It’s been a busy week in the life of one of poker’s most notorious players. Doug Polk is rarely out of the headlines in 2025, and the past seven days have been no exception. From going into battle on live television for poker players in the gambling tax scandal, selling
The Czech Republic poker player Zdenek Zizka has achieved a unique double in the past month, winning both the Ultimate Backgammon Championship (UBC) in Monte Carlo for €78,000 and his first-ever WSOP bracelet at the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Very few players have ever excelled to such
The numbers and results have been tabulated, and the 2024 GPI Player of the Year races are final. The winners are official! David Coleman wins the overall GPI POY for 2024, with Cherish Andrews becoming the GPI Female POY and Han Feng the GPI Mid-Majors POY. David Coleman: 2024 GPI
December poker offered many options for players in live settings. Of course, the three main tour operators – World Poker Tour, World Series of Poker, and European Poker Tour – dominated the news with their series. There were also several series around the world for women in poker, dedicated to
The Mid States Poker Tour just wrapped its Season 15 at Hollywood Casino Columbus in Ohio. But before that tour stop’s Main Event even finished, the MSPT had news about its Player of the Year leaderboard. Umut Ozturk won it – again. For the second year in a row, Ozturk
The World Poker Tour season now matches the calendar year, which means the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas wraps the main tour and WPT Prime tour for the year. With the wrap of the WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship in Florida at the beginning of
Each year, the Global Poker Index uses its proprietary live tournament ranking system to allocate points to players. This ranks them overall as well as by the Player of the Year standards. When the year finishes and players earn all of their points from a year’s worth of live tournament
It was a much anticipated match-up. High Stakes Duel 5 was on the docket for November 2024, well over a year since the last HSD match between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk in August 2023. The newest edition of HSD would feature longtime poker pro Patrik Antonius, who was riding
