Day 7 of the Triton Super High Roller Series London kicked off with Day 2 of the $200,000 NLH 8-Handed Event #7. A total of 81 entries (including 30 re-entries) generated a eye-watering prize pool of $16,200,000, with 13 places supposed to pay out in amounts ranging from $325,000 for a min-cash to $4.3 million […]

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Pedro Garagnani has bested his friend and fellow Brazilian Bruno Volkmann heads up to secure victory in Event #8: $30k NLH Turbo Bounty. The tournament played from start to finish today at the Triton Super High Roller Series in London, with 20 minute blinds encouraging action right from the beginning. $30,000 side event When a tournament […]

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Jason Koon has won the $60,000 NLH 7-Handed Event #6 at the Triton Super High Roller Series in London to claim the trophy and $1,570,000 first prize – not to mention his eighth Triton Title. Day 2 brought back 32 players (from a total of 104 entries), just over half of whom were to take […]

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ACR Poker, formerly known as Americas Cardroom, has long been in search of a permanent partner for a live-poker tour, and it has perhaps found that through its own brand ambassador, Chris Moneymaker. In a new aspect of ACR’s partnership with the famed 2023 WSOP Main Event champ, ACR Poker will be offering 25 main-event […]

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Barely old enough to enter the casino, 21 year-old Harvey Castro rammed through a field of 1,026 Main Event entries to claim his first WSOP Circuit Ring and $275,660. When the day began, Harvey Castro had 2,580,000, good for about 25 big blinds, and a stack that put him in sixth out of the 12 […]

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Las Vegas’s Bellagio Hotel and Casino has announced that it will run an in-house poker series, the Bellagio Kickoff Classic, spanning 11 days during the Labor Day season. The Kickoff Classic will begin on August 31 and run through September 10, 2023. The Bellagio Kickoff Classic is highlighted by a $3,500 main event that begins […]

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The Asian Poker Tour Summer Series Da Nang crowned a winner this Saturday in the record-breaking Main Event. Singapore’s Shixiang Khoo outlasted a field of 675 entrants to take home the coveted Golden Lion trophy, along with ~$165,280. The total number of entries generated a prize pool of ~$867,000, the largest ever at an APT […]

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The 2022 WSOP Main Event champion has just added another accolade to his résumé. Espen Jørstad won Event #3: $40k NLH Mystery Bounty at Triton London. The victory is Jørstad’s first Triton title and third cash. There were 133 entries in this third Triton London event, building a prize pool of $2,660,000. Jørstad takes home […]

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Germany’s Fedor Holz returned to winning form on Saturday by taking down the Triton Super High Roller Series London’s Event #2, $25,000 NLHE 7-Max. The win was Holz’s third career Triton victory and the first for him since 2017. Holz topped the event’s 120-entry field to claim the largest share of a $3 million prize […]

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Triton London is officially underway. The first event of the prestigious tournament series has just been completed, and Canada’s Lucas Greenwood earned his first Triton title. Greenwood won Event #1: $25k NLH GGMillion$ for $897,000 to kick off the festival at the JW Marriot Grosvenor House. The opening event drew a prize pool of $4,050,000, […]

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The World Series of Poker wrapped up an incredibly successful summer less than two weeks ago. However, the brand isn’t resting as they’ve announced dates for international stops approaching rapidly. The WSOP announced dates for its 14th annual WSOP Europe series as well as initial international stops for the 2023-24 WSOP Circuit. The Europe series […]

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Some collaborations are simply destined to be overwhelming successes. The Hendon Mob hosted their first-ever Mid-Major this past week. They partnered with the RunGood Poker Series and the Thunder Valley Poker Room just outside Sacramento, California. That’s a better collaboration than anything DJ Khaled has ever put together. “This is the first stop in the […]

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This Sunday, July 30th, the WPT Royal Flush Crew will infiltrate the ClubWPT streets for a special bounty tournament. The top prize offers VIP members a chance to win their way on to the 2024 WPT Voyage for a one-of-a-kind poker experience on the Caribbean high seas. “Once again, ClubWPT is presenting a wonderful opportunity […]

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Fresh off a recent re-branding, ACR Poker plans to run a special edition of their flagship High Five tournament series. From August 6th-27th, players can take part in the largest ever High Five series with a guaranteed prize pool of $14.4 million. “We typically run the High Five in April which is perfect for the […]

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Poker players traveling to Las Vegas and other popular American tourist destinations have long been aware of the reality of hidden hotel and resort fees which can blur the true cost of lodging and make planning a poker trip more difficult. Now, US Senators Amy Klobuchar (D-MN) and Jerry Moran (R-KS) have joined forces to […]

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“One game. Thousands of possibilities.” PartyPoker will soon be introducing an update to the jackpot sit-‘n’-gos available on its global platform with the arrival of its new “Spins Overdrive” games. The format will replace Party’s popular “Spins” SNGs, which have been around for several years, and the new Overdrive format will also add several dynamic […]

