September 07, 2021 Matthew Pitt The latest GGPoker Super MILLION$ final table is set, and what a star-studded final nine it is. Any one of the nine finalists would make a worthy champion, but only one of them gets to call themselves that. Anatoly Filatov, the GGPoker Ambassador representing Team Russia, has reached what is
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September 06, 2021 Matthew Pitt Day 1b of the 2021 WPT World Online Championships Main Event saw another 292 partypoker players stump up the $5,300 buy-in on September 5. Only 44 of those starters had chips in front of them when the curtain came down on proceedings, and nobody had more chips than Ole Schemion.
September 05, 2021 LearnWPT This week we’re focused on a typical cash game spot where you’re in position on the Button against a tough player in Early Position after 3-Betting their opening raise. Your range in this spot is “polarized”, meaning you are 3-betting the early position player with both some of the very strongest
September 04, 2021 Will ShillibierMatthew Pitt More than three years ago, Fintan “EasyWithAces” Hand became a fully-fledged member of PokerStars Team Online, joining the ranks of Ben “Spraggy” Spragg among others. He has enjoyed his fair share of online poker success since sporting the famous PokerStars spade, but a World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP)
September 03, 2021 Christian ZetzscheJason Glatzer September 2 was Day 12 of the $100 million guaranteed World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) and the series showed no signs of slowing down. Two massive events reached their resepctive Day 2s under the watchful eyes of the PokerNews Live Reporting team, while 15 players go into the
September 02, 2021 Chad Holloway Guests: Zach Franzi On the latest special episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Jeff Platt and Chad Holloway highlight more bracelet winners from the GGPoker World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online, discuss the WSOP COVID-19 vaccination requirement, and highlight recent winners from the Super High Roller Bowl Europe. They also give
September 01, 2021 Jonathan Little Following last week’s strategy column in which Phil Hellmuth got out of line against Daniel Negreanu in the $100,000 Round 2 of High Stakes Duel II, this week I look at a hand in which the “Poker Brat” switches gears into “ZOOM ZOOM” mode and puts Negreanu in a tough
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
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