In a poker world often defined by those who have been around since the poker boom, one of the game’s biggest recent winners is a player who cut his teeth during the COVID pandemic. Brandon Wilson’s recent rise to prominence has seen him become one of the world’s most in-form high roller and MTT crushers. […]

Every new player that joins PokerStake is a crusher and the latest is no different. Tony Lin, commonly known as Ren Lin, has been winning at poker for many years and is one of the most consistent players on the circuit. Selling to the forthcoming $51,000-entry Onyx Championship event, the talented Chinese player could be […]

With the EPT Barcelona festival on the horizon, we spoke to one of Europe’s hottest poker talents and a PokerStake seller, Adi Radjkovic. Since leaving the army, Adi has focused on poker tournaments and won almost $800,000 in ranking events. In recent months, he has cashed all over Europe and is taking on the Catalan […]

The return of the European Poker Tour this month pits some of the world’s best players against each other in high roller events, mixed game formats and of course the €5,300-entry EPT Barcelona Main Event. Won last year by PokerStake player Stephen Song, a dozen players from the site will travel to the Catalonia region […]

In the first few days of the 2025, PokerStake player Jeremy won the biggest prize he’s claimed so far this year. Scooping the most PokerGO Tour Points in 2024, the six-time WSOP bracelet winner then played the PGT $1m Freeroll Championship, and eventually beat Nick Schulman heads-up for the top prize of $500,000.

The 2025 National Heads-Up Poker Championship has returned in 2025 with a $25,000 buy-in, a new sponsor and a whole lot of excitement. Last night, the first-round draw took place in Las Vegas, and we’ve got all the news on who faces who. With stars such as Michael ‘The Grinder’ Mizrachi, Liv Boeree, Josh Arieh, […]

After a frantic eight weeks of action in the World Series of Poker (WSOP), elite poker players have barely had time to catch their breath, unpack their hoodies, or put their AirPods on charge before another major poker festival is back. The European Poker Tour is back in action in just over a fortnight’s time […]

After eight weeks of pulsating poker action, 100 bracelets were won in live events, and the Poker Hall of Fame got not one but two legendary new inductees. The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) broke new ground at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas this summer. The 56th annual WSOP had something […]

Poker players don’t come any more experienced that Erik Seidel. The 65-year-old New Yorker, who has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets in a glittering career that has spanned almost 40 years, is perhaps poker’s greatest journeyman. Sitting comfortably among the top players ever on The Hendon Mob’s All-Time Money List, Seidel took time […]

The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event was officially the third largest in WSOP history. In fact, since GGPoker’s takeover of the brand, the WSOP Main Event has been bigger and better than ever before and the numbers back that statement up. Bigger prizepools, eight figure top prizes and some of the most magical […]

One of the closest races for WSOP Player of the Year ever came down to a handful of points as Shaun Deeb beat fellow PokerStake player Benny Glaser to the unique annual prize. As the last few events ticked by, Glaser had the chance for gold but fell just a few pay-jumps short in one […]

Day 5 of the $10,000-entry World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event saw 522 starting players whittled down to 202 survivors, as the German player Sebastian Schulze bagged up the biggest stack of the World Championship so far at 12.7 million chips. With debutants and professionals in the field with Schulze, Day 6 and onwards […]

An intense day of action in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event saw Mat Frankland win a controversial $40,000 in bubble prizes, while two former world champions remained in the hunt for a second title. Both Greg Merson and Damian Salas survived on Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event, but they weren’t […]

On Day 3 of the 2025 WSOP Main Event, 3,453 players were reduced to 1,476 as former world champions, Hall of Famers and even the reigning Main Event winner were all sent packing. As the day ended, just 15 players needed to bust to burst the money bubble and put the remaining players in profit. […]

The second Day 2 of this year’s WSOP Main Event was a huge one, with late registrations boosting the overall attendance to a massive 9,735 entries. While not as big as either 2023 or 2024, this bumper number produced 2,133 survivors on Day 2d as the combined total of players moving on to Day 3 […]