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Paul Volpe Wins Borgata Big, Big Championship for $492K
Paul Volpe wins the $5,300 Borgata Big, Big Championship for $492,415 after recovering from eight big blinds and making a heads-up ICM deal.
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Abby Merk Viral Lodge Hand Sparks Poker Etiquette Debate
Abby Merk has found herself in the middle of one of poker's stranger social-media storms after a $1/$2 cash-game hand at The Lodge Card Club turned a routine piece of…
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Congya Zhang Turns WSOP Breakthrough Into $300K Cyprus Win
Congya Zhang has turned the best summer of her poker career into something bigger, winning the $2,200 Global Poker Championship at the Mediterranean Poker Party for $300,000 just a couple…
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Masato “World Wide” Yokosawa
Masato Yokosawa has managed something few poker players ever do. He became a serious tournament professional and, at the same time, built a mainstream YouTube audience large enough to take…
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WSOP Super Circuit Canada Closes With C$24.5M Awarded
The first WSOP Super Circuit Canada has closed the books with 14,784 entries and more than C$24.5 million awarded across 18 ring events, comfortably beating an already ambitious C$14 million…
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BetRivers Poker Championship Returns With $600K Guaranteed
BetRivers Poker is rolling out its biggest Championship series yet, with 100 tournaments and more than $600,000 in guarantees scheduled across 15 days from September 27 to October 11. The…
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WSOP Paradise Adds $250K Pro-Am Bracelet Event
WSOP Paradise has added a $250,000 Pro-Am bracelet event to its 2026 schedule, introducing a format that will keep professional and amateur players apart until the money before merging the…
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888poker LIVE London Returns With £250K Main Event Guarantee
888poker LIVE London will return to the Grosvenor Victoria Casino from October 8-18, with an 11-day schedule built around a £1,250 Main Event carrying a £250,000 guarantee. The latest schedule…
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Andrew Chang Turns Five Big Blinds Into $182K Borgata Win
Andrew Chang has won the $2,200 Big, Big Kick Off at Borgata for $182,000 after recovering from a stack that fell as low as five big blinds. The American beat…
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Nick Petrangelo Wins Triton $150K Anniversary Special for $2.21M
Nick Petrangelo has won the $150,000 Triton 10th Anniversary Special in Jeju for $2,212,910 after a heads-up deal with longtime friend Joao Simao. The American closed out one of the…
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PokerStars WCOOP Women’s Championship Offers Route to London Ladies Weekend
Vanessa Kade won the 2026 WCOOP Women’s World Championship as PokerStars linked the event with three seats to Ladies Weekend at The Hippodrome.
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Nick Schulman Wins $3.85M Triton Jeju II Main Event
Nick Schulman has won the Triton Jeju II $100,000 No-Limit Hold'em Main Event for a career-best $3,854,888. The American defeated Austria's Bernhard Binder after a heads-up deal, adding a second…
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888poker XL Autumn Series Brings $300K Main Event
The 2026 888poker XL Autumn Series runs September 20 to 29 with 41 events, affordable buy-ins and a $300,000 Mystery Bounty Main Event.
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Poker’s 10 Most Famous High-Stakes Players in 2026 and How They Reached the Top
High-stakes poker has never been more visible or more difficult to enter. Million-dollar cash game pots and six-figure tournament buy-ins now provide regular content for livestreams, social media clips and…
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Global Poker Under Pressure as US Sweepstakes Crackdown Shrinks Its Market
Global Poker is facing an increasingly difficult regulatory landscape in the United States as more states restrict sweepstakes gaming and regulators turn their attention to the model behind the online…
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Mario Mosböck
Mario Mosböck is an Austrian professional poker player, former footballer and poker creator who regularly competes in six-figure buy-in tournaments. He has won four Triton Poker titles, recorded more than…
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CoinPoker The One: $5M GTD, $1M First Prize for $250
CoinPoker's inaugural The One runs October 4-12 with a $250 buy-in, $5 million guaranteed and at least $1 million for the winner.
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iPoker Adds Triton ONE Satellites as Live Poker Push Expands
iPoker is adding Triton Poker to its growing portfolio of live-event satellites, giving players across the network a new route into one of poker's most recognizable high-stakes brands. The Playtech-powered…
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Former Aussie Millions Finalist Mick Ryan Wins A$50,000 SuperCoach Title
Fifteen years after winning A$450,000 at one of Australian poker's biggest final tables, Mick Ryan has found another way to turn strategic decisions into a major payday. The former Aussie…
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9/11 Anniversary Charity Poker Tournament Raises Money in New York
A charity poker tournament in New York City brought players together on Wednesday night to raise money for three nonprofit organizations ahead of the 25th anniversary of the September 11…
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Is the PokerStars Network the Biggest Change in PokerStars History?
For 25 years, PokerStars has been somewhere poker players went. Download the software, create an account and find a table. That relationship helped build one of online poker's defining brands.…
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Belarusian “AHTOCb” Wins Sunday Million 20th Anniversary as Astedt Makes Final Table
The PokerStars Sunday Million has its 20th Anniversary champion. Belarusian player “AHTOCb” defeated a staggering 55,444-entry field to win $255,336 including bounties, while online poker legend Niklas “Lena900” Astedt made…
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Super Tuesday Returns to WCOOP: The Story Behind an Online Poker Classic
Long before online poker tournaments routinely offered seven-figure guarantees, Tuesday night meant something very specific to serious PokerStars players. It meant Super Tuesday. The $1,050 weekly tournament became one of…
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Renee Xie Makes History as First Woman to Win a GUKPT Main Event
Renee Xie has made British poker history by becoming the first woman to win a Grosvenor UK Poker Tour Main Event, ending a wait stretching back to the tour’s launch…
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Why Canada Might Be Entering a New Poker Boom
Canada has always punched above its weight in poker. For a country with a population far smaller than the United States, it has produced some of the game's greatest players,…