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Alex Foxen Does it Again at the PokerGO Tour Pot Limit II Hold’em Series

Alex Foxen continues his fantastic 2025 with another victory at the PokerGO Tour PLO II series that is now going on at the Aria in Las Vegas. The win in the second event of the series, a $5,100 Quattro Bounty contest, was good for a total of $177,000 — the $$87,000 top prize that came…
Gigantic Bad Beat Jackpot Hit in Canada During MSPT Event

A perfect card on the turn triggered the poker room at Montreal’s Playground casino to erupt with confetti and cheers as yet another enormous bad beat jackpot was hit. A straight flush over straight flush sent the table into a frenzy, and for the two players involved in the hand, the bad beat turned a…
MSPT Spade Poker Championship Shatters Promise by More Than $1 Million

The MAJOR Series of Poker: The Tour — formerly known as the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour (but still abbreviated as MSPT) — rolled into FireKeepers Casino in Michigan for its $1,100 Spade Poker Championship, and the players came out for a chance at a very nice payday. The $1.5 million guarantee was easily shattered by 2,773…
MGM Grand Launches ‘Live From Las Vegas’ Online Table Games Broadcast from Casino Floor

MGM Grand has rolled out its newest online suite of games which will bring the excitement, bustle and sounds of a Las Vegas casino right into the homes of players around the world. “Live From Las Vegas,” which launched earlier this year, brings real live dealers that are working right on MGM Grand’s casino floor…
Shaun Deeb Wins Eighth World Series of Poker Bracelet in Europe

Reining World Series of Poker Player of the Year Shaun Deeb checked off another poker accomplishment by traveling to Europe and winning his first bracelet outside of the United States. He won the WSOP Europe’s €25,000 No-Limit Hold’em GGMillion€ event for €329,000 and his eighth bracelet. The victory pulled him out of a seven way…
Josh Arieh Wins Seventh World Series of Poker Bracelet Online

Josh Arieh added another World Seres of Poker bracelet to his collection by taking down the $500 buy-in Ultra Deepstack event online Sunday. It’s the seventh bracelet for the man who was named the WSOP Player of the Year in 2021. Playing under the name “SP33Dwagon,” Arieh won $67,656 in the bracelet event that attracted…
David Coleman is the 2025 Poker Masters Series Champion

The Poker masters series on the PokerGO Tour just wrapped up at the Aria in Las Vegas, and congratulations goes to David Coleman, who not only won the first event, but also finished as runner-up in the last event, which earned him enough points to be named the series’ top player. Coleman cashed three times…
World Series of Poker Online Super Circuit Series and Championships Now Taking Place

It’s a busy time for online players in the handful of states able to compete for Word Series of Poker hardware on WSOP Online. The fall online bracelet series started last week for players in Pennsylvania, Michigan, New Jersey, and Nevada, but as if that wasn’t enough, two additional series are also running: a Super…
Alex Foxen Wins Tenth PokerGo Tour Title at Poker Masters

Alex Foxen continued his winning way at the PokerGO Tour’s Poker Master series this week, adding another $280,000 to his tournament winnings pile that now towers to more than $53,000,000. The victory in the sixth event of the series, a $10,100 no-limit hold’em contest, was his fourth win of 2025, and his tenth PokerGO Tour…
Sweet 33: World Series of Poker Online Bracelet Series Now Running

The 2025 World Series of Poker Online bracelet series kicked-off yesterday. The online site that offers poker in Pennsylvania, Michigan, Nevada, and New Jersey is putting 33 bracelet up for grabs from now until Nov. 11. The fall bracelet series began yesterday with two events, a $500 Mystery Bounty and a $1,000 6-Max. The Mystery…
GGPoker Believes Redemption Is Possible, Invites Banned Players Back

GGPoker, the world’s largest online poker site and the international home of the World Series of Poker, is giving players kicked-off for cheating another chance. In the “spirit of growth and second chances,” GGPoker announced its Olive Branch Initiative. Players who have been caught doing things like multi-accounting, colluding, or using real-time assistance like solvers…
Enormous Sale to Entice Visitors to Las Vegas Happening This Week

If the itch to head to Las Vegas is growing, now is the time to book a trip because the city’s Convention and Visitors Authority has organized it’s first-ever city-wide sale this week. The Fabulous 5-Day Sale, which takes place until Friday, is offering travelers some fantastic deals to lure them back to city in…
Kristen Foxen’s Biggest Tournament Poker Cash of Career Pushes Her to Top of All-Time Money List

