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We hardly knew ye Less than a year after reopening, the Planet Hollywood poker room in Las Vegas is closing once again. Over the weekend, YouTuber, poker player, and Planet Hollywood poker dealer “Vegas Poker Nomad,” also known as “El Diesel,” posted a video to break the news that the poker room’s last day will… Read more »
The PokerGO Tour is fresh off the conclusion of its 2025 season, where it crowned Alex Foxen the Player of the Year and Chad Eveslage the PGT World Champion. After a brief pause for reflection and celebration, the PGT has announced a list of the 2026 tournaments that will be contested in the PokerGO Studios… Read more »
Maintaining their integrity David Lappin and Dara O’Kearney, hosts of the popular “The Chip Race” poker podcast, have announced that they are cutting ties with WPT Global after the poker site signed Tony “Ren” Lin as an ambassador. In a joint statement posted to social media on Tuesday, Lappin and Kearney said that when they… Read more »
With the completion of the 2026 PGT Last Chance Series, the field is now set for the 2025 PGT Championship Invitational. This tournament will crown the 2025 PGT World Champion and features the Top 40 players on the season-long PGT Leaderboard, with alternates replacing players who choose not to participate, and fourteen “wild card” choices… Read more »
We are a third of the way through the 2026 PGT Last Chance Series, and it is beginning to get a bit interesting. Dominating all the way through the tournament, Patrick Leonard stormed to the title in Event #2 of the schedule, and it was a much-needed boost for the Brit. With the victory, Leonard… Read more »
It is often said that it isn’t where you start, but where you end. Clemen Deng was the epitome of that axiom on Tuesday night at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas, as he started the final table of Event #1 of the 2026 PGT Last Chance Series as the short stack. By the end,… Read more »
It may be early, but it appears that Jesse Lonis’ dominance in 2025 will continue into 2026. After Day One of Event #1 of the 2026 PokerGO Tour Last Chance Series, Lonis is the overwhelming leader at the final table. How “overwhelming?” Lonis holds more than three million chips more than Poker Hall of Famer… Read more »
The confetti has been swept, the champagne flutes have been carefully washed and put away, and the revelry of another New Year’s celebration has come to a close. With the calendar turning to 2026, however, we must reflect on a subject that seems to have gone quiet, even in our own professional area: the demise… Read more »
After twelve months of combat on the baize around the world, you would think that there would be some consensus regarding the two Player of the Year races. Alas, that might be a hope that will never come to pass. For 2025, the two major POY countdowns – CardPlayer Magazine and the Global Poker Index… Read more »
Wrapping up their 2025 tournament poker season at Wynn Las Vegas, the World Poker Tour held two events to crown their season-ending champions. On the WPT Prime Championship on Saturday, a four-hour battle was highlighted by a run from the bottom of the standings. Sunday would see the crowning of the WPT World Championship in… Read more »
The World Poker Tour is finalizing its 2025 season with the 2025 WPT World Championship festival. Over the past couple of weeks, players have come out in droves to Wynn Las Vegas to put their impressions on the WPT for 2025, and this weekend they will crown champions across two of their entities. On Saturday,… Read more »
It has been a weeklong run to reach the final eight of the $25,000 2025 WSOP Super Main Event, but the members of that table are now set. It is an international final table featuring players from six countries (the U.S. is the only one with more than one player, at three). Leading the way… Read more »
Over the weekend, the World Poker Tour continued the celebration of its 2025 season by playing through three Day Ones of the 2025 WPT World Championship. While the prize pool might not be as eye-watering as those in other locales, the players didn’t seem to care as they built nearly a $20 million prize pool.… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker Paradise, currently underway at Atlantis in the Bahamas, has become notable this year, and it can be debated whether it is a good thing or a blight on poker. The $60 million guaranteed Super Main Event, with a $25,000 buy-in, has drawn the lion’s share of attention, rather than… Read more »
While some eyes may be paying attention to the action going on in the Bahamas, there is some great poker action going on in Las Vegas right now. The World Poker Tour has laid anchor at Wynn Las Vegas for its own poker festival, kicked off by the WPT Prime Championship. After three Day Ones… Read more »
Most people go to the Bahamas for the sunshine and warm temperatures, especially this time of year. For poker denizens, however, they are in the Bahamas to try to take their share of the millions of dollars offered by the World Series of Poker. The 2025 WSOP Paradise is in full swing with several events… Read more »
It has been a long year on the tournament poker circuit. There have been some tremendous highlights (here’s looking at you, Michael Mizrachi!) and some questionable conduct by others (the less “table talk,” the better). But now it comes down to three different tournaments battling for the eyes – and wallets – of the tournament… Read more »
It has become one of the most controversial gambling scandals in professional sports. A Basketball Hall of Famer, former World Champion, and respected commentator and coach, charged with money laundering and wire fraud amid involvement with alleged organized crime figures in a scam that involved millions of dollars and an elaborate cheating scheme. Facing all… Read more »
We have come a long way from January in the different Player of the Year races. Everyone started 2025 with visions of it being “their” year. Many of those dreams have gone up in smoke, but some will have a pathway to either the CardPlayer Magazine, Global Poker Index, or PokerGO Tour Player of the… Read more »
This afternoon, the poker community learned of the passing of one of its legends, and it was not a person who ever picked up a chip. Noted photographer Ulvis Alberts, whose iconic portrait-style photographs of poker’s greatest players and other celebrities are renowned worldwide, passed away from undisclosed causes. Alberts was eighty-three years old. “A… Read more »
At the start of action featuring the final six players from the North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Las Vegas Main Event, it looked to be Thomas Boivin’s tournament to lose. Boivin held a massive lead over Jennifer Shahade and, if there was a sentimental favorite among the railbirds, it was the chess Grandmaster looking for… Read more »
After five days of battle on the green baize at Resorts World Las Vegas, the final table has been determined in the PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas Main Event. It may appear that it is Thomas Boivin’s tournament to lose, as he has built a massive stack of 12.545 million chips for battle… Read more »
If you hadn’t noticed, Las Vegas has been a little busy of late with poker tournament action. The PokerGO Tour has had a couple of events run, but last week, the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) entered the fray, with a $50,000 Super High Roller tournament and a $5,000 Main Event that offered something… Read more »
After the 2025 World Series of Poker, Jesse Lonis was riding high on the different Player of the Year races in poker. The thought that Lonis’ lead was insurmountable has begun to crumble, however, as we enter the homestretch of the 2025 Player of the Year races. With just weeks to go before the end… Read more »
Five men came back on Wednesday afternoon, ready to determine the champion of the 2025 Super High Roller Bowl $100,000 Pot Limit Omaha tournament, and a surprise was in store for all. Coming out of the middle of the pack, John Riordan battled from a deficit in heads-up play against the start-of-day chip leader, Sam… Read more »
