Nearly one month ago, Gianluca Pace won the first Mid-States Poker Tour of the year. He took down that MSPT title at Sycuan Casino in Southern California. The tournament went well beyond its $300K guarantee when 460 entries pushed the prize pool to $444,700. Pace took home nearly $75K for
High-stakes poker player Igor Kurganov hasn’t been in the news much lately. He plays his poker when time permits and has appeared to keep himself busy outside of the poker world as well. Kurganov turned up in the news once again today, this time the mainstream media. Bloomberg wrote an
It’s been a while since poker fans had a new season of High Stakes Poker. That pesky pandemic put a bit of distance between Season 8 and the latest season. Season 8 premiered in December 2020. It was great timing because many poker players and fans had yet to return
The World Series of Poker has had its own type of star power for years. Gabe Kaplan was a player and television broadcast commentator. Jennifer Tilly is a WSOP bracelet winner and a very regular player. Norm Macdonald was a member of the poker community. Ray Romano and Brad Garrett
The 2022 PokerGO Tour is off to a fast start. It began the year with some Venetian High Roller tournaments in Las Vegas, followed by the new Stairway to Millions series at the PokerGO Studio. Some players then went to Florida for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, where that high
Less than a year after Vanessa Kade signed on to become an ACR Team Pro, she resigned that position. Details remain somewhat scarce, but Kade would like to keep it that way. She purposely released a brief statement about her departure from Americas Cardroom. And when we asked her for
From 888poker LIVE to the European Poker Tour, this is the year that they return from their pandemic-induced hiatus. Considering Europe was one of the hardest hit parts of the world, it has been most difficult to plan the return of those events. While partypoker LIVE puts its 2022 schedule
The Triton Poker Series cannot seem to catch a break. All they want to do is host high-stakes poker tournaments in various locations around the world. The last time the tour hosted a series was in August 2019 in London. They then set the 2020 season to include South Korea
It doesn’t take a lot of experience in the poker world to know that trying to look at an opponent’s cards is wrong. With that as a given, let’s take it a step further. If a person is going to try to (wrongly) look at an opponent’s cards, it’s probably
The Ladies International Poker Series is ready to host some big events in 2022. Now that the worst of the pandemic seems to have subsided - *knocks on wood* - poker venues are determined to stay open. Poker tournament organizers are more confident about setting series dates. And women feel
At one time, Americas Cardroom had a small lineup of male pro players signed to its team of pros. In late 2020, they brought Ebony Kenney to the team, followed by Vanessa Kade in early 2021. By the end of last year, they signed Katie Lindsay and her husband Chris
Phil Hellmuth is a walking brand. He promotes himself at all times. Sometimes, though, he promotes others, like the Aria Casino, PokerGO, Breinfuel, and Bitcoin Latinum. For the better part of 2021, he carried a bottle of Breinfuel and wore a Bitcoin Latinum hat. No one can say he doesn’t
