News about poker pros
Ethan “Rampage” Yau knows that if you have air on the river, you’re only going to win the pot if you force your opponent to fold. Most of us get nervous trying to pull off a $20 bluff, but over the weekend, Rampage took little time to risk $628,000 with nothing but Ace high on… Read more »
Negreanu gets on the scoreboard It was over two years in the making, but Daniel Negreanu finally did it. He finally won a match in High Stakes Duel, beating Eric Persson in the first round of High Stakes Duel 4 Monday night. Each man brought $50,000 to the table, so Negreanu pocketed a $100,000 prize.… Read more »
Load up on energy drinks Daniel Negreanu had better get some rest over these next six weeks because he has a busy summer ahead. Over the weekend, the Poker Hall of Famer posted his schedule for the 2023 World Series of Poker and it is a doozy, leaving him with essentially no rest at all.… Read more »
Betting with phantom chips William Kassouf is a good poker player with a bad reputation. He is known for his incessant “speech play” at the tables and while some people find it entertaining, it seems that most think he’s just being an asshole. And then there was the time in 2018 when he was caught… Read more »
Rock and roll and poker have long had a relationship with each other. Maybe it’s because they are both a bit off the beaten track – “outlaw,” so to speak – but it seems that they were made for each other. Now the online poker room GGPoker has enlisted one of the top hard rock… Read more »
Isaac Haxton has absolutely shot out of the gates in 2023. In the first quarter of the year (plus a day), he has won $5,154,740 in live poker tournaments, the first player to hit the $5 million mark. He eclipsed that plateau on Sunday, April 1, when he won Event #8: $25,000 No-Limit Hold’em at… Read more »
If Robbi Jade Lew wants to get her money back from Garrett Adelstein, she is going to be waiting a long, long time. In an interview on Doug Polk’s podcast on Monday, Adelstein said it simply isn’t happening. Adelstein has been relatively quiet in the six months since the now infamous Jack-Four hand on Hustler… Read more »
Last week, Doug Polk challenged “the world” to a heads-up cash game match. $100,000 buy-in, blinds of $200/$400, simple as that. Later that day, he announced his first opponent: Bill Perkins. When all was said and done on Sunday, Polk finished $29,800 in the hole, but the contest served as great publicity for The Lodge… Read more »
Dusting off the highlights You ever think you spotted something special, only to find out you were the last one to the party? That just happened to poker pro Allen “Chainsaw” Kessler this week. On Monday, Kessler posted a poll, asking the poker community who they thought was a better No-Limit Hold’em player: Phil Ivey… Read more »
Never say never It looks like poker pro Garrett Adelstein will not appear on Hustler Casino Live any time in the near future, or maybe ever. Adelstein, who famously lost a $269,000 to Robbi Jade Lew on the show six months ago and subsequently accused her of cheating because she made an insane call, has… Read more »
Can’t blame her, but still hurts With all the different streaming services we feel obligated to subscribe to nowadays, it can be tough to commit to another, especially if it’s for such niche programming like poker. So as good as PokerGO’s content has gotten, it is understandable if fans of shows like High Stakes Poker… Read more »
Nosebleed stakes history You ever buy in to a home game with $100, leave with $150, and spring for dinner like it was the best night of your life? Damn right you have. Hell, if I won a $5 sit-and-go, I was riding high for at least a couple hours. If I won nearly $2… Read more »
That’s one way to play Kings A Phil Hellmuth appearance on television or a live stream rarely disappoints, although I suppose that depends on what sort of thing disappoints you. On Tuesday night, the Poker Hall of Famer was on the popular Live at the Bike show and for the billionth time, lived up to… Read more »
Poker royalty relinquishes his throne Famed actor and poker enthusiast Gabe Kaplan has retired as commentator on High Stakes Poker after one episode in Season 10. PokerGO announced Kaplan’s decision on Wednesday, saying that his replacement, to work with A.J. Benza, will be named when the second episode airs next week. Kaplan’s final episode was… Read more »
Stakes got too rich High Stakes Duel has a new champion. On Monday, PokerGO announced that nobody wanted to challenge Jason Koon, thus allowing him to keep the title belt and to forever be known as the High Stakes Duel III champ. A month ago, Koon defeated Phil Hellmuth in High Stakes Duel III Round… Read more »
Athletes need to be careful Ohio is still in its first week of legalized sports betting, but already a couple of the state’s highest-profile residents have expressed concerns. The first was J.B. Bickerstaff, head coach of the NBA’s Cleveland Cavaliers. Speaking with The News-Herald, Bickerstaff talked about the proliferation of sportsbooks ads, saying, “You can’t… Read more »
And the poker gods smiled upon him With the year coming to a close, Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu has shared his tournament results, as he tends to do every year. Posting on Twitter, Negreanu disclosed that he bought in for a total of $3,224,564 and won $4,875,609, for a profit of $1,625,545. That… Read more »
A new challenger steps forward In August, Phil Hellmuth and Scott Seiver were set to face off against each other in the richest battle ever seen on PokerGO’s “High Stakes Duel III,” but a couple weeks before the match, Seiver withdrew for undisclosed personal reasons. On Tuesday, PokerGO announced that a new challenger has stepped… Read more »
Phil Ivey has never been known as the talkative one at the poker table. His public persona throughout his legendary poker career has been one of relative stoicism. Thus, it may have been surprising to hear last week that the World Poker Tour signed Ivey as its newest ambassador, one of the public faces of… Read more »
I bought two tickets for the record-breaking $2.04 billion Powerball lottery: one was a Quik Pik and one used “my” numbers that I played two and a half decades ago that I now have to play, lest I spiral if the numbers come up and I switched to some other combination. Surprise! I did not… Read more »
The Women in Poker Hall of Fame has announced the list of seven finalists for the Hall’s Class of 2022. The women are, in no particular order, Liv Boeree, Kristen Bicknell Foxen, Vanessa Selbst, Kara Scott, Jennifer Tilly, Terry King, and Angelica Hael. The public nomination process began in mid-August and closed on September 1.… Read more »
Trial underway two years later More than two years after the terrifying brutal murder of popular poker pro Susie “Susie Q” Zhao, the trial of the suspect has begun in Michigan. Prosecutors have 17 witnesses they can call upon and expect the trial to be fairly quick, about a week. The poker world was shocked… Read more »
Note: This article was originally published 8/30/22, but technical issues required it to be re-posted. Jorstad felt compelled to address the situation publicly It is quite commonplace for poker players, professionals, in particular, to make all sorts of financial deals with fellow poker players. Problem is, such deals, especially when they are only agreed upon… Read more »
The beat goes on There will be a High Stakes Duel III Round 5, after all. Days after Scott Seiver changed his mind about squaring off against 16-time World Series of Poker winner Phil Hellmuth for a $1.6 million prize pool, Koon has stepped in to challenge Hellmuth’s dominance in the series. Less than two… Read more »
Unprecedented stakes Phil Hellmuth and Scott Seiver have set their High Stakes Duel III rematch for August 22 at 8pm ET. As always, as it is a PokerGO event, it will be streamed exclusively on PokerGO from the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. This is the first time a High Stakes Duel face-off has gone… Read more »
