The eighth and final Poker Masters event of the series was won in style by Ben Tollerene as he came back from being the short stack three-handed to triumph against Andrew Lichtenberger and Taylor von Kriegenbergh. Earlier, players such as Victoria Livschitz and Aram Zobian had missed out as a final day full of misfortune […]

The seventh event of eight in this year’s 2024 PGT Poker Masters was a thriller, as Brock Wilson went wire-to-wire on the final day to grab victory and pay off PokerStake investors on the way. With just one event to come, the purple jacket that goes to the winner of the 2024 Poker Masters, along […]

In recent years, the notion of going from a poker rookie to one of the best players in the world has seemed to many like an unreachable goal. Common assumptions center around needing to be young to make it big, to have backing to rise through the ranks or to be a math whizz in […]

Daniel Sepiol triumphed at one of the toughest final tables of 2023 to win the WPT World Championships for a top prize of $5.28 million. With play running late into the Las Vegas night, Sepiol beat Greek player Georgios Sotiropoulos to the win, and with it claimed a monumental title and by far the biggest […]

There are just six players left in the $10,000-entry World Poker Tour World Championships Main Event. Heading towards a top prize of $5.67 million and one of the biggest major titles of the year in the lead is Andrew ‘Chewy’ Lichtenberger, who shares the final half-dozen with other stars of the felt such as British […]

An exciting Day 5 full of action saw the World Poker Tour’s flagship World Championship whittle the field down to just 16 players as both Alex Foxen and Kristen Foxen lost their tournament lives. On a day where British stars Chris Moorman, Carl Shaw and Ben Heath all made the top 10 places, two high-profile […]

There were four high roller events that took place over the weekend in Las Vegas as the ARIA played host to come of the world’s best poker talent. With only the top 40 finishers on the 2023 PokerGO Tour leaderboard making it to the PGT $1 million freeroll, there were six figure wins for four […]

The first day of action is complete in the Super High Roller Bowl and after an intense opening day, American player Nick Petrangelo leads the remaining 12 players. With just four making a profit and $2,76 million as the top prize, Day 2 of the three planned will take place tomorrow. Eight big-name players didn’t […]

The fifth event of the 2023 Poker Masters saw Andrew Lichtenberger crown his 36th birthday with a victory as he beat Brian Kim heads-up for the latest title. With the PokerGO Tour’s Poker Masters festival now at the halfway stage, who is leading the race for the Purple Jacket?

Daniel Colpoys outlasted the 77-entry field in Event #1 ($10,000 No Limit Hold’em) of the 2022 PokerGO Cup to earn his first career high-roller victory and take home the $200,200 first-place prize.

Last June, New Yorker Allen Chang emerged from relative obscurity to win Event #5 of the 2020 World Series of Poker Online for his first career bracelet and $161,286. On Friday night, Chang earned a second bracelet after winning Event #16 ($600 Pot Limit Omaha 8 or Better Six Handed) in dominating fashion.

It seems like every high roller series at the PokerGO studios has been very good to Ali Imsirovic. Once again, the 24-year old Imsirovic was back posing for a winner’s photo on Saturday after he bested the 99-entry field of the U.S. Poker Open Event #9 ($10,000 No Limit Hold’em) for a $217,800 payday. Imsirovic, […]

David Peters won his first U.S. Poker Open title in 2018. He followed that up in 2019 by winning his second career U.S. Poker Open title on his way to topping the series leaderboard. Like the rest of the poker world, Peters wasn’t able to add a third title in 2020 with the series postponed […]

As 2019 draws to a close, PocketFives takes a look back at the year that was in poker news, going month-by-month through the biggest and most important stories of the year. In June, all eyes were on the 2019 WSOP, which kicked off with a bang that included the largest live poker tournament ever and […]

“I need to win one of these now.” Those were the words from Ben Heath in an interview at the beginning of May following his fourth-place finish in the EPT Monte Carlo €50,000 High Roller. At the time, the €298,240 ($333,013) he won for that result was the second largest in his live poker career […]