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January 13, 2024 Pittsburgh’s Frank “Franco” Bonacci first caught the poker tournament bug in 2002 when he made a deep run in a $10 tournament. Two decades later, Bonacci continues to crush and recently won his third and fourth World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC) rings on WSOP Pennsylvania. During the Super Series in December

January 12, 2024 The Hendon Mob (THM) and Unibet DeepStack Open (UDO) are partnering up for the first time to offer the THM Winter Championship by USDO, which will take place at Grand Casino Liechtenstein from Jan. 29-Feb. 5. The THM Winter Championship in the Alps will culminate with the CHF 350 buy-in Main Event,

January 11, 2024 The inaugural UK Poker League (UKPL), the latest fruit from the 888poker and Grosvenor Casinos partnership, kicks off inside the Grosvenor G Casino in Coventry from January 16, and one man is all but nailed on to be in the Midlands: Ludovic Geilich. The popular Scotsman this week put pen to paper

January 10, 2024 Six players returned to the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas on Wednesday chasing the $500,000 first place prize in the PGT Championship $1 million season-ending freeroll. It took about six hours of play for the start-of-day chip leader, Daniel Smiljkovic, to come out victorious. Although Smiljkovic entered the final table with the

January 09, 2024 The PokerGO Tour (PGT) Championship $1 million freeroll kicked off Tuesday, and part of the focus from the poker community was on a player whose behavior irritated viewers and even some in the field. Dream Seat qualifier Jeff Lennon didn’t reach the final table, which will take place at the PokerGO Studio

January 08, 2024 The PokerGO Tour (PGT) Last Chance 2023 series wrapped up on Sunday with a victory from poker commentator Nick Schulman, which means the roster is set for the PGT Championship $1,000,000 Freeroll that kicks off on Jan. 9 and will crown a winner on Jan. 10. Dylan Destefano and Samuel Laskowitz were

  DATE TIME EVENT GTD BUY-IN (IN GC)   Mon 08 Jan 2024 19:30 Monsterstack 01 L – GC 10,000,000 Guaranteed [Super Deep] 10,000,000 33,000   Mon 08 Jan 2024 20:30 Monsterstack 01 H – GC 20,000,000 Guaranteed [Super Deep] 20,000,000 99,000   Tue 09 Jan 2024 19:30 Monsterstack 02 L – GC 10,000,000 Guaranteed

January 06, 2024 New Jersey film producer Tom Baldinger wants to make poker’s next (first?) great TV show, and he’s been working hard to take his latest project, Un$uited, from its first two pilot episodes to a full series. It’s not an easy task, especially in today’s competitive content environment, but Baldinger sees an opportunity

January 05, 2024 Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot pulled off an epic bluff during Friday night’s Hustler Casino Live stream before proceeding to crack on his opponent’s “nitty” style of play. The double live-stream began in the afternoon from inside Hustler Casino in Los Angeles. Late in the first HCL stream of the day, the high-stakes

January 04, 2024 World Poker Tour’s Season XXI wrapped up with the conclusion of the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas and Bin Weng held off the field with ease to claim WPT Player of the Year after a stellar season on the circuit. The victory was fueled by televised WPT back-to-back final tables

January 03, 2024 Michigan poker player George Janssen alleges he is the victim of an extortion scheme that began two years ago when a man held him at gunpoint outside a Detroit casino and demanded $2 million. Janssen, who last month was found zip-tied and bloodied on a rural Michigan road and claimed to have

January 02, 2024 After losing over $2.2 million last year in poker tournaments, Daniel Negreanu made it clear in a YouTube video that he’s going to make some adjustments to his strategy in 2024. The Poker Hall of Famer shared his composite results from 2023 in a 23-minute video, and brought up some potential changes

January 01, 2024 The Mid-States Poker Tour (MSPT) wrapped up its 14th season over the weekend at the Venetian Las Vegas. It was there that the last mid-major tournament of the year – a $1,100 buy-in Main Event – took place and presented players their last opportunity to win points to both the GPI Mid-Major

December 31, 2023 Police took into custody and arrested a poker player wanted in connection to a shooting that occurred Sunday morning near the Las Vegas Strip. Jon Letzkus, 45, is accused of firing his weapon from the balcony of the MGM Signature Towers overlooking the Strip at around 6:00 a.m. Although no one was

December 30, 2023 Over the holidays, German high-stakes pro Daniel Smiljkovic publicly accused MonkerGuy of keeping $21,744 that Smiljkovic had mistakenly sent in a cryptocurrency exchange, while MonkerGuy denied ever receiving the money. MonkerGuy is a poker service that lets players request game-theory optimal (GTO) simulations or rent servers to help them “play mathematically perfect

December 29, 2023 The Free Poker Network (FPN) Vegas $100,000 World Championship is just around the corner and will award $25,000 to the lucky champion. The FPN Vegas $100,000 World Championship will take place Jan. 4-7 at Golden Nugget in downtown Las Vegas as qualifiers compete for a piece of the $100,000 prize pool. PokerNews

December 28, 2023 Guests: Dan Sepiol On the latest episode of the PokerNews Podcast, Chad Holloway, Connor Richards, and Matt Hansen bring you the last show of 2023! The chat about the MSPT & WSOP champion that was found zip-tied and allegedly held captive for 35 days in Michigan, poker player Sean Perry being eliminated

December 27, 2023 Few things came as bigger surprise this year than the monumental success of Game of Gold. For twelve episodes some of the biggest names and personalities in poker competed in a series of team challenges. Along the way, some were eliminated while others earned gold coins. In the final episode, the gold

December 26, 2023 In 2022, cheating scandals in poker — online and live — were getting out of hand. Allegations against high-profile players such as Bryn Kenney, Jake Schindler, and Ali Imsirovic rocked the poker world. And we certainly can’t forget about the J4 incident on Hustler Casino Live. As such, poker operators and pros