One of poker’s most popular players in the live arena is Andrew Neeme. The recent news that Neeme has been added to the World Poker Tour as an ambassador is exciting for players and fans alike, with the part-owner of The Lodge in Round Rock, Texas contributing to the poker world in many ways. With a thriving Video Blog channel on You Tube, Neeme is successful, creates great content and has made the ‘Meet Up Game’ mode of bringing new players to the game his own. Neeme predominantly plays cash games but has also earned over $120,000 in live tournaments too. Can he deal with our ’15 Bigs’ – noto ..read more

The 2022 PokerStars and Barcelona Casino European Poker Tour has been in full swing for the last nine days, with eight of the fourteen events on the schedule complete. The €5,300 EPT Main Event is currently on Day 3 of action, with two other events (€3,000 Mystery Bounty Championship and €25,000 Single Day High Roller II) in play as well. The completed events include a back-to-back winner, two seven-figure pay days, and some of the biggest names in poker taking down titles in the first EPT event since 2019.   Back-To-Back For Benitez   The opening event of EPT Barcelona 2022 was a €1 ..read more

The 2022 World Series of Poker saw a new Player of the Year in Daniel Zack, an enforced absence for the most successful WSOP player of all-time, Phil Hellmuth and a rousing rally from a rising star of the game, Daniel Weinman. As poker fans look back on a thrilling Series to watch we caught up with all three men in the first part of our double header in looking back at the first WSOP to take place at Bally’s and Paris in Las Vegas.   Phil Hellmuth was forced out through sickness at the very beginning of the series, while Dan Zack had won two events by the 40th event of the WSOP. Coming up ..read more

Did you wish that the World Series of Poker had made it from your ‘wish list’ to your ‘To Do’ list this summer? Maybe you faced down one of those conversations that ends with the question asking you whether you could cope with bubbling a tournament and the inevitable crushing feeling that can come with such an eventuality.     One man who made his trip to Vegas happen and bubbled was GGPoker player Eric Raus. The recreational player, who works full time, was in play in a $1,000-entry WSOP event when he approached the money bubble…with no fear.   Protecting Himself Before the Ser ..read more

Over the course of this year’s World Series of Poker, the tantalising chance of the reigning Player of the Year retaining their title was a distinct possibility. Sadly for Josh Arieh and his supporters, the 2021 winner couldn’t make it back-to-back titles in 2022, but after two third-place finishes, banked even more than he did in his winning year. So why did it feel like he could have done more?   A Series of Two Halves   Having attended “20 different World Series of Poker”, the player known affectionally as ‘Golfer Josh’ lost out on the POY title as Dan Zack swept to victory. Arieh ..read more

One of the names to leap out of the headlines over the last few years in the World Series of Poker, Alex Livingston shot to fame in 2019 when he finished third in the WSOP Main Event for a career-high score of $4 million.   Far from that being his only major live score, Livingston has become a tournament mainstay over recent years, cashing for $6 million in career earnings in live tournaments alone, and had another successful summer in Las Vegas. With Over $275,000 in winnings from six cashes in the 2022 WSOP alone, Livingston won Event #9 on this year’s schedule for his first-ever bracel ..read more

The 2022 World Series of Poker came to a close on Wednesday, with the Tournament of Champions playing down to a winner after a total of three days of play. Benjamin Kaupp managed to earn his first career WSOP gold bracelet in the last event of the series, and we’ll break down just how the final two days of the invitation-only tournament played out for a talented field of 2022 WSOP bracelet and ring winners.   Woof Has a Ball En Route to Day 2 TOC Chip Lead   A few new players jumped in with the 149 who bagged during Day 1 action to try and spin fifteen-big blind stacks up, bringing t ..read more

It’s closing time for poker players at the World Series of Poker, as the final two open gold bracelet events at Bally’s Casino in Las Vegas came to a conclusion today. One final event kicked off today; the exclusive Tournament of Champions with a guaranteed million-dollar prize pool for anyone who earned one of the 88 WSOP gold bracelets handed out during this year’s series, as well as WSOP Circuit ring winners, both virtual and live, from the 2022 WSOPC series.   Jensen Hedges His Bets to Earn $10k Six-Max Gold   Gregory Jensen, a hedge fund trader from Connecticut, returned to the ..read more

With five events taking place on a superb Sunday of action, Bally’s and Paris were filled with WSOP hopefuls looking to either save their summer or seal yet more profit on an already thrilling trip to Las Vegas. Three bracelets were won on the day in live events as   Brandt Wins Second Summer Bracelet for $205k   Lawrence Brandt won his second bracelet of the summer, joining Player of the Year leader Dan Zack and newly crowned world champion Espen Jørstad as the only other player to make it a double in Vegas during the 2022 World Series of Poker.   Taking down the title in Event ..read more

Norway’s Espen Jørstad claimed the WSOP Main Event title in a quick-quick-slow victory against Adrian Attenborough heads-up in Las Vegas for $10 million on Saturday night. The final table was a quick one, taking under two hours to complete, but in two huge tanking hands, it also took plenty of time to play out with two key hands the difference between winning and losing.   Jørstad came into play with the lead and ended up taking the title, but that doesn’t nearly tell the story of a pulsating period of play that decided the destiny of the 2022 world championship. Michael Duek was the shor ..read more