
The latest PokerGO Tour event in Northern Cyprus has a familiar winner, with Chinese player Quan Zhou banking $316,000 after his defeat of Lewis Spencer heads up. The second event of this year’s PGT Super High Roller Series took place at the Merit Royal Diamond Hotel & Spa and at a final table packed with […]
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 […]
The breakthrough tournament of a future star of the game or the latest shock success on the live high roller poker circuit? Alex Kulev’s triumph in Monte Carlo saw him beat some of the best in the business as he captured the $1.1 million top prize. Outlasting a final table that featured players such as […]
A dramatic day at the felt in Las Vegas saw Phil Ivey dominate the final table of Event #42, the $100,000 Super High Roller only for Aleks Ponakovs to overtake the 10-time bracelet winner and claim gold. With the Latvian coming into the final five ahead in chips, he eventually took down his second WSOP […]
Mixed game specialist Benny Glaser had struck out on a few occasions during the 2021 World Series of Poker. After consistently putting himself in the position to dominate in the mixed game events he knows so well, however, the British player is just one player from victory in the $10,000 Razz Championship at the Rio […]
Another major online poker series kicked off this weekend as the preliminary events in Poker Central’s first-ever Super High Roller Bowl Online series brought out some of the biggest names in the game.
As the live poker tournament comes to a halt for the foreseeable future in the wake of the coronavirus outbreak, the last high profile event to wrap up featured a winner putting on a repeat performance.
Less than a week after winning the Industry Person of the Year award at the Global Poker Awards, Paul Phua took home $1.512 million for winning the MILLIONS Super High Roller Series Sochi $100,000 No Limit Hold’em event.
Kahle Burns almost won the Global Poker Index Player of the Year title in 2019. On Wednesday, the 31-year-old Australian took a step towards being a contender in 2020 by beating Igor Kurganov heads-up to win the partypoker UK MILLIONS $25,000 High Roller and $350,000.
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 […]
Sunday afternoon in Las Vegas, Kristen Bicknell made history by becoming the first woman to win a Poker Masters title after defeating a final table that included current Purple Jacket points leader Chance Kornuth and defending Purple Jacket champion Ali Imsirovic.
Orpen Kisacikoglu will have you believe that he’s a businessman who plays poker recreationally. That might be true, but on Tuesday the Turkish-born high roller showed he has the chops to hang with some of the best poker players in the world by beating the 32-entry field in the Triton Super High Roller Series €100,000 […]
When Richard Yong and Paul Phua co-founded the Triton Super High Roller Series, they had visions of battling some of the best high roller players in the world on a regular basis. They probably never envisioned a day where one of them would battle with the other’s offspring for £1 million. That’s exactly what happened […]