After he finished on the top of the leaderboard on Days 3 and 4, Istvan Briski closed the deal on Wednesday to win the $3,500 Main Event at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock n Roll Poker Open. The win was good for $647,300 after a heads-up deal with Rayan Chamas to split up the prize pool and play for the trophy. The final two outlasted a field of 1,447 entries to take the biggest shares of the $4,630,400 prize pool.

Global Spins: A Lottery SnG Tournament In November 2023, another poker room added lottery SnG tournaments, most known as Spins. In this article, you will learn about all the features of Global Spins in WPT Global. What are Global Spins? Global Spins is a 3-max hyper–turbo Sit&Go tournament where the prize pool and starting stack are determined by a randomly dropped buy-in multiplier. Tournament Features: - Registration takes place in any available Global Spin.

A total of 121 players took their shot at the Merit Poker Gangster Series $5,300 High Roller hosted at the Merit Crystal Cove Hotel. Day 3 saw 22 players return to battle it out and play down to a champion. When the dust settled after 10 hours of play it was Giorgiy Skhulukhiya who came out with the victory after a little luck and a lot of power poker. He was seen three-betting light, putting in river raises with air, and opening wide with blind aggression.

Do you want to mix with your fellow PokerNews readers over a free-to-play poker tournament where there is $100 added to the prize pool? Of course you do! You can not only play in one $100 freeroll during December but four of them, thanks to the special relationship between PokerNews and PartyPoker. We are always looking for ways to provide value to the members of our Discord channel, and what better way than to have our friends at PartyPoker host four freerolls, each with $100 prize pools, for you to get your teeth into?

Pennsylvania’s Edward Thomas has been playing poker for 50 years, and later this year he will have his shot in the $40 million guaranteed World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship. Thomas, a retired army intelligence officer and cancer survivor, is among the latest to win their way into the $10,400 buy-in tournament by winning a $12,500 WPT World Championship Passport on ClubWPT. PokerNews caught up with Thomas to learn about his poker background and how he plans to get ready for one of the biggest tournaments of the year.

One poker vlogger has just eclipsed a huge milestone, passing the 1,000,000 subscriber mark on YouTube. No, it wasn’t Daniel Negreanu or WPT Global’sBrad Owen. Instead, it was Alexander Wolfgang Seibt, who is better known by his channel’s name, Wolfgang Poker. Wolfgang has become a titan in the poker YouTube space, pumping out over 470 videos and amassing more than half a billion views across his long and short-form content one of his videos has more than 80 million views alone!

Cyberspace transformed forever one year ago to the day, as ChatGPT rolled out on the World Wide Web. The product from OpenAI became “the fastest-growing consumer technology in history,” and its influence in all spheres continues to show monumental growth. While artificial intelligence is no stranger to the poker realm, as seen with poker bot Pluribus, the scope for poker content and ChatGPT remained largely untouched. Until PokerNews asked the tool to predict the outcome of the 2023 WSOP $25K Heads Up Championship.

Gus Hansen, one of poker’s all-time most popular players, will compete in Friday’s World Poker Tour (WPT)Premier Meet-Up Game (MUG) at Wynn Las Vegas. The “Great Dane” was a fan favorite during the poker boom era, regularly competing on popular shows such as High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark. Fans loved his colorful personality and loose style of play. Any two cards were good enough for Gus, which created great action.

Thursday night’s Hustler Casino Live stream has brought in over 20,000 concurrent viewers thanks in large part to hands such as the one you’re about to witness involving Dan “Jungleman” Cates. The $200/$400/$400 game with a $100,000 minimum buy-in began at 5 p.m. PT at Hustler Casino in Los Angeles. By 8:00, the two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner was down a quarter million, mostly because of one brutal river card.

Global Poker is closing out the year on a strong note with a 25 Days of Poker series that will feature an exciting tournament lineup, challenges and some surprises along the way. The 25 Days of Poker series will run Dec. 1-31 and will feature daily spins and freerolls, in addition to the regular Gold Coins and Sweeps Coins tournament action. The series will culminate with two Main Events on Dec.

Online poker room WPT Global has just made a huge signing for their ambassador team. The latest poker superstar to be added to their ranks is none other than Jonathan Van Fleet, aka “apestyles”. The Twitch poker phenom joins up with the likes of Brad Owen, Andrew Neeme, Ethan “Rampage” Yau and Phil Ivey as part of the ambassador team. To get the newly forged relationship off to a flying start, WPT Global is giving away some tournament tickets.

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. For months, GGPoker has been busy qualifying players from all over the world via their Road To Paradise, which launched at the beginning of October.

