The 2024 US Poker Open concluded at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Stephen Chidwick was the last player standing in the finale when he defeated Andrew Lichtenberger heads up and shipped Event #8 $25,200 NL for $429,000. Other 2024 USPO event winners included Aram Zobian, Erik Seidel, Matt Wantman, Eric Afriat, Dan Smith, David Coleman, and Jesse Lonis. Aram Zobian locked up the overall 2024 USPO championship when he topped the leaderboard with 616 points thanks to four cashes including one victory in Event #6 and a runner-up finish.
Get ready for the 2024 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP). PokerStars released a full schedule for this year's SCOOP, which marks its 16th installment, and will begin on May 5 and run through May 29. There will be a total of 128 events and like all COOPs, this will have three tiers of buy-ins with low, medium, and high buy-in levels. You can join in on the action for as low as $2.20 or take a shot at a High Roller if you have $25K sitting in your PokerStars account.
The 2024 World Series of Poker Europe returns to the King's Casino in Rozvadov with 15 bracelets events. The WSOP Europe begins on September 18 and ends on October 9. This year's tournament will featured €15 million in guaranteed prize pools. Max Neugebauer is the defending Main Event champion who won €1.5 million last October.
The latest high roller series on the PokerGoTour in in the books at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Samuli Sipila from Finland secured the PGT Gold Cup when he claimed the PGT PLO Series championship by finishing at the top of the leaderboard. Sipila won two events -- Event #4 #10K PLO and Event #7 $15K PLO Progressive Bounty and banked over $1 million in prize money and bounties at the PGT PLO Series.
The popular Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) returns to PokerStars global on May 5 and runs through May 29 for 25 days of nonstop poker action. Other versions of SCOOP will be available for players in Southern Europe and Italy starting April 7, and in North America starting on April 5. Felipe 'lipe piv' Boianovsky is the defending 2023 SCOOP Main Event champ after the Brazilian shipped over $1 million.
Fresh off his monumental victory at the EPT Paris Main Event last month and his largest tournament cash to date, English pro Barny Boatman was named the newest PokerStars Team Pro. The 68-year-old pro and two-time WSOP bracelet winner becomes the latest ambassador and pitchman for PokerStars.
The PokerGo Tour concluded their fun mixed-games high roller series over the weekend at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Even though Max Hoffman did not win any of the ten events on the PGT Mixed Games schedule, his two runner-up finishes and five overall cashes propelled him to the top of the leaderboard. Hoffman was crowned the 2024 PGT Mixed Games Champion.
The 2024 Asian Poker Tour completed two big events in Tawain over the weekend. American pro Isaac Haxton shipped the APT Taipei Super High Roller for a score worth nearly $291K USD. Meanwhile, French pro Bertrand 'Elky' Grospellier was the last player standing in the APT Taipei Superstar Challenge when he outlasted 49 runners to win $367K.
Barny Boatman, an English pro and one of the original members of the Hendon Mob, shipped the 2024 EPT Paris Main Event Championship for a score worth €1,287,800. The 68-year-old Boatman became the oldest player to win an EPT event when he outlasted a field of 1,224 entries in Paris. Boatman edged out a final table that included German pro David Kaufmann, Aleksejs Ponakovs, Owen Dodd, Eric Afriat, and Peter Jorgne who was last year's runner-up in Paris.
The 2024 World Series of Poker returns to the Horseshoe Casino and Paris Casino in Las Vegas for the 55th running of the most prestigious tournament series in the world. The schedule is out and the 2024 WSOP has 99 events which begins May 28 and will run through July 17. The $10,000 buy-in Main Event Championship has four opening days beginning on July 3 through July 6. The final table will take place on July 16 and 17 at the Horseshoe.
The 2024 PokerGo Cup, the latest high-roller stop on the PokerGo Tour, is underway at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Cary Katz is the latest champion after his victory in Event #4 $10K NL. Other winners so far include David Peters, Dylan Weisman, and Jonathan Little. Little currently sits atop of the leaderboard with four events to go.
Alex Queen shipped the 2024 Borgata Winter Poker Open Main Event in Atlantic City, New Jersey. Queen outlasted 689 players, and survived a tough final table that included Brian Yoon and Anthony Zinno. He edged out John Pannucci in a heads-up battle between two Borgata regulars to secure the 2024 WPO Championship and over $613K in cash.
