When the nominations were announced for this year’s Global Poker Awards, one name many poker fans were hoping to see was Rania Nasreddine. The popular player, who reached two EPT final tables in the past 12 months and has risen to prominence, was a lock. Indeed, her nomination as the Breakout Player of the Year […]

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 World Series of Poker (WSOP) have today announced the return of the legendary Las Vegas festival known as the biggest poker tournament series in the world. The 56th annual WSOP will be back in 2025, and you can save the dates for your diary, with the action kicking off on May 27 and lasting […]

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 […]

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 […]

Two huge results bagged over $1 million in winnings at Atlantis Resort this week, and PokerStake investors could celebrate a huge return on their investments. The WSOP Paradise bracelet events have been huge all week as the opening days of this year’s 2024 festival have provided some amazing stories, not least for PokerStake’s finest.

Some poker partnerships were meant to be and in a week where many players dreams could hang on the turn of a card, we spoke to two players who are already living the dream. Lexy and Bob Mather aren’t an ordinary married couple. Both adore the game of poker and have travelled to The Bahamas […]

The WSOP Paradise action continued at Atlantis Resort in The Bahamas as Josh Arieh and David Coleman starred on a busy day of action for PokerStake players. There was also a very big winner in the $100,000 buy-in Pot Limit Omaha Super High Roller event and a very popular PokerStake player became only the sixth […]

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 […]

On December 6th, the World Series of Poker Paradise series begins in The Bahamas, with 15 WSOP bracelets on offer to players from all over the world. One player who will be determined to become the first player ever to win both the WSOP Paradise Main Event and the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas […]

The inaugural World Series of Poker Paradise Main Event has been won by German qualifier Stanislav Zegal after a thrilling battle in The Bahamas. With the Atlantis Resort on Paradise Island attended by some of the biggest players in the world, the seven finalists in the WSOP Paradise Main Event were the envy of everyone […]

The latest mega-bucks multi-table tournament in The Bahamas is over. Costing $100,000 to enter, the WSOP Paradise festival’s 9th event was an Ultra High Roller, and with players such as Nick Schulman, Danny Tang, Jason Koon and Danny Tang all making the final table, it was the Japanese player Masashi Oya who triumphed for a […]

The Poker Hall of Famer and World Series of Poker legend Erik Seidel won an epic 10th WSOP bracelet as he took down the $50,000 Super High Roller WSOP Paradise event for $1,704,400. Winning gold at a final table that included legends such as Orpen Kisacikoglu, Jason Koon, Alex Foxen and Adrian Mateos, Seidel further […]

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 […]