Keep your diaries free from November 26 through to December 12 if you love playing bounty tournaments because the 888poker KO Games series runs between those dates. Featuring 29 bounty and mystery bounty events and combined guaranteed prize pools in excess of $1 million, the KO Games has something for everyone. The 888poker KO Series shuffles up and deals on November 26 with a trio of mystery bounty tournaments. They come with buy-ins of $55, $109, and $525, and boast guarantees of $40,000, $120,000, and $50,000, respectively.

San Diego’s Derrick Yamada took down the RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) Jamul $600 Main Event late Sunday evening after nearly 12 hours of play on Day 2 to earn a payday of $31,565 after a heads-up chop deal with Steve Hoang. The deal also included the RGPS ring as well as a seat and travel package to the Dream Seat Invitational in Thunder Valley next week. The Main Event, which offered three starting flights, attracted 299 entrants to generate a prize pool of $155,480.

The RunGood Poker Series (RGPS) $700 Main Event has come to an end at Horseshoe Council Bluffs. The field of 546 became 67 players at the beginning of Day 2, and just one after seven hours of play on Sunday. It was two years ago when Cody Bartlett ended up finishing runner-up to Nate Steuer in the 2021 RGPS Council Bluffs Main Event for $24,167. This time he got to heads up a second time and ended up on the other side of the coin, beating Ted Forshey for his first RGPS title and a career-best score of $63,305.

Hundreds of thousands of Formula 1 fans gathered on the Las Vegas Strip on Saturday night for the long-anticipated Las Vegas Grand Prix as three-time world champion Max Verstappen of Oracle Red Bull Racing picked up his 18th win of the season. The race capped off an exciting and event-filled weekend in Las Vegas for racing and poker fans alike, all thanks to the PokerStars x Oracle Red Bull Racing partnership that has produced Red Spade Pass winners, life-changing experiences and epic charity event prizes.

The latest 888poker Mystery Bounty Main Event has crowned its champion, and Brazilian grinder “DDD98” is the player who was bestowed with that accolade. “DDD98” will look back fondly on this event, not only because they became the tournament’s champion, but they also clinched the $10,000 jackpot mystery bounty on their way to victory. With bounties included, “DDD98” saw their $109 investment swell to $20,258, one of the largest prizes this event has awarded.

The PokerStars 50/50 Series is complete, with all 50 events crowning their worthy champions. PokerStars promised $3 million in guaranteed prize pools, but awarded over $4.1 million after a strong turnout by mid-stakes grinders. The biggest prize pool, as you would expect, belonged to the $50 buy-in No-Limit Hold’em Main Event. It carried a $400,000 guarantee but a crowd of 8,904 entrants resulted in a $404,686 pot. Several members of the Team PokerStars stable bought into the 50/50 Series Main Event, although none of them managed to walk away with a slice of the prize pool.

PokerStars has unveiled the full schedule for the 2024 European Poker Tour (EPT) season, which shows five destinations, including a return to EPT Paris and EPT Cyprus. Both Paris and Cyprus made their EPT debut in 2023, and they return for 2024, much to the delight of the players. EPT Paris is the first stop of the 2024 European Poker Tour season. It takes place between February 14-25 at a new venue.

Episode four of Game of Gold saw some great poker as Jason Koon, Fedor Holz, David Williams, and Daniel “Jungleman” Cates battled it out in the final, mystery payout sit-and-go of round one. The episode saw huge folds, hero calls, and multiple trips-over-trips as some of the best players in the world battled it out not for money or trophies but for pole position going into Episode Five. Episode four also wrapped up the first week of Game of Gold and teased the upcoming week’s action that begins with new teams in Episode Five.

Season 11 of High Stakes Poker concluded Monday night with Episode 14, which was a continuation of last weeks lineup that saw Nikhil “Nik Airball” Arcot make his HSP debut. 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. There were multiple rivalries in play at the table, including Matt Berkey vs.

It was expected to be wild from start to finish, and the final day of the Bar Poker Open Florida World Championship more than lived up to those expectations, crowning Ian Auvil of the No-Limit Pub Poker Tour its newest champion. After a thrilling roller coaster of a final table, Auvil defeated Ronald Kaepernick heads-up to take home the title and the $50,000 first prize. That purse was the very sizeable lions share of the $122,688 prize pool, built from a field of 426 entries in the latest successful iteration of the BPO here at the Palm Beach Kennel Club.

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. GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu is confirmed to attend the event and recently spoke with PokerNews about his plans in The Bahamas.

The penultimate leg of the 2023 Grosvenor UK Poker Tour (GUKPT) took place in the seaside town of Blackpool, and its 1,250 buy-in Main Event attracted 347 entrants. Those players created a 360,430 prize pool, and it was Ian Gascoigne who emerged victoriously from the battle, helping himself to a career-best score of 62,198 after a three-handed deal. Blackpool has always been a popular stop on the GUKPT, and this latest edition was no different.

