Poker Tournament News
The first month of 2026 is complete, and the PokerGO Tour has been busy on both sides of the calendar. The PGT closed out its 2025 season by crowning Chad Eveslage as its PGT World Champion, but more importantly the first series is in the books for the circuit. The PGT Kickoff took place last… Read more »
They’ve been inactive since December of last year, when they finished off the season with their stop in Prague. The European Poker Tour, however, is ready to kick back into action with the first event of its 2026 season. The EPT will be taking a trip to the “City of Lights,” Paris, bringing their highly… 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 »
Fifty-four players came to the tables at the PokerGO Studios at ARIA in Las Vegas on Monday, but only one could walk away with the 2025 PGT Championship Invitational title. Despite starting in the middle of the pack, Chad Eveslage was able to vanquish the “big guns” and defeat Andrew Lichtenberger for the title. For… 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 »
“Saddened me, made me angry” A popular poker player in South Australia has admitted to cheating in a New Year’s Eve tournament in Cobram, Victoria. Chris Skinner, who has $312,270 in live tournament earnings, according to The Hendon Mob figures, was accused of and eventually admitted to adding chips to his stack in the AU$125… 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 »
When we recapped the races in the two Player of the Year battles on CardPlayer Magazine and with the Global Poker Index, we left off the one battle remaining. The fight for the PokerGO Tour Championship will not conclude until the start of 2026, with a “Last Chance” Series leading up to the 2026 PGT… 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 »
In what would turn out to be an actual “battle of the ages,” the youngest player at the final table of the 2025 WSOP Super Main Event was able to outlast the oldest player on the felt. 27-year-old Bernhard Binder defeated the start-of-day chip leader, 78-year-old Jean-Noel Thorel, in what was a thrilling heads-up battle.… Read more »
The slowroll. You don’t see it that often in big-time poker events anymore, but when you do, hoo boy. It is considered one of the most unsportsmanlike things one can do at a poker table, frowned upon by just about everyone except the slowroller. But hey, if you’re going to try to put your opponent… Read more »
Spring ahead PokerStars’ Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is one of the most highly anticipated internet poker festivals every year. Introduced in 2009, it popularized the three-tiered buy-in structure, now a common sight at online poker rooms. SCOOP is typically in May, its conclusion cozying up to the start of the World Series of… Read more »
While the uninitiated might think of poker as just “playing cards,” for many it is a game of warfare that demands strategic thinking. Some tomes discuss optimal strategies, but few address chip usage. A new trend in tournament poker is sparking discussion, to the point that it could come up at the 2026 meeting of… 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 »
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 »
One of the most welcomed sites in poker, other than holding the nuts and watching your opponent move all-in, is when a tournament has an overlay. That is, when there is a guaranteed prize pool, but the total buy-ins don’t reach the guarantee, so the casino or tournament organizer must make up the difference. Free… 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 »
Hot on the heels of the completion of their PLO Series II event over the weekend, the PokerGO Tour jumped back into the Omaha pool to start the week. After two days of battle, the Super High Roller Bowl: $100,000 Pot Limit Omaha extravaganza has worked its way down to the final five players. Leading… Read more »
As the poker world debated the merits of playing in high-stakes poker games over the weekend, the PokerGO Tour went about the business of concluding its latest series. The 2025 PGT PLO Series II came to a close with a $25,000 Main Event, and it brought out 68 entries for the four-card variant of the… Read more »
The fight for the championship of the 2025 PokerGO Tour PLO Series II is heating up, and so is Sean Winter. After coming up short in two consecutive events, Winter would finally break through in his third bite at the apple. After Winter’s victory in Event #5 (and Bryce Yockey’s win in Event #6), Winter… Read more »
