When you come to the final table of a poker tournament holding more than half the chips in play, you’re pretty much expected to win the tournament. That’s the exact situation that Isaac Haxton found himself in on Saturday at the Super High Roller Bowl VIII, and he didn’t disappoint. On his way, he picked… Read more »
It’s been a busy weekend around the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas. The 2023 Poker Masters has been playing through this last weekend of September, crowning three champions in the race for their Purple Jacket. That battle will certainly come down to the last event of the series, a $50,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event,… Read more »
We’re coming into the final quarter of the 2023 Player of the Year races on the tournament poker circuit, and it looks as if the major leaderboards have become a two-man race. While Bin Weng has asserted himself to take over the lead on both boards, “Nacho” Barbero has been able to keep close to… Read more »
The PokerGO Tour, the made-for-streaming tournament series that was created by PokerGO, went on hiatus during the run of the 2023 World Series of Poker. With that tournament in the rearview mirror – and a bunch of big-money events on the way – the PGT has announced the second half of their 2023 schedule. It… Read more »
PLO Series returns The PokerGO Tour (PGT) has announced changes to the second half of the 2023 season, made, as it says, “to better accommodate players.” Several events have updates, including the PGT Championship, PGT PLO Series, and PGT Last Chance. But first, let’s start with the $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl PLO, which will… Read more »
The tenth and final event of the PokerGO Tour’s U.S. Poker Open will run to its conclusion on Tuesday as six players square off at the final table. With just 37 entries in the $50,000 No-Limit Hold’em tournament, the payout structure pays to just six places, which works out perfectly. Each player is guaranteed at… Read more »
The PokerGO Tour is taking little – if any – breaks in the tournament poker schedule. Days after closing down their first-ever Pot Limit Omaha series, the circuit is back in action again at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas. This time around, it is the 2023 U. S. Poker Open and already an event… Read more »
If you’re going to show your domination is a particular discipline, then you simply pound your opposition into submission. Spain’s Lautaro Guerra Cabrerizo did just that this weekend at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas, winning three of the last four tournaments in the inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series. Along the way, he… Read more »
The inaugural PokerGO Tour Pot Limit Omaha Series has turned out to be an overwhelming success. Many of the seven events that have run have seen well over 100 entries (only Events #4 and #6 came up a bit short) and the competition has been exciting. One player, in particular, has found it to be… Read more »
Texas Hold’em has been all the rage in the States for quite some time. If you go outside the borders of the U. S., then you’ll usually find that Pot Limit Omaha Hold’em is the game of choice. For the first time, the PokerGO Tour opened the doors to a Pot Limit Omaha tournament schedule,… Read more »
Poker is a game, much like golf, where the players uphold the integrity of the rules themselves. Dating back to the age of the riverboat gamblers of the 1800s, those who plied their trade often would settle any disagreements with fisticuffs and, on extreme occasions, with a weapon. It led to the game of poker… Read more »
The inaugural PokerGO Tour Mixed Game Series is in the books and, by all appearances, it was a successful run for the eight-tournament festival (other than not being streamed on PokerGO, that is). In the finale on Saturday (there was a final tournament on Sunday, won by Cary Katz), Jason Mercier captured the 10-Game Championship… Read more »
There’s still some work to do in the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas this Saturday. The $25,000 10-Game Championship has worked its way down to the final eighteen players. Dan Zack will lead those players to action on Saturday, with several of the players potentially able to make a run toward the PGT Mixed Game… Read more »
It was an odd Thursday at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas. The inaugural running of the PokerGO Tour Mixed Game Series saw another champion crowned in Nick Guagenti. Another event, however, failed to reach a champion due to the way the scheduling breaks down and there is no indication when the final two players… Read more »
Mixed games master does it again Poker Hall of Famer Eli Elezra won Event #3: $10,300 Triple Stud Mix of the PokerGO Tour Mixed Game Series, beating a small but deep field of 60 en route to a $155,000 payday.It should come as no surprise that Elezra won a mixed game tournament (the rotation was… Read more »
The inaugural PokerGO Tour Championship is in the books and, after the first day, they probably should have stopped the action on the mercy rule. Jason Koon ravaged the field on Day One, amassing a stack that approached two million chips (while everyone else was nearly 1.5 million behind). Koon would ride that chip stack… Read more »
Season capper The field for the 2022 PGT (PokerGO Tour) Championship is set and just in time, as the two-day tournament begins today. The invitational, season-ending event for the PokerGO Tour includes the top 21 players on the PokerGO Tour leaderboard. The $500,000 winner-take-all freeroll is unique in that players do not start with equal… Read more »
The end of the 2022 World Series of Poker Europe has come and, with it, the final stretch run to the finish line for the 2022 Player of the Year races is coming into view. That finish line is bringing some very convoluted standings, however. At this moment, there is no clear consensus as to… Read more »
It has been a year of discontent for Daniel Negreanu. Sure, he had won more than a million dollars prior to the 2022 Super High Roller Bowl, but he had shot through that during the 2022 World Series of Poker by itself. Thus, Friday night was an enjoyable way for Negreanu to get the monkey… Read more »
It had long been rumored, but on Friday it became official. In a brief announcement, officials with the PokerGO Tour, the creation of the streaming channel of the same name, announced that two players had been suspended. “High Rollers” Ali Imsirovic and Jake Schindler, who at one point were 1-2 in the PokerGO Tour Player… Read more »
There once was a day when you pretty much couldn’t go to a cable channel that didn’t have some sort of poker programming on it. ESPN, of course, was the benchmark for years with their coverage of the World Series of Poker, but cable channels like the Game Show Network (now known as GSN), the… Read more »
As Saturday began, there were four men who had a chance at winning the inaugural PokerGO Tour Heads-Up Showdown. By the end of the night, only one would be left standing. David ‘Chino’ Rheem, citing his newfound sobriety as a catalyst, added another major championship to his trophy mantle in defeating Darren Elias in the… Read more »
The recently completed U. S. Poker Open at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas has shifted a great deal of money around the “High Roller” world. It also has caused a change atop the standings for the 2022 PokerGO Tour Player of the Year race. After holding the lead almost since its inception of the… Read more »
It has been a wonderful week for Japan’s Tamon Nakamura, who on Tuesday won his second tournament of the 2022 U.S. Poker Open. In taking the title in Event #6: $15,000 8-Game, he claimed the $239,700 first prize, beating the legendary Phil Hellmuth heads-up. As is common on the PokerGO Tour and its high roller… Read more »
Although you would have trouble saying that their tournaments are a true test of skills (let us be honest – a tournament that draws eighteen players is a home game, not a topflight event), the PokerGO Tour cannot be knocked for trying to make it LOOK like they are a big deal. They are one… Read more »
