight yet with 591 Grosvenor Poker players hitting the virtual felt. Only 51 of those starters punched their Day 2 tickets, and none of them finished with more chips than Brett Angell. Angell is a familiar face to anyone who
August 27, 2021 Will Shillibier Phil Ivey was denied a second Super High Roller Bowl Europe title in four days after succumbing to Selahaddin Bedir heads-up in Event #4: $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em. After finishing runner-up to Johan Guilbert in Event #2, Bedir topped a 52-player field to win $832,000, the biggest cash of his career.
August 26, 2021 Matthew Pitt The partnership between partypoker and Formula One racing outfit McLaren continues bearing fruit with an unbelievable prize up for grabs in the new McLaren Card Rush promotion that is in-play now. McLaren Card Rush sees partypoker players receive a click card when they earn just 0.40 cashback points playing cash
August 25, 2021 Will Shillibier “Soul0faSwan” Wins WCOOP-04-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max] 2021 WCOOP-04-M: $530 NLHE [8-Max] Final Table Results Audrius “Stakelis24” Stakelis Bags Biggest Stack to End Day 1 of WCOOP 14-M WCOOP 14-M Top 10 Chip Counts Alexandros “mexican222” Kolonias Leads Final 9 in the WCOOP-14-H: $10,300 NLHE High Roller WCOOP-14-H Final Table Chip
August 24, 2021 Will Shillibier Phil Ivey got his Super High Roller Bowl Europe festival off to the perfect start with victory in Event #1: $25,000 Short Deck for $408,000. He topped a star-studded final table, defeating Stephen Chidwick heads-up to secure victory and the $408,000 first prize. It means that Ivey’s last three tournament
August 23, 2021 Chad Holloway Five years ago, Costa Rica’s Steven Thompson nearly won a World Series of Poker (WSOP) gold bracelet. He fell just one spot shy of victory finishing runner-up to Calvin Lee in the 2016 WSOP Event #21: $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em 6-Handed, good for $328,487. The now 41-year-old and father of two,
August 22, 2021 LearnWPT Today’s hand features a common spot from a small stakes cash game ($1-$2 binds) where an opponent plays back at our aggression in late position. In this cash game spot you are out of position against a tough opponent on the Button who 3-bet your 5BB open in the Hijack to
August 21, 2021 Lyle BatemanJason Glatzer Renan Bruschi added yet another notch to his belt by winning his first career WSOP gold bracelet on Friday, Aug. 20 in the 2021 GGPoker WSOP Online after defeating Leonid “Mikleler” Bilokur heads-up in the two-day Event #14: $500 The BIG 500 to win the $150,327 top prize. The
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August 19, 2021 Matthew Pitt Team Grosvenor’s Katie Swift loves the GUKPT Goliath Main Event. Swift was one of a crowd of 4,210 players who bought into the 2015 edition of the tournament, helping smash the £250,000 guarantee by £171,000. Plenty of grinding later, Swift found herself heads-up against Miikka Toikka. Swift fell at the
August 18, 2021 Matthew Pitt $5 million is guaranteed to be won in the 2021 WPT World Online Championships (WPTWOC) at partypoker, and you can give yourself a shot at that monster-sized pot for an outlay of a single cent! How? By entering partypoker’s fantastic satellite tree. partypoker has given the Phase treatment to the
August 17, 2021 Lyle Bateman Russia’s “kuzya174” defeated Brazil’s Leonardo “LeoSouza9” Souza in heads-up play to win the ChampionChip Main Event at 888poker for $60,000. A total of 8,130 entrants got into the action during dozens of opening flights. Despite the event’s popularity, the tournament had a whopping $130,085 added by 888poker to meet the
August 16, 2021 Hill Kerby The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) wrapped up another successful stop with the Ballys Black Hawk $1,110 Main Event drawing 651 entries over three starting flights to generate a total prize pool of $631,470. Eighty-three of those players returned for Sunday’s Day 2 to play until the end, and ultimately bringing
August 13, 2021 Jon Sofen It’s Friday the 13th, a day that keeps the most superstitious poker players away from a card game. Connor Drinan may have wished he avoided the $1 million buy-in WSOP Big One for One Drop in 2014, especially after he suffered one of the most memorable bad beats in televised
‘Full houses everywhere!’ Parker ‘Tonkaaaa’ Talbot and Fintan Hand had an epic run last week on Twitch. Get ready to watch some incredible hands and try to get on the same level of poker mastery. Subscribe here to our channel: http://psta.rs/SubscribetoPS —————– Get ready for some epic highlights from online poker tournaments with live commentary!
August 11, 2021 Chad Holloway On Monday night, PokerGO aired the latest episode of “Poker After Dark” Season 13, which was Part 1 of “Action Arden.” It was actually Phil Hellmuth’s online home game going live as many of the regulars joined the lineup including Hellmuth, Arden Cho, Jeremy Levin, Julie Yorn, Danielle Andersen, and
Bryn Kenney absolutely smashes Erik Seidel with a Royal Flush and it’s honestly (painfully for the loser) a beautiful thing to watch. #ShortsSubscribe here to our channel: http://psta.rs/SubscribetoPS —————– Because sometimes less is more. This is what #Shorts is about: The best plays, the best players, the best tables. We present you the top moments