Artur Martirosyan finished in first place on the PGT Last Chance Leaderboard after he shipped two events on the final series of the PokerGo Tour season at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Daniel Negreanu, Samuel Laskowitz, Dylan DeStefano, and Nick Schulman also won titles in the six-event high roller series at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. This is the last series before the season-ending PGT Championship $1,000,000 Freeroll which begins this week.
The record-setting 2023 World Poker Tour Championship at the Wynn Las Vegas is over. Dan Sepiol outlasted a field of 3,835 runners to win the $10,400 buy-in WPT Championship for a score worth $5,282,954. He edged out Georgios Sotiropoulos heads-up to win the title, and survived a tough final table that included Andrew 'LuckyChewy' Lichtenberger, Chris Moorman, Ben Heath, and Artur Martirosian.
Even though he was on the brink of elimination, Ireland's Padraig O'Neill never panicked, and he overcome a massive chip deficit to upset Norway's Jon Kyte to win the €5,300 buy-in 2023 PT Prague Main Event. The final stop on the EPT attracted a record-setting 1,285 runners and O'Neill bagged a first place payday worth a cool million Euros.
Germany's Stanislav Zegal won a seat to the $5,000 buy-in 2023 WSOP Paradise Main Event via GGPoker. Zegal parlayed his online satellite win into a sick $2 million score. Zegal outlasted 3,010 players to win his first bracelet and the Main Event, and he held off a final table that included American pro Matt Glantz.
American pro Erik Seidel won his tenth bracelet in the Bahamas, and he joined an exclusive club of double-digit bracelet winners including Johnny Chan, Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, and Phil Hellmuth. Seidel banked $1.7 million for outlasting a stacked final table in 2023 WSOP Paradise Event #7 $50,000 Super High Roller NL. Siedel edged out Seth Gottlieb heads-up for the victory and he tied Chan, Brunson, and Ivey with 10 bracelets each.
The 2023 World Series of Poker Paradise kicked off in the Bahamas this week in Atlantis, and two events are already in the books. South Korea's Jin Hoon Lee faded 3,446 runners to win WSOP Paradise Event #1 $1,500 Mystery Millions, and he outlasted a final table that included Maria Ho. Brazil's Allan Mello banked a cool million as the last player standing in WSOP Paradise Event #2 $1,500 Millionaire Maker, which attracted 3,496 runners.
The World Poker Tour crowned a new champion during their latest stop in Hollywood, Florida at the 2023 WPT Seminole Rock N Roll Poker Open. When the dust settled, Istvan Briski from Hungary outlasted 1,447 runners to win the $3,500 Main Event for a score worth $647,300. Darryll Fish missed out on another title when he busted in sixth place.
The 2023 World Series of Poker Europe Main Event crowned a champion at the King's Casino in RozVegas. Austria's Max Neugebauer outlasted 817 runners and defeated Taiwan's Eric Tsai heads-up to win the 2023 WSOP Main Event and coveted bracelet. First place paid out €1.5 million, or approximately $1.6 million.
The PokerStars-branded North American Poker Tour made its triumphant return, and Sami Bechahed shipped the NAPT Las Vegas Main Event at Resorts World. The $1,650 buy-in NAPT Main Event attracted 1,095 runners and a prize pool worth $1.6 million. Bechahed -- a poker dealer -- banked $268,945 for first place when he outlasted a final table that included Jonathan Borenstein, David Coleman, Ping Liu, Sergio Aido, and Nick Schulman.
The 2023 World Series of Poker Europe is winding down at the King's Casino in Rozvadov. Six events are in the books. Lukas Pazma, Omar Eljach, Sokratis Linaras, Hokyiu Lee, Ermanno Di Nicola, and Wing Po Liu added their names to the history books with bracelet victories at this year's WSOP Europe. Sweden's Eljach almost won three bracelets.
ClubPoker sat down for an exclusive interview with Andy Wong, who currently runs the Triton Super High Roller Series. We caught up with Wong in Monte Carlo, which is hosting the latest stop on the luxurious Triton Super High Roller Series.
Jared Bleznick was the last player standing at the first-ever Super High Roller Bowl PLO $100,000 buy-in event at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas. Bleznick outlasted 38 runners and won $1,292,000 in the record-setting high roller PLO affair. Meanwhile, Isaac Haxton finished in second place but he moved into first place on the PokerGo Tour Leaderboard after his deep run.