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Breaking NewsVincent 'Wonky' Wan wins 2020 Aussie MillionsThe 2020 Aussie Millions Main Event is in the books. Vincent 'Wonky' Wan, a cash-game regular at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, faded a field of 820 runners to win this year's title. First place paid out $1.3 million AUD per terms of a three-way deal with Ngoc Tai Hoang and Gareth Pepper. Erik Seidel finished in fifth place. [...] Read more…

NewsBrian Altman wins WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open, First player to win same event twiceBrian Altman made World Poker Tour history when he became the first player to win the same event twice. Altman shipped the 2015 WPT Lucky Hearts Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida and he just took down the 2020 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open in a history victory. Altman faded a field of 843 players to win $482,636 and a seat into the season-ending Tournament of Champions. [...] Read more… Brian Altman during his 2015 victory at the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open [Pic: WPT]

NewsGreg Raymer wins fifth Heartland Poker Tour titleFormer WSOP Main Event champ, Greg 'Fossilman' Raymer, took down a record-setting fifth Heartland Poker Tour title with a victory at Ameristar East Chicago. Fossilman faded a field of 520 runners in a $1,650 buy-in event to win $171,411 and his fifth HPT title. [...] Read more…

NewsSamiyel Duzgun wins WSOP Circuit Marrakech for 1.6 Million MADSwitzerland's Samiyel Duzgun won his first WSOP Circuit ring when he took down the 2020 WSOP Circuit Marrakech at the Casino de Marrakech in Morocco. Duzgun defeated Israel's Ayman Jarrar heads up and banked 1.6 million MAD, or approximately $167K USD for the title. [...] Read more…

News2020 Aussie Millions: Farid Jattin wins 25K Challenge for $983,646 AUDFarid Jattin outlasted 169 runners to win the $25K Challenge at the 2020 Aussie Millions hosted at the Crown Casino in Melbourne, Australia. Jattin chopped heads up with George Wolff to win $983,646 AUD or approximately $679K USD. The final table also included Steve O'Dwyer, Sam Greenwood, Masato Yokosawa, Jack Sinclair, and Kenny Hallaert. [...] Read more…

NewsWSOP announces 'Value Menu' bracelet events for 2020 WSOPThe World Series of Poker announced a special round of value menu events at the 2020 WSOP that include buy-ins of $1,000 or less. A total of 25 bracelet events will be hosted at the Rio Casino this summer that have a modest and affordable buy-in. A baker's dozen of events, 13 in total, at the 2020 WSOP will have buy-ins $888 or less including the $400 Colossus and numerous $500 buy-in deepstacked bracelet events. [...] Read more…

NewsDustin Schoonover wins WSOP Circuit Choctaw Durant and first ring The World Series of Poker Circuit's latest stop hit up the Oklahoma/Dallas area for the 2020 WSOP Circuit Choctaw Durant. Dustin Schoonover outlasted 1,065 runners in the $1,700 buy-in Main Event to win $272,846. The Choctaw Durant final table also included John Skrovan, Brant Jolly, Mark Newton, Christopher Staats, Allen Brivic, Montana Bills, Austin Lewis, and Trung Pham. [...] Read more…

NewsChance Kornuth leads final table at 2020 WPT Gardens Poker ChampionshipSeason XVIII of the World Poker Tour continued with the 2020 WPT Gardens Poker Championship that attracted 257 runners for their annual big tournament every January at the Hawaiian Gardens just outside Los Angeles. The 2020 WPT Gardens final table of six is set to resume on March 31, 2020 at the HyperX eSports Arena at the Luxor Casino in Las Vegas. Chance Kornuth bagged up the lead at the final table that also included Tuan Phan, Qing Liu, Straton Wilhelm, Jonathan Cohen, and Markus Gonsalves. [...] Read more… Pic via @ChanceCards on IG

NewsInterview: Martin Harris, Author of Poker and Pop CultureD and B Poker published "Poker and Pop Culture: Telling the Story of America's Favorite Card Game" by Martin Harris. During the poker boom, Harris authored a popular blog titled Hard-Boiled Poker. Harris quit his job as an English professor and moved to Las Vegas to cover the World Series of Poker for numerous outlets. During the last 15 years, Harris compiled a collection of essays that became the genesis of Poker and Pop Culture. We're fortunate that Harris sat down with us for a fun interview. [...] Read more…

News2020 WSOP releases $10,000 Championship events scheduleA total of 17 championship caliber events with at least a buy-in of $10,000 are on the schedule for the 2020 World Series of Poker at the Rio Casino in Las Vegas. The WSOP released the dates for all $10K championships including the $50,000 Poker Players Championship, $10,000 Main Event, and the $10,000 WSOP.com Online NL Championship, which is the online $10K event hosted online. [...] Read more…

NewsNew podcast Heart of Poker with Kara Scott888poker Ambassador, Kara Scott, is hosting a new podcast called Heart of Poker. Kara will sit down to have a loose, yet compelling conversation with some of your favorite poker pros by asking a series of questions that are vastly different than the usual form of questioning from poker media. The first episode is available featuring the legendary Chris Moorman. [...] Read more…

NewsBackers to buy horses in directly to 2020 partypoker LIVE eventsIn a game-changing move in the poker world, partypoker LIVE will allow backers to buy-in their staked players directly. The move will hopefully see an increase in tournament participation across the board. In the past, the staked horses had to buy-in themselves and deal with all the paperwork. [...] Read more…

NewsBrazilian pro Felipe 'Mojave' Ramos joins GGPokerThe new calendar year of 2020 was barely a day old when Felipe 'Mojave' Ramos announced the news on his social media feed that he will be joining GGPoker as their latest ambassador. Mojave joins the likes of Daniel Negreanu and Bryn Kenney as ambassadors. Mojave spent time as the top ranked Brazilian and Latin American online player with over $2.6 million in career tournament earnings. [...] Read more…

News2019: The Big Stories, Part 2The year in review for 2019 continues with the second part that covers June through December. The World Series of Poker celebrated its 50th anniversary with a blowout at the Rio in Las Vegas. Hossein Ensan from Germany won the second-largest Main Event in WSOP history and he banked $10 million. PokerStars also announced the 2020 PSPC, which will take place in Barcelona in August 2020. PokerStars was also sold to Flutter (aka Paddy Power/Betfair). The Mike Postle cheating scandal also broke after he got caught cheating on the Stones Gambling Hall live stream. [...] Read more…

News2019: The Big Stories, Part 1We're quickly approaching the end of 2019 and the end of the decade. So much happened in 2019, we have a special two-part series highlighting the best and most interesting stories of 2019. In the first half of 2019, some of the big stories involved Chino Rheem winning the 2019 PCA and Spain's Roman Colillas taking down the inaugural PSPC in the Bahamas for $5.1 million. Bryn Kenney shipped the largest Aussie Millions in history. Just before the WSOP, Daniel Negreanu stepped down after 12 years as a sponsored pro and ambassador for PokerStars. Gianluca 'Tankanza' Speranza won the SCOOP Main Event in back-to-back years. [...] Read more…