In tournament poker, making the right choice in marginal moments are what separate great players from good ones. One of our rising stars on PokerStake, Kevin Theodore, is playing this week’s Main Event at the 2025 Texas Poker Open. To prepare him for the inevitable, we fired off our 15 Bigs at the long-time poker […]

The 2025 Texas Poker Open festival is underway and with a raft of big events coming this week, some of PokerStake’s finest are selling action to the Main Event among other tournaments in Round Rock. We’ve taken a look at the value on offer as four formidable players sit down to win themselves – and […]

The final event of the 2025 U.S. Poker Open (USPO) had it all. Two players battled to the end to win not just the top prize of $529,250 but the overall USPO title, the $25,000 PokerGO Tour Passport and the Golden Eagle trophy. In the end, Shannon Shorr came from behind to beat Nacho Barbero […]

The climax of the PokerGO Tour U.S. Poker Open is one of the most exciting in years. With one final table to play, three players could yet win the coveted leaderboard title after drama in Events #6 and #7. Matthew Wantman leads in the ‘clubhouse’ but with the current leader not involved in Event #8, […]

The action keeps coming in Las Vegas as the 2025 U.S. Poker Open (USPO) is proving a profitable one for a PokerStake player, and an all-American final table played out at ARIA. The 2025 USPO features eight events, with PokerStake players selling action to each and every one of the them. In Event #5, it […]

Two U.S. Poker Open events concluded at the weekend, and there were wins for Michael Rossitto and Matthew Wantman, as well as a final table showing for a PokerStake player. With both $10,000-entry events taking place at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA in Las Vegas, the battle was fierce as the 2025 U.S. Poker Open […]

The second event of the 2025 U.S. Poker Open ended in a dramatic victory for Japanese player Kazuomi Furuse as he topped the 108-player field to take home a top prize of $275,400. The Tokyo-based player, who took home his first PGT trophy and the biggest score of his career to date, outlasted players such […]

Kristen Foxen performed a miraculous comeback in three-handed play to win the opening event of this year’s U.S. Poker Open in Las Vegas last night. Ping Liu lost the lead in the latter stages of the PokerGO Tour event, with Foxen claiming the top prize of $158,025, as others such as David Peters, Justin Saliba […]

The 2025 U.S. Poker Open (USPO) follows hot on the heels of the PokerGO Tour’s recent PLO Series. With the four-card game taking a back seat, the USPO action is going to be hotter than ever, and PokerStake’s finest are in the mix. With events running for the next fortnight at the PokerGO Studio at […]

The PokerGO Tour PLO Series has concluded and after 11 thrilling events, six-figure wins for PokerStake players and some terrific four-card action in Las Vegas, Jim Collopy won the $25,000-entry PLO Championship event for over $450,000. While Collopy’s win heralded the biggest single score of the series, it was Jesse Lonis who took the overall […]

The seventh event of the PokerGO Tour PLO Series saw PokerStake player Josh Arieh come close to victory after threatening a cage fight in Las Vegas… well, kind of. A thrilling seventh event of the PGT PLO Series saw Arieh fall just short of glory as Alex Foxen ended an 803-day hoodoo inside the PokerGO […]

Two more huge PGT PLO Series events went to the wire on Monday and Tuesday as PokerStake players battled for profit at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA in Las Vegas. There were deep runs for players such as Alex Foxen, Tyler Brown and the Spanish Pot Limit Omaha specialist Lautaro Guerra, and one PokerStake player […]

In 2024, Aram Zobian’s list of successes in poker reached their peak when the Armenian-American took down the U.S. Poker Open on the PokerGO Tour. Taking home over $600,000 in prize money, Aram’s triumph in Event #6, the $15,100-entry No-Limit Hold’em event won him $264,290, with finishes in second, third, and sixth in three other […]

Daniel ‘Kid Poker’ Negreanu and Chino Rheem both booked wins in the PokerGO Tour’s PLO Series this past weekend as PokerStake players continued to play for glory in Las Vegas, Nevada at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA on the Sin City Strip. With Events #3 and #4 of the 2025 PGT PLO Series featuring some […]

The second event of this year’s PokerGO Tour PLO Series saw Pot Limit Omaha stars reconvene at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA on the Las Vegas Strip. With the top two sharing over $175,000 in prize money, modern poker legends such as Jesse Lonis and James Chen – who also cashed in the Event #1 […]