Fresh off his monumental victory at the EPT Paris Main Event last month and his largest tournament cash to date, English pro Barny Boatman was named the newest PokerStars Team Pro. The 68-year-old pro and two-time WSOP bracelet winner becomes the latest ambassador and pitchman for PokerStars.
The PokerGo Tour concluded their fun mixed-games high roller series over the weekend at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Even though Max Hoffman did not win any of the ten events on the PGT Mixed Games schedule, his two runner-up finishes and five overall cashes propelled him to the top of the leaderboard. Hoffman was crowned the 2024 PGT Mixed Games Champion.
The 2024 Asian Poker Tour completed two big events in Tawain over the weekend. American pro Isaac Haxton shipped the APT Taipei Super High Roller for a score worth nearly $291K USD. Meanwhile, French pro Bertrand 'Elky' Grospellier was the last player standing in the APT Taipei Superstar Challenge when he outlasted 49 runners to win $367K.
Barny Boatman, an English pro and one of the original members of the Hendon Mob, shipped the 2024 EPT Paris Main Event Championship for a score worth €1,287,800. The 68-year-old Boatman became the oldest player to win an EPT event when he outlasted a field of 1,224 entries in Paris. Boatman edged out a final table that included German pro David Kaufmann, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Owen Dodd, Eric Afriat, and Peter Jorgne who was last year's runner-up in Paris.
The 2024 World Series of Poker returns to the Horseshoe Casino and Paris Casino in Las Vegas for the 55th running of the most prestigious tournament series in the world. The schedule is out and the 2024 WSOP has 99 events which begins May 28 and will run through July 17. The $10,000 buy-in Main Event Championship has four opening days beginning on July 3 through July 6. The final table will take place on July 16 and 17 at the Horseshoe.
The 2024 PokerGo Cup, the latest high-roller stop on the PokerGo Tour, is underway at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Cary Katz is the latest champion after his victory in Event #4 $10K NL. Other winners so far include David Peters, Dylan Weisman, and Jonathan Little. Little currently sits atop of the leaderboard with four events to go.
Alex Queen shipped the 2024 Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Queen outlasted 689 players, and survived a tough final table that included Brian Yoon and Anthony Zinno. He edged out John Pannucci in a heads-up battle between two Borgata regulars to secure the 2024 WPO Championship and over $613K in cash.
Artur Martirosyan finished in first place on the PGT Last Chance Leaderboard after he shipped two events on the final series of the PokerGo Tour season at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Daniel Negreanu, Samuel Laskowitz, Dylan DeStefano, and Nick Schulman also won titles in the six-event high roller series at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. This is the last series before the season-ending PGT Championship $1,000,000 Freeroll which begins this week.
The record-setting 2023 World Poker Tour Championship at the Wynn Las Vegas is over. Dan Sepiol outlasted a field of 3,835 runners to win the $10,400 buy-in WPT Championship for a score worth $5,282,954. He edged out Georgios Sotiropoulos heads-up to win the title, and survived a tough final table that included Andrew 'LuckyChewy' Lichtenberger, Chris Moorman, Ben Heath, and Artur Martirosian.
Even though he was on the brink of elimination, Ireland's Padraig O'Neill never panicked, and he overcome a massive chip deficit to upset Norway's Jon Kyte to win the €5,300 buy-in 2023 PT Prague Main Event. The final stop on the EPT attracted a record-setting 1,285 runners and O'Neill bagged a first place payday worth a cool million Euros.
Germany's Stanislav Zegal won a seat to the $5,000 buy-in 2023 WSOP Paradise Main Event via GGPoker. Zegal parlayed his online satellite win into a sick $2 million score. Zegal outlasted 3,010 players to win his first bracelet and the Main Event, and he held off a final table that included American pro Matt Glantz.
American pro Erik Seidel won his tenth bracelet in the Bahamas, and he joined an exclusive club of double-digit bracelet winners including Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, and Phil Hellmuth. Seidel banked $1.7 million for outlasting a stacked final table in 2023 WSOP Paradise Event #7 $50,000 Super High Roller NL. Siedel edged out Seth Gottlieb heads-up for the victory and he tied Chan, Brunson, and Ivey with 10 bracelets each.
