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A few weeks after winning a record fourth WSOP Poker Players Championship Michael Mizrachi is on top of the poker world again after winning the 2025 WSOP Main Event. Mizrachi outlasted a 9,735-player field to take down the event and claim the $10 million prize along with his eighth career WSOP bracelet. Mizrachi received another

The folks at BetOnline Poker are delivering a week of PKO Bounty tournaments later this month during the Catch-22 Bounty Series. The series begins on July 20 and runs until July 27 with 17 PKO tournaments on the series schedule with over $350,000 in guaranteed prize pools. Every event throughout the series has the same

The 2025 World Series of Poker $10,000 Main Event drew 9,735 entries, making it the third-largest Main event in WSOP history. The large field failed to surpass the record-setting crowd of 10,112 that was set just last year. That was a decrease of 3.7 percent compared to last year. It also failed to reach and

Shiina Okamoto and Michael Mizrachi made waves at the 2025 World Series of Poker this week after winning the same event again. Okamoto is quickly making the case to be included in the list of best female poker players in the world. Two years ago, in the 2023 WSOP $1,000 Ladies Championship she emerged from

British poker pro Benny Glaser joined some elite company this week after winning his third World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2025 WSOP, and his eight WSOP bracelet overall. Glaser become only the seventh player to win three bracelets at a single WSOP, and the first since Scott Seiver did it last year. Other

Spring has officially sprung at 888poker with the start of the XL Spring Series. The series is already underway and runs until May 27 with more than 50 events on the schedule, including at least four events per day, and more than $1.5 million in guaranteed prize pools. The XL Spring Series has events for

A House Representative in Ohio has announced he is working on a bill that would legalize online poker and online casino gaming in the state. Representative Brian Stewart, chair of the House Finance Committee, confirmed to media outlets earlier this week that he was preparing to introduce a bill that would legalize online poker and

Las Vegas poker players will have a new place to play starting next month after the Planet Hollywood casino on the Las Vegas Strip announced it will reopen its poker room. The Planet Hollywood poker was previously closed in 2021. The new poker room is currently under construction and will be located on the second

Big money is up on the tables at BetOnline Poker starting in April in the $1.5 million Masters’ Series. The series runs from March 30 to April 6 with 106 events on the schedule. Buy-ins are a bit hefty and range from $55 to $530. However, low-budget players aren’t shutout completely as there are multiple

Poker players in Connecticut may finally be able to take their game online following the introduction of a bill that would allow the state to join multi-jurisdictional compacts. Senate Bill 1464 is currently under consideration by the state’s Joint Committee on General Law. The bill includes several gambling-related provisions, but the one that is most

The 2025 World Series of Poker schedule has been released. The 56th annual WSOP will takeover Las Vegas from May 27 to July 16 with 100 bracelet events played at the Horseshoe Las Vegas and the Paris Las Vegas. The WSOP kicks off on May 27 with a $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em Mystery Million Bounty tournament.

Millions of guaranteed cash will be up for grabs at BetOnline Poker this winter during the 2025 Winter Championship Series. This year’s Winter Championship Series is offering over $2.5 million in guaranteed prize pools. The series runs from January 19 to February 2 with more than 100 events on the schedule. The series has something

BetOnline Poker is giving players a chance to battle for $10,000 in cash and prizes every week through their new Weekly Powerball Shootout promotion. As the name suggests the Weekly Power Ball Shootout is a weekly tournament with a $10,000 prize pool. To earn free entry into the weekly tournament you must complete weekly missions

The World Series of Poker has announced some rules changes for the upcoming WSOP Paradise, scheduled for Dec 6-19 in the Bahamas. The rule changes focus on players at the poker table receiving outside help and using electronic devices for assistance. It is believed this stems from controversy surrounding Jonathan Tamayo win in this year

UFC Hall of Famer Donald “Cowboy” Cerrone delivered plenty of knockouts in the octagon during his fighting days and now he’s bringing those knockouts to the virtual poker felt at BetOnline Poker. Donald Cerrone’ Poker Knockouts Challenge promotion runs at BetOnline Poker until December 29. Throughout the promotion poker players at BetOnline Poker can collect

BetMGM Poker has officially merged its online player pools in Michigan and New Jersey becoming the third online poker site to share players between the two states. BetMGM filed a request for shared player liquidity with the Michigan Gaming Control Board earlier this year and was granted approval under the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement this