Last year, long-time industry veteran Alex Scott was named as President of WPT Global. Not only that, the 40-year-old husband and father made it known that he would be serving in a very public-facing role, something WPT Global had been lacking. Having grown up in the north of England and now residing in the Isle of Man, Scott attributes his roots in online poker to his love of technology as a child.

Daniel Negreanu wasn’t kidding when he said changes were coming following a rough 2023 year. The Poker Hall of Famer took second place on Wednesday behind Philip Sternheimer in a $10,200 buy-in PokerGO Tour Dealer’s Choice event. Action took place inside the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas with 47 players registered, seven paid. Five players returned for Day 2, including Phil Hellmuth, who started the day with just a couple big bets and was the first one to go at the final table in fifth place for $37,600.

Online poker sites on the bustling iPoker Network, including Bet365 Poker, are running a massive €5.5 million Bounty Hunter Series XL that runs every day in March, drawing to a close on April 2. Bet365 Poker is the place to be if you are a seasoned bounty hunter or someone just dipping their toes into this exciting format. The €5,500,000 Bounty Hunter Series XL’s schedule is so big that it would fill an entire PokerNews page or two; that’s what happens when you run several bounty, progressive bounty, and mystery bounty tournaments every day for a month.

It’s a new era for PokerStars players in India! From this week, players can take advantage of new software, greater liquidity and a larger player base after moving to the newly developed Poker Platform, tailored by Flutter to the Indian gaming community. The move to the platform, created by PokerStars’ parent company Flutter, is currently used by its Indian brand Junglee and will see the player pools combine in a localisation effort aiming to cater to the specific preferences and needs of Indian players.

Triton Poker is once again capturing the attention of the poker fandom with its 2024 Jeju Super High Roller Series, which has seen its first two events wrap up on the iconic black and gold felt. Fedor Holz had the honour of being in the first winner’s picture of the festival. Then one of Holz’ close friends, Roland Rokita, survived a topsy-turvey heads-up encounter against Sirzat Hissou to bag his maiden Triton title.

A federal case against poker pro Cory Zeidman for allegedly running a massive fraud scheme involving sports betting appears to be headed to a plea deal. Zeidman, a resident of Boca Raton, Florida, was indicted in May 2022 for holding a “leadership role in an organization known as the ‘Phoenix Organization’ through which he, his co-conspirators and others committed the fraud and money laundering scheme described,” the indictment reads. Headed for a Guilty Plea?

Athena Jett, who gave an exclusive interview to PokerNews, will appear in the audition round of American Idol, a music competition TV show in its 22nd season, March 17 at 8 p.m. ET on Fox. If that last name sounds familiar to poker fans, it’s because the 20-year-old from Las Vegas is the daughter of longtime poker players Karina Jett and Chip Jett, both former Full Tilt Poker pros with over $3 million in combined live tournament cashes, according to The Hendon Mob.

Happy International Women’s Day! As the world celebrates the achievements and contributions of women, it’s essential to shine a light on those within poker and especially those working at PokerNews. We gathered a group of four female staff members for a round table discussion about their experience in the industry, what it’s like working at PokerNews and what can be done to encourage more women to get involved in the world of poker — both as players and in industry roles.

It is quite fitting that today is International Women’s Day and PokerNews is writing up a recap about a victory by one of the United Kingdom’s rising stars, Sinead Priestley. Anyone who follows British poker knows that Priestley has been knocking on the door in live events over the past 12 months. On March 7, Priestley got the job done in the 888poker UK Poker League (UKPL) Luton Opening Voyage event and turned £250 into £17,865.

888poker is back once again with another episode of their interview series 888ride. Over the last few weeks, the likes of Shaun Deeb, Phil Galfond and Ben Lamb have been in the passenger seat, and this edition sees GPI Broadcaster of the Year Ali Nejad join David Tuchman for a cruise around Las Vegas. The duo discussed how Nejad got his start in poker and his several side hustles away from the felt.

Get ready for an extraordinary poker experience both on and off the felt as PokerStars unveils exciting enhancements for the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Manila 2024. Returning to the prestigious Okada Manila, this year’s event promises to be bigger and better, featuring an expanded venue and increased guarantees, including the debut of the APPT Manila Championship. “The APPT circuit was established in 2007 and quickly became the reference tour in Asia, thanks to the quality of organisation and amazing venues”, said Cedric Billot, Associate Director of Live Events at PokerStars.

The Cheltenham Festival is one of the most eagerly anticipated horse racing meets, and the Irish Open is one of the biggest events on the live poker calendar. The two collide at Paddy Power Poker between March 12-15 when four €1 freezeout tournaments take place at 8:30 p.m. GMT, each with a €1,150 Irish Open Main Event seat guaranteed! The €1 Irish Open Cheltenham Sat tournaments are exclusive to Paddy Power Poker, one of the Irish Open’s main sponsors.

