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The International-facing segment of the 2022 World Series of Poker Online is now officially in the books, with nearly 131,200 entries made and more than $86.1 million paid out through 33 bracelet events held on GGPoker. The largest prize pool of the entire series was created in the festival-ending WSOPO $5,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main […]
Melbourne’s David Tang almost skipped this week’s World Poker Tour (WPT) Australia Main Event for a soccer game. But after failing to find a way to cancel his flight, he ended up winning the AUD $5,400 buy-in event at the first WPT Main Tour on Australian soil for $425,712 and his first WPT title. “I […]
The Unibet Open returns this week to Malta, featuring the €1,100 Unibet Open Main Event that got underway today. Also on the schedule are several other events including Bounty tournaments, Flipouts and — a first for Unibet — a Mystery Bounty tournament. PokerNews spoke with Unibet Poker Ambassador David Lappin about the return of the […]
David “MissOracle” Yan and Juanki “B4NKR0LL3R” Vecino were determined to end the 2022 PokerStars World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP) on a high with the $85 million guaranteed festival’s end rapidly approaching. Both achieved that goal by capturing their first WCOOP title in addition to bankroll-boosting six-figure prizes. Yan’s maiden WCOOP victory came in event […]
A dominant final table performance from Norway’s Preben Stokkan saw him crowned PartyPoker MILLIONS Online Main Event champion, taking home $391,731 in prize money. Finnish player Eelis Parssinen would have to settle for second place and $270,214, after the Finn came from start-of-day short stack to lead during heads-up play only to fall just short. […]
The online legend cements his reputation as one of the best in the game with a $2,793,574 victory couple with a WSOP championship bracelet. Simon Eric Mattsson While one of the most prestigious online tournaments in the world barely got started, another one thrived over the weekend. The $5,000 GGPoker WSOP Main Event attracted a […]
Unable to cancel his flight, David Tang decided to win a WPT title and six-figure prize instead. David Tang The World Poker Tour continues to travel to new and exciting destinations. This week they concluded the first ever WPT Australia at the Star Gold Coast Casino. 710 players bought in for the AUD $5,400 Main […]
Simon Mattsson is the 2022 WSOP Online Main Event champion, after the super-talented poker tournament specialist put on a masterclass of a performance at the final table. Mattsson navigated his way to the final table as the chip leader before emerging victoriously, having left 4,983 opponents in his wake, and securing $2,793,574 of the $23,674,000 […]
The online legend cements his reputation as one of the best in the game with a $2,793,574 victory couple with a WSOP championship bracelet. Simon Eric Mattsson While one of the most prestigious online tournaments in the world barely got started, another one thrived over the weekend. The $5,000 GGPoker WSOP Main Event attracted a […]
08:0028 Sep One of the busiest and most exciting Sundays of the year at PokerStars turned into disappointment and frustration for many players when the poker site was hit with a Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack. The outage put the kibosh on a slew of tournaments on Sept. 26, including half a dozen World […]