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American poker pro Phil Hellmuth has shared his poker-related goals for 2019 Twitter on Sunday, March 3.

The 54-year-old poker player has an impressive portfolio: 15 WSOP gold bracelets, 136 career cashes and almost $23 million in total earnings. Despite letting his achievements do the talking at most times, he obviously loves doing self-promotion, and a lot at that.

Read more » Phil Hellmuth shares his 2019 Poker Goals

888poker's XL Blizzard series returns with even more affordable buy-ins and bigger guarantees - mark your calendar on April 4 to 14, 2019!

The XL Blizzard series is back and this time 888poker offers players high-value tournaments with various ways to win big in this series. With a total of 34 different games scheduled, players can participate in as many events as they can with buy-ins starting in as little as $5.50!

If you don't like to shell out $5.50, then you can satellite your way in for just 1 penny!

Read more » 888poker XL Blizzard series returns with Affordable Buy-ins and Bigger Guarantees

The 2019 Triton Poker Series in Jeju, South Korea was deemed a smashing success that the participating players have made a decision to create a last minute event to add to the schedule.

Those who already had flights scheduled on time had to cancel and find new hotel accommodations just so they can join in on the action. In the end, there were 23 players who built a prize pool worth HKD 34,780,000 (USD 4,430,604).

Read more » Triton Poker Last-Minute HK$1M NLHE Short Deck Event won by Timofey ‘Trueteller' Kuznetsov for $1.8M

The Triton Poker Series Jeju Main Event has been won by Timothy Adams after he outlasted a player field of 38, winning the prize amount considered to be currently his biggest score ever in poker.

Before this tournament, the Canadian poker pro hasn't yet made a signature win in a six-figure buy-in event. This all changed when he defeated Bryn Kenney in heads-up play to win the HK$2 Million (US$254,779) buy-in Triton Poker Jeju NLHE Main Event (Event #6), taking home the title and the cash prize worth HK$27,760,500 (US$3.54 million).

Read more » Triton Poker Series Jeju Main Event won by Timothy Adams for $3.5M

At the 2019 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series, Tom "Durrrr" Dwan sat down with Pete Latham to have a chat about fame, life, and his experience playing short deck.

Peter Latham is an original and creative TV producer and comedy writer, known for his work on KidPoker, a 2015 TV documentary featuring Daniel Negreanu.

Latham asked the high-stakes poker legend about what he thinks on the game's evolution over the past decade and how he has changed throughout the years.

Read more » Tom Dwan's Interview at 2019 Triton Poker in Jeju, South Korea

The Triton Super High Roller Series, Jeju crowns yet another winner this week in Event #3: HKD500,000 (USD64,000) Six-Max Hold’em.

Malaysian poker pro Michael Soyza emerged victorious from a player field of 81 (including 32 re-entries), effectively reading into Sam Greenwood’s bluff during the final hand to win the biggest payout of his poker career to date, HKD 11.15M (USD1.44 million).Read more » Triton Poker SHR Jeju Event #3 won by Malaysian Michael Soyza for HK$11 Million

Maria Ho defeated one of the best female players in the game Kristen Bicknell to win the $25K High Roller at the La Poker Classic.

It’s definitely a great moment for Maria because when she won the event she turned 36 years old, and the $276,690 prize is absolutely a perfect gift for the 2018 Women in Poker Hall of Fame member.Read more » LAPC $25K High Roller won by Maria Ho for $276,690

‘If you can’t win at the poker tables, then try your luck at the video poker machines.’ – This worked really well for one poker player not only once, but five times now!

On his WSOP profile, American poker pro Kyle Cartwright has a total of eight WSOP Circuit rings and one WSOP bracelet. Currently he has a total of $2.1 million for playing the game, and even if he’s doing well on the live poker scene, he’s actually also becoming known as incredibly lucky on playing video poker machines.Read more » After Busting WSOP Circuit event, Poker Pro wins $100k for hitting Royal Flush on Video Poker Machine

A retired dentist bested the young ones at the WSOP Circuit Main Event this week, outlasting a field of 1,050 players to win his very first WSOP gold circuit ring and the cash prize worth $294,290, and the best thing about it – he got in via a $220 satellite seat!

The 72-year-old from Ukraine also gets a free seat to the 2019 Global Casino Championship scheduled in August at Harrah’s Cherokee.Read more » WSOPC Main Event at Horseshoe Hammond won by Retired Dentist Elik Vodovoz for $294K from $220 Satellite Seat

Triton Poker SHR Series Jeju HKD250K Short Deck Event won by Justin Bonomo for $586K

The opening event of the 2019 Triton Poker Super High Roller Series has been won by none other than the current number 1 player in the All-Time Money List, Justin Bonomo.