Wisconsin’sJohn “Johnnyhaha” Riesterer likes to laugh, and he also likes to play poker. Later this year, Riesterer will take his shot in the $40 million guaranteed $40 million guaranteed World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship after winning a $12,500 WPT World Championship Passport on ClubWPT. PokerNews caught up with the retired real estate broker to learn how he got his nickname, got into poker and his path to winning a seat in the championship event.

Hustler Casino Live made history Friday, and into Saturday afternoon, by completing the first ever 24-hour poker live-stream. The show began just after 1 p.m. PT Friday and wrapped at around the same time the following day. During the hundreds of hands played, there were numerous six-figure pots and one player Santhosh Suvarna lost over $1 million. Poker fans were also treated to the return of popular high roller Alan Keating, who had his usual roller coaster poker session.

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. For months, GGPoker has been busy qualifying players from all over the world via their Road To Paradise, which launched at the beginning of October.

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise is a winter series held at the Atlantis Paradise Island in The Bahamas. The series kicked off today and runs from December 3-14. It will feature 15 bracelet events across different variants with over $51 million in guarantees. PokerNews is on hand to provide live coverage of the event, with photos, videos, and player interviews live from the tournament floor in The Bahamas.

With 25 years of experience playing poker, California’sLuis “LaParka” Gutierrez feels ready to take on the pros in the World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas after winning a $12,500 WPT World Championship Passport on ClubWPT. PokerNews caught up with the information systems analyst and poker enthusiast to learn about his poker background and how he is getting ready for the record-breaking $40 million guaranteed event. Here’s a look as some other ClubWPT qualifiers we’ve profile:

Phil Ivey and Gus Hansen confirmed busto? No, that isn’t why the poker legends were spotted competing among the low-stakes crowd at Wynn Las Vegas on Friday morning. They were in attendance chatting it up with poker fans for a fun and relaxing World Poker Tour (WPT) Premier Meet-up Game (MUG), along with several other prominent poker pros. The session began at 9 a.m. local time on the Strip, and the 28-table card room was immediately packed full of MUG games, and dozens more were on a wait list.

Two Hustler Casino Live regulars Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot and Wesley Fei have accused their peer, a player who goes by the name “Mars,” of cheating a Southern California private game out of millions of dollars. “Wes Side” Wesley shared details of the alleged scandal with PokerNews, including text screenshots. Before getting into the meat of the scandal, Mars allegedly brought his own special deck to a private game in Yorba Linda, California that he could see through, presumably with the help of special contact lenses.

The final hand has been dealt in the 2023 Merit Poker Gangster Series $3,300 Main Event here at the Crystal Cove Hotel and Casino. It took just over ten hours for a winner to be crowned from 21 hopefuls who made it to the final day. Russias Dmitry Yurasov emerged as the last man standing when all was said and done, outlasting a total field of 566 entrants and last defeating fellow Russian Dmitry Gromov heads up to take home the title and top prize of $295,500.

The 2023 Unibet Open Bucharest 1,100 Main Event came to an end on Sunday, December 3, at the JW Marriott Bucharest Grand Hotel. Nine players out of 360 entrants were back on Day 3 for the final table. And after a bit more than seven hours of “stressful play” on a “tough table”, Dwayne Sluis was crowned as the champion. The Dutch player defeated Ivan Alin Constantin in heads-up play to win the Unibet Open trophy and 65,830.

Ten years ago, Paul Vas Nunes almost became the 2014 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) Grand Final champion. The Londoner navigated his way through most of the 212-strong field, and found himself heads up against a certain Charlie Carrel, who was a relative unknown quantity back then. Carrel defeated Vas Nunes heads-up and clinched his first major live title, leaving Van Nunes to collect a 94,775 consolation prize. Fastforward to 2024, and Vas Nunes has come out on top in the 1,800 buy-in GUKPT Grand Final Main Event, leaving 324 opponents in his wake on his way to collecting 140,000.

The World Poker Tour (WPT) recently stopped at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood for the Rock n Roll Poker Open on the road to the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas later this month. The tournament drew 1,447 entries who fought for the lions share of the $4,630,400 prize pool, and Istvan Briski took the top prize of $647,300 and added his name to the Mike Sexton Cup. For this edition of Hands of the Week, we look back at some of the top clashes from the $3,500 Main Event at Seminole Hard Rock Hollywood.

On November 27, the Texas poker community lost valued member Edward Garcia, one of the primary operators at the Empire Poker Club. Born September 29, 1986, Garcia was well-known in Houston poker circles. At the end of November, the Empire Poker Club took a moment to offer a toast in remembrance. He was the GM basically, but he was the literal definitely of selfless, Matt James said of Garcia. Always put everyone else that worked there ahead of himself.