The 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise kicked off in the Bahamas this week in Atlantis, and two events are already in the books. South Korea's Jin Hoon Lee faded 3,446 runners to win WSOP Paradise Event #1 $1,500 Mystery Millions, and he outlasted a final table that included Maria Ho. Brazil's Allan Mello banked a cool million as the last player standing in WSOP Paradise Event #2 $1,500 Millionaire Maker, which attracted 3,496 runners.
The World Poker Tour crowned a new champion during their latest stop in Hollywood, Florida at the 2023 WPT Seminole Rock N Roll Poker Open. When the dust settled, Istvan Briski from Hungary outlasted 1,447 runners to win the $3,500 Main Event for a score worth $647,300. Darryll Fish missed out on another title when he busted in sixth place.
The 2023 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event crowned a champion at the King's Casino in RozVegas. Austria's Max Neugebauer outlasted 817 runners and defeated Taiwan's Eric Tsai heads-up to win the 2023 WSOP Main Event and coveted bracelet. First place paid out €1.5 million, or approximately $1.6 million.
The PokerStars-branded North American Poker Tour made its triumphant return, and Sami Bechahed shipped the NAPT Las Vegas Main Event at Resorts World. The $1,650 buy-in NAPT Main Event attracted 1,095 runners and a prize pool worth $1.6 million. Bechahed -- a poker dealer -- banked $268,945 for first place when he outlasted a final table that included Jonathan Borenstein, David Coleman, Ping Liu, Sergio Aido, and Nick Schulman.
The 2023 World Series of Poker Europe is winding down at the King's Casino in Rozvadov. Six events are in the books. Lukas Pazma, Omar Eljach, Sokratis Linaras, Hokyiu Lee, Ermanno Di Nicola, and Wing Po Liu added their names to the history books with bracelet victories at this year's WSOP Europe. Sweden's Eljach almost won three bracelets.
ClubPoker sat down for an exclusive interview with Andy Wong, who currently runs the Triton Super High Roller Series. We caught up with Wong in Monte Carlo, which is hosting the latest stop on the luxurious Triton Super High Roller Series.
Jared Bleznick was the last player standing at the first-ever Super High Roller Bowl PLO $100,000 buy-in event at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Bleznick outlasted 38 runners and won $1,292,000 in the record-setting high roller PLO affair. Meanwhile, Isaac Haxton finished in second place but he moved into first place on the PokerGo Tour Leaderboard after his deep run.
The poker world lost one of its finest authors when Anthony Holden passed away at age 76. Holden penned, translated, and edited nearly 40 books during his illustrious career as a journalist and writer. “Big Deal: A Year as a Professional Poker Player” is considered one of the best books ever written about poker, and it chronicled Holden's journey into the gambling underworld in Las Vegas in the late 1980s.
British pro and five-time WSOP bacelet winner Benny Glaser has been on one heck of a heater. Glaser won seven tournaments during PokerStars annual World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP). Over the weekend, Glaser -- playing under the screen name 'RunGodlike' -- took down 2023 WCOOP Event #94-High $1,050 NL 6-Max Turbo for a score worth $38,894.
English pro Stephen Chidwick won the coveted Purple Jacket and was crowed the 2023 Poker Masters leader board champion. Chidwick cashed four times for over $1.1 million, and he won Event #8 $25K NL at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas on his way to securing the Purple Jacket and a $50K cash bonus.
Three-time WSOP bracelet winner Vanessa Selbst recently played herself on the latest episode of 'Billions' on Showtime. The creative team and co-writers of the cult classic poker film 'Rounders' are the showrunners of 'Billions', which is how th show is linked to the poker world.
The 2023 Poker Masters is underway at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas and two events are in the books. Lithuania's Vladas Tamasauskas outlasted a record-setting field of 114 entries to win Event #1 $10K NL for a score worth $239,400. American pro Darren Elias was the last player standing in Event #2 $10K NL and he banked $223,100 and his second PGT title.