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The next stop on PokerOrg’s new Instant coverage from major events in the poker world begins August 1, with our trip to London, England for not one, but two, prominent global gatherings. Instant will be on the scene at both Triton Super High-Roller Series London and WSOP Super Circuit London, bringing our followers two weeks […]

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Ari Engel has moved into a tie for third on the all-time WSOP Circuit victories leaderboard with his 13th win, a triumph in an Online Circuit event in Michigan. Engel topped a 90-player field in Event #12 of the ongoing WSOP Circuit Super Series Michigan, $20,000 NLH 6-Max. Engel’s winner’s payday was $8,926.20 in a […]

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Two rings in Tulsa. Two rings in Durant. Now, the Queen of Oklahoma poker has her sights set on Appalachia and winning a fifth WSOP Circuit Ring at Harrahs Cherokee in North Carolina. As chronicled by the PokerOrg team in Durant, OK during this week’s WSOP Circuit Choctaw event, Belote won her fourth Circuit ring […]

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An Australian federal court has slapped two Queensland men and a business entity with an AU $5 million fine, about US $3.38 million, for their operation of an online poker site that did business for about three years under multiple names, all in violation of strict Australian regulations that forbid both playing on or operating […]

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If you have been keeping up with the action on our front page, you might have noticed something a little different last week. Within hours of finishing our coverage of the record-breaking World Series of Poker on this page and our Instant feed, we turned our attention to the WSOP Circuit in Oklahoma. Today, we […]

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The Asian Poker Tour’s 2023 Summer Series continues this month with another stop in Vietnam. APT Summer Series Da Nang kicked off this past Friday from the Ariyana Convention Center at the Furama Resort in Da Nang. The Da Nang stop comes on the heels of a successful run at the APT Summer Series Hanoi, […]

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Updated with statement from PokerStars (below). TSG Interactive US Services Limited, which does business as PokerStars in the United States, is sending out notifications to some of its American online players that they may have had their personal information stolen via a hacking of files likely done by the Russia-based “Cl0p” ransomware group. The hacking […]

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A security guard working the overnight shift at Texas Card House Soring, north of Houston,, was hospitalized with seven bullet wounds after successfully defending the club, the employees and players who were inside from an attempted armed robbery Thursday morning. According to local news outlets who spoke with Harris County Sheriff Ed Gonzales about the […]

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Players in US states where PokerStars is regulated and available will have new opportunities to qualify online for upcoming Summer Series live events via PokerStars USA’s new Sunset Series. Players can win satellite-qualifier packages for each of three Summer Series events to be held at Live! Philadelphia in the coming weeks. The just announced Sunset […]

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Minnesota’s Ian Matakis has clinched the 2023 World Series of Poker’s annual Player of the Year honor, as announced by the WSOP on Tuesday. Matakis’s winning total of 5,203.89 points easily outdistanced all other players. That included the defending POY champion, Shaun Deeb, who finished second with 4,276.12 points, over 900 behind Matakis’s winning pace. […]

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A slow roll in a poker game is one of the biggest no-nos in the industry. It breaks the unwritten code of conduct between players, as it’s intentionally disingenuous at a time when you know your hand is unbeatable. Poker is all about deception, but many poker players argue that slow rolling is unnecessary when […]

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The 2023 was one for the ages that will be remembered for a very long time thanks to record breaking numbers across the board. The amount of stories that can be written about it are countless so it was actually very difficult to pin down just a few highlights to write about but I have […]

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And then there were four. Pennsylvania poker pro Ryan Miller became the fourth double-bracelet winner of the 2023 World Series of Poker after emerging as the winner of one of the final tournaments of the WSOP’s summer run, Event #91: $3,000 H.O.R.S.E. Miller topped a 331-entry field to win $208,640 in an unscheduled Day 4 […]

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A Bexar County, Texas judge has issued an arrest order for one of the co-owners of the shuttered San Antonio Poker Palace after the landlord of the venue claimed that the club’s co-owner, Richard Florestan, had violated a restraining order and broken into the club to remove equipment. State District Judge Christine Hortick also ordered […]

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The champion of the largest World Series of Poker Main Event in history is Daniel Weinman. Exactly fourteen days after the tournament began, Daniel Weinman raked the last of the 602.5 million chips in play after winning the final hand at 3:20 pm local time. The Atlanta, Georgia native earned the Main Event record-breaking $12,100,000 […]

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The World Series of Poker, in conjunction with its international online partner, GGPoker, has announced a new Bahamas-based tournament series, WSOP Paradise. The new series will make its debut December 3-14, 2023, at Atlantis Paradise Island, across Nassau Harbor from downtown Nassau itself. The 12-day series will include 15 bracelet events, and the overall series […]

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Late July means it’s Venom time at ACR Poker, and the latest edition of the Venom, with a $10 million prize-pool guarantee, gets underway on Thursday, July 20, 2023 with the first of five Day 1 flights. The final table of the $2,650 Venom will be held on Wednesday, August 2, and the winner will […]

