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Caleb Larsen made the best call you’ll see all day on Sunday, and it probably won’t even be close when you take into consideration the pressure situation we’re about to describe. The hand in question transpired during the Day 2 session of the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble in Jacksonville shortly before the dinner break. Here’s the situation entering the hand to give you an idea of just how brilliant and gutsy the call was.

A Lot of Hard Work: Samuel Laskowitz Bursts Onto the Scene With a Win in the $5,300 NAPT Las Vegas High Roller ($180,850)

The $5,300 High Roller at PokerStars North American Poker Tour Las Vegas has come to an end and Samuel Laskowitz is the winner after six players returned for the Day 3 finale at Resorts World Las Vegas. The tournament drew 150 entries and the top 20 players took a piece of the $727,500 prize pool. Laskowitz takes home $180,850 for the victory. Laskowitz defeated Shannon Shorr in a short round of heads-up play to win the top prize.

Gege Gocaj Bags the Day 2 Chip Lead at WPT bestbet Scramble

The $351,650 first place prize is now within sight in the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble. Well, it is for the 17 remaining players, and especially for Gege Gocaj, who finished Day 2 with a sizable chip lead. On Sunday, 128 of the original 365 entries returned to action at bestbet Jacksonville, one of the top poker rooms in the US. Only 46 of those players were fortunate enough to reach the money.

Timothy Rutherford Climbs Back to Win NAPT $1,100 Mystery Bounty ($24,650)

All the bounties have been claimed and a winner has been crowned in the $1,100 NLH Mystery Bounty as the 2023 PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) Las Vegas comes to a close. Claiming the PokerStars Spade and top prize of $24,650 was Canada’s Timothy Rutherford, who climbed back from a steep heads-up deficit in the nearly empty tournament room to defeat Qing Liu. The Mystery Bounty event drew 265 entries for a prize pool of $254,400 before a stacked final table formed that included Arizona grinder Jordan Spurlin (8th - $3,440), Florida crusher Mark Dube (6th -$5,000) and poker author Dylan Linde (5th - $6,500).

Record-Breaking WSOP Europe Main Event to Award 1,500,000 to the Winner

The 2023 World Series of Poker Europe has been a super success inside King’s Resort in Rozvadov, with guarantees smashed across the board. The most ambitious guarantee was featured in the 10,350 Main Event, which promised to pay out no less than 5,000,000. That figure was eclipsed in the tournament’s first starting flight on Friday, November 10 and continued to rise throughout Day 1b and the five levels of late registration that took place on Day 2.

Bernd Gleissner Captures Maiden Bracelet in WSOP Europe 1K Turbo Freezeout (46,700)

After ten and a half hours of play, a new bracelet winner has been crowned at the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe at Kings Resort in Rozvadov. Bernd Gleissner topped a field of 182 entrants in Event #14: 1,000 No-Limit Holdem Turbo Freezeout, last defeating Candido Cappiello in heads-up play to capture his first WSOP gold bracelet and the lions share of the 200,000 prize pool. The win marks Gleissners third cash at the 2023 WSOPE and is by far his biggest of this series, with the next closest being a 27th-place finish in Event #6: 5,000 Pot Limit Omaha for 8,625.

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The Legacy Lives On: Jack Keller III Claims RGPS Tunica Title for $62,826

The latest RunGood Poker Series Main Event here at the Horseshoe in Tunica, Mississippi, saw a total of 661 entrants make a massive prize pool of $396,300, guaranteeing a total of 82 spots to be paid out. After the dust settled, it was Tunica local Jack Keller, son of poker Hall of Famer with the same name, who ended up taking down the tournament for a career-best score of $55,394 as well as his first RGPS Main Event title.

