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After a lengthy hiatus, the European Poker Tour has returned to action at Casino Barcelona in Spain. The €5,000 buy-in event was quite popular with the players and, as of Wednesday, had played down to the final 28 players. Leading the way into the Day Five action on Thursday at the 2026 EPT Barcelona will… Read more »
It was quite the eventful weekend in Cyprus as the World Poker Tour came to town. The 2026 WPT Cyprus would fail to draw enough players to crack its $2 million guarantee but, as it always has, the WPT stepped up and ate the difference. Perhaps what was more impressive was that the Day 1A… Read more »
Things have been quiet on the World Poker Tour of late. After a stop earlier in August in Florida, the WPT has packed up the circus and moved onto the Chamada Prestige Hotel & Spa in Cyprus for their next big event. The 2026 WPT Cyprus is underway as we speak, as it looks to… Read more »
With all the activity in the tournament poker world, you would be remiss if you forgot that the 2026 European Poker Tour season is underway. That will be rectified this week as the crème of the European poker world goes to one of its favorite locations, the Casino Barcelona in Spain. The EPT Barcelona will… Read more »
In just over an hour on Wednesday night, poker history was made. Lucas Jumalon became the second-youngest man to win the World Series of Poker’s Main Event and the first man since Koray Aldemir to go wire-to-wire with the victory. With the win, Jumalon increased his career earnings massively, going from $180,880 in career earnings… Read more »
After a Monday night that seemed like it would last forever, it was a rather rapid Tuesday for the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table. It only took a couple of hours to go from the final seven players, blow past the final three players, and reach the final two survivors in the tournament. On… Read more »
Tonight…it begins. The 2026 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event,” as it has become known – will bring nine men back to Paris Las Vegas to battle it out for the coveted World Championship of poker. Alas, some of these competitors have more of a chance than the others. In… Read more »
We are less than a week from the resumption of the 2026 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event,” as it has become known. Nine men will return to Paris Las Vegas on August 3 to battle it out for the coveted World Championship of poker. Alas, some of these competitors… Read more »
We are less than a week from the resumption of the 2026 World Series of Poker $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event,” as it has become known. Nine men will return to Paris Las Vegas on August 3 to battle it out for the coveted World Championship of poker. Alas, some of these competitors… Read more »
There has been a great deal of controversy over the World Series of Poker’s Player of the Year race, but it has done one thing: completely reworked the two overall POYs in the game. A completely new list of contenders – save for a couple – has announced their intentions for the year-long race. The… Read more »
The tables are gone, the lights taken down from the ceilings of the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. The 2026 World Series of Poker only has two things left to wrap up from its summertime bacchanalia. One, the 2026 WSOP Main Event final table, which will be contested on August 3-5. The other? Might take… Read more »
All eyes on me Perhaps it is a little unfortunate that in writing about someone who won a cherished World Series of Poker bracelet, much or most of the focus is on the runner-up. But when the runner-up is Phil Hellmuth, that’s a big part of the story, like it or not. On Wednesday night,… Read more »
At the start, 9,208 hopefuls had a single dream: to win the 2026 WSOP Main Event. Now, after almost two weeks of poker, the final nine men have been determined in the race. It is also time to epitomize one of the axioms of the United States Marine Corps when it comes to taking action… Read more »
After nearly two weeks of poker warfare, it has come down to this. The 2026 WSOP Main Event has entered its penultimate day, with 21 players left to battle for the nine slots that will come back in August to determine the next World Champion. Leading the way heading into Day Eight will be the… Read more »
On Day Four at the 2026 WSOP Main Event, the tension was palpable. 1,389 players were left in the field after the Day Three battles, but seven of them would not receive anything for their efforts. After two hours, the drama broke, involving a former World Champion, and by the end of the night there… Read more »
The grind known as the 2026 WSOP $10,000 Championship Event – the 2026 WSOP Main Event, to some – continued through Wednesday as the field came together for the first time. The object of the five levels of play on Day Three was to get to the money bubble, and the field got very close.… Read more »
The 2026 World Series of Poker’s $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event” to the world – has blasted through its first four Day Ones and its two Day Two flights. Over 9,000 players entered the tournament, and as of Wednesday morning, only 3,294 of those hopefuls remain. For those who were able to watch… Read more »
The 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event is underway in Las Vegas, and ESPN has assumed command of the broadcasting duties. Day 1B is currently ongoing and, harkening back to the past in poker, how about a live blog for the proceedings? Over the next couple of hours, we’ll give you a feel for… Read more »
If you have been living under a rock somewhere, then it might have passed your attention that the 2026 World Series of Poker has been underway…for the past six weeks. All those tournaments have been a prelude to what literally thousands of people have been waiting for, and Thursday will bring that action to life.… Read more »
It might have taken an extra day, but it was worth the wait for reigning World Champion Michael Mizrachi. Going into overtime against two overmatched opponents, Mizrachi held over 80% of the chips in play in Event #70, the $10,000 Pot Limit Omaha World Championship. With such an advantage, Mizrachi barely broke a sweat on… Read more »
Ahead of the start of the $10,000 Championship Event – the “Main Event” of the World Series of Poker – the lineup on the Player of the Year race has completely shuffled. Shaun Deeb, who was near the top just a couple of weeks ago in his pursuit of repeating as POY, is now mired… Read more »
Call of the year? In just her second-ever World Series of Poker event, Skye Chen won the 2026 WSOP Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship, outlasting Aubrey Williams in a thrilling heads-up contest. It was the largest Ladies event in WSOP history, with 1,475 entrants, eclipsing last year’s record of 1,368 entrants. After Lisa Teebagy was eliminated… Read more »
Benny Glaser has had a heck of a poker career, but boy, this past year has been something. Among other accomplishments, in 2025, he became just the seventh player in history to win three bracelets in a single World Series of Poker. And now, he has won the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship, the most… Read more »
After four days of battling across several disciplines of poker, the field has been reduced to the final six players in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship. Event #60 concludes today at the 2026 World Series of Poker, and the man who led Day Four has left no doubt that he is looking for the overall… Read more »
The crème is slowly rising to the top in the $50,000 Poker Players’ Championship, Event #60 on the 2026 World Series of Poker schedule. After three days of battle, the final fifteen men are left standing, one of whom will be a new champion for the event after the elimination of former PPC champion Brian… Read more »
