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If you’re going to show your domination is a particular discipline, then you simply pound your opposition into submission. Spain’s Lautaro Guerra Cabrerizo did just that this weekend at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas, winning three of the last four tournaments in the inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series. Along the way, he… Read more »
The inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series has turned out to be an overwhelming success. Many of the seven events that have run have seen well over 100 entries (only Events #4 and #6 came up a bit short) and the competition has been exciting. One player, in particular, has found it to be… Read more »
Bookmakers love Houston and Alabama The NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament begins today and with it will come tons and tons of betting. The American Gaming Association projects that 68 million Americans will wager $15.5 billion during March Madness. With that in mind, let’s take a look at who the sportsbooks are tabbing as the favorites,… Read more »
Texas Hold’em has been all the rage in the States for quite some time. If you go outside the borders of the U. S., then you’ll usually find that Pot Limit Omaha Hold’em is the game of choice. For the first time, the PokerGO Tour opened the doors to a Pot Limit Omaha tournament schedule,… Read more »
Poker is a game, much like golf, where the players uphold the integrity of the rules themselves. Dating back to the age of the riverboat gamblers of the 1800s, those who plied their trade often would settle any disagreements with fisticuffs and, on extreme occasions, with a weapon. It led to the game of poker… Read more »
Two different SCOOPs PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) for players in the United States returns next week, with $5 million in combined guaranteed prize pools for players in Michigan, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. Running March 17 through April 3, the schedule has 252 events with buy-ins ranging from $10 to $2,500. There will… Read more »
On Friday night, the best and brightest from the world of poker took center stage at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas for the 2023 Global Poker Awards. For the past four years (before that, the awards were handed out in Europe and the States), the crème of the poker world has gathered to salute… Read more »
The game of poker has been around for a few hundred years, and writing about the game has been active for just about as long. R. F. Foster first penned the rules of the game in his 1837 treatise Foster’s Complete Hoyle, noting that the game had similarities to the Persian game as nas. From… Read more »
A couple of weeks ago, we looked at the CardPlayer Magazine Player of the Year race in the early going of 2023. We didn’t touch on the Global Poker Index POY battle because…well, at that time, they hadn’t released a ranking because they were still garnering information. As we begin the month of March, the… Read more »
That’s some added value Daniel Negreanu can exhale. On Monday, the GGPoker GGMasters Overlay Edition concluded and while there was a gigantic overlay, Negreanu will not have to foot any of the bill. The $150 buy-in tournament drew 64,622 entries, which is fantastic. The problem – and GGPoker fully anticipated this, hence the name of… Read more »
In a dizzying display of poker, Romania’s Razvan Belea dominated the field of the European Poker Tour Paris Main Event on Sunday. Holding the lead from Day Four onward, Belea defeated Sweden’s Peter Jorgne in heads-up action to capture the million-plus Euro payday. For Belea, it was even more special because he had qualified for… Read more »
Four days are in the books for the 2023 European Poker Tour Paris Main Event and we’ve come down to crunch time. Only fifteen players remain in the field, including Day Three chip leader Konstantin Held and World Series of Poker bracelet winner Harry Lodge. They will be looking up at the chip leader Razvan… Read more »
The action in Paris has been brisk, so much so that Day Three for the European Poker Tour’s stop in the City of Lights has been completed. The massive field was in the money for the start of Day Three, with each of the 174 players left receiving a piece of the €7.7 million-plus prize… 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 »
One of the parlor games that the gaming industry likes to play is “Which state will be the next to pass online gaming regulations?” Of course, there are the usual suspects – California, Texas, and Florida, to name a few – but there is one state lurking out there that has escaped notice…that is until… Read more »
We’re now six weeks into the 2023 tournament poker season and one thing is coming evident. The effect of the “High Roller” tournaments, especially the PokerGO Tour, is not as pronounced as it has been in the past. This has allowed some of the tournament poker grinders outside of the “high roller” world to step… Read more »
The inaugural PokerGO Tour Mixed Game Series is in the books and, by all appearances, it was a successful run for the eight-tournament festival (other than not being streamed on PokerGO, that is). In the finale on Saturday (there was a final tournament on Sunday, won by Cary Katz), Jason Mercier captured the 10-Game Championship… Read more »
There’s still some work to do in the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas this Saturday. The $25,000 10-Game Championship has worked its way down to the final eighteen players. Dan Zack will lead those players to action on Saturday, with several of the players potentially able to make a run toward the PGT Mixed Game… Read more »
It was an odd Thursday at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas. The inaugural running of the PokerGO Tour Mixed Game Series saw another champion crowned in Nick Guagenti. Another event, however, failed to reach a champion due to the way the scheduling breaks down and there is no indication when the final two players… Read more »
The Global Poker Index (GPI) and The Hendon Mob (THM) have published the “final four” candidates for each of the Global Poker Awards’ Fans Choice categories. Said categories are Best Trophy, Fave Livestream (yes, that’s “Fave”), People’s Choice for Poker Personality, and Best Hand. The final vote in these categories is open to the public,… Read more »
Doesn’t it seem like it was just moments ago that the PokerGO Tour was in action? You wouldn’t be wrong. Hot off the heels of ending the 2023 PokerGO Cup, the PGT jumped right back into action with something a little different for the players. This time around, it is a Mixed Game Festival, which… Read more »
It is another moment in poker history provided by PokerStars. With only two runnings of the tournament in its history, the PokerStars Players’ Championship has quickly etched its name in the annals of poker history. In only the second running of the tournament since its creation in 2019, the 1014 entry field for the 2023… Read more »
PokerGo has hired professional poker player Nick Schulman as the new commentator for High Stakes Poker, replacing the legendary Gabe Kaplan, who retired from the show last week. “To join the show that started it all and replace the best to ever do it is a tremendous honor,” said Schulman in Tuesday’s press release. “Thank… Read more »
Retail sports betting first, then online Massachusetts has finally joined most of its neighbors, as its legal sports betting market has gone live. As of 10:00am Tuesday, people located within the borders of the Commonwealth can place bets at one of three brick-and-mortar casinos: Encore Boston Harbor, MGM Springfield, and Plainridge Park Casino. All just… Read more »
In a quick four-hour final table, Portugal’s Michel Dattani emerged from the 889-entry field to capture the championship of the 2023 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure. In winning the first PCA since 2019, Dattani also captures his largest-ever payday after making a deal with countryman Pedro Neves, who earned second-place honors. In a rather strange occurrence, however,… Read more »
