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Jason Dennis Wins Big In The Colorado Poker Championship
Jason Dennis is a regular at Bally's Black Hawk casino in Colorado, formerly the Golden Gates Casino. All 14 of his recorded live tournament cashes are from this venue, so it is fitting that his favorite casino is where Dennis got his hands on a career-best score. Dennis was one...
Five Stars Looking For Their Maiden WSOP Bracelet
The 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) shuffles up and deals on September 30, and thousands of poker players are hunting for their maiden WSOP bracelet. Most of those hopefuls will, unfortunately, return home having not achieved their goal. The following five poker superstars are hopeful of winning their maiden...
Matt Paten is the MSPT US Poker Championship Champion
Matt Paten of St. Charles, Missouri, won the $1,650 Heartland Poker Tour Main Event on home soil on September 28, 2017. The victory came with a career-best $110,486. Almost exactly four years later, Paten won the $1,100 MSPT United States Poker Championship (USPC) event in San Diego, California, for another...
Mustafa Ercan Banks $377,115 and High Roller Title
Mustafa Ercan won one of the largest live poker tournament prizes since the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions by taking down the $10,500 partypoker LIVE MILLIONS North Cyprus High Roller event. Ercan got his hands on a career-best $377,115 after a thrilling final table in North Cyprus. Northern Cyprus, or the...
The Do and Do Nots of Talking at the Poker Table
Poker is a social game played with friends or a complete stranger. Few other games give you the chance to meet people from such a wide circle of backgrounds. Talking to your opponents and finding out more about them makes playing poker more enjoyable. However, talking to your opponents can...
Orson Young Becomes a WPT Champions Club Member
New Jersey resident Orson Young is the latest poker player to join the exclusive WPT Champions Club. Young came out on top in the WPT Online Borgata Poker Open, a result worth $195,748. Some 305 players bought into the online poker event for $3,500 ($3,200+$300), which left a $24,000 overlay...
Who Are The Five Biggest Winners From Hungary?
Hungary has produced some incredible poker players over the years. It is not the first country you think of when considering poker’s elite, but it should be. Thinking of heading to Las Vegas for the 2021 World Series of Poker (WSOP) this fall? You may bump into this talented quintet...
Chris Smith is the MSPT Sycuan Casino Champion
The ever-popular MSPT continued this weekend with a visit to the Sycuan Casino in San Diego. The regional event only cost $360 to enter, yet it paid its champion $33,149. Chris Smith is that champion after outlasting 518 opponents and claiming the lion’s share of the $155,700 prize pool. Smith...
Miles Rampel Wins $25K PLO Event While on Vacation
Miles Rampel was on vacation in Las Vegas when he saw the 2021 Poker Masters series in full swing. The successful internet entrepreneur from California had never cashed in a live poker tournament but decided to enter the $25,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event. It was an incredible decision because Rampel came...
Pocket Jacks: The Hand We All Love To Hate
Poker would be an extremely simple game if we only received aces or kings as our hole cards. Unfortunately, that is not how the game works and we have to contend with a plethora of starting hands. Pocket jacks are one such hand that gives both recreational and professional players...