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Sheraz Nasir was crowned the first WPT Champion of Season XIV last night. Nasir, who brought the second biggest stack to the final table, defeated Lu Zhang (had the chance of becoming the first-ever female winner in an open WPT event) heads-up to lay hands on the title, CAD $255,408 in prize money, a seat into the WPT Championship, a WPT Champions trophy and a Playground Poker Club Champions Belt.

Read more » Sheraz Nasir Wins partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship

The official World Poker Tour Canadian Spring Championship (sponsored by PartyPoker) final table is set after four days of play. The remaining six players will return to Le Westin Montreal at 12:00 noon ET today and battle it out for the title and the first-place prize of CAD $255,408. 

Read more » partypoker WPT Canadian Spring Championship: Final Table Is Set

PokerStars' 2015 edition of the Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is just days away now. The richest tournament festival of the year runs May 10-24 with $40,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools spread across 138 events, including three Main Events on May 24 with a combined prize pool of $7,000,000! 

Read more » 2015 SCOOP May 10-24: €40,000,000 in Guaranteed Prize Pools

114 players returned for the third day of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final Main Event. After five 90-minute levels of play, the day ended with 34 remaining players and Jose Carlos Garcia, the overall Day 1 chip leader, out in front with 1.71 million in chips.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Jose Carlos Garcia Leads Star-Filled Field To Day 4

Hello fellow mobsters, westside writing. Another month has passed and, as always, it's time to take a look at the numbers.

My excel worksheet shows me a profit of 280€ and a 9% ROI , so taking into a consideration that I had a big downswing at the beggining of the month - I'm satisfied with my April results.

Read more » Genious or gambler?

114 players of 564 entries will be returning to the poker tables in a few hours, as the third day of the PokerStars and Monte-Carlo Casino EPT Grand Final €10,600 Main Event starts. German pro Ole Schemion bagged up the largest stack on Day 2 with 477,700 in chips.

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Ole Schemion Leads Main Event

It only took one day of play to determine a winner of the €50,000 Super High Roller at the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo EPT Grand Final.

The tournament kicked off at 12:30 pm local time on Sunday, and the final hand was dealt just before 3:30 am on Monday morning. A total of 66 entries created a prize pool €3.2 million, of which Mustapha Kanit received €936,500!

Read more » EPT Grand Final: Mustapha Kanit Wins €50,000 Super High Roller (€936,500)

A big congratulations to Erik Seidel, the winner of the 2015 PokerStars and Monte-Carlo®Casino EPT Grand Final €100,000 Super High Roller.

The tournament drew 71 entries and Seidel received €2,015,000 (the single biggest cash of his 27-year poker career) for being the last man standing. He's now third on poker's all-time money list - ahead of both Phil Ivey and Daniel Colman.

Read more » EPT Monte-Carlo: Erik Seidel Wins €100,000 Super High roller

Viktor "isildur1" Blom kicked some serious ass on PokerStars last week. On Tuesday, he won $208k playing a 2-7 triple draw, 8-game and pot-limit Omaha (most of the winnings came from Kibler-Melby).

Read more » High Stakes: Viktor Blom Won $1 Million Last Week!

On Tuesday, Poland's ‘bladsonpoker' became the second Spin & Go millionaire since the PokerStars Makes Millionaires promotion began (you can read about the first winner here).

Read more » ‘bladsonpoker' Wins $1,000,000 in Spin & Go

Asher Conniff, who entered the final table with the second largest stack, is the winner of the 2015 World Poker Tour Championship! Conniff, a WPT regular from Brooklyn, New York, bested a field of 239 players to lay hands on the title, $973,683 in prize money, and a Hublot Oceanographic 4000 Watch, a pair of gold Monster 24K Headphones and a WPT Champions Trophy.

Read more » WPT World Championship: A Misclick Worth $973,683

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The televised final table of the World Poker Tour World Championship is set after four days of play at Borgata Hotel & Casino in Atlantic City. The two biggest stacks of Day 3, Asher Conniff and Ray Qartomy, will be returning for the final table but defending champion Keven Stammen won't. Stammen, who brought the third largest stack to Day 4, went out in 9th place after losing his final chips (approx. 450k) to Ray Qartomy.