Louis Ganser Wins First RGPS Ring For $102,225 in Cleveland Main Event

The RunGood Poker Series Road Trip has made its home this week in Cleveland, Ohio, at JACK Casino. A total of nine events were over the course of the trip here, with the biggest buy-in being the $1,000 buy-in RGPS Main Event, which saw three flights over the course of three days. A total of 590 players came out to smash the guarantee and create a prize pool of $508,580. The start of the day only saw 78 players guaranteed a cash, and from that starting field, players were whittled down over the course of 12 hours until there was just one standing.

Nik Airball Taunts Rival Matt Berkey on High Stakes Poker; Doug Polk Gets Coolered

Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot made his High Stakes Poker season debut to compete against his bitter rival Matt Berkey, and the feuding poker players went at it in a memorable pot right off the bat. Episode 13 of Season 11, released Monday night on PokerGO, featured an almost entirely new table only Jennifer Tilly returned. The game may have seemed familiar to those who follow PokerGO’s shows, and that is because it was shown on live-stream in April in what was dubbed the “cackling” game.

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Heng Zhang: No Pressure with Chip Lead Entering WPT bestbet Scramble Final Table

Three long days of play are complete in the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble and the original 365-entry field has dwindled down to the final table of six. Day 3 on Monday was intense as the pressure mounted given the pay-jumps at stake from start to finish. The money bubble burst on Sunday (Day 2), but it wasn’t until midway through Monday’s session when the money started to become serious.

EAPT Main Event Winner Credits A Strategy Of No Skills, Just Luck

For its first stop ever in Bucharest, the heavy Eurasian Poker Tour trophy will stay in the country, as Romania’s Ionut Voinea managed to win the EAPT Bucharest 560 Main Event. At the 888poker Room, he explained he “ran pure”. A statement confirmed during the heads-up phase of the game, where he quickly doubled up then won the 36,000 first-place prize just a few hands later. Voinea triumphed over 486 entrants, and especially over Sebastian Ionita, who finished second for 24,700.

Tom Hall outlasts 10,005 Opponents to Win the PokerStars Sunday Million

British star Tom “Jabracada” Hall pushed his recorded online poker tournament winnings towards $5.6 million after taking down the latest edition of the PokerStars Sunday Million. Some 10,006 players bought in for $109 and created a $1,000,600 prize, with Hall walking away with $82,079 of that princely sum, with bounty payments included. With bounties included, none of the nine PokerStars players who navigated their way to the final table could win less than $9,640.

Vincent Meli Wins 159k and the UKIPT Season Finale Main Event Trophy

The PokerStars UKIPT Season Finale Main Event, running at Dusk Till Dawn in Nottingham, has reached its conclusion and a new champion has been crowned. It was a rapid-fire final table. After around five hours of play, Vincent Meli of France emerged as the outright winner. Meli, 43, has lived in London for 15 years and played poker professionally for nine of them. His focus has always been on live cash games and, having taken some time off just before Covid, he switched to tournaments.

WSOP Paradise Parlay Gives Players Shot at $100K in Bahamas; Player Reactions

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise is a winter series held at the Atlantis Paradise Island in The Bahamas. The series runs from December 3-14 and will feature 15 bracelet events across different variants with over $51 million in guarantees. PokerNews will be on hand to provide live coverage of the event, with photos, videos, and player interviews live from the tournament floor in The Bahamas. On Monday, WSOP officials announced the WSOP Paradise Parlay by GGPoker, which is a chance for players that cashed in the 2023 WSOP to parlay their summer success into additional cash during 2023 WSOP Paradise.

Eli Elezra Wins NAPT $5,300 8-Game Griffen Benger & Andrew Yeh Claim Side Events

PokerNews was on-site for the duration of the 2023 PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT), and while we offered live updates from events like the $1,650 NAPT Main Event and the $10,300 Super High Roller, there are also a slew of side events playing out at Resorts World Las Vegas. We already recapped wins by Kyna England and Kfir Nahum, but down the stretch there were some other noteworthy winners. For instance, Cody Raymond topped a 692-entry field to win the $550 PokerStars Cup for $44,743, while Timothy Rutherford bested a 265-entry field to win the $1,100 Mystery Bounty for $27,650.

