The Brazilian player captures his biggest-ever live tournament win The $1,100 buy-in 2024 World Poker Tour (WPT) Prime Voyage Championship drew 968 participants, almost doubling the $500,000 guaranteed prize pool to $968,000. Gregory De Faria from Brazil won the largest share, earning $155,400 as the champion. Before this win, De Faria’s highest recorded score was
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Global Poker to host US Poker Open events starting Monday
Poker players of all levels will find an event to suit their preferences The 2024 Global Poker US Poker Open (USPO) kicks off on April 8, with two weeks of action running together with the live USPO. The series will feature eight Sweeps Coin and eight Gold Coin events, including the GC 50,000,000 and SC
Aram Oganyan ships first-ever WPT Voyage Championship
Sailing the high seas proves to be a big success as Oganyan captures his first WPT title Aram Oganyan is the newest World Poker Tour (WPT) Champion after four days on the high seas aboard the WPT Voyage. He would claim his first WPT title at the $5,000 WPT Voyage Championship to earn a place
Upcoming WSOP Tournament of Champions heads to California
The Commerce Casino & Hotel will host the big event in May The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has released the schedule for the 2024 Tournament of Champions and details about the close of the 19th annual WSOP Circuit (WSOP-C), which is underway at the Choctaw Casino Resort in Oklahoma. The circuit will conclude its
Seth Davies takes home over $520K in latest poker victory
Pot-Limit Omaha continues to be successful for the long-time grinder Seth Davies and Daniel Negreanu were a couple of big winners at the recent PokerGO Tour Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) Series, but two other grinders would win multiple events. Ten PLO events with buy-ins ranging from $5,100 to $25,200 were featured in the series, which concluded
Irish Open Main Event sets new entry record
3,233 entries pushed the tourney to a new high The 2024 Irish Open €1,150 Main Event at the Royal Dublin Society set a new record, as 3,233 entrants smashed the €1-million (US$1.2 million) guarantee by creating a prize pool of €3,152,175 ($3,395,066). After four days of grinding, Day 3 chip leader Tero Laurila would take
The $12.2 Million High Five Tournament Series Is Rolling Into Its Final Weekend
The green felt has never been greener as our 420-friendly High Five tournament series approaches its final weekend. Since sparking up on March 10th, it’s set the poker world ablaze, making headlines with massive prize pools and our iconic daily “courtesy break” at 4:20pm ET. Now, as we burn through the last ounces of March,
WPT Rolling Thunder Championship wraps up its ninth annual event
California resident Casey Sandretto earns his first poker title and a massive pot Sacramento resident Casey Sandretto secured his first title on the World Poker Tour (WPT) at the ninth installment of the WPT Rolling Thunder event at Thunder Valley Casino Resort on Tuesday. He earned a place on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup,
Samuli Sipila pockets over $240K in latest poker victory
The Finnish player has now earned over $1 million in live poker action Finnish players have represented their country well at the 2024 PGT PLO Series, winning two of the four tournaments completed on the 10-event schedule. Eelis Parssinen defended his title in the $7,600 PLO bounty event, followed by Samuli Sipila, who won the
Mikita Badziakouski adds fifth Triton Poker title at $100K Short Deck event in Jeju
The victory gives him another $1.1 million to add to his bank Mikita Badziakouski overcame the 34-player field at the 2024 Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju $100,000 buy-in short deck event to take his fifth Triton title and the $1,153,000 first-place prize. The win ties him for second place with Phil Ivey and Danny
Maria Ho bags big win in latest Celebrity Poker Tour
The Women in Poker Hall of Famer had no trouble showing off her skills Last weekend’s Celebrity Poker Tour (CPT) event from the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas saw a third consecutive woman crowned as champion. Maria Ho took down the single-table field of poker vloggers and TikTok stars to win the golden CPT belt
Borgata to reimburse players after fake chips found in poker tournament
A player who tried to use fake chips brought the tourney to an abrupt halt New Jersey’s Borgata Casino & Spa has announced it would reimburse over 2,100 players who finished outside the top 450 in a poker tournament and played in the same room as the suspect accused of introducing fake chips. Play had