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Just 16 players remain in the 2022 World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. Joshua Kay is the chip leader heading into Day 4 with 11.825 million chips. Everyone still in the tournament is guaranteed at least $49,825, but most have their sights set on the… Read more »
Jake Ferro picked up 2022 where he left off from last year, as he goes into Day 3 of the World Poker Tour (WPT) Lucky Hearts Poker Open as the chip leader. Just 87 players remain of the 553 that began Day 2; everyone that is playing on Monday has already made the money. Last… Read more »
History held serve for the World Poker Tour as a massive throng of people arrived for Day 1B of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open on Saturday. The entries on Saturday, combined with the Day 1A field, set a new record for the tournament and pushed the prize pool north of the $6 million mark.… Read more »
The inaugural “Stairway to Millions” has concluded in Las Vegas and, overall, PokerGO has to be pleased with the results of the event. One player who is incredibly pleased with how the battle turned out was Nick Petrangelo. Petrangelo took the victories in not only the lead-up to the final event, a $50,000 tournament that… Read more »
Jake Schindler won the $25,000 buy-in Event #6 of PokerGO's Stairway to Millions as the fields get ever smaller with growing price points. Read more »
High Roller events suit him just fine For someone who has professed to not playing many high roller poker tournaments, Michael Wang certainly looked every bit of a high stakes veteran, winning the $15,000 PokerGO Stairway to Millions Event #5 on Monday for $219,300. And because he finished in the money, he automatically qualified for… Read more »
The inaugural “Stairway to Millions” tournament schedule at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas has certainly lived up to its potential. Meant to give players the opportunity to get into host PokerGO’s “High Roller” tournaments, the “Stairway to Millions” has actually had some decent player numbers as the value of the event went up.… Read more »
Sometimes, the crème does rise to the top. Continuing his streak in PokerGO’s “Stairway to Millions” series at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Chance Kornuth not only cashed in the third of three events on the calendar, but he also won his second tournament on the roster. This victory for Kornuth in Event… Read more »
The latest effort from PokerGO to create a tournament poker schedule is its “Stairway to Millions,” honestly not an original idea (more on this in a moment). The “Stairway to Millions” kicked off on Wednesday with its first tournament at ARIA Resort & Casino and, to PokerGO’s credit, it actually turned out to be a… Read more »
Now he just needs the earnings title If you register for a high stakes poker tournament and see Michael Addamo there, I highly advise you to turn around and go home or turn off your computer. He is going to win it. On Tuesday, he continued his insane run, winning the $10,300 GGPoker Super MILLION$… Read more »
The rematch Phil Hellmuth asked for it and now he’s got it. On Monday evening, PokerGO announced that the High Stakes Duel III rematch between Hellmuth and Tom Dwan is on, scheduled for January 26 at 8:00pm ET. As one would guess, PokerGO will be streaming the action. The two last met in August in… Read more »
In an occurrence that might have the “powers that be” at PokerGO reevaluating their decision, the final tournament of the first 2022 PokerGO Tour event, at The Venetian in Las Vegas, is in the books. With only 20 entries coming to the fore, Ali Imsirovic was able to take the title, booking his first win… Read more »
Friday saw the continuation of festivities in the Venetian DeepStacks tournament schedule and, in particular, the PokerGO Tour’s Venetian High Rollers events. Up for the players on Friday was the $15,000 No Limit Hold’em version of events and it featured what has become commonplace for the events during this run. One, there was a smallish… Read more »
Fresh off of crowning their 2021 champion, the PokerGO Tour is back for their second run. The 2022 version of the “High Roller” circuit opened action at the Venetian in Las Vegas earlier this week, replete with those who a $10,000 buy in (minimum) is a pittance. One thing that has not changed, however, are… Read more »
From busto to robusto? Run It Once Poker, the online poker room founded by former poker pro Phil Galfond, has packed in its global operations. As of 2:00am CET on Monday, January 3, games in progress could no longer be joined. Eight hours later, all games were shut down. That’s the bad news. The good… Read more »
As we enter a New Year – hey, at least it was not like poker’s “lost year” – there are some situations to tidy up. The Player of the Year awards for the two major outlets, CardPlayer Magazine and the Global Poker Index, could save some money this year by just combining into one award,… Read more »
The leading online poker proponent in the Senate Former Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D – Nev.) passed away on Wednesday at the age of 82. Reid underwent surgery for pancreatic cancer in 2018 and said in early 2019 that he was in remission. According to his wife, it does appear that his death was… Read more »
Staying power I have a very specific fond memory of the Flamingo Las Vegas. It was probably 2005, the first year I covered the World Series of Poker live at the Rio. My brother came to visit and, having seen all he was going to see at the WSOP, decided to enter a small daily… Read more »
Under new management In early December, Johnny Chan’s 888 Social, a poker room or “social club” in Houston, closed without warning, leaving many customers with money locked up inside. Fortunately for those players, it looks like all may be well, as the club has a new owner, Sanjeev Vora, who is ready to reopen under… Read more »
Total domination It wasn’t even close. Ali Imsirovic was named the 2021 PokerGO Tour Player of the Year this week, something that looked like an inevitability for months. For his accomplishment, Imsirovic wins $200,000 on behalf of Guaranteed Rate, the PokerGO Tour’s sponsor. Now, I’m not going to get into how Player of the Year… Read more »
Poker is a game that requires 100% mental fortitude at all times. The scary thing about that is that everything could be going swimmingly for hours, for days, and then one slip up – be it a mental lapse or an unlucky deal – could send you spiraling. And even if that one moment doesn’t… Read more »
To say that there is a dominant leader at the final table of the World Poker Tour’s stop at the Five Diamond World Poker Classic would be like saying Michael Jordan was an OK basketball player. Taylor Black came into Day Four of the Five Diamond among the leaders and finished the day with more… Read more »
Six more levels are in the books at the Bellagio in Las Vegas, and it is shaping up to be one of the best events of 2021 for the World Poker Tour. The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic is in full swing, shattering the money bubble on Friday in driving down to the final… Read more »
The final major tournament of one of the circuits is fully underway at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. After two days of battle set the field, World Poker Tour Champions’ Club Member Ben Hamnett has forged his way into the lead of the WPT Five Diamon World Poker Classic with a sizeable 800,000 chip stack.… Read more »
Simple, yet revolutionary invention The poker world lost a legend Tuesday, as Henry Orenstein, the inventor of the hole card camera, passed away at the age of 98. While few details of his passing are known, it was confirmed by president and CEO of PokerGO, and fellow poker luminary, Mori Eskandani. Were it not for… Read more »
