The 6th Annual Global Poker Awards were held in Las Vegas this past weekend and among the winners were the show’s presenter himself, Jeff Platt. With other winners such as Adrian Mateos, Cherish Andrews, David Coleman, Abby Merk and Rania Nasreddine all honored with trophies, there were multiple winners, emotional speeches and a degree of […]

There was drama and action in five different WSOP bracelet events on Monday as two players found a $1m bounty in the Mystery Millions event, stars such as Brandon Cantu and Scott Seiver got close to winning their next gold and the $10,000 Dealer’s Choice Championship begun.

The inaugural Texas Poker Open reached its final day overnight at the Champions Club in Houston, Texas and with 15 players remaining, some stellar names are chasing the $400,000 top prize. Day 2 of the three-day event saw 86 players reduced to just two tables as players such as Shaun Deeb, Ryan Riess and Jeremy […]

Every year, the World Series of Poker is enormous fun for fans of the game as poker heroes such as Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth and Shaun Deeb take each other on for the biggest prizes and bragging rights associated with winning the much-coveted Player of the Year title as well as individual bracelets.

In 2018, Jeff Platt had the life he always dreamed of as a kid. Growing up a huge sports fan in the state of Texas, and having developed a passion for sports broadcasting in his high school and college days, he was working at a San Antonio news station, getting paid to cover the San […]

Incredible heaters and heartwarming stories took focus during a wild week of the 2021 World Series of Poker. This year’s historic WSOP is now officially past the halfway point and this week has forged some of the memories that won’t soon be forgotten. Hellmuth surged (then lost) the 2021 Player of the Year lead, Michael […]

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‘Twas the night before Christmas, and all through the land poker players were playing, getting in one last hand. The bad-regs were grinding at the tables with care in hopes that some run good soon would be theirs.

There’s not a single year-end list that won’t be heavily influenced by the pandemic, and this one is no different. Nearly every industry faced overwhelming challenges in the face of COVID-19, the same was true for poker. As live poker events took a backseat to an online poker surge, some of this year’s brightest rising […]

Nicholas ‘mrfinalt’ Kiley navigated through 1,483 other players on Saturday night to the early hours of Sunday morning to win the 2020 World Series of Poker Online Event #25 ($500 NLHE Summer Saver) for $149K and his first career bracelet.

When the final table of 2020 WSOP Online Event #7 ($800 NLHE Knockout Deepstack Freezeout) started, Joon ‘jykpoker’ Kim sat atop a group of four players bunched up together all chasing chip leader Jeff Platt. Over the next 90 minutes, Kim picked off four of his eight opponents, including Platt, to capture his first WSOP […]

FIVE THINGS is a column, written by PocketFives President and Editor in Chief, Lance Bradley that covers pressing topics and current events in the poker world today. It appears periodically at PocketFives.com. When Poker Central announced two weeks ago that they had acquired the rights to the High Stakes Poker brand and archive from GSN, […]

Nominations for the second annual Global Poker Awards were announced on Friday with popular poker personality Joey Ingram leading the way with four nominations.