An NBA player booted for life, a casino owner breaks the hearts of a hockey fanbase, and the World Series of Poker getting behind a veterans organization are the short stacks CardsChat picked up in its last orbit of poker news. Dave Riley is one of the many people that receives support from Disabled American Veterans. The WSOP is donating up to $30,000 to the organization this weekend. (Image: DAV) WSOP to donate to vets group The WSOP will donate up to $30,000 to Disabled American Veterans — if enough people take part in the 72 hour “Pokerthon” that will take place on the World Series of Poke ..read more

In a little more than a month, poker players throughout the world will descend on Las Vegas for the 55th World Series of Poker and a chance at big money and the coveted bracelet. For those who can’t make it to the desert to witness the action in person, PokerGO will again be the place to watch as the players battle for bracelet after bracelet. Fans watched Daniel Weinman win the 2023 WSOP Main Event title on PokerGO. (Image: WSOP) PokerGO, which can be had for as low as $6.66 a month, will begin streaming from The Strip starting May 30, and promises to provide more than 300 hours of live broad ..read more

High-stakes tournament poker regular Dan Shak made a deal with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for $750,000 — or $214,000 less than what he won playing tournament poker since December — after facing accusations he manipulated the gold and silver futures market. Dan Shak, PokerGO Tour champion, has settled with the Feds. (Image: PokerGO) The deal closed an investigation by the Federal commission, “resolving CFTC charges that Daniel Shak of Las Vegas, Nevada engaged in spoofing and in a manipulative and deceptive scheme in the gold and silver futures markets,” according t ..read more

Resorts World Las Vegas announced a massive small buy-in poker tournament series that will give the thousands of players in town for the 2024 World Series of Poker a chance to build their bankrolls. Comfy seats and table-side gourmet dining await the players at Resorts World Summer Poker Series in June. (Image: Resorts World) While WSOP events up the Strip at the Paris and Las Vegas Horseshoe cost up to $250,000 to buy-in, Resorts World is keeping the buy-ins of its 82-event Summer Poker Series between $200 and $400. Each tourney has a prize pool guarantee of at least $5,000, with the $400 No ..read more

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