The Buffalo Bills are a storied franchise, with plenty of highs and lows. Fans of a certain age will remember them as perennial also-rans in the 1990s, making four straight Super Bowls, and losing all four. They followed that up with a record-setting 17-season stretch without even making the playoffs. But just as Bills fans nearly lost all hope, the team turned things around in 2020, winning their division and making the playoffs for the first time since 1995.

Each hand of Texas Hold’em begins with each player asking themselves the same question: should I play these cards, or not? There are 169 different two-card combinations in a deck of cards, and some of those poker starting hands are obviously better than others – most players will know that a pair of aces is good and a 2-7 is bad. But choosing which poker hands you should play isn’t as simple as waiting for pocket aces, as there are other factors you’ll need to consider such as your position at the table, the action ahead of you and the playing style of your opponents.

Theres a certain amount of pride that comes with seeing best-laid plans come to fruition. An investment in time, energy, and attention that produces results youd been hoping for all along. To some extent thats exactly what is taking place when the World Poker Tour kicks off Season XXII at NagaWorld Integrated Resorts in Cambodia. Its been roughly five years sinc WPT first planted roots in Cambodia and after a series of successful mid-major events, and a global pandemic, the tours vision of holding a fully-fledged Main Tour stop in Southeast Asia is finally here with the $3,500 buy-in Cambodia Championship that starts on January 25 and will end with an induction of a player into the WPT Champions Club.

Anyone who has been following along with the ups and downs of popular poker vlogger (and WPT Global Ambassador) Ethan Rampage Yau knows that hes started 2024 on a bit of a downswing.After declaring 2023 the first losing year of his young career, hes already off to a rough start in 2024 and this pain continued on Hustler Casino Live on Friday night when Rampage took one of the largest, and toughest, losses of his young career.

Victoria Livschitz stepped directly into the high roller poker tournament circuit in 2021, an entrepreneur crossing over from the worlds of tech and philanthropy to challenge herself against the best players on the planet. Over the last two years, shes cashed for over $1.2 million in tournaments and captured a couple of trophies. But beyond her accomplishments at the table, Livschitzs most notable contributions to the game of poker have come in the form of emerging technology and in potentially shaping a bright future for women coming up in the game of poker.

Its hard to have a much better start to a year than what David Colemans done to kick of 2024. In one of the first notable tournament series of the year, the PokerGO Tour Kickoff, Coleman rattled off a pair of wins, a second-place finish and a fifth-place across four consecutive events. The PGT Kickoff run came directly on the heels of a CardPlayer Poker Tour victory on January 7, as he outlasted a field of 457 players for the victory.

If the kickoff event for Season 22 of the World Poker Tour is any indication, then 2024 is going to be a huge year for the WPT. This week, the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup made its way to NagaWorld Integrated Resort for the first-ever WPT Cambodia Championship Event. It was the first Main Tour stop outside of North America since 2017 and the overwhelming success of the event showcased that players in the region were more than ready for their shot becoming an official member of the WPT Champions Club and claiming a piece of poker history.

Sam Insole set out on unlikely mission in March of 2023: turn a $100 poker bankroll into $100,000. At that time, the lifelong Vancouverite had a steady job working in real estate, his latest professional stage after time spent in the army, working as a bartender, and traveling around Australia and New Zealand, among other adventures. Less than a year ago, Insole had developed an itch that he couldnt really shake.

When David Mamet wrote The Things Poker Teaches for the New York Times Magazine back in 1986, one of the many lessons he enumerated was a crass thought many genteel players cannot grasp: poker is about money. This unassailable fact of the game, to Mamet, meant that the poker player needed to adopt a steely resolve. It means not giving your fellow players a break because you value their feelings; it means not giving some back at the end of the night because you feel embarrassed by winning.

Frank Funaro piled into the frame for the winners photo. The former #1-ranked U.S. online pro is no stranger to winning – with nearly $2.8 million in live scores and another $3.3 million in online earnings, the 28-year-old knows what it takes to get to the top. However, this particular winners photo was not actually for Frank. In fact, Frank wasnt even the featured Funaro in the shot. That honor belonged to his youngest brother, Nick, who, just after turning 21, marched his way through a field of thousands of players to capture his first live poker title and an enormous six-figure score.

Jaime Staples was on top of the world, or so it seemed. In the year leading up to March 2018, the poker streamer lost 115 pounds and won a $75,000 bet. He was championed in the mainstream press and became an inspiration to thousands. But not a day goes by when the 32-year-old desnt regret the whole thing. In the years that followed the Ultimate Sweat the weight-match wager Staples completed alongside his younger brother, Matt what should have been a victory lap morphed into a nightmare of anxiety, weight gain, and frequent trips to both the emergency room and therapy.