Read more » WPT World Championship: Tony Dunst & Carlos Mortensen Ready For The Final Table

German football professional Max Kruse proved his poker skills last year when he took third in Event #36: $1,500 No-Limit 2-7 Draw Lowball at the World Series of Poker. He received $36,494 in prize money that time.

Read more » Max Kruse Donates Poker Winnings

Scott "Aggro Santos" Margerson made a name for himself in the online poker world when he won two World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) bracelets within the span of three days last fall. He won WCOOP Event #18 for almost $110,000 and followed that up with a first place finish in a four-way chop of WCOOP Event #22 for $202,000.

Read more » Two-Time WCOOP Champ 'Aggro Santos' Wins Sunday Million ($194,479.20)

Illari "Ziigmund" / "Ilari FIN" Sahamies is currently $594k in the black this year from playing cash games on PokerStars. Apart from poker, some of you might know that he's a big fan of hip-hop music and a rather talented rapper in his native language (Finnish).

Read more » Illari Sahamies In New Hip-Hop Music Video

Day 3 of the WPT World Championship saw the return of 68 players. In the final level of the day, the money bubble burst when 27 player remained. The day eventually concluded with 23 players, all of whom are guaranted to take home at least $31,297 each.  

Read more » WPT World Championship: 23 Players Left - Defending Champion Keven Stammen in 3rd Place!

As most of you probably are aware of, Dave "Devilfish" Ulliott passed away at the age of 61 on April 6, 2015 after losing a battle against terminal bowel and liver cancer. Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, Daniel Shak and many other poker pros all over the world have paid tribute to his memory via Twitter, Facebook and other social media platforms since his death.

Read more » From Prison Inmate To Poker Millionaire

There are 68 players remaining in the World Poker Tour World Championship after two days of play. The average stack is 175,000 (58 big blinds) and Michael Rocco (American pro with $646,341 in live tournament earnings) has the lead with 439,500 in chips.

Read more » WPT World Championship: 68 Players Remain, Michael Rocco Leads

Admit it. All of you who have spent at least one or two hours a day playing poker have wondered, at least one time, what it would be like if you were able to make a living out of it.

Read more » A poker fan's wet dream

Alex Jacob's winning streak on Jeopardy! came to an end on Monday. It was the former poker pro's seventh appearance on the popular game show and he ended up in second place after answering incorrectly ("What is twitter?") in the final clue "This social media company launched in October 2010; in 2012, with about a dozen employees and no revenue, it sold for $1 billion." - the correct answer was "what is Instagram?"

Read more » Alex Jacob's Winning Streak Ends After Six Straight Wins

22-year-old poker professional Griffin Paul entered yesterday's final table of the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown Main Event with almost a third of the chips in play, however, early in the final table, the chip lead was traded back and forth between Joe Ebanks and Andrew Crooks.

Read more » WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown: Griffin Paul Defeats Joe Ebanks Heads-up For The Title

Rumours that PokerStars and Jonathan Duhamel had split up started earlier this month after the 2010 World Series of Poker Main Event winner showed up at the WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown without PokerStars patches. 

Read more » Jonathan Duhamel No Longer Under The PokerStars Flag

The main idea behind a charity poker tournament is to collect money for the less fortunate. It's not that common that players actually leave a chairty tournament with more than their buy-in back.

Read more » Flopped Royal Flush At Charity Event - Won $100,000!

History was made on Monday at Horseshoe Casino in Council Bluffs, Iowa when Michelle Chin became the first female to win a World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event. Chin, who was born in Taiwan but moved to the states 12 years ago, received her first gold ring and $88,126 in first-place money for winning the tournament, but little did she know that she was the first female in the Circuit's 11-year history to win a Main Event.

Read more » Michelle Chin Becomes First-Ever Female Winner of a WSOP Circuit Main Event