Every poker player will, at one point or another, face a decision for their poker tournament life on their way to victory. Down to 15 bigs, that player will either push their chips over the line or pull them back. Our 15 Bigs are designed to put players to the test in exactly the same […]

The British mixed games specialist Benny Glaser has been attending the World Series of Poker for many years. In 2025, he finished second in the WSOP Player of the Year race and won three bracelets in the 100-event series, the best of any player who took part.

Over the course of the last 12 months, so many huge events have shaped poker that is hard to imagine what will happen in 2026. From Michael Mizrachi’s incredible Las Vegas summer to the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event breaking attendance records outside the World Championship, 2025 was epic. So what do the next 12 […]

PokerStake’s Josh Arieh claimed his seventh World Series of Poker title last night as, after returning from a break to his home in Las Vegas, got online and crushed souls in the latest WSOP Online Series bracelet event. As we discovered, winning the top prize wasn’t important, but the seventh WSOP bracelet of his career […]

The PokerStake player Jeremy Ausmus is on the brink of yet another title, leading the way into tonight’s PokerGO Venetian Las Vegas Classic final table in search of the $250,000 top prize. Just seven players remain, so with six people standing between Ausmus and the 22nd ranking poker title of his career, where would it […]

In every poker tournament, players will eventually face an all-in or fold that could change the course of their event. It could be the difference between winning six figures or going home without any return on their buy-in. One player who knows all about the vagaries of tournament poker is Belgian former tournament director and […]

In the modern poker era, very few have made it to the final table of the WSOP Main Event twice. One such player is the Belgian great Kenny Hallaert, who finished fourth in the World Championship this summer for $3 million after previously winning $1.64m in sixth place just nine years ago. After an exhausting […]

Over the past year, Adam Hendrix has won well over $3 million playing live tournament poker. Despite this, the 2025 WSOP Main Event finalist continues to play events that included $400 and $1,000 entries. Is he the most committed poker player on planet Earth right now? The PokerStake player’s recent results suggest exactly that.

In the first few days of the 2025, PokerStake player Jeremy won the biggest prize he’s claimed so far this year. Scooping the most PokerGO Tour Points in 2024, the six-time WSOP bracelet winner then played the PGT $1m Freeroll Championship, and eventually beat Nick Schulman heads-up for the top prize of $500,000.

Poker players don’t come any more experienced that Erik Seidel. The 65-year-old New Yorker, who has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets in a glittering career that has spanned almost 40 years, is perhaps poker’s greatest journeyman. Sitting comfortably among the top players ever on The Hendon Mob’s All-Time Money List, Seidel took time […]

The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event was officially the third largest in WSOP history. In fact, since GGPoker’s takeover of the brand, the WSOP Main Event has been bigger and better than ever before and the numbers back that statement up. Bigger prizepools, eight figure top prizes and some of the most magical […]

Day 5 of the $10,000-entry World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event saw 522 starting players whittled down to 202 survivors, as the German player Sebastian Schulze bagged up the biggest stack of the World Championship so far at 12.7 million chips. With debutants and professionals in the field with Schulze, Day 6 and onwards […]

An intense day of action in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event saw Mat Frankland win a controversial $40,000 in bubble prizes, while two former world champions remained in the hunt for a second title. Both Greg Merson and Damian Salas survived on Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event, but they weren’t […]

On Day 3 of the 2025 WSOP Main Event, 3,453 players were reduced to 1,476 as former world champions, Hall of Famers and even the reigning Main Event winner were all sent packing. As the day ended, just 15 players needed to bust to burst the money bubble and put the remaining players in profit. […]

The second Day 2 of this year’s WSOP Main Event was a huge one, with late registrations boosting the overall attendance to a massive 9,735 entries. While not as big as either 2023 or 2024, this bumper number produced 2,133 survivors on Day 2d as the combined total of players moving on to Day 3 […]