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  • PGT PLO Series II Events #5 and #6 See Success for Yockey and Simao
    PGT PLO Series II Events #5 and #6 See Success for Yockey and Simao

    The latest events in the PokerGO Tour PLO Series II saw players such as winners Bryce Yockey and Joao Simao celebrate. Who else won, who bubbled and where does all the action leave the overall leaderboard after six events? We’re catching up on all the action from the PokerGO Studio at ARIA in Las Vegas, […]

  • WSOP 2021: Final Day Infused With Unexpected Last-Minute Player of the Year Excitement
    WSOP 2021: Final Day Infused With Unexpected Last-Minute Player of the Year Excitement

    For the better part of Monday night into Tuesday morning, the poker world celebrated the crowning of Josh Arieh as the 2021 WSOP Player of the Year. By all accounts, Arieh clinched it when Phil Hellmuth busted out of the final event of the series, the $5K 8-Handed, leaving Hellmuth as the POY runner-up.  Articles, […]

  • WSOP 2021: Chidwick, Colillas, and Song Bag Top 10 Stacks on Day 4 of Main Event
    WSOP 2021: Chidwick, Colillas, and Song Bag Top 10 Stacks on Day 4 of Main Event

    A monumental day at the felt on Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event saw just 292 players remain from 1,000 who began the day. When the dust settled, Ramon Colillas was the chip leader with a massive stack of 5,000,000 chips, with some big names not too far behind in his wake.

  • The Five Biggest Storylines From Week Five of the 2021 WSOP
    The Five Biggest Storylines From Week Five of the 2021 WSOP

    It was another hectic week at the 2021 WSOP with one of the biggest tournaments of the year stepping into the spotlight and top-tier players adding to their WSOP legacies.

  • WSOP 2021: Ben Yu Wins $10K Six-Handed Championship For Fourth Career Bracelet, $721K
    WSOP 2021: Ben Yu Wins $10K Six-Handed Championship For Fourth Career Bracelet, $721K

    Two more WSOP bracelets were won at the Rio on Sunday night as Ben Yu claimed his fourth gold bracelet of his career with a victory in the $10,000 NLHE Six-Handed for $721,453 and Robert McMillan perservered in Event #52, the Seniors Event, for his first-ever WSOP gold and $561,060 as he closed out a famous […]

  • First-Round Picks: The 2021 WSOP $50K Poker Players Championship
    First-Round Picks: The 2021 WSOP $50K Poker Players Championship

    The World Series of Poker’s $50,000 Poker Players Championship is heralded by many top-flight players in the poker world as the real championship event of the series. In order to lay claim to the Chip Reese Memorial Trophy, a player not only needs to have an expert-level mastery of the entire mix of games, but […]

  • WSOP 2021: Phil Hellmuth Denied #16 As Jesse Klein Dominates $25K H.O.R.S.E.
    WSOP 2021: Phil Hellmuth Denied #16 As Jesse Klein Dominates $25K H.O.R.S.E.

    Largely unknown Mixed Games player Jesse Klein won his first WSOP bracelet after taking down a final table stacked with stars at the 2021 World Series of Poker. The recruitment firm owner went from recreational hopeful to WSOP winner on a final day full of drama as one $25,000 event ended and another began.

  • Shannon Shorr Claims Victory In 2021 Poker Masters Event #1
    Shannon Shorr Claims Victory In 2021 Poker Masters Event #1

    The record books will reflect that there was an official winner in Event #1 of PokerGO’s 2021 Poker Masters ($10,000 No Limit Hold’em), but it was hardly a definitive one as Shannon Shorr and David Peters effectively “played to a tie” on Wednesday night. After a lengthy, see-saw heads-up battle that lasted nearly two hours, […]

  • Bradley Ruben Snares Second Bracelet, Wins WSOP Online Event #21
    Bradley Ruben Snares Second Bracelet, Wins WSOP Online Event #21

    The latest World Series of Poker Online bracelet event produced a fast-paced final table as Bradley Ruben took down Event #21 ($600 Pot Limit Omaha Six-Handed). After a heads-up victory against Michael Holtz, Ruben won the $69,148 top prize to claim his second WSOP bracelet and deny the final table chip leader Holtz a maiden […]

  • Tyler Denson Takes Down WSOP Online Event #6 for $175K
    Tyler Denson Takes Down WSOP Online Event #6 for $175K

    The latest World Series of Poker bracelet was won by a dominant Tyler Denson on Wednesday morning as an exciting, but one-sided, final table played out in Event #6 ($2,000 NLHE Deepstack) of the 2021 WSOP Online.

  • Jonathan Depa Beats Alex Foxen for Poker Masters $10K Short Deck Title
    Jonathan Depa Beats Alex Foxen for Poker Masters $10K Short Deck Title

    Just over two weeks after winning a €50,000 Short Deck event at King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Jonathan Depa picked up another short deck title on Thursday after beating Alex Foxen heads-up in the Poker Masters $10,000 Short Deck event.

  • Justin Liberto, Sasha Liu, Brian Altman Among Early Non-WSOP Wins
    Justin Liberto, Sasha Liu, Brian Altman Among Early Non-WSOP Wins

    There’s a reason that summer in Las Vegas is often called ‘poker player summer camp’ and it’s not just because the World Series of Poker is going on.

  • WSOP: Daniel Strelitz, Yuval Brohnstein Join Bracelet Winners Club
    WSOP: Daniel Strelitz, Yuval Brohnstein Join Bracelet Winners Club

    In the lead up to the World Series of Poker every year, there always ends up being a discussion about who the best player without a WSOP bracelet is. Two players whose names have come up in those conversations each permanently removed themselves from contention on Thursday by winning one of poker’s most highly coveted […]

  • WSOP: Ben Heath Leads $50K Final 12; Big 50 Continues to Grow
    WSOP: Ben Heath Leads $50K Final 12; Big 50 Continues to Grow

    The 2019 World Series of Poker continued on Saturday with another massive field in the Big 50 as that event quickly hurtles toward a record for the largest WSOP event ever.

  • Aaron Mermelstein Wins Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown High Roller
    Aaron Mermelstein Wins Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown High Roller

    Busting out of a World Poker Tour event usually means a miserable end to one’s poker trip. Aaron Mermelstein was having none of that. After busting in 53rd place in the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown on Tuesday, Mermelstein jumped into the $25,000 High Roller event and the Pennsylvania poker player beat a final […]