Short Deck Poker, also called 6-Plus Hold’em, is a card poker game based on Texas Hold’em. While the rules are mostly the same, short deck poker is played with a 36-card deck instead of 52. The deck is reduced by removing all cards 2 through 5. This game type became popular in the East Asian high-stakes cash game circuit. Check out the hand rankings here.

Read more » Triton Poker SHR Series Jeju HKD250K Short Deck Event won by Justin Bonomo for $586K

This year's World Series of Poker is the celebration of their 50th anniversary, and they have formulated a poker festival jam-packed with the usual favorites as well as many additions such as nine online bracelet events, more affordable buy-in tournaments, and there's even a Short Deck Championship.

Oh, and there's one more thing for this year's WSOP, they have added more value which means more chips!

Read more » Bigger Stacks and Added Value featured in All 2019 WSOP Structures

In partnership with King's Resort, partypoker.cz has now officially become the second international online poker company to enter the country, right after PokerStars.

GVC Holdings' brand partypoker has now officially landed in the Czech Republic online poker market via a partnership with regional casino operator King's Resort in Rozvadov.

Read more » partypoker goes live in Czech Republic via King's Resort

A Canadian woman accused of buying a lottery ticket using a stolen credit card was arrested while she was on her way to the lottery office.

When she attempted to claim her $50,000 prize for her ‘Super Crossword' scratch card at the Atlantic Lottery center in St. John's, Newfoundland Island, the 33-year-old lady was arrested by police waiting nearby.

Read more » Lottery Winner Arrested for using Stolen Credit Card to Buy Ticket

The social media site appeared to have encouraged developers of games such as Ninja Saga, Angry Birds and PetVille to allow "friendly fraud" so they could rake in more revenues.

According to newly unsealed court documents, Facebook intentionally permitted children to spend money on its site without the knowledge of their parents. In some cases, even the children themselves weren't aware they were racking up hundreds or thousands of dollars already while they play their favorite online game via Facebook.

Read more » Facebook allegedly duped Underage ‘Whales' in Casino-like Con, Court Docs Show

Jon Jonsson, a poker player from Iceland who traveled to Dublin, Ireland has gone missing since February 9. The 41-year-old father was last seen in the Whitehall area of Dublin and has been the focus of an intense two-week long search operation by the authorities.

Read more » CCTV Footage of Missing Icelandic Poker Player Jon Jonsson in Dublin Released

Willie Nelson is an 85-year-old American musician, singer and songwriter whose critical success of the albums ‘Shotgun Willie' (1973), ‘Red Headed Stranger' (1975), and ‘Stardust' (1978) made him one of the most recognized artists in country music.

Read more » Musician Willie Nelson tagged as ‘Ruthless' Shark as He Makes Players ‘High' and Bleed Them Dry in High-Stakes Poker

The Ivey Room, a private poker room that poker players have known for nine years where some of the biggest nosebleed cash games occur, is no more, at least in name.

The Ivey Room, a high-stakes poker room in Aria named after legendary yet controversial Phil Ivey that opened in May 2010, has now been renamed to simply "Table 1". This comes amidst his recent legal battle after Atlantic City's Borgata casino was given the go signal by a federal court to chase after him and take the $10.1 million he owed them for the edge-sorting case.

Read more » Aria's ‘Ivey Room' renamed to ‘Table 1'

David Peters emerged triumphant in a player field of 33 to claim the prize of $1,320,000 in the U.S. Poker Open Event #10: $100,000 Main Event.

The 2019 U.S. Poker Open ended its 10-event series on Saturday evening after one out of 33 players won in Event #10: $100,000 Main Event. Not only did 31-year-old David Peters managed to win the Main Event title for a whopping $1.32 million, but he also rose above the leaderboard to win the overall US Poker Open Championship title for an extra $100,000 prize!

Read more » 2019 US Poker Open Main Event and Championship Title won by David Peters

There will be a total of nine online bracelet events to be held for this year’s World Series of Poker, though it’s not yet confirmed whether players from New Jersey can join the poker festival.

The World Series of Poker held its very first gold bracelet online event back in 2015. Since then, there’s a total of nine bracelets and over $10M in prize money that have been awarded to players on WSOP.com. It was announced yesterday (February 21) that there will be nine bracelets up for grabs this 2019 WSOP.

Read more » Nine Online Bracelet Events set for 2019 WSOP