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The 2019 888poker LIVE Festival London £1,100 Main Event has finished with Romania's Adrian-Eugen Constantin taking the trophy after defeating Leon Luis in a heads-up match. Aside from the top cash prize worth £100,000 ($129,274), Constantin will also receive an incredible package for the 2020 WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas, courtesy of the event sponsor 888poker.

Read more » €33 Satellite Qualifier wins £100,000 at 888poker LIVE London Main Event

On Monday, the Copenhagen City Council has seized DKK 26 million from a professional poker player and passed the verdict that he will be sentenced to 2 years and 6 months behind bars.

The criminal case hearing was first conducted in May and it was regarding the man's activities negatively affecting other poker players from 2008 until 2014. The defendant is convicted mainly for charges of hacking and fraud.

The illegal profits that were confiscated from him are approximately DKK 26,376,929 (approx. $3.9 million).

Read more » Danish Poker Pro sentenced to Jail for Cheating Players Out Of $3.9 Million!

It sure is a great opportunity not to be missed for Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey when they were invited to a super high-stakes game onboard a private jet with a recreational player, but the rec is no ordinary amateur as it turned out to be Tony G!

Read more » High Stakes Private Jet Game sees Tom Dwan and Phil Ivey as Big Losers

Born in France on February 8, 1981, Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier was formerly a StarCraft supremo, who placed second in the World Cyber Games in 2001 and placed first in the Euro Cyber Games in 2003. He transitioned to poker in 2005 right after the 2003 poker boom. His very first life-changing big win was from the January 2008 $7,800+200 buy-in PokerStars Caribbean Adventure - he took home a whopping $2,000,000 prize for dominating a player field of 1,136.

Read more » BankrollMob Exclusive: Interview with Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier

888poker's latest promotion allows you to win up to $1,000 every day via their Grand Hand Snap Edition.

888poker Grand Hand Snap Edition

• Duration: November 27 to December 23, 2019
• Prize: Up to $1,000 Every Day

For the second time in tour history, the Unibet Open returns to the romantic French capital of Paris for a five-day event filled with juicy poker action from November 27 to December 1. The poker fest shall be held at the recently opened Club Circus.

Unibet Open - Paris

• Schedule: November 27 to December 1, 2019
• Venue: Club Circus, Paris, France
• Highlight: €1,100 buy-in Main Event on November 28 to December 1

Full House loses to Straight Flush, Twice, for $400,000 total pot

The partypoker LIVE series in the Bahamas is now in full swing. A plethora of high-stakes buy-in tournaments run round the clock from November 15 to 24, including the $250,000 Super High Roller Bowl Bahamas. With such extravagant tournaments, there's a high chance some outrageous stakes will appear somewhere.

Read more » Check Out this Worst Bad Beat ever to Happen in Live Poker, Pot Worth $400,000

A total of 22,300 players spread across two dozen tournaments joined in at 888poker's 2019 God of the Arena (PKO) Series, and the prize money awarded reached to $1,170,087!

God of the Arena PKO Series

• Duration: From November 10 to 17, 2019
• Tournaments: 24
• Highlight: $320 buy-in $300,000 GTD Main Event on November 17, 2019

Scheduled from November 10 to 17, 888poker held its yearly "God of the Arena" Progressive Knockout (PKO) Series, composed of 24 tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $8.80 up to $320 and has over $1 million in guaranteed prize pools.

Read more » 888poker 2019 God of the Arena (PKO) Series a Smashing Success

Team partypoker pro Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier recently secured his second WSOP bracelet after outlasting a field of 2,738 players in the WSOP Europe Colossus €550 buy-in event in Rozvadov for €190,375. This latest win takes his lifetime live poker tourney earnings to nearly $14 million.

The French poker pro shares his sentiments about his latest victory with partypoker.

Read more » Interview with Bertrand "ElkY" Grospellier on his Second WSOP Bracelet Win

888poker LIVE shall start the 2020 poker season with a series to be spent at Madrid, Spain's capital and its most populous city. This is going to be 888poker LIVE's very first live event of the year, and it's also their first stop in the third-biggest city in Europe.

The 888pokerLIVE Madrid series is scheduled from January 23 to February 3. There's going to be a total of ten exciting tournaments, with a scrumptious €800,000 guaranteed Main Event as its cherry on top of all the poker action.

Read more » 888poker LIVE goes to Madrid, Spain for first 2020 Festival Stop

This November, 888poker is proud to announce the return of the God of the Arena Progressive Knockout (PKO) Series. Running from November 10 to 17, players shall have a week of exciting knockout poker action thanks to 24 juicy tournaments lined up especially for them.

God of the Arena PKO Series

• Duration: From November 10 to 17, 2019
• Tournaments: 24
• Highlight: $320 buy-in $300,000 GTD Main Event on November 17, 2019

888poker players who created their account through BankrollMob.com and have made at least 1 deposit are in for a treat on November 16 at 18:00 GMT / 19:00 CET / 13:00 EST, as there will be a Freeroll with a $2,200 Package for the 888poker LIVE London Festival Main Event!

Read more » $2200 Freeroll at 888poker!

PokerStars is now the exclusive "poker partner" of the UFC. Photo by UFC.com, Public Domain

One of the world's leading online poker rooms has announced an exclusive partnership with the UFC.
PokerStars has confirmed it is now the "official poker partner" of arguably the biggest mixed martial arts (MMA) franchise on the planet. UFC has been in existence since 1993, long before the establishment of online poker. However, it wasn't until the late 2000s and early 2010s when UFC would become a global brand, thanks to mainstream media coverage, with their latest five-year media rights agreement with ESPN worth an approximate $1.5 billion. It's not the first time that the owners of PokerStars have sought to get into other sports, having acquired one of the world's largest sports betting operators last year in a deal worth $4.7 billion.

Read more » PokerStars teams up with UFC brand