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Eliot Hudon has won the largest World Poker Tour event in series history after taking down the WPT World Championship Main Event. The WPT World Championship concluded at Wynn Las Vegas on Tuesday after a WPT record 2,960 players originally bought in for $10,400. That record-setting player pool led to a record-setting $29 million prize

The 2023 World Series of Poker will return to the Las Vegas Strip at Paris Las Vegas and the Horseshoe Las Vegas from May 30 – July 28, 2023. The full schedule for the 54th WSOP will be announced in 2023 but select tournaments from the WSOP were announced, including the $10,000 Main Event which

The European Poker Tour has released their 2023 schedule which includes two news stops and the return to some regular venues. The 2023 EPT season will begin in February with EPT Paris at the Hyatt Regency Paris Etoile, in partnership with Le Club Barriere Paris. EPT Paris will run from February 15 to 26. This

Starting on December 1 the annual 25 Days of Poker is coming to BetOnline Poker with $50,000 of Christmas cash up for grabs. Everyday during the 25 Days of Poker BetOnline Poker will release four unique poker missions. These missions can be completed anytime between 12:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m. eastern. Completing enough missions will

If your poker budget is slim due to upcoming holiday bills then BetOnline Poker has the perfect series for you with their newly announced Micro Tournament Series. The Micro Tournament Series runs from November 24 to 30 with 35 events on the schedule.  Buy-ins range from $1.10 to $22, with one big buy-in of $109

Poker legend Phil Ivey’s return to the mainstream poker world continues as he has been named the latest World Poker Tour Ambassador. Ivey has had success at WPT events in the past, getting his name etched on the Mike Sexton WPT Champions Cup by winning the 2008 WPT L.A. Poker Classic. Ivey has made it

The 10th annual Golden Spade Poker Open has begun at Ignition Poker. The annual poker series kicked off in October and runs at Ignition until November 16. It includes 150 events with a combined prize pool of $10 million, which is appropriate for the 10th anniversary of the series. Ignition Golden Spade Poker Open celebrates

During the week leading up to Halloween celebrate the ghoulish night with the Zombie Hunter Bounty Poker Series at BetOnline Poker. The series runs until October 30 and include more than 100 events and all of them are bounty tournaments. For those unaware, in bounty tournaments you collect a cash bounty for every player you

If you play poker at Bodog Poker make sure to clear your schedule on Sunday’s going forward. The folks at Bodog Poker have given their special Sunday tournaments a boost lately with a higher $200,000 guaranteed prize pool. Every week the winner of this tournament is guaranteed at least $17,000. How Bodog Poker Sunday tournament

Swedish poker pro Simon Mattsson claimed his first World Series of Poker bracelet earlier this week after winning the 2022 World Series of Poker Online Main Event. Mattsson, who plays online under the screen name C. Darwin2, won the Main Event on the international-facing segment of the WSOP Online being played on GGPoker. The $5,000

Partypoker has announced a new Party Mix promotion that will allow players to collect up to three prizes per day up until September 30. During the Party Mix promotion prizes are available on three different party sites, PartyPoker, PartyCasino and Party Sportsbook. How does Partypoker Party Mix Daily Promotion work? On the Poker side you

The full schedule for PartyPoker MILLIONS has been released and includes $6 million in guarantees spread out over 15 events, and a chance to win NFTs. PartyPoker Millions begins on September 1 and runs until September 25. The buy-ins aren’t cheap and range from $109 to $3,200, but even budget players aren’t necessarily excluded with

The 2022 Super Millions Poker Open at Ignition Poker comes to a close next week but not before the Main Event. The Super Millions Poker Open Main Event is on Sunday, August 21. It is the crown jewel of the series with a $425 +$25 buy-in and a $322,000 guaranteed prize pool. If that buy-in

Prepare to start collecting bounties at BetOnline Poker later this month in the Bounty Hunter Poker Series. The Bounty Hunter Poker Series runs from August 22 to 28 and as the names suggests all the events in the series are PKO tournaments. There are 36 events on the schedule and they all have a 50/50

The World Series of Poker Europe is returning to the King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic from October 26 to November 15. The 2022 WSOP Europe will include 15 events with €12 million in guaranteed money available throughout. That is approximately $12.2 million US right now. Buy-ins at the WSOP Europe range from €350 to

More than half a million in prizes is coming to BetOnline Poker later this month in the Mystery Series 2.0. The Mystery Series 2.0 runs from July 25 to 31 with 26 events. The schedule during five of the six days of the series includes four events each day. All four events have the same