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Triton Poker has postponed this month’s upcoming event in Jeju, South Korea due to the coronavirus outbreak in neighboring China. The Triton Poker Super High Roller Series was scheduled to begin their 2020 season later this month at Jeju Shinhwa World from February 10-22. The event was to include 12 tournaments, including the 1,000,000 HKD

The annual XL Blizzard Series hits the felt at 888poker next month with more than $1.4 million in guaranteed money up for grabs in 34 events. This year’s XL Blizzard Series will run from February 6 to 16 with at least three series tournaments running every day. The first tournament on the series schedule is

Brian Altman added his name to the World Poker Tour record book earlier this week, becoming the first person ever to win the same WPT championship Main Event twice. Altman made history at this year’s WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open at the Seminole Hard Rock Casino Hollywood in Florida. In this year’s $3,500 Main Event,

Online poker players and gamblers in the United Kingdom who currently fund their accounts with Visa or Master Card will need to find a new funding method. Earlier this week the UK Gambling Commission released new regulations that would make it illegal for online gambling deposits to be made with credit cards. The ban will

You can start updating your 2020 poker travels plans, as 888poker LIVE has finally released their full schedule for 2020. The popular live poker tour, which gives players plenty of opportunities to win their way into big tournaments online at 888poker, will once again travel the world in 2020. It features stops in Spain, England,

The World Series of Poker International Circuit is heading to the Caribbean in March and you could earn a spot in the main event for only a couple bucks at Intertops Poker. The WSOP International Circuit invades the Sonesto Maho Beach Resort in St. Maartens from March 26 to April 6. The $1,700 main event

Nearly a year after a bill that would have legalized online poker in Michigan was vetoed at the last minute, a different bill got the sign off from the Governor. A bill to legalize online gambling, including poker, passed the House and the Senate at the end of 2018. But it was axed by outgoing

Dig through your couch cushions and see if you can find any change. Maybe a quarter, a nickel or even a penny will be enough to possibly qualify you for a trip to Madrid, Spain in 2020. The 888poker LIVE series is heading to the Casino Gran Via in Madrid for 888poker LIVE Madrid from

Danish high-stakes poker pro Peter Jepsen was found guilty of computer-based theft in a Copenhagen court last week. The charges against Jepsen stemmed from an online poker cheating scam he ran against other high-stake poker pros that netted him at least $4 million. Jepsen, who played online using the screen name Zupp, began running his

If you play poker cash games in France you may want to make sure you get your winnings right away. If not, you could end up like American poker pro Rick Salomon, who is out $2.8 million following a French court decision released earlier this week. Salomon sued Saudi sheikh Raad al-Khereiji in French court

Adrian Mateos put on a dominant showing in the Bahamas earlier this week with a pair of back-to-back wins at the Caribbean Poker Party. Mateos’ first win came in the $25,000 MILLIONS Super High Roller. He outlasted a 125-player field in the high roller tournament to cash $520,464 after making a deal with heads-up opponent

The latest event in the Super High Roller Bowl series concluded earlier this week at the Baha Mar in Nassau. The Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas had a hefty a $250,000 buy-in and 51 players forked over the quarter of a million dollars to play. In the end the last man standing was Canadian Daniel

The 2019 Poker Masters concluded at the ARIA in Las Vegas this week following a dominant series run by Sam Soverel. This year’s Poker Masters was comprised of 10 high roller events. Soverel delivered a very impressive performance throughout the series with seven cashes out of the 10 events and two tournament wins, including the

The operators at the World Series of Poker were left with egg of their face after messing up its Player of the Year award. They erred in awarding the World Series of Poker Player of the Year Award to Daniel Negreanu, when the points total showed Robert Campbell earned the honor. Last week the WSOP

November has been a busy month for new tournaments at 888 Poker. The tournaments gurus at 888 Poker have launched a new knockout series and a new high roller tournament with a great name – The Dragon. [ See 888 Poker Review ]  Let’s start with the knockout series, officially called the PKO Series. This

The final card at the 2019 World Series of Poker Europe was dealt earlier this week and the final winning hand went to Bertrand Grospellier. The French poker pro took home the final WSOP bracelet of this year’ WSOPE after outlasting a 2,738-player field in the €550 Colossus No-Limit Hold’em tournament. It was the second-career