Over the years, high-stakes poker games have mostly been played at cash game tables, while most tournaments were reserved for players with smaller bankrolls. As years went by, higher buy-in tournaments were gradually introduced into major poker tours, with the […]
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Images: Orleans Poker Room This week in Las Vegas, mixed games are on the menu at The Orleans, while The Wynn ghosts us all for a good reason. The Venetian isn’t resting on its laurels, bringing more DeepStack action to
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Bryn Kenney and Jesse Lonis chopped a massive high roller in Jeju, Tom Goldstein got six years in prison, and WSOP changed the Main Event shot clock rule in this week’s breaking poker news.
Phil Hellmuth lost one of the most memorable TV poker hands to Ernest Wiggins, the first Loose Cannon on PokerStars Big Game back in 2010. Here’s how it happened.
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Matt Stout’s recent actions created a lot of controversy in the poker community and (re)opened some of the burning questions about the game we all love.
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Image credit: Venetian Poker Room. This week in Vegas, tournament poker proves it is alive and well despite the ‘WSOP hangover’. The action includes the last week of The Venetian’s DeepStack Championship until Fall, offering good value right on the
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The first episodes of WSOP coverage on ESPN had low ratings, a new season of NGNF went live on PokerGO, and Maurice Hawkins extended his WSOPC record this week.
A Week in Review: WSOP Ratings Are In, NGNF Is Back, and Hawkins Is Champion Once More Read More »
In one of the most iconic TV poker hands of all time, Patrik Antonius took Eric Persson to school and won $1 million off him. Here is how it went down.
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It’s the final week of the 2026 World Series of Poker and it’s time for the players to draw the line under their results and do some serious accounting.
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The 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event is entering Day 8, and only 21 players remain of the 9,208 who ponied up $10,000 to play in the most prestigious poker tournament of the year. The Main Event kicked
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