The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) festival in Las Vegas is locked in for May 27 – July 16. Today, the full schedule of events has been announced, and with 100 bracelet events, including the fabled WSOP Main Event, budget buy-in events and super high rollers jostle for position across seven weeks of summer […]

Players, industry experts and creatives can look forward to an exciting awards ceremony in late February, as some of the biggest names in the game, including stars from PokerStake’s roster have received nominations for the 6th annual Global Poker Awards. With American content creator Caitlin Comeskey earning four nominations, a record in 2025, there will […]

Playing in the $1,000,000 guaranteed GGMillion$ is a dream for many online poker players. The $10,000-entry weekly event is the playground of big-league players such as Artur Martirosian, Ole Schemion and Niklas Astedt. As we found out, however, it’s just as attainable as a dream to win for players who play $100 buy-in events or […]

Over the course of 2024, it’s no exaggeration to say that the landscape of poker has changed. GTO poker is here to stay, as we’ll look back on in our latest round-up of action from the last 12 months. We’ve looked back on a buoyant midwinter in Part 1 and sprung forward with Spring in […]

Six-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner Jason Mercier’s love affair with the WSOP has been rekindled in spectacular fashion. In a field of crushers, Mercier, who sold to his $103,000-entry Event #3 of the 2024 WSOP Paradise on PokerStake,  sits atop the Day 2 field with an incredible 149 big blinds. With crushers […]

December is the busiest time of the year for poker players other than the Las Vegas World Series of Poker and PokerStake’s finest are in action this month. With the World Poker Tour hosting its third inaugural WPT World Championships, the World Series of Poker returning to Paradise in The Bahamas and the European Poker […]

PokerStake has a huge promotion coming to poker players taking part in the forthcoming WSOP Paradise Super Main Event Day 1A. With a massive $50 million guarantee and over 100 online qualifiers making it to the Bahamas via GGPoker, the WSOP Paradise Super Main Event could be the juiciest poker tournament of all-time.

Czech player Martin Kabrhel won his third World Series of Poker bracelet as he took down the €50,000 ($54,860) No Limit Hold’em Diamond High Roller event in Rozvadov. Triumphing heads-up against the opening day’s chip leader, Sirzat Hissou, Kabrhel, who is a player who has courted controversy throughout his career split opinion as he won […]

The Austrian player Moritz Dietrich won the biggest top prize ever captured online as he took down the 2024 WSOP Online Main Event. Outlasting a final table featuring players such as Isaac Baron, Benjamin Rolle and his heads-up opponent Evgenii Akimov, Dietrich made a stunning comeback to turn around a massive heads-up deficit to triumph […]

The current PokerGO Poker Masters provides another opportunity for the best players in the world to do battle in Las Vegas for millions of dollars, fabled trophies and much-needed PGT Leaderboard as the race for the $1 million Championship Freeroll approaches at the end of this season.

GGPoker have swooped for the chess grandmaster Alexandra Botez, announcing her as a new GGPoker Global Ambassador… with a little help from Daniel Negreanu. Kid Poker took to the felt to play a friendly heads-up with his fellow Canadian-Romanian as the pair discussed parental influence, the synergy between poker and chess and what the future […]

The third WSOP Paradise bracelet to be handed out came at the end of a mammoth three-day spectacular. The GG MILLION$ weekly tournament costs $10,300 to play and usually takes place on GGPoker. This week, however, the setting was something very special, as the event cost $25,000 and formed part of the WSOP Paradise schedule […]

The final episode of Game of Gold was a two-hour finale spectacular and after a dramatic denouement, it was Maria Ho who took down the $456,000 prize for the winner and the winner only. Ho, who became the first-ever victor of poker’s most captivating show in many years, beat Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates heads-up after a […]

The penultimate episode of Game of Gold was named after the inspiration for the show that is a blend of poker and reality TV – Squid Game. With Round 2’s Heads-Up matches concluding and only six of the remaining nine players taking part in Round 3 – Indian Poker – Game of Gold continued to thrill over […]

The second event on the WSOP Paradise schedule was always going to be an exciting one. With a million dollars to the winner and $5 million in the prizepool, the drama was guaranteed along with the seven-figure top payout at Atlantis. In the end, a final table featuring the man with the most cashes in […]