Local Player Michael Frierson Turns a 1,000x ROI at WPT bestbet Scramble

Michael Frierson, a recreational local poker player, busted short of the title in fourth place in the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour (WPT) bestbet Scramble on Tuesday. But he had one heck of a run, turning a $120 satellite buy-in into $123,900, better than 1,000 times his investment. The Floridian who lives just 10 minutes from bestbet Jacksonville, one of the top poker rooms in the US, spoke with PokerNews following his bust-out hand.

Canadian Frederic Normand Wins WPT bestbet Scramble for $350k

There’s a newly minted member of the WPT Champions Club and it is Frederic Normand, winner of the $5,000 buy-in World Poker Tour bestbet Scramble for $351,650. The Canadian defeated Heng Zhang heads-up to win the title, and it ended in thrilling fashion. On top of the six-figure career-best score, the champion will also receive free entry into the WPT World Championship $40 million guaranteed event next month at Wynn Las Vegas.

Amateur Poker Player Turns 500 into 60,000 and a WSOP Bracelet

The penultimate gold bracelet of the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe has been awarded at King’s Resort in Rozvadov. After almost 11 hours of play, Maurice Nass earned his first live tournament victory defeating Traian Stanciu heads up to take down the top prize of 60,000 in Event #15: 550 NLH Closer. The win came after a gruelling three-handed battle that saw both finalists hold the short stack and double multiple times, before settling the tournament in the late hours of the night.

Poker Vlogger Eric Tsai Leads the Final Table of the WSOP Europe Main Event

Eric Tsai has been followed around all week by a cameraman documenting his run at the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe. He put on a cinematic masterpiece that saw the Taiwanese poker ambassador take the chip lead into the final table of the WSOP Europe Main Event. Tsai was on the right side of a flurry of eliminations, including the last one of the night when he busted Yulian Bogdanov in ninth place, to end up with 23,650,000 and in pole position to bring the Main Event gold bracelet back to Asia.

First Look! Las Vegas F1 Oracle Red Bull Racing Car Features PokerStars Wheel Covers

With the long-anticipated F1 Las Vegas Grand Prix set for this weekend, PokerStars and Formula 1 juggernaut Oracle Red Bull Racing (ORBR) are about to embark on the next chapter of their successful partnership, and both poker- and F1 racing fans are in for a treat. Last night, at the famous Omnia nightclub in Caesar’s Palace, ORBR revealed the first glimpse with a ceiling (and jaw-) dropping event that unveiled a fan-designed, neon-lighted version of the RB19 car to the audience, and it’s a doozy.

F1 Las Vegas 2023: A Quick Spin Round the Casino Capital

Here at PokerNews, we’re super excited about the F1 circus rolling into Las Vegas - a city we know all too well. Unfortunately, while competitive racing at the top of the grid is not anticipated - with three-time world champion Max Verstappen expected to record another facile victory - there is massive excitement about motorsports premier competition returning to Sin City after 41 years. We’ve covered hundreds of events from the world’s casino capital over the previous two decades, from annual WSOPs to last week’s NAPT, and we’re looking forward to being at plenty more in the future.

Kasual952 & 5BetGarbage Win Global Poker Golden Eagle Cup VI Main Events

Global Poker’s Eagle Cup VI series wrapped up this week after hundreds of events that awarded Gold Coins (GC) 831,330,000 and Sweeps Coins (SC) 1.86 million. The multiple weeks of social poker action culminated with the GC 40,000,000 guaranteed Main Event and the SC 200,000 guaranteed Main Event, while other highlights of the schedule included GPC Eagle 20-H: NLHE SC 110,000 Guaranteed, GPC Eagle 11-H: NLHE GC 17,000,000 Guaranteed [Deep Turbo] and GPC Eagle 09-H: NLHE GC 32,000,000 Guaranteed.