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Cash Game Pot Record Broken Again, Imsirovic Banks $974,631
Ali Imsirovic is better-known for his silky tournament poker skills, but he’s gone down in history for cash games. Imsirovic won the largest-ever No-Limit Hold’em cash game pot on August 20. The record he broke stood for less than a week and makes a $1 million pot extremely likely. Some...
Preparing For Success: Your SNG Bankroll
Sit & Go (SNG) tournaments are a great introduction to tournament poker. They give you final table experience from the first hands dealt. You need to manage your SNG bankroll carefully if you want to be successful and we all want success. Determining the size of your SNG bankroll comes...
Americas Cardroom Doubles Winners in The Beast
Americas Cardroom is doubling the number of winners in The Beast promotion yet again. The online poker site did this in February when it went from paying 400 to 800 players. This groundbreaking promotion now pays 1,600 players as of August 15, 2020. The Beast is a rake race open...
Wiktor Malinowski Wins Biggest-Ever Online NLHE Cash Game Hand
Wiktor Malinowski has crushed high stakes cash games for years. Malinowski is known as “limitless” in online poker circles where he frequents the biggest games. The Polish star started his poker career playing freeroll tournaments. Now he’s found playing the biggest buy-in tournaments in the world. Cash games, however, are...
Nick Petrangelo Shows The Poker World How It’s Done
Nick Petrangelo put on a masterclass of tournament poker at partypoker on August 11. Anyone who ever doubted his ability should watch a re-run of the WPT 6-Max Championship final table and look on in awe of the skills on show. Petrangelo hardly put a foot wrong at the seven-handed...
Daniel Dvoress Wins MILLIONAIRE MAKER Event and First Bracelet
Daniel Dvoress is one of the most-respected poker tournament players of his generation. The Canadian has more than $15 million in live tournament cashes and $2.7 million from online poker. Dvoress famously doesn’t compete at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas each summer. He takes the summer off...
Six Former Stars Who Quit Poker
Dozens of high profile players have quit poker over the years. Some of them disappeared into the ether, others continue to dabble in the occasional tournament. Vanessa Selbst and Jason Mercier are two of the highest-profile players to quit poker recently. Both were fully-fledged members of the Team PokerStars Pro...
WSOP Millionaire Maker Final Table Set at GGPoker; Dvoress Leads
The Millionaire Maker has become one of the most popular events on the WSOP schedule since its creation. It gives players the chance to play for massive prizes, including a top prize worth at least $1 million. A staggering 8,809 players bought into the Millionaire Maker at the 2019 WSOP...
Daniel Negreanu Receives Twitch Ban After Expletive-Filled Tirade
Daniel Negreanu's foray into streaming on Twitch has resulted in the site banning the Canadian. Negreanu received the Twitch ban following an expletive-filled tirade against one of his viewers. Many top poker players stream their online poker session on Twitch, but Negreanu has the highest-profile star. The GGPoker-sponsored pro has...
Five of the Best Poker Twitch Streamers
Hundreds of poker players head to Twitch every day and stream their sessions in real-time. Twitch has exploded in popularity in recent times with streamers showcasing their poker skills. Videos games are another huge section of the streaming site, but we are a poker site so we’ll cover poker streamers....