Friendship is a funny thing in the world of poker, especially when it comes to tournaments. The same people who youre battling against for titles and life-changing sums of money are the ones you grab a late-night meal with and talk through hand histories and theories with. Its rare in such an individualistic pursuit as poker that two friends can come out of the same event with a significant victory. And yet when it does happen in just the right way, the tense atmosphere that surrounds the endgame of a tournament can become a scene of celebration.

With four weeks left to go in the Survivor NFL contest at Circa, there were 13 contestants left out of a starting field of 9,267. Each contestant had to pick one football team each week. If that team won, they moved on. If that team lost, they were out. They could only pick each team once in a season, and the last person standing wins the whole pot, which reached over $9 million this season.

In March of 2020, just before the world shut down, Miami John Cernuto was honored with The Hendon Mob Award at the Global Poker Awards. At that point in time, he had 517 recorded live cashes on The Hendon Mob, which was the most of any player all time. All hes done since the world opened back up is rattle off another 71 cashes, including 17 tournament victories. Cernuto recorded a cash on New Years Day 2024 to make it 38 consecutive years with at least one tournament result.

Its time to start booking those flights and making hotel reservations for a summer trip to Sin City now that the World Series of Poker has (finally!) dropped its complete schedule for the 2024 WSOP. As expected, its a sprawling seven-week schedule that brings back many of last year’s marquee and Championship events with buy-ins ranging from $300 (Gladiators of Poker) to $250,000 (Super High Roller). Our editorial staff gave the 99-event live schedule the once over and provided some key takeaways as to the winners and losers of the latest lineup of WSOP bracelet events.

When you set poker’s all-time broadcast cash game record on your livestream theres only one thing left to do. Do it again. Thats exactly what Hustler Casino Live announced they are going to do on Wednesday when they unveiled the dates and initial lineup of the2024 Million Dollar Game. Running from May 28-31 on the Hustler Casino Live YouTube channel, the 2024 Million Dollar Game will start with $500/$1K blinds and, as advertised, requires all players to buy in for a minimum of $1,000,000.

The best televised (and livestreamed) poker is driven by narratives and hands that will go down in infamy, and the 2024 EPT Paris has had both of those elements on lockdown. After a Day 5 in which David Kaufmann wriggled out of a devastating set over set cooler when Ami Barer made a painful (and ultimately devastatingly incorrect) hero fold, Kaufmann ran away with the chip lead and set himself up with every chance to win his first major title.

Its going to be tough to top the iconic record-setting $3.1 million cash game pot from 2023, but Hustler Casino Live is going to give it a try. From May 28-31 the popular cash game livestream is bringing back its Million Dollar Game, an event that will almost assuredly generate some of the most preposterous pots of the year. But if theres one thing diehard poker fans have learned – high stakes with huge stacks is simply not enough.

Now this is fun. In the lead-up to this summers Landon Tice vs. Jeremy Becker crossbook bet, Tice, the Only Friends podcast co-host fired a shot across the bow by besting a 512-entry 2024 Wynn Million $400 No Limit Holdem event for $32,025 – putting Becker on notice and giving him the needle by posing in the winners photo with Beckers traditional three-five offsuit card combo. The bet, which is actually between Daniel Negreanu (Beckers backer) and Matt Berkey (Tices mentor) is set to take place during the 2024 World Series of Poker.

As the calendar turns over to March, poker tournament action is ramping up towards what will be an incredibly busy spring and summer. The Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju sees the tour making its first trip to Korea since 2019, kicking off a 19-event series featuring No Limit Holdem, Pot Limit Omaha and Short Deck tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $15,000 all the way up to $150,000 on Tuesday, March 5.

There are less than 100 days until the 2024 World Series of Poker kicks off, and as the poker calendar ramps up toward the busiest time of the year, the full schedule of live events has landed. Every poker player with a dream will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of 2023 WSOP Main Event champion Daniel Weinman in poker’s most famous tournament, but there will at least 98 other opportunities to clai m a WSOP gold bracelet this summer at Horseshoe Las Vegas.

In the early 2000s, the poker world was on the precipice of exploding in popularity in a way few could have imagined. Online poker and hole card cameras would completely change the game, as risk-takers and visionaries explored their dreams of what poker could be. Even in such an environment, the thought that a major poker tournament aboard a cruise ship could be successful seems incredible in retrospect. Holding a televised event with all of the production concerns that come with a brand new show on a ship actively at sea seems farfetched.

The $100,000 buy-in Triton High Roller Series Jeju Main Event drew a record-breaking 216 entrants, hitting such a large number, in fact, that the field was unable to reach a final table as scheduled for Saturday Instead, 15 players return for Day 3 of the tournament, each of them looking to take home the most coveted title of a Triton series in Jeju that has broken records from the start. Through 11 days of action, more than a dozen players have banked seven-figure prizes through nine events – and the Main Event only continues that trend.

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