Poker Tournament News
Back to Commerce The 2025 World Series of Poker is just over two months away and while the schedule has been set for a while, there was still one detail left to settle: the Tournament of Champions. The WSOP announced this week that this year’s Tournament of Champions will once again be at The Commerce… Read more »
It may not seem like it, but the 2025 season of the World Poker Tour has been traversing the world. They did make it back to the States this week for their first event, the WPT Rolling Thunder at Thunder Valley Casino Resort in California. That tournament is in the books and, after a deal… Read more »
When it comes to mixed game formats, there is little discussion about who the preeminent players are. Michael Mizrachi, with three titles in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship at the World Series of Poker, comes to mind, as does Poker Hall of Famer and fellow three-time PPC winner Brian Rast. Another name can now be… Read more »
At one time, it was one of the featured events on the schedule for the World Poker Tour. After several years off the roster of tournaments featured by the WPT, the Bay 101 Shooting Star is set to return to the fold. In October, the one that started the “bounty” tournament craze will once again… Read more »
When it comes to casinos, a poker room is not a necessity, but it is a nice touch. Especially if there isn’t any sanctioned poker activity within a few hundred miles of you, a casino operating a poker game is sure to draw a significant amount of action. Such a situation has occurred at the… Read more »
Right in front of their noses Maurice Hawkins won the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at Horseshoe Baltimore this week to earn his 18th career ring, tied for the most all-time with Ari Engel. Controversy has erupted around his victory, however, as it turns out that a mistake by the dealer gave him… Read more »
Day 1: Totally Borked It’s never fun when technical difficulties disrupt online poker tournaments, but sometimes, things don’t go your way. The world is an imperfect place. But when it happens multiple times over the course of a week, players can and will get restless. On Monday, GGPoker was forced to cancel the $5 million… Read more »
Another tournament poker season is underway and, as typical for the two major ratings systems, there is no consensus. Because of the way that these two organizations allot their points, there is a major conflict in ranking the Poker Player of the Year. That is why there are twelve months to the year, however, and… Read more »
Get him a tryout with the Carolina Panthers We all know we’ve wanted to do it at some point in our poker lives. The temptation has been there. The vast majority of us, fortunately, have self-restraint and the understanding that we live in a society. On Sunday at the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOPC)… Read more »
Stomped the competition Joey Weissman completely owned the 2025 PokerGO Cup this past week and a half, officially being crowned the series champion on Thursday. For his accomplishments, he earned the PokerGO Cup trophy and a $25,000 PokerGO Tour (PGT) passport, good for buy-ins to PGT events. As PokerGO called it, Weissman’s romp through the… Read more »
First phased Sunday Million in PokerStars history As PokerStars approaches the 19th anniversary of its iconic Sunday Million tournament, the online poker room has announced that it is now “Sunday Million Season.” Sunday Million Season will span six weeks, February 23 to April 6, culminating with the $6 million guaranteed Sunday Million 19th Anniversary event.… Read more »
100 gold bracelet events GGPoker has released the schedule for the 2025 World Series of Poker, the first edition of the classic poker series under the online poker room’s ownership. Running May 27 through July 16, the WSOP will span 100 events at Horseshoe Las Vegas and Paris Las Vegas on the Las Vegas Strip.… Read more »
That’s quite the haul It is quite the accomplishment to win a single World Series of Poker (WSOP) Circuit ring, but how about three? And how about three in one Circuit stop? That is exactly what William Stanford pulled off this past weekend, catapulting his career ring total from four to seven in just a… Read more »
Cool half-milly Though the calendar turned to 2025 two weeks ago, the 2024 PokerGO Tour (PGT) season still had some unfinished business this weekend in the form of the PGT $1,000,000 Championship. Most of the 40 qualifying players and ten Dream Seat winners participated in the final tournament of the season and when the dust… Read more »
Pays more than chips to knock someone out In the few years that it has existed, the $1,000 Mystery Millions No-Limit Hold’em event at the World Series of Poker has been a huge hit. It not only sports a $1 million guaranteed prize for the winner, but is also a bounty tournament, which always makes… Read more »
There are about a million World Series of Poker tournaments running simultaneously right now, even after two finished up Sunday night. Both of those events saw players win their second bracelets, but neither Bryce Yockey nor Nick Guagenti is satisfied to stop there. Bryce Yockey can sure play Omaha Bryce Yockey won his first WSOP… Read more »
The 2024 World Series of Poker kicked off with what will likely be one of the highlight tournaments of the summer yesterday, the debut edition of the $5,000 Champions Reunion No-Limit Hold’em Freezeout event. All former WSOP Main Event champions received a free seat in the tournament, but with that gift comes a cost: a… Read more »
Later this week, the 55th Annual World Series of Poker will begin its play. The Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas will be abuzz as both professional and the greenest amateur players look to claim poker’s biggest prize. There is also another prize on the line for these players – ranking points on the two major… Read more »
The televised final table has been set at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Montreal Main Event as just six players remain at the Playground Club de Poker. Right now, it looks like a two-man race, with Dongwoo Ko entering Wednesday’s action as the chip leader, holding 15.100 million chips, and Tommy Nguyen in second with… Read more »
Every day is a fine day for an overlay. Unless, I suppose, you run a poker room and the overlay is massive. Over the weekend, Doug Polk, Andrew Neeme, and Brad Owen had to swallow $417,000 in overlay for the $2 million guaranteed Lodge Championship Series Main Event at their Lodge Poker Club in Austin,… Read more »
After years of trying, Lex Veldhuis finally came through. On Monday, the Team PokerStars Pro and prolific streamer won his very first Championship of Online Poker on Stars, taking the crown in the $5,200 No-Limit Hold’em Titans event in the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). The high stakes tournament attracted the world’s best online… Read more »
Chris Moneymaker helped launch the poker boom in 2003 when he won the World Series of Poker Main Event, but even though he is a Poker Hall of Famer and one of the greatest ambassadors the game has ever had, he has not won anything of note since. On Monday, though, he hoisted the trophy… Read more »
After their massive success last year, you knew that they would be back in 2024. PokerStars announced last week that its North American Poker Tour stop in Las Vegas will return in November. The location once again will be Resorts World Las Vegas, which will host several big tournaments during a ten-day run in the… Read more »
Well, the World Poker Tour (WPT) Choctaw Main Event final table is certainly something. On Monday, the field was whittled from 35 down to the six players who will vie for the $361,600 first prize. Everyone remaining is guaranteed at least $75,000. And what a final table it will be. Half of the players have… Read more »
The inaugural Texas Poker Open Main Event is in the books and the honor of being the tournament’s first-ever winner belongs to Ren Lin, who earned $400,000 for his achievement. Lin nabbed 400 PokerGO Tour points for the victory, which, when the leader board is updated, should put him just on the outside of the… Read more »
