On Wednesday, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California announced that former NBA star Gilbert Arenas and five other men have been arrested for operating an illegal high stakes poker game in California. Arenas faces serious federal charges including: According to the USAO’s press release, Arenas allegedly rented out an Encino mansion… Read more »
Go get Peacock A fan-favorite poker show from the heyday of poker television is set to make its triumphant return. On Monday, PokerGO and PokerStars announced that they are bringing back the National Heads-Up Poker Championship (NHUPC), which went off the air more than a decade ago. The NHUPC will debut on the Peacock streaming… Read more »
If you recall, during the 2025 World Series of Poker, we ran down every state in the U.S., detailing the top three money earners by where the players came from. It was an intriguing listing, with a few surprises, and one astute reader had a thought. “How about doing this for Canada?” that reader asked…so… Read more »
Professional poker player Elvis Bersai Lopez-Ambrosio, best known to livestream poker fans as “Pepe,” was among eight people charged with human trafficking crimes by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of New Mexico. The Lopez Human Smuggling Organization, as the government is calling it, operated out of both the United States and Guatemala. In… Read more »
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is in the books (what excitement! A Homer-Off for the win!), and now the teams are on the road to the dog days of summer. However, a significant question is up for examination – how did we do with our MLB predictions on the American League and the National… Read more »
Hellmuth upset about math Shaun Deeb, ever the tournament grinder, won his second World Series of Poker Player of the Year (POY) title this summer, just beating out triple-bracelet winner Benny Glaser and Main Event and Poker Players Championship king Michael Mizrachi. But not everyone is happy that Deeb won it, especially 17-time bracelet winner… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker is in the books, and the results from the 100-tournament schedule are now being seen on the different Player of the Year races. One thing is constant, however – that Jesse Lonis is having one of the finest seasons in his poker career. Lonis is not only atop the… Read more »
Rushed to get all the bets in It’s been half a year since the news broke that the Miami Heat’s Terry Rozier was under federal investigation for possible links to suspicious sports betting activity. Now, further details have emerged as to what some of that activity specifically was. According to ESPN’s David Purdum, someone placed… Read more »
With the close of the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event (and its final “preliminary” tournaments), we have come to the end of this year’s series. But one thing was up for grabs until the end of the road, and that was the WSOP Player of the Year race. In the end, the masterful… Read more »
Overwhelming chip lead When Jeff Platt asked Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi on Tuesday night what it would take to close out the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event final table on Wednesday, Mizrachi jokingly said, “An hour.” He was right. In one of the most dominant runs in Main Event final table history, Mizrachi… Read more »
Why even say anything? Lon McEachern earned the nickname “the voice of poker” for his long-standing run as the play-by-play announcer of ESPN’s coverage of the World Series of Poker. He has been nominated for the Poker Hall of Fame. He’s seen a lot in the poker world, which is the reason why many were… Read more »
While the 2025 World Series of Poker continues to roll on for a few more days, the $10,000 Main Event is on a break as the nine members of the final table get a much-needed rest Monday to prepare for the stretch run. It is one of the stronger groups in recent memory and is… Read more »
Most of the time in a poker tournament, the crème DOESN’T rise to the top. Poker is an egalitarian process, uncaring of how many times you have won or whether you have even played the game at all. At the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship… Read more »
Should’ve had a long dinner Tournament poker’s old age is “a chip and a chair,” meaning as long as you still have chips, you still have a chance to win. You may be down to your final chip, but anything can happen in poker. Strange things happen every day. So what’s the opposite of “a… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – continued its fortnight march on Wednesday at the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. There was some unfinished business from Tuesday that had to be completed – popping the money bubble – but, with $90 million awaiting the survivors,… Read more »
It is a question that has puzzled some of the greatest minds in tournament poker. Just how much is TOO much? How many buy-ins should be allowed, how many chips should be used, and how to deal the cards (yes, the “slide” has now taken over from the “pitch” method). But the biggest one is… Read more »
The money bubble may be about to burst in the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event, but the hype is apparently not enough, as the WSOP has announced the dates for the third running of WSOP Paradise. Hosted jointly by the owner of the WSOP brand, GGPoker, and Triton Poker, WSOP Paradise will span… Read more »
It was a celebratory day at the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – at least at the start of the day. The field came together for the first time under one roof and stopped short of the money bubble on Day Three. Between the start… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – began last week, and there has been a great deal of joviality to this point. Players have come to the tables, survived their first hands – or, in some cases, first all-ins – and have enjoyed the thrill… Read more »
It’s been an arduous trek…but we have reached the end! In the world of poker, there is only one scoreboard that matters – how much money have you won? With this fact in mind (and as the 2025 World Series of Poker reaches its climax), Poker News Daily has headed over to The Hendon Mob… Read more »
Miss 100% of the shots you don’t take Seven has long been known as a lucky number in gambling, and it certainly seems to be living up to its name at this summer’s 2025 World Series of Poker. On Thursday, Shaun Deeb won his seventh career WSOP bracelet, claiming the crown in the $100,000 Pot-Limit… Read more »
All-in and a pause Between the alleged chip dumping scandal during the Millionaire Maker event and the start of the Main Event, another minor controversy at the World Series of Poker caught the attention of the poker community over the weekend. Poker pro, coach, and vlogger Lexi Gavin-Mather uploaded a video to YouTube showcasing her… Read more »
The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event – the $10,000 No Limit Hold’em World Championship – is now underway. The halls of the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas are throbbing with people running around, trying either to set up their seat in poker’s most prestigious event or lamenting their departure from it. Day 1A… Read more »
It has been a long summer, with several historic events that have occurred, but the time that all poker players look forward to has finally arrived. The 2025 World Series of Poker has slogged through eighty tournaments (and still has another twenty to go), and the pinnacle tournament on the schedule is looking to get… Read more »
Yaginuma, Carroll will still receive prize money Though it stopped short of saying collusion or chip dumping occurred, the World Series of Poker has announced that there will be no winner of the $1,500 Millionaire Maker event and no bracelet will be awarded. The two final players and the ones at the center of the… Read more »