Kristen Foxen won more than a million dollars in a poker tournament for the first time in her long and successful career, and it was enough to nudge her in front of Vanessa Selbts for the top spot on the all-time money list for women players. A third-place finish in the $125,000 (+$6,250) Triton Poker…
Daniel Negreanu Joins Prediction Market Trading Platform Kalshi as Ambassador

Daniel Negrenu took to the Internet to announce that he’s now a brand ambassador for Kalshi, an online platform that allows people to make predictions on real-life events in politics, culture, as well as sports. To celebrate the partnership, Negreanu is putting up $30,000 “out of (his) own pocket,” to send someone to the $25,000…
Freerolls, Satellites into Major Events, Now Happening on WPT Global

Online poker site WPT Global is smack in the middle of running four major promotions that is not only sending players to two major live events for very little money, but is giving its members a chance to win some serious cash in freerolls that run daily. Whether you’re chasing freerolls, want a shot at…
Longtime Poker Pro Sam Greenwood Sits for an Ask Me Anything

Sam Greenwood, the longtime Canadian professional poker player who nearly has $40 million in tournament winnings stopped by Reddit’s /poker club to answer questions submitted by users. An online pro since 2006 and high roller tournament mainstay, he has several titles, including one in the 2019 PokerStars Caribbean Adventure $100,000 Super High Roller and a…
World Poker Tour Adding a Wildcard to its Brand

The World Poker Tour is about to get wild and chaotic, to the benefit of poker fans everywhere. The WPT announced the creation of WPT Wildcard, ” a new poker brand and format designed for poker players and fans, geared towards social media content, creator participation, and non-traditional gameplay that brings unexpected twists to the…
World Poker Tour Releases Full Schedule for December’s World Championship

The World Poker Tour dropped the schedule for what has become one of the must-play series of the year — the WPT World Championships. The festival runs from Dec. 2-22, featuring 78 tournaments and two dozen satellites at the Wynn in Las Vegas. Buy-ins range from $600 to the multiple high-roller events. Feeders to the…
Casino News: Hard Rock Rockford Turns One, El Dorado in Reno Renovating Rooms

A casino in Reno undergoing a multi-million dollar renovation, a woman hitting a big jackpot in California, and Hard Rock Rockford in Illinois turning one are some of the casino chips CardsChat dug up this week. Eldorado Hotel Casino in Reno updating rooms The Eldorado Hotel Casino is in the beginning stages of undergoing a…
Borgata Will Host Three Major Poker Series this Fall

Major poker returned to the Borgata in Atlantic City this year with its Summer Poker Open, and the MGM Resort International-owned casino will continue getting back into the tournament game by hosting three series this fall: The Borgata Big, Big Buy Series, the Lions of the Atlantic and the Borgata Fall Poker Open. The casino…
World Poker Tour Products Returning to Stores Across America and Canada

Soon, World Poker Tour products for home games will again be available to poker fans across the United States and Canada. The long-running poker show and entertainment brand announced a multi-year manufacturing partnership with Genco International to bring a new line of tournament-quality poker products to North America poker fans. The company just acquired Kroeger…
Global Online Poker Market Expected to Explode by 2030

The global online poker market is expected to more than quadruple by 2030, according to MarkNtel Advisors, a consulting, data analytics, and market research firm based in India. The consulting firm is projected online poker’s market size will grow from $7.98 billion in 2024 to $37.19 billion in 2030. That’s a Compound Annual Growth rate (CAGR)…
Maurice Hawkins Becomes First Player to Win 20 World Series of Poker Circuit Rings

According to Maurice Hawkins, he’s now right where he’s suppose to be — sitting on top of the World Series of Poker Circuit leaderboard all by himself. Hawkins became the first player to win 20 WSOP Circuit rings, outlasting 106 entries in the $600 Pot-Limit Omaha event at Caesars New Orleans for the record and…
Brandon Mitchell is the 2025 Arizona State Poker Champion

The Arizona State Poker Championship at Talking Stick Resort in Scottsdale attracted a whopping 3,546 entrants who anted-up $1,100 for a chance at the glass trophy and the $525,700 that came with it. And the player who would end up with all the chips and the lion’s share of the prize pool is Brandon Mitchell, who…