As February drew to a close, PokerStars unveiled the Sunday Million Season, a six-week celebration of online poker’s most iconic tournament. Featuring 23 episodes before April 21, the PokerStars Sunday Million Season has tournaments with buy-ins of $5.50 to $530, and guaranteed prize pools worth up to $8 million! The first three episodes of the PokerStars Sunday Millions Series will air on March 10, and the worthy champions will be crowned.

The site? Unregulated. The agreed sum? Unknown. The player? Tom “durrrr” Dwan. The 37-year-old has $6.5 million in live earnings and was spotted patched up by the unregulated poker site while playing at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju, South Korea. “I happen to be really optimistic on the next few years of poker,” Dwan said in an announcement video. “You’ve got to be trying some new stuff and doing interesting stuff.

The PokerNews Podcast debuted in 2010 during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) November Nine, and since then the show has produced 819 episodes! Throughout the years there have been several different combinations of hosts, from Donnie Peters & Matthew Parvis to Sarah Herring & Jeff Platt, but for the first time ever two well-known poker players – Kyna England and Mike Holtz – are joining longtime host Chad Holloway for a revamped PokerNews Podcast that now includes a professionally-produced in-studio video show.

Tiny entries, mighty prizes. That is the motto, and it’s an accurate one, for the upcoming Global Poker Micro Thunder Series VII, which takes place March 10-17 on the popular online poker platform. There are 72 events total — 36 for Gold Coins (GC) players and 36 on the Sweeps Coins (SC) side — along with a Gods of Thunder event on March 24 that players can earn their way into throughout the series.

The latest online poker tournament festival lands at 888poker on March 17, and everything points to it being another roaring success. Following on from the inaugural PokerNews Online Championship, the Mystery Bounty Festival is a ten-day series in which every event is a mystery bounty tournament. The Mystery Bounty Festival runs at 888poker from March 17 until March 26. The bustling schedule contains 26 numbered events and dozens of side events, each played to the exciting mystery bounty format.

Three winners were crowned in the 2024 SunBet Poker Tour Time Square Main Event at the Time Square Casino in Pretoria, but only one of them walked away with the trophy. After a three-way deal, Sugen Singh posed for the winner shots and shared the biggest portion of the ZAR5,266,800 ($281,989) prize pool with SM and MAJ, both of which showcased their talents at the live-streamed final table. The tournament drew 418 entries across four starting days to surpass the ZAR5,000,000 guarantee, and the trio atop walked away with juicy paydays from a ZAR15,000 (~$ $790) buy-in, which attracted many notables of the close-knit South African poker community.

Tom Dwan, who spoke with PokerNews on Friday and then again on Sunday, is back on X after being locked out of his account, and he’s firing back at those who have accused him of failing to make whole unpaid debts. The poker legend who once ruled the Full Tilt Poker streets under the screen name “durrrr,” had some choice words for Haralabos Voulgaris and Peter Jetten. But one player owes money to, Dan “Jungleman” Cates, stood up for him in a surprisingly cordial tweet.

888poker took its fledgling UK Poker League (UKPL) tour to the live poker hotbed that is Luton and Ian Swan will forever look back on this event with a beaming smile on his face. Swan returns home to bonny Scotland with the £560 Main Event trophy under one arm and a career-best £24,530 haul under the other. The Main Event attracted 342 entrants and paid the top 53 finishers. A min-cash awarded £930, with a final table appearance boosting the payout to £3,250, and first-place originally awarding £34,000, although a deal would alter the top prize.

The Asian Poker Tour (APT) Taipei 2024 festival has wrapped up and it is safe to say it surpassed all expectations. APT Taipei boasted over 100 trophy events, making it one of the busiest schedules in the tour’s long and illustrious history, but it is the prize money awarded in some of those events that make APT Taipei 2024 extra special. Eleven events broke APT and country records, including the Main Event, which raised the bar in terms of the total prize pool and the first-place prize awarded in Taiwan.

Day 2 of the $3,500 Wynn Millions Championship has wrapped up inside the Wynn, Las Vegas after another ten levels played out on the hosts’ iconic blue felt. On a high, after the second stage was completed, was Martin Zamani, who bagged the chip lead as 45 players advanced to Day 3. There’s still plenty of poker left to play as the showstopper of the series wraps up on Wednesday, March 13.

The 2024 Kings Of Tallinn was the tenth iteration of the ever-popular live poker festival. Its €1,100 buy-in Main Event will be remembered for being the biggest on record and for ending a long-running hoodoo over Lithuanian players. Some 914 players bought into the 2024 Kings of Tallinn Main Event, obliterating the previous best attendance by 198 entrants. The record-breaking crowd fought it out for the largest slice of he €859,160 prize pool at the Olympic Park Casino in the heart of the Estonian capital, Tallinn.

Triton Poker continued to captivate poker fans over the weekend as its 2024 Jeju Super High Roller Series in South Korea crowned four more champions. Lithuania’s Paulius Vaitiekunas bagged his maiden Triton title and biggest live score while Adrian Mateos’ legacy as one of the all-time greats became even more entrenched. Former footballer Mario Mosboeck continued to show his career change was for the better with another win on the black and gold felt before Dimitar Danchev made it six out of six victories for “Team Europe.