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Jamie Gold saw his 2006 WSOP Main Event record $12M score officially topped on Monday as Daniel Weinman made quick work of Adam Walton and Steven Jones to win $12.1M and the title of Main Event champion. While many in the gaming and athletics world are disappointed when their records are finally broken, Gold was […]

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The World Series of Poker’s 2023 Player of the Year chase has entered the home stretch, and Minnesota’s Ian Matakis has expanded his lead, giving him a large but not insurmountable edge as results from just a handful of events remain to be tallied. The WSOP’s annual POY race tends to enter a lull during […]

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The WPT Alpha8 series made it’s return this week at the Wynn/Encore Las Vegas. The high-stakes tournament made its return a special one to benefit the OneDrop Foundation. Outlasting the field of 45 of the most popular players in the game, Jonathan Jaffe came out on top to take home $1,537,600, the Alpha8 trophy, and […]

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Brampton, Ontario’s Jason Clarke will be participating the WSOP Main Event for decades to come after being randomly selected as the winner of the World Series of Poker’s “Main Event for Life” promotion, in which one lucky player who participated in the 2023 WSOP Main Event was randomly selected as the recipient of a $10,000 […]

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Something that is always fun to do during a Main Event is to go back through the chip counts and see where the final table players were in the chip counts each day. Where were the names that we would eventually learn and become a part of poker history hiding in the end of day […]

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What happened to Chris Moneymaker? Type any celebrity’s name into a search engine and you’re bound to find a pre-packaged answer to what is likely the most-asked question about someone whose fame has evolved: What happened to Paris Hilton? What happened to Peyton Manning? What happened to Chris Moneymaker? Truth be told, those three stars […]

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Then there were six. Many of the world’s elite poker players turned out in support of the World Poker Tour Alpha8 for OneDrop at the Wynn/Encore Las Vegas over the last couple of days. Now, only six remain. With 45 total entries, a grand total of $315,000 was raised for the OneDrop Foundation and the […]

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Prominent high-stakes tournament pro and six-time WSOP bracelet winner Shaun Deeb recently offered a touching gesture to the family of his recently passed friend and fellow online pro Thayer Rasmussen. Deeb, who won Event #27: $1,500 Eight Game Mix 6-Handed last month, presented Rasmussen’s mother with the gold bracelet he won in that event. Deeb […]

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The World Poker Tour Alpha8 series is back, and the first day of play for the series after the long hiatus returned at The Wynn/Encore Las Vegas yesterday. In the middle of the fabulous strip casino sat cameras, lights, and many of the biggest names in poker. A total of 39 entries took their seats […]

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Twitch is a live video streaming portal that’s become a hotbed of poker talent. The Twitch poker community is one of the most vibrant subsectors on this platform, along with the fast-growing world of Esports. With the right equipment, any online poker player can live stream their cash game or tournament sessions by sharing their […]

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There must be something in the WPT waters that propels Bin Weng to final table success. Weng is the champion of the $10,500 World Poker Tour EveryoneOne for OneDrop taking home $2,227,054 and the trophy. Weng defeated Scott Baumstein heads-up to become the first championship of this event since the WPT partnered with the OneDrop […]

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You never know just what might happen off the felt during the summer at the World Series of Poker. Fourth of July parties, prop bets, scavenger hunts; half the fun is outside of the poker rooms. One thing happened just last week that was a first for me. I was invited to a private screening […]

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Long-time poker fans will remember the World Poker Tour Alpha8 events. The high-roller series ran from 2013-2015, and some of the biggest names in poker showed up for the big prize pools. Winners of the series back then included Fedor Holz, Dan Coleman, Jason Mercier, Dan Cates, and more; a veritable who’s who of the […]

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It might not have the had the same wild excitement and swings we experienced on Day 5 of the 2023 WSOP Main Event, but Day 7 brought us a lot closer to identifying the champion. The 49 players who began the day ended up as 15 when all the dust settled, after some quick early […]

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Prominent high-stakes pro and six-time WSOP bracelet winner Brian Rast was named today as the 2023 enshrinee into the Poker Hall of Fame. Rast, 41, was elected in his second year of eligibility and becomes the 59th poker figure to be honored with PHOF induction. “With a nearly 20-year-long career riddled with record-breaking wins and […]

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Masato Yokosawa ran deep in this year’s World Series of Poker Main Event. With hundreds of thousands of fans, he came into Day 7 with 3,175,000. Unfortunately for him, his Main Event ended in brutal fashion. Yokosawa had built his stack up to about 5 million when he tangled with Daniel Vampan for it all. […]

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Josh Arieh captured his second bracelet of the 2023 World Series of Poker on Wednesday, winning Event #80, the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. High Roller. The victory was Arieh’s sixth in an official bracelet event, and he earned $711,313 after topping an elite 112-player field. Earlier in the series, Arieh took down Event #22: $10,000 Limit Hold’em […]

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