The 2021 SCOOP Main Event played down to a champion last night. Event #92-High had a $10,300 buy-in and attracted 664 entrants and a prize pool worth $6.6 million. kZhh, Dan 'Dannyz0r' Borlan, and Kayhan 'KayhanMok' Roshanfekr agreed on a three-way money chop, but Hungary's kZhh won the title and first-place prize worth $878,781. The final table also included Beowulf3182, David 'MissOracle' Yan, Christian 'WATnlos' Rudolph, Ka Kwan 'kaju85' Lau, Jareth 'jareth3542' East, and 23tudy23.

The 2021 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown set new record for most entrants in a World Poker Tour event with 2,482 entrants and generated a prize pool worth nearly $7.95 million, which also crushed the initial $2 million guarantee. The final table is set and Sonny Franco bagged the lead with Brekstyn Schutten, Steven Snyder, Ken Aldridge, Albert Calderon, and Viet Vo still remaining. The final six will slug it out at a delayed final table at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas on May 18. First place pays out $1.26 million.

The 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Series at GGPoker begins on May 1 and ends May 30 with 18 low-tiered buy-in tournaments with 18 WSOP Circuit rings up for grabs. Plus, they'll give away two WSOP Circuit rings to cash game specialists. The $5 million guaranteed Main Event, which starts May 30, has a modest price tag of $525. You can win a WSOP Circuit ring for as little as $25, while the biggest buy-in is only $840.

Get ready for the brand-spanking new PokerGo Tour launched by PokerGo, which was created to establish a bona fide professional ranking system. This new PokerGO Tour will include 150 international events, including PokerGo's branded events -- US Poker Open, Poker Masters, and Super High Roller Bowl -- in which poker pros compete for the Poker Go Tour Player of the Year and an additional $100,000 in cash.

The GG Spring Festival over at GG Poker recently crowned champions that banked seven-figure scores. Joakim Andersson outlasted a field of 1,089 runners to win the $10K buy-in GG Spring Festival Super Millions Main Event for a score worth $1.5 million. The other day, Mikita Badziakouski shipped a $25K high roller event for $1.1 million.

ESPN will no longer broadcast the World Series of Poker. The 2021 WSOP moves to CBS Sports, which is available via Paramount+ streaming service. The WSOP and CBS Sports agreed to a multi-year partnership. ESPN's coverage of the WSOP was an integral part of the online poker boom in the early 2000s when they aired the epic run by Chris Moneymaker at the 2003 WSOP.

It's been a long time coming, but the Rio Casino and Resort in Las Vegas will return to full operations. The Rio, also the home for the iconic World Series of Poker, re-opened in December but the hotel and resort was only open to the public on the weekends. The Rio resumes 24/7 operations including the return of bars and restaurants and weekday reservations. The 2021 WSOP will take place this fall at the Rio's convention center.

Ukraine's Pavel Veksler faded a field of 1,880 runners to take down the 2021 Iish Poker Open Main Event, which was hosted at partypoker for a second year in a row due to the pandemic. partypoker pros Patrick Leonard and Matthew Staples went deep, but missed the final table. Pavel Veksler and Bulgaria's Stoyan Obreshkov cut a deal heads-up, but Obreshkov busted in second place and Veksler won the title and a first-place prize worth €266K.

London banker Talal 'raidalot' Shakerchi and high-stakes poker player is also one heck of an online poker player. Playing on PokerStars as raidalot, Shakerchi binked his fifth SCOOP title with a victory in 2021 SCOOP Event $2,100 HORSE. Shakerchi won a SCOOP in back-to-back years after he won his fourth SCOOP last spring. He's now a member of the 5 SCOOP Club with Jason Mercier, Luke Schwartz, and Shaun Deeb.

PokerStars expanded their growing list of PokerStars Ambassadors by adding three well-known pros and three popular Twitch streamers. Sam Grafton, Andre Coimbra, and Parker 'tonkaaaaP' Talbot are the pros that are now the latest PokerStars Ambassadors. In addition, Twitch streamers Lasse ‘WisternJL' Jagd Lauritsen from Denmark, and Keith 'AccidentalGrenade' Becker and Mark 'naigo1' Foresta from America also become the next generation of PokerStars Ambassadors.

The 2021 World Series of Poker will run a full slate of live bracelet events starting this fall. The 2021 WSOP returns to the Rio Casino in Las Vegas starting September 30 and running through November 23. The $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event begins with four flights starting November 4. The WSOP Online series also returns this summer for both US and international players. Plus, the 2021 WSOP Europe returns to the King's Casino in Roz Vegas between November 19 and December 8.