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After winning the Americas Conference title, the Montreal Nationals beat the Eurasia Conference-winning Berlin Bears in a very intense match yesterday, winning 6 to 5 in the best-of-11 final. Intriguing big river decisions resulted to the Montreal Nationals team winning the first Global Poker League (GPL) Playoffs Championship for $100,000.

Read more » Montreal Nationals win First GPL Championship worth $100K

Not less than 603 players entered the Unibet Open Bucharest Main Event for €1,100 each to create the biggest ever Main Event in Unibet Open history! The final table was played over the weekend with 7 of 9 being Romanians. Despite that fact, it was UK's Eli Heath who dominated a big part of the final day of the tournament.

Read more » Romanian Wins The Biggest Ever Unibet Open Main Event!

A week after the wedding of two poker professionals Jason and Natasha Mercier in Southern Florida, they both made it to the final four tables of the Seminole Hard Rock Rock ‘n' Roll Poker Open main event, a tournament with a buy-in of $3,500.

Read more » Jason & Natasha Mercier Finish Back-to-Back in Poker Tournament

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) shall once again make a stop at the Los Angeles' Bicycle Hotel & Casino this coming December, with a 12-event series, featuring a $1,675 buy-in main event. The 12-event series starts off December 1 with a $365 buy-in no-limit hold'em event with a $50K guarantee.

Read more » World Series of Poker Circuit Returns to Bicycle Casino this December

On 1st December, Unitbet will release its long-awaited new poker software client! Poker 2.0 comes with a host of new features, all created to make the player experience more enjoyable and immersive:

• Poker missions and loyalty scheme integration on the poker tables.
• Improved graphics and smoother play experience.
• Playable on desktop, browser, mobile and tablet devices.
• Multi-tabling options on all devices and browser.

To celebrate the launch, Unibet will have its biggest ever Poker promotion to date: "Around The World Dream Raffle". One lucky player will win a 28-day round-the-world trip, visiting the 7 wonders of the world. 33 other players will win once in a lifetime travel experiences and over 1,000 players in total will walk away with prizes worth over €250,000!

On November 29, the very first Global Poker League (GPL) Playoffs shall take place in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Global Poker League Playoff & Championship Schedule:

Read more » Kicking off on November 29 in Las Vegas: Global Poker League Playoffs

Are you ready to celebrate Black Friday? On November 25, 2016, PokerMira will hold a $500 freeroll for everyone who makes a deposit with promo code: NFRD before November 24, 2016. In addition to the prize pool, a player under the alias 'Black Friday Soul' will participate in the tournament with a $50 bounty on his head! 

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An amendment made to Australia's 2001 Interactive Gambling Act could potentially force some leading online poker sites to exit the market; therefore, they would cease to offer their services to players residing in the country.

Read more » Amended bill could force poker sites to exit the Australian market

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Mike Sexton grabbed his first WPT title and C$425,980* ($317,896* USD) in prize money early this morning after besting a field of 648 entries over several days of play in the WPT Montreal Main Event! But it wasn't a smooth journey to the title for the Poker Hall of Famer and WPT commentator.

Read more » WPT Montreal: Mike Sexton Wins His First WPT Title!

Poker Hall of Fame member and WPT commentator Mike Sexton only had 10 big blinds after Day 2 and 18 big blinds after Day 3, yet he will enter the 6-handed WPT Montreal Main Event final table today with the biggest stack! Sexton finished Day 4 by eliminating Day 3 chip leader Samuel Gagnon in seventh place to take the chip lead.

Read more » WPT Montreal: Mike Sexton Leads Main Event Final Table!

Doug "WCG|Rider" Polk has recently uploaded to his Youtube channel a remarkable video in which he reviews the top 5 largest pots that high-stakes poker pro Isildur1 ever played, and describes each one in detail.

Read more » Check out the video of Isildur1’s 5 Biggest Pots

On Tuesday evening, Day 3 ended with just 17 players remaining in the Season XV partypoker.net World Poker Tour® Montreal Main Event at Playground Poker Club.

Samuel Gagnon will lead the remaining players into Day 4 with 3,350,000 (112 big blinds). Gagnon and the other remaining players are now guaranteed to take home CAD $22,230 each with the chance of becoming the champion for CAD €425,980!

Read more » WPT Montreal: 17 Players Remaining - Including Mike Sexton!

50 players out of 648 entries are all that remain in the partypoker.net WPT Montreal Main Event after Day 2 concluded last night. Day 3 kicks of at 12:00 local time today with the average stack at approx. 390k or 39 big blinds. Belgian pro Michael Gathy (over $2.2 million in live tournament earnings) will lead the way with 860k (86 big blinds) and not far behind are Ema Zajmovic and Tam Ho with around 800k in chips each.

Read more » WPT Montreal: Michael Gathy Leads Final 50

David Baazov, former chief executive of Amaya Inc, has offered to buy the entire company for about C$3.48 billion ($2.56 billion) or about C$24 per share - 30.9% more than Friday's close of C$18.34.

Read more » David Baazov Offers To Buy Amaya

After three starting days, Day 2 of the $2,000,000 partypoker.net WPT Montreal Main Event will start today at noon local time. The blinds will resume at 600-1,200 with a 200 ante, and the remaining field is scheduled to play nine one-hour levels.

Read more » partypoker WPT Montreal Main Event

The decision that Phil Ivey had been waiting for many months has finally came, but it is not what he wanted to hear. He has just lost his £7.7M dispute against a London casino at the Court of Appeal, as a judge stated that his "edge sorting" technique was equivalent to cheating despite the fact that he was not dishonest.

Read more » Phil Ivey Loses Appeal Against London Casino Over His £7.7M Winnings

Poker Mira's monthly Sunday Headhunter tournament will be played this Sunday with an increased prize pool! In addition to the direct buy-in or entry won in a series of daily satellites, you can get a ticket for this tournament by making a deposit of $35 or more with promo code «HH4000».

Read more » $4,000 Up For Grabs This Sunday!

The final day of the WSOP Main Event final table started with three players: Qui Nguyen out in front with 197,600,000 in chips, Gordon Vayo in second with 89,000,000, and Cliff Josephy with 50,000,000. On the first hand of play, Josephy doubled through Nguyen to overtake the second place from Vayo, who then doubled up through Josephy with a set-over-set cooler four hands later to nab the overall chip lead.

Read more » 2016 WSOP: Qui Nguyen Wins The Main Event For $8 Million!

On Monday, five players returned for the second day of the 2016 World Series of Poker Main Event - where the winner will take home over $8,000,000!

Qui Nguyen started the day with twice the stack of his closest opponent, but he got off to a rough start and doubled up Michael Ruane (started day 2 with the smallest stack) already on the fourth hand. However, Nguyen remained out in front despite the early hit to his stack.

Read more » 2016 WSOP Main Event: Nguyen Leads Final 3 With Massive Stack!

After hearing the testimonials and contemplating the evidence from both parties in this rather complicated situation, a judge in the U.S. District Court has given out a split decision on the case involving the Borgata in Atlantic City and professional poker player Phil Ivey. The split decision has rendered any final financial decisions suspended in the air as to which of the two will emerge victorious.

Read more » Split Decision on Phil Ivey versus Borgata court case