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PartyPoker has launched Daily Legends Leaderboards which will award more than $25,000 in tournament tickets every week. Every week from 12:00 a.m. CT on Monday until 11:59 p.m. CT on Sunday you can collect leaderboard points by playing in No-Limit Hold’em Daily Legends tournaments. You’ll earn points every time you finish in the money in

Legislators in Hawaii are trying to bring in-person poker and sports betting to the island. State Representatives John Mizuno and Daniel Holt introduced a sports gaming bill in the state capital earlier this week. Under the conditions of the bill small gaming parlours would be legalized on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Oahu is the

PartyPoker players in Ontario will be served up plenty of tournament opportunities in January with the Ontario Poker Championships running from January 8-23. The Championships schedule includes 105 events and fits any poker budget with buy-ins ranging from $1.10 to $530. Even the big money events aren’t totally out of reach of smaller budget players

Online poker players on PokerStars in New Jersey and Michigan will finally be able to play against each other starting on January 1, 2023. This will make PokerStars the first online poker room to share player liquidity between these two states. Upon announcing the scheduled launched of shared player pools between the two states Severin

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