Our final round-up of the year’s action sees us speak to legendary poker players, who are winning tournaments and revealing more about their lives than ever before. If 2024 taught us anything as poker players and fans, it was that we love players and their stories more than anything.

Five days of drama came to a conclusion on Thursday night as the biggest-ever WSOP winner came close to his 18th WSOP bracelet, a new world record was set in the GGPoker Super Main Event and a 24-year-old poker prodigy emulated his hero and busted him from the final table on the last day of […]

The $25,000 Super Main Event has captured the imagination of the poker world. With an incredible $50 million prizepool almost met, anyone and everyone have landed in The Bahamas to play and the story so far reads like a page-ripping thriller. Legends of the game have fallen painfully, other big names have returned and a […]

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 2023 WSOP Main Event already holds the distinction of being the largest $10,000 buy-in tournament in history after four starting flights, so the question heading into Day 2abc wasn’t if the record would be broken, but by how much. 3,865 players returned to Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas, along with a few […]

A busy day on both Day 1f and Day 2abd of the WSOP Main Event saw a wizard take his seat, several huge names power to the top of the leaderboard and the biggest single day of action in the Main for over two years. It was an incredible day of action as the Rio […]

In the eight years since the World Series of Poker Main Event went to a three-starting flight schedule, only once has the Day 1A field reach 1,000 or more players and that was 2012 when they snuck into four-digit territory with 1,066 players. There was no sneaking in on Wednesday. 1,336 players showed up to […]

Twelve more World Championship of Online Poker events came to their conclusion on Monday topped with the crowning of a new Sunday Million champion.

When PokerStars announced the Platinum Pass program in late 2017, they promised to find unique and interesting ways to give the $30,000 packages away. Over the last six months, players have won them by winning PokerStars-branded live events, random draws at those same events and through online play as well.

Daniel Negreanu‘s first tournament score was over 20 years ago. Since then he’s become poker’s all-time leading money earner with $35,269,814 in winnings and become one of the most widely recognized poker players in the world, if not the most. And yet the 42-year-old recently realized he needed to go back to school if he […]

All the presents in the Twelve Days of Christmas are nice and all, but for poker players from around the world twelve days of non-stop poker action is what they really want for the holidays and the PokerStars Championship Series is more than happy to oblige.

Since they first started dating a few years ago, Liv Boeree and Igor Kurganov have been one of poker’s “power couples”. On Friday night at the 2017 World Series of Poker, they proved that, winning the $10,000 Tag Team Championship for the first WSOP bracelets of their careers. Their win was the highlight of the […]

He’s Russia’s all-time leading in live tournament earnings. He’s had 21 six-figure or bigger scores. He’s fluent in three different languages. He’s the co-founder of Raising for Effective Giving. And now Igor Kurganov is a member of Team PokerStars Pro. The addition of Kurganov was announced on Friday. “I’m as active in the game as […]

Many of the world’s best poker players are packed into a hotel in Prague right now, and the excitement in the air is irrefutable. You might say this is always the case when a big live tournament is about to take place, but this buzz is unique: EPT13 Prague is the last ever European Poker […]

On May 3, a veritable who’s who of the top names in European poker will gather at the Monte Carlo Bay and Resort in luxurious Monaco. Over the course of the evening, nine awards will be given out as part of the 15th Annual GPI European Poker Awards, honoring players for their achievements in 2015. […]