The first bell for the latest KO Games on 888poker is set to ring on November 26, and the online poker platform has announced an aptly-timed partnership with mixed-martial arts company The Professional Fighters League (PFL). The two brands have joined forces for the Europe Championship, which takes in Dublin, Ireland, on December 8. MMA and Poker to Unite While it may be difficult for poker players to get one over on some of the world’s best fighters inside the PFL SmartCage, which will soon feature 888poker branding on the canvas, there are plans for 888poker customers to get these combatants up against the ropes.

The rest of the online poker world thought PartyPoker had gone crazy when it unveiled several multi-table tournaments under its Daily Legends banner. Where some online poker operators allow for long late registration periods and unlimited re-entries, PartyPoker bucked the trend by reducing the former and limiting the latter. Daily Legends tournaments came about following extensive analysis of feedback from PartyPoker players. The PartyPoker management team immediately realized PartyPoker players were crying out for a level playing field when they were grinding tournaments and demanded structures that did not turn those tournaments into crapshoots during their business end, but that also did not stretch out until the early hours of the next morning.

A Brazilian poker player and bracelet winner was suspended indefinitely from the Brazilian Series of Poker (BSOP) after he added extra chips to his stack at the currently underway BSOP Millions festival in Sao Paulo. The incident occurred on Day 2 of the Latin America Poker Tour (LAPT) BRL 5,000 buy-in Mystery KO (Event #30 of BSOP Millions). According to Brazil’s Super Poker, Rafael Caiaffa was given a starting stack of 100,000 chips as he registered the event and received an additional starting stack from the dealer when he arrived at the table.

2007 was the first year that the PokerStars European Poker Tour visited Prague, and the Czech capital city has since woven a rich tapestry of poker history. There have been a plethora of memorable and unexpected moments over the last 16 years, and as PokerStars gears up for the 2023 edition of EPT Prague, PokerNews thought it’d be fun to look back at some of the epic tales that have taken place at the stop.

888poker ended 2023 with a bang with the 888poker LIVE Coventry Festival. It is starting 2024 in the same manner, with an incredible line-up of live events, including a brand new UK Poker League in the United Kingdom. Amit Berkovich, VP Head of Poker, and MD ROW at 888 William Hill, said, “We have carefully crafted each event to ensure that our players have access to affordable buy-ins, exceptional tournament structures, and the chance to win life-changing prizes.

If you are headed home for the holidays, there is a good chance your family is going to ask about your life. For those of you who quit your jobs to focus on poker, you may have some explaining to do. Here are a few tips for breaking the news to your family and friends this holiday season. Watch These Poker Movies During The Holidays! Host a Thanksgiving Game Theres a good chance youre not the only gambler at the party, so why not spread a game after dinner with your closest cousins?

Poker players are known for finding value at every opportunity, so it’s no surprise they may be keen to take advantage of some Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals during the holiday season. If you’re looking for poker gifts to surprise your loved ones with, PokerNews has collected the best Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals for the poker player in your life, including chip sets, poker tables, hoodies, and more.

Did you know that every PartyPoker player has access to an incredible training tool called MyGame Whiz? They do, and it is 100% free to use. MyGame is a reporting and training tool, while Whiz makes it all come to life in real time. Combined, MyGame Whiz is a personal poker coach designed to improve your skills and take your poker game to the next level. Once you activate MyGame Whiz from the settings of your PartyPoker account, you’ll wonder how you ever played online poker without it.

The Lodge Card Club near Austin has a Texas-sized promotion starting Dec. 1 that will award one lucky customer $100,000 in cold hard cash. On New Years Day, the largest poker room in the Lone Star State will host a drawing that could change someones life. Or, at the very least, serve as a significant bankroll booster. How does one enter the contest? Simply by playing poker at The Lodge, co-owned by prominent poker pros Doug Polk, Andrew Neeme, and Brad Owen, any day, at any time, during the month of December.

The $3,500 Main Event of the Seminole Hard Rock ’n’ Roll Poker Open (RRPO) kicks off on Friday with Day 1a, but the festival is in full swing with a series of side events at Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood, Florida. The World Poker Tour (WPT) festival runs from November 15-28 and the schedule features dozens of events and a wide array of variants. Notable winners include David Shmuel, Matt Bretzfield, Yuval Bronshtein, AJ Kelsall, and Allen Kessler.

As the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Paradise in the Bahamas draws ever closer, PokerNews has been checking in with some of the players who have won their way into the event online. Ontario-based poker player Dana Karlson is one such player who won their way into the event by playing the Road To Paradise on GGPoker. PokerNews caught up with Karlson to talk about how he won his WSOP ticket and what he plans to do if he wins one of the fourteen $1,000,000-plus guaranteed events.

A star-laden field turned out for Day 1a of the $5,300 Main Event at the World Poker Tour (WPT) Seminole Hard Rock n Roll Open and Arunas Sapitavicius is the chip leader after the first ten levels of play. The first of two opening flights drew 655 entries to get more than two-thirds of the way towards the $3,000,000 guarantee. After the dust settled and the chips were bagged, 237 players had a ticket for Day 2.