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 […]

A thrilling conclusion to Event #8 of the WSOP Paradise 2024 series saw PokerStake investors grab either treble their money or six times their bet as British mixed game crusher Benny Glaser came sixth. Glaser, who was going for a sixth WSOP crown, won $304,870 in sixth place instead but that still represented a massive […]

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 […]

Over the course of the last half-century, poker professionals the world over have battled to establish themselves as the best player on the planet. In the 1970s, the only way to prove this was by winning at the World Series of Poker, or in the biggest cash games in Texas. Through the 1980s and 1990s, […]

With last year’s PokerGO Tour Freeroll Championship still fresh in the minds of anyone who won money in Las Vegas, the race to make this year’s PGT Top 40 on the leaderboard is well and truly on. Over the past seven months, many qualifying events on the PGT have seen players rack up leaderboard points, […]

The Belarussian player Artsiom Lasouski won his first-ever Triton Poker title in Montenegro as Chris Moneymaker once again went close to a major title just days after his first Triton win. At a final table featuring stars of the high roller circuit such as Stephen Chidwick, Dylan Linde and Danny Tang, Lasouski’s win was worth […]

The Canadian player Mike Watson, also known as ‘Sir Watts’, took down the eight-handed final table of the $30,000-entry NLHE 8-Max Triton Poker Series event in Montenegro last night. Beating a final table that included David Yan, Stephen Chidwick and Leon Sturm to the title, Watson’s latest win takes him past $26 million in lifetime […]

He went into the final table with the lead and Patrik Antonius went wire-to-wire to claim the 2024 EPT Monte Carlo Super High Roller title. Winning $2.1 million up top, the Finnish poker legend beat German superstar Christoph Vogelsang heads-up for the title after a top-quality final table played out on the French Riviera.

Just nine players remain in the €100,000 buy-in Super High Roller on the European Poker Tour’s Monaco stop. Monte Carlo is the scene for some of the world’s best poker players to battle it out for the $2.1 million top prize. With Patrik Antonius leading the way, others such as Ben Hearth, Byron Kaverman, David […]

The eighth and final event of the 2024 U.S. Poker produced great drama as Stephen Chidwick took the most lucrative title of the series and PokerStake player Aram Zobian was crowned the overall Championship winner in Las Vegas. With Zobian’s only remaining challenger at the start of the final table busting in seventh place, the […]

The penultimate event of the eight-tournament U.S. Poker Open was won last night by Eric Afriat. The Canadian player toppled Joey Weissman heads-up to move into second place on the overall leaderboard behind the runaway leader Aram Zobian. With one event to play, the $25,000 ‘Main Event’ of the series, Zobian is in the box […]

The final event of the Triton Poker Series in Jeju was a classic. Costing $20,000 to play, the Short Deck tournament saw 42 entries and featured legends of the felt such as Phil Ivey, Isaac Haxton and Stephen Chidwick at the final table. In the end it was the latter who claimed his second title […]

Poker Hall of Famer Phil Ivey came so close to victory in the 15th Triton Poker Series event in Jeju as the PokerStake partnered event worked towards its conclusion in the South Korean province. Beaten by Bing Diao at the last, Ivey nevertheless took home over three-quarters of a million dollars amid a dramatic ending […]

A home country hero, the biggest win of his career and a stunning showdown for the title – the €50,000-entry EPT Paris Super High Roller had it all. As the biggest buy-in event of this year’s first European Poker Tour stop attracted 64 total entries (including 13 re-entries), Thomas Santerne won his first major title […]

Two High Rollers costing €25,000 to play have taken place at Paris on the European Poker Tour. With wins for Canadian poker pro Daniel Dvoress and British legend Stephen Chidwick, the French capital saw each man net $900,000 between them. With stars such as Adrian Mateos, Mike Watson, Niklas Astedt and Sam Greenwood standing between […]