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Phil Ivey Has $124,410 WSOP Winnings Confiscated
Phil Ivey finished eighth in the $50,000 Poker Players Championship at the 2019 WSOP but will never see his winnings. The high stakes legend should have taken home $124,410, but the Borgata in New Jersey blocked him from collecting it. This is the latest twist in a seemingly never-ending saga...
Should I Play Cash Games or Tournaments?
“Should I play cash games or tournaments” is one of the most common questions asked by new poker players. You will have asked it yourself, I know I have. Players tend to have already decided on their variant of choice – it is usually No-Limit Hold’em – but cannot make...
PokerStars Reduces Cash Game Table Cap to Four
PokerStars has long been the online poker site where the highest-volume cash game grinders plied their trade. Even after scrapping the Supernova Elite program, PokerStars was the place to play online poker cash games. This is no longer the case, so it seems. On August 20th, PokerStars sent a message...
Five Video Games With Poker or Card Games
Poker, card games, and video games have long enjoyed a relationship together, particularly in the online poker world. The hand-eye coordination required to play multiple online poker tables simultaneously can be improved by playing video games. Indeed, some of the poker’s world’s biggest stars were professional gamers before switching to...
Which Huge Online Poker Tournament Will I Win on Aug. 18?
Sundays are the most exciting day of the week for online poker tournament players because prize pools are larger. It may be the Sabbath for millions of people around the world, the “day of rest” but not for poker players. It is hard to pinpoint when Sundays became so important...
Orpen Kisacikoglu’s First 7-Fig. Score; Tony G Binks Event
Rozvadov, a small village in the Czech Republic that is 143km west of Prague and situated on the German-Czech border, is not somewhere your mind’s eye would conjure up if you had to think about a major poker destination. Yet it is the home to some massive events several times...
Jason Mercier Wins $50K Event 1 Year After Last Cash
Jason Mercier won the $50,000 No Limit Hold’em Super High Roller event at the 2019 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open in Hollywood, Florida almost exactly 12-months after his last live poker tournament cash. Mercier, a Florida native who resides Fort Lauderdale, came out on top of a 41-strong field to...
From Magic: The Gathering to Poker Stardom
Magic: The Gathering is one of the most popular collectible card games in the world, played by millions of people. The mixture of luck and skill help players draw similarities to poker and some of today’s top poker players cut their teeth playing Magic: The Gathering. Bryn Kenney Bryn Kenney...
Wai Kin Yong Banks Wins Triton London for £2.59 million
The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London festival continues to create some massive prizes with another four players getting their hands on more than £1 million in the £100,000 buy-in Main Event. Malaysia’s Wai Kin Yong, son of prominent Asian businessman and poker player Richard Yong, was the last...
Linus Loeliger and Charlie Carrel Both Win Biggest Prizes
The partypoker LIVE Triton Poker Super High Roller Series London festival continues to create some gigantic prize pools and massive prizes despite its biggest event having already finished. Aaron Zang took home £13,779,491 ($16,754,497) after he topped a field of 54 entries in the £1,050,000 buy-in Triton Million – A...