The 2026 World Series of Poker has begun. After the 2025 WSOP Main Event winner Michael Mizrachi grabbed the microphone and declared “Shuffle Up and Deal”, the 57th annual WSOP was underway. A celebration of poker, with 100 WSOP bracelet events, thousands of household names and hundreds of thousands of entries into tournaments which will […]

The British mixed game specialist Benny Glaser went close to glory last night in Las Vegas as Yuri Dzivielevski enjoyed the week of his dreams in Sin City. After three late results in the PGT Mixed Games series sealed Yuri Dzivielevski victory, the Brazilian also topped the Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games event to […]

The Brazilian former online world number one Yuri Dzivielevski won the PGT Mixed Games series this week and has gone on to lead Day 1 of the $100,000-entry Super High Roller Bowl in Mixed Games. While the Brazilian is on course to chase down yet more winnings in a week where he has far exceeded […]

After two decades in the game, American poker professional Matt Vengrin has seen several eras of the game he loves come and go. The latest innovations, the best way to play, even the style of players both on and off the felt. We caught up with one of PokerStake’s most popular players to find out […]

It was a super-sized day at the 2023 World Series of Poker, as five bracelets were handed out to first-time champions, while eleven events were in play concurrently. This was fitting, as an absolutely mammoth field stormed into the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas for Day 1a of the Colossus and the highest […]

The 24th day of action in the 2023 World Series of Poker (WSOP) saw four bracelets won at the live felt and another taken online. With an additional four tournaments in progress, players such as Brian Rast, Yuri Dzivielevski and Yang Zhang all celebrated momentous days at the felt at the Horseshoe Las Vegas and […]

A bumper day in the 2022 World Series of Poker saw four players win gold WSOP bracelets as the Poker Players Championship, $600 Deepstack, $10k Short Deck Championship and $1,500 Super Turbo Bounty events all produced champions. From first timers to multiple bracelet winners, there were millions won at the felt on Day 31 of […]

Dominykas Mikolaitis entered the final table of this week’s GGPoker Super MILLION$ with a hefty chip lead, one that he leveraged to take home his first career Super MILLION$ title and the $428,624 first-place prize.

This year we’re doing something a little different and breaking down our annual Poker Year In Review into three different parts – the Flop (January-April), Turn (May-August), and River (September-December). We’re wrapping up 2021 by taking a look back at some of our biggest stories, winners, and surprises that unfolded in one of the most […]

Koray Aldemir, the 2021 World Series of Poker Main Event world champion, sits on top of the poker world this morning after the result of his career saw him win the $8 million top prize in the Las Vegas spectacular earlier today.

The latest action in the 2021 WSOP Main Event saw several big names make dramatic exits on Day 6 as the 96 players who started the day were whittled down to just 36 survivors by the close of play. On a day where Japanese player Motoyoshi Okamura won his first-ever WSOP bracelet, the Main Event […]

It was a long grind for Brazil’s Bruno ‘brunovolks’ Volkmann but now his time is finally here – for the first time in his prolific online career, Volkmann is the #1-ranked online poker player in the world.

It’s a rare day for Yuri Dzivielevski, one in which he isn’t making his presence felt deep in an online high roller. Here, in late September, as the live 2021 World Series of Poker approaches, the #1-ranked online player in the world is taking a few days off from his grind to adjust to his […]

Current worldwide #1-ranked Yuri Dzivielevski and UK high roller Talal Shakerchi were among the high-profile winners in the latest batch of PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker events. In Dzivielevski’s case, he did it twice.

Vamo Baralho! Loosely translated from Portuguese, it means “let’s play some cards”. Over the past few years it’s become a battle cry for Brazilian poker players as they’ve dominated the world of online poker tournaments. That’s been no more apparent than during the first seven events of the World Series of Poker Online on GGpoker.