A thrilling day in the WSOP saw ten bracelet events in progress as Italian former WSOP Main Event runner-up Dario Sammartino won his first bracelet and some of poker’s finest battled to reach the final day of the Poker Players Championship and fight for the Chip Reese Trophy in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Dan Smith achieved a lifelong goal as he claimed his first-ever World Series of Poker bracelet at Bally’s casino in Las Vegas last night. Winning the $25,000-entry Heads Up Championship for over $509,000 the charismatic Smith overcame German high roller regular Christoph Vogelsang to claim his maiden bracelet victory in a career laden with success.

Korea’s Sung Joo ‘ArtePokerTV’ Hyun earned his first GGPoker Super MILLION$ this week after topping the 241-entry field for a $487,256 payday.

It’s going to be a happy holiday season for Dario Sammartino who, in his seventh trip to a GGPoker Super MILLION$ final table, took down this week’s $10K tournament for his first Super MILLION$ title, a World Series of Poker Circuit gold ring, and the $740,917 first-place prize.

The latest World Series of Poker Online event on GGPoker saw big names go close at the final table as Radmir Sadirov topped them all to win his first WSOP bracelet and $169,111. After a thrilling heads-up win against Portuguese player Joao Vieira, Sadirov bagged gold as his opponent missed out on his second piece […]

Stop us if you’ve heard this one before. Niklas Astedt, the former worldwide #1-ranked pro and one of the most decorated online poker players in history, captured this week’s GGPoker Super MILLION$ title, the third of his career, and added the $337,599 first-place prize to his more than $22.4 million in career recorded online earnings.

The GGPoker Spring Festival may be over, but the massive paydays on GGPoker continue as the 47th edition of the GGPoker Super MILLION$ wrapped up on Tuesday with Wiktor ‘limitless’ Malinowski running white-hot to topple the 184-entry field and the take home $394,852 first-place prize.

Isaac Haxton must have seen all of the top players winning GGPoker Spring Festival events and decided to finally throw his hat into the ring. After posting one runner-up finish and three third place finishes, Haxton broke through into the winner’s circle to take home nearly a quarter of a million dollars.

This is starting to get ridiculous. For the third consecutive day, former #1-ranked Niklas Astedt navigated his way to a win in a GGPoker Spring Festival event. Those three wins have earned the Swedish superstar a combined $279,247.37.

Germany’s Pascal Hartmann entered Tuesday’s GGPoker Super MILLION$ final table near the very bottom of the chip counts but after chipping up and eliminating each of his final five opponents, the high-stakes superstar emerged as this week’s winner and took home the $454,907 first-place prize.

In the sixth instalment of the 2020 World Series of Poker online Asia time zone events, Luis ‘Xapilskinha’ Assuncao Garla overcame 3,247 total entries and 426 other players on Day 2 to win Event #55 HK$8,000 NLHE Asia Championship. Garla secured his first career bracelet to take home $461,709.47.

Alexandros Kolonias now has himself a brand new purple jacket and an additional $50,000 after winning the Poker Masters Online Championship. Taking the event online, PokerCentral partnered with partypoker on a 30-event schedule that had buy-ins ranging from $10,300 to $51,000 mirroring the live version of the Poker Masters.

The Poker Masters Online continued on Saturday. Two more events took place and there was nearly $2 million in prize money up for grabs. Event #14: $500K Gtd [NLH, 8-Max] was won by Mustapha Kanit and Event #15: $500K Gtd [NLH, 6-Max] saw Timothy Adams take top honors.

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. When July comes around, the focus of the entire poker world turns to the most prestigious poker tournament of the year, the World Series […]

The 2019 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event wrapped up on Thursday with Alexandros Kolonias picking up the first live win of his career and €1,133,678.