Save the dates: The World Series of Poker is set to return to King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic for the 15th version of its series in Europe. Running from Sept. 18 to Oct. 6, 15 bracelets will be won in tourneys with guarantees totaling $15 million. Max Neugebauer is the 2023 World Series of Poker European Champion. Will he defend his title in October? (Image: WSOP) The €10,350 Main Event starts Oct. 4. Last year’s Main Event champion, Max Neugebauer, won €1.5 million for being the last of a record-breaking field of 817 entrants. In fact, the attendance record of the Main Event has inc ..read more

Consistency is one of the best indicators of greatness, something champions and Hall of Famers in any sport possess. While the mortals stare and wonder on the rail how these poker stars are able to consistently perform, others simply go out and do it. Erik Seidel wins another big-buy in event for $145,000. (Image: PokerGO) Erik Seidel is one of these “others” and he went out and did it again, this time in the first event at the U.S. Poker Open, a $5,100 no-limit hold’em contest that attracted 116 entries. The wins adds another $145,000 to a pile of tournament cashes worth $46.2 million he’s co ..read more

It’s the middle of March. My mother is sitting in a hospital bed while I try to shuffle a cheap used deck of cards from the Tropicana found in a drawer. We’re 2,000 miles away from Las Vegas in a rehab unit on the top floor, and we’re both sick of this place because she’s been in the same building since the ambulance rushed her here two days before Christmas. The cards are thick and stiff and go everywhere when I try to riffle them, so I end up shuffling the deck one-by-one, placing the top card on the bottom, one after another, until all 52 find a new spot. I’m reminding Theresa the rules of ..read more

Over and over, CardsChat has warned its readers and forum members that it’s a very bad idea to play high-stakes Pot Limit Omaha with players who grew up in Finland. Samuli Sipila again proved our point by becoming the 2024 PokerGO Tour PLO Series overall champion — and he had to beat another Finn to do it. Samuli Sipila won two events and more than $1,000,000 on his way to being crowned PGT PLO Series champion. (Image: PokerGO) He won the $10,000 PGT Passport bonus by cashing four times: He won two events, bagged a runner-up, and also had a seventh place finish for a series total of $1,015,140 ..read more

Giuseppe Pantaleo is the winner of the World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event at the Horseshoe Las Vegas, breaking a self-described poker drought that tested his desire to even play tournaments anymore. But turning $1,700 into $192,831 will change any poker player’s attitude and mood. Giuseppe Pantaleo is the winner of the WSOPC even tin Las Vegas. (Image: WSOP) “Yeah, this feels very good because the last five years have been pretty bad in tournaments for me. I’m just very happy to get the weight off my shoulders and have some success,” Pantaleo said. “Honestly, I didn’t even want to play t ..read more

The World Series of Poker is moving its Tournament of Champions — a $1 million freeroll open to all winners of Circuit and bracelet events — to Commerce Casino in Los Angeles. The Tournament of Champions will take place May 22-24, and is officially part of the schedule of the WSOP Circuit series at Commerce that starts May 10. The Commerce Casino will host the World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions in May. Image: Commerce) The first event of the 55th WSOP series in Las Vegas starts May 28. The Tournament of Champions is open to anyone who won a bracelet or a Circuit ring in the 2023/24 ..read more

Eelis Parssinen is reminding everyone why he should be in any conversation about who is the best Pot Limit Omaha player in the world at the PokerGO Tour Pot Limit series that wraps up this weekend at the Aria. Yesterday, he won the $15,100 event less than a week after taking down the the $7,600 PLO Bounty contest ($5,000 + $100 + $2,500) for $149,000 — $131,325 for the victory, plus $32,500 in bounties. Parssinen’s latest win added $348,600 to his haul from the PGT’s Pot Limit festival that ran at its studios on the Las Vegas Strip March 20-29. His tally before today’s final event: Two wins ..read more

With World Series of Poker season soon approaching, a handful of online poker sites are getting their ambassadors all set. GGPoker added Alexandra Botez, a chess streamer and poker dabbler, to its stable of ambassadors. (Image: GGPoker)Alexandra Botez joins global leader Alexandra Botez, the 29-year-old Twitch streamer and YouTuber who built a brand around her love of the game of chess, is a new ambassador for GGPoker. Daniel Negreanu is the online poker room’s biggest name, and he welcomed Botez to the GGPoker family. Besides poker, the two have the love of exclamation points to share. “I’m s ..read more

After losing more than $2 million playing poker in 2023, Daniel Negreanu made a public promise to himself and his fans that he would have a better year by putting “quantity over quality,” playing less events, and changing his mindset. Whatever he’s doing is working, because the 2014 Poker Hall of Fame inductee bagged his second victory at PokerGO Tour events this year. Daniel Negreanu takes another trophy from the PokerGO Tour, this time at the PLO Series. (Image: PokerGO) This time he did it in the third event of the PokerGO Tour PLO Series ($5,100 buy-in) by outlasting 117 entrants. He wins ..read more

It took 22 seasons, but the World Poker Tour announced it will hold a series in China for the first time in June. The WPT brings its Main Tour brand to Wynn Macau in the casino’s namesake city with at least two tournaments June 18-24. The World Poker Tour is heading to Macau. (Image: Wynn Macau) WPT is partnering with Allied Gaming & Entertainment and Wynn Macau to help pull off the inaugural event. Allied Gaming & Entertainment is, according to its website “a global experiential entertainment company focused on providing a growing world of gamers with unique experiences through renown ..read more