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The United States may be sitting under a “heat dome” right now, but nobody on Earth is hotter than the UK’s Benny Glaser. Over the weekend, Glaser became just the seventh player in World Series of Poker history to win three gold bracelets in a single WSOP. Glaser took the crown in Event #56: $2,500… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker continues to motor along through the steamy June days, but one thing has been determined. Following input from the public, the nominees for the 2025 Poker Hall of Fame have been announced. Ten people have been selected, but only one person will be announced publicly just ahead of the… Read more »
Approximately a third of the way through the 2025 World Series of Poker schedule, the Player of the Year race is shaping up quite nicely. Of course, if someone is going to win two bracelets in the early action, they are going to put themselves in a position to win the 2025 WSOP POY battle.… Read more »
Esteemed company As the World Series of Poker adds more tournaments every year, it has become less crazy to see someone win two bracelets in a single WSOP. It’s still an amazing feat – winning one bracelet is tremendous – but doing it over the course of 100 events is quite different than doing it… Read more »
While the 2025 World Series of Poker was in full swing, the World Poker Tour wanted to try to steal a bit of thunder from poker’s biggest tournament. For the WPT, that meant wrapping up two tournaments over the weekend that were subjected to delays so they could be filmed in Las Vegas for future… Read more »
For some, it feels like the beginning of summer camp. For others, it is more akin to Christmas. But the fact remains that the World Series of Poker is the preeminent poker tournament festival in the history of the game. Tuesday marks the start of the 56th annual rendition of the tournament, and there is… Read more »
We are a week away from the 2025 World Series of Poker. The Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas are prepping for action, wheeling out the massive piles of tournament chips for poker’s greatest tournament and evaluating the dealers’ acumen. The players are also getting ready, as many competitors are looking to move up the ladder… Read more »
For women in poker, few summits are left to climb. Sure, there is the World Series of Poker’s “Main Event,” which has not seen a woman make the final table since Barbara Enright’s stirring run in 1995. However, a historical first was achieved last week in Montenegro, with Canada’s Xuan Liu becoming the first woman… Read more »
Back from the dead Major League Baseball Commissioner Rob Manfred announced Tuesday that players who were previously on the league’s permanently ineligible list are reinstated once they pass away. This means that 16 players, including on-field legends Pete Rose and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, who were banned for gambling violations, are now back in the good… Read more »
There was a time when the World Series of Poker was sacrosanct on the tournament poker schedule. In the 21st century, however, that thought has gone out the window as several entities are looking to get a boost from poker’s longest-running tournament. Count the World Poker Tour into that mix as they will journey to… Read more »
The European Poker Tour has wrapped up its pre-World Series of Poker action with an exciting stop on the shores of the Mediterranean. Following the cancellation of the EPT stop in Paris due to political issues earlier this year, the EPT Monte Carlo was the first time that the crème of the European poker world… Read more »
While online poker receives extraordinarily little attention from state legislatures, sports betting continues to draw support from those very pols looking to raise revenues. Thirty-eight states plus the District of Columbia have passed some form of sports betting or daily fantasy sports, but one is going to have to wait for another legislative session before… Read more »
Earlier this week, the PokerGO Tour journeyed to the Champions Club in Houston for the second running of their PGT Texas Poker Open. The event was a rousing success, as the $2 million guaranteed bounty was exceeded. In the end, local player Ravee ‘Sonny’ Sundara outlasted the 699-entry field to take home a nice payday… Read more »
If you want an example of how fortunes can change quickly in poker, you need not look further than the 2025 U.S. Poker Open. After not even appearing on the leaderboard at the halfway point of the 2025 USPO, Shannon Shorr stormed from the back of the room to stun those in the competition by… Read more »
To be brutally honest, the 2024 World Series of Poker, and the $10,000 Championship Event (the “Main Event”) did not end well. The fiasco regarding Jonathan Tamayo’s win in the event – with a rail full of computers and professional players advising him – was a black eye to the sport, one that still hasn’t… Read more »
It is arguably the pinnacle event on the PokerGO Tour (save for the PGT Championship in December), and the battle for the 2025 U.S. Poker Open overall title is already a tight one. Halfway through the eight-tournament schedule, Matthew Wantman has taken firm advantage of his victory in Event #4 to hold a slim lead… Read more »
In just over a month (May 27, to be exact), the poker world will descend on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas for the 2025 World Series of Poker. The 2025 WSOP will hold its $10,000 Championship Event (the “Main Event”) from July 2 through July 16, and a Florida poker room is looking to… Read more »
It is one of the most controversial things in the poker world – the delayed final table that the World Poker Tour employs for broadcasting purposes. These tables, which feature tournaments that, in some cases, had a final table determined more than a month prior, have become a staple of the WPT roster of events.… Read more »
In what turned out to be a series of runs, it became the last run that was the best. Powering his way to the championship of the penultimate $15,000 tournament, Jesse Lonis capped an outstanding run at the PokerGO Tour Studios in Las Vegas with a deep run in the $25,000 Main Event. Along with… Read more »
Faded the flush High Stakes Poker’s popularity stems in part from, well, the high stakes for which the players play and the massive pots they can produce. And there has never been a bigger pot on the show than the one featured Monday night, when Alan Keating took down a cool $1,412,500 in a single… Read more »
It is said that the true test of a poker player is their abilities in games other than Texas Hold’em. If that is the case, then David ‘Chino’ Rheem is making a case to be considered amongst the best who have graced the baize. At the halfway mark of the PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha… Read more »
Despite efforts, the tournament poker world has been impacted by the “high roller” events on the various 2025 Player of the Year races. Since the creation of the PokerGO Tour in 2021 and the addition of other events like the Triton Super High Roller Series, players don’t have to wait for major tournaments on the… Read more »
One of the unique things about PokerStars is that they are consistently looking to innovate for the poker playing clientele. Come this April, one of the longest-lived online poker operations in the world will make its first foray into the live poker world in the U.S. The inaugural PokerStars Open Series will kick off the… 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 »
Following the dark days of “Black Friday” nearly fifteen years ago, the States of America’s online poker market has been, at best, a fragmented one. Since the day when the federal government ended online play on the major sites in the industry, the individual states have had to work under a conglomerate of differing regulations,… Read more »
