Wild Luxury & Cinemascope Karaoke: Welcome to WPT Kazakhstan
While the majority of the poker world has headed West to Las Vegas for the mecca of all things poker, a small poker sun is rising in the East with the first-ever WPT National Kazakhstan. Intrepid...
View ArticleNick Guagenti: "Karma's Rolling My Way" Since Borgata Letdown
He had second-place chips in the first event of the 2014 Borgata Winter Open with 27 remaining when state regulators discovered counterfeit tournament chips were put into play. The New Jersey Division...
View ArticleHangover Actress Sasha Barrese Shoots for Pro Poker Career
The actor from Hawaii has a growing list of tournament results in smaller events around the US and is in Las Vegas now competing at the 2014 World Series of Poker. Barrese has been playing poker and...
View ArticleAndrey Pateychuk: Sochi Could Become Russian Las Vegas
These days, as the poker series that made him semi-famous is underway again in Las Vegas, Pateychuk couldn't be physically much further from the spotlight. Spending most of his time grinding online...
View ArticleWSOP 3-Bet: Piece of Seidel, ElkY Sips €9k Wine, BrokeLivingFamily
The WSOP Daily 3-Bet breaks down three underreported, entertaining stories that may, or may not, have a ton to do with what’s actually happening in the tournaments. In today’s WSOP 3-Bet we’ll take a...
View ArticleFormer Davidson Wildcat on Brink of First World Series of Poker Win
This afternoon at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas Popham will compete for his first gold bracelet and over $200,000. Popham is fifth in chips with six players left in the $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha...
View Article2014 Battle of Malta Early Bird Deal Extended to June 30
Until June 30 you can get your seat in the €500k guaranteed BOM Main Event plus four-nights at the Hilton Malta and tons of perks for just €1,300. And if you want to bring a friend you can both play...
View ArticleVanessa Selbst Wins 3rd WSOP Bracelet and Tops $10m in Earnings
Selbst’s victory in the $25k Mixed Max event puts her in a tie with Barbara Enright as the most decorated female World Series of Poker player. “Obviously I’d like to be included in the conversation...
View ArticleIori Yogo Finishes 3rd at WSOP, Hopes for Live Poker in Japan
Yogo took 3rd out of 1,128 players in the $1,000 Pot-Limit Omaha event, earning more than $79k. It was the first cash of the summer by a Japanese player. This was Yogo's second WSOP final table and it...
View ArticleWSOP Bracelet Hunters: Daniel "Jungleman12" Cates
If you don’t know who Derren Brown is then picture a cross between David Blaine, Criss Angel, Dynamo, Professor Xavier and Gandalf and you kind of get the picture. He stuns me. My mouth remains open...
View ArticleMatusow: Nic Cage in Talks to Play Lead in Check-Raising the Devil
Check-Raising the Devil is a brutally honest account of Matusow's life as one of the world's best professional poker players and it includes liberal amounts of high-stakes poker, partying, drugs,...
View ArticleRecord Field Plus Dog Acrobats in Second WSOP Millionaire Maker
This year's Millionaire Maker field is second only to the 2006 WSOP Main Event. This event promised a minimum of $1 million for first but with a total prize pool of $10,768,950 the champion will be...
View ArticleLive Updates: Phil Hellmuth Goes for WSOP Bracelet #14 Today
Hellmuth is at the final table of the $1,500 Razz event, his 50th career WSOP final table, and PokerListings.com will be live updating his progress until he either wins or busts. Bear in mind, the...
View ArticleWSOP Rant: $16 Salads and No Place to Do Yoga? Help Us, FLOTUS
Take a simple stroll around the Poker Kitchen in the Rio as an example. A few days ago I joined the PokerNews UK Editor, Matthew Pitt, as he looked for something healthy to eat. “$16 for a f**ing...
View ArticleTuan Le Staves Off Deadly 2-7 Final Table for First WSOP Bracelet
Major tournament titles. Multiple seven-figure scores. And more than $4.5 million in live tournament cashes. But a WSOP bracelet had still eluded him. In fact, Le had never even made a WSOP final...
View ArticleHigh-Stakes Poker: Hansen, Blom Freefall Continues in May
Blom and Hansen lost millions last month while Russian Alexander Kostritsyn asserted his control over the high-stakes scene with massive profit. Cort Kibler-Melby and Sebastian Ruthenberg made...
View ArticleWSOP 3-Bet: Hellmuth Slayers, Bellande Slim-Fast, Brenes 4 for 4
Looking for the latest news and gossip pouring out of the doors at the 2014 WSOP at the Rio in Las Vegas? Here's where you'll find it. Today in the 3-Bet we find a full table of Hellmuth slayers that...
View ArticleTed Forrest: "The Bracelet Means More Than Any of the Money"
Not so, says Ted Forrest. Holding back the Phil Hellmuth #14 tide last night to earn his sixth career WSOP bracelet, Forrest says it's the gold on his wrist that still matters most. PokerListings:...
View ArticleOleksii Kovalchuk: While Kiev Burned, Poker Players Just Played On
Unlike a lot of poker players, though, Kovalchuk doesn't attribute it all to running good at the right times. The Kiev native has big plans for the WSOP again this year but in the interim made a quick...
View Article888poker Giving Away $400k in Football Carnival Promo
From June 12 to July 13 online poker site 888poker will be running twice-daily $2,000 freerolls where 50% of the field qualifies for an ever bigger daily $10,000 freeroll. The fun doesn’t end there,...
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