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
As the World Series of Poker was wrapping its 2024 WSOP Paradise series in the Bahamas, the organization announced the bookend dates and general Main Event information for WSOP 2025 in Las Vegas. The announcement came from the World Series of Poker and Caesars Entertainment, though the latter recently sold
The WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas was filled with tournaments, not the least watched was the ClubWPT Gold Freeroll. But there was only one main event, the most anticipated of all the festival, and that was the WPT World Championship itself. The $10K buy-in tournament began its run
The World Series of Poker, in conjunction with new owner GGPoker, completed its inaugural Super Main Event in the Bahamas this week. The WSOP Paradise series, in its second iteration, offered a small-but-mighty lineup of bracelet events this December, many with guarantees, online poker components, and big poker names. Of
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
It was the most sought-after ticket in poker. Nearly every player in or around the poker world tried to win a Golden Passport, a symbolic but very real seat into the ClubWPT Gold Invitational Freeroll with its $5M prize pool. With approximately 2,000 passports available and awarded randomly – mostly
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
The PokerStars-sponsored Women’s Winter Festival wrapped in London this week. And according to PokerStars Ambassador Kerryjane Craigie, the festival became the largest women’s poker event outside of Las Vegas. The series offered women four days of tournaments and activities in London November 21-24, with The Hippodrome Casino hosting the poker.
There is nothing quite like the summer months for poker. Many people refer to the Las Vegas scene from the end of May through July as poker summer camp, as there are tournaments and series in nearly every poker room in Sin City. But in the last few years, December
The Women in Poker Hall of Fame tallied the votes, verified the qualifications and numbers, and put it all together. This week, WiPHoF announced that this year’s inductees will be Kristen Foxen and Jeanne David. In addition, Starla Brodie will be posthumously honored as the first in the new Pioneer
