Poker Tournament News
For those who believe that the PokerGO Tour is hibernating during the 2025 World Series of Poker, you might want to think again. Instead of pausing operations, the PGT will incorporate many of the events from the summertime festival as part of their 2025 schedule. Depending on the finishes in these tournaments, the entirety of… Read more »
In the world of poker, there is only one scoreboard that matters – how much money have you won? With this fact in mind (and before the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker), Poker News Daily has headed over to The Hendon Mob poker database with a critical question: Who are the all-time… 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 »
In the world of poker, there is only one scoreboard that matters – how much money have you won? With this fact in mind (and before the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker), Poker News Daily has headed over to The Hendon Mob poker database with a critical question: Who are the all-time… 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 »
In the world of poker, there is only one scoreboard that matters – how much money have you won? With this fact in mind (and before the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker), Poker News Daily has headed over to The Hendon Mob poker database with a critical question: Who are the all-time… Read more »
In the world of poker, there is only one scoreboard that matters – how much money have you won? With this fact in mind (and before the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker), Poker News Daily has headed over to The Hendon Mob poker database with a critical question: Who are the all-time… Read more »
Biggest chip stack, then no chip stack For reasons unknown but which could be guessed, poker pro Ali Imsirovic was ejected from a Florida poker tournament on Thursday. It was Day 1A of the $1,200 RunGood Poker Series Main Event at bestbet Jacksonville and Imsirovic was doing very well, likely oblivious to the fact that… 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 »
In the world of poker, there is only one scoreboard that matters – how much money have you won? With this fact in mind (and before the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker), Poker News Daily has headed over to The Hendon Mob poker database with a critical question: Who are the all-time… Read more »
Slide, not throw PokerStars has announced that, in an effort to prevent cheating, slide dealing will soon become the standard method with which to deal cards in all live events. It was first introduced at last year’s EPT Barcelona, will be used in select events at the upcoming EPT Monte-Carlo, and will be “fully implemented”… Read more »
In the world of poker, there is only one scoreboard that matters – how much money have you won? With this fact in mind (and before the start of the 2025 World Series of Poker), Poker News Daily has headed over to The Hendon Mob poker database with a critical question: Who are the all-time… Read more »
In Florida, the question of what to do with former greyhound tracks has confounded owners for several years. Since greyhound racing was banned in 2021, the roughly dozen tracks in the state have had to be repurposed, as the Fort Myers Greyhound Track did in converting to a poker room, bowling alley, and sports field… 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 »
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 »
Hey, a $4,000 profit is still pretty nice When a poker tournament ends with 15 players remaining, it is generally safe to assume that the event was some sort of satellite tournament. Perhaps it awarded 15 seats to a bigger tourney, or maybe 14 seats and the 15th-place finisher won a little cash. But in… 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 »
Back to Commerce The 2025 World Series of Poker is just over two months away and while the schedule has been set for a while, there was still one detail left to settle: the Tournament of Champions. The WSOP announced this week that this year’s Tournament of Champions will once again be at The Commerce… Read more »
