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… Continue reading Which Poker Legends Survived Day 2d of the 2025 WSOP Main Event?

A Texas City Council Meeting denied Doug Polk’s bid to bring poker to a new part of Texas yesterday. The Farmers Branch City Council did not accept that poker could be played at a new location that the Polk chose as a potential poker room. Aiming to bring the greatest card game on Earth to… Continue reading Doug Polk Told “Pack Your Bags and Go Home” by Dallas Court as Poker Bid Rejected

To many, poker’s spiritual home isn’t Sin City and the bright lights of Las Vegas. Instead, it is The Lone Star State and the birthplace of legends such as Doyle Brunson, Amarillo Slim and even modern superstar Doug Polk – Texas. PokerGO have decided that a major tournament has escaped Texas for long enough, and… Continue reading PokerGO Heads South for Inaugural Texas Poker Open with $2m Main Event

This week’s High Stakes Duel sees Kid Poker and ‘Kid Polker’ clash at the felt for $200,000… but who will come out on top? PokerGO is the place to be this Thursday as Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk take to the purple felt for a heads-up battle with a difference.

Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk will meet in a $100,000-entry heads-up match in August after the famous frenemies agreed a deal to appear as the latest High Stakes Duel on PokerGO. With the two poker legends going head-to-head at the live felt, will Kid Poker or his conqueror from their online bout of 32 months… Continue reading Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk to Meet in August in High Stakes Duel on PokerGO

The sixth day of drama in this year’s 54th annual WSOP Concluded with two players lifting gold as Chanracy Khun conquered two legends of the game to win his first bracelet and Nick Schulman bagged his fourth on an exciting evening in Las Vegas.

The fifth day of action in the 2023 World Series of Poker saw some of the best players in the world go head-to-head for gold, glory and bragging rights. With action in the $25,000 Heads Up Championship, Dealer’s Choice and Mystery Millions, there were huge days at the felt for stars such as Doug Polk,… Continue reading WSOP 2023: Ronnie Day Wins Tournament of Champions, Doug Polk on Course for Heads Up Glory

After nearly two years away, the Global Poker Awards returned on Friday night, celebrating the people and events who made headlines in the poker industry in 2021.

They say “fortune favors the brave.” That phrase is really put to the test when playing the Seven-Deuce game at a high-stakes cash game table. But that’s exactly what went down in the latest episode of The Lodge Live, the livestream from the Austin, TX card room that recently added Doug Polk, Andrew Neeme, and… Continue reading Doug Polk, Brad Owen Go For Broke Playing Seven-Deuce Game On Lodge Live

Poker in Austin, Texas just got an injection of star power for 2022 as Doug Polk, Brad Owen, and Andrew Neeme announced that they have teamed up to purchase a majority share of The Lodge Poker Club & Card Room, the largest poker room in the city.

This year we’re doing something a little different and breaking down our annual Poker Year In Review into three different parts – the Flop (January-April), Turn (May-August), and River (September-December). We’re wrapping up 2021 by taking a look back at some of our biggest stories, winners, and surprises that unfolded in one of the most… Continue reading 2021 Poker Year In Review: Polk Defeats Negreanu, U.S. Online Poker Gets Big Boost

When the inaugural World Poker Tour Heads Up Poker Championship was announced last month, the tournament clearly had the chance to become one of the most exciting events of the year. Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, Nick Schulman, and Nick Petrangelo were among the names initially confirmed for the $25,000 buy-in event.

This week, the poker world will once again turn its attention to PokerGO’s High Stakes Duel as reigning and defending champion Phil Hellmuth is set to take on his current sparring partner Daniel Negreanu in what amounts to a $200,000 winner-take-all heads-up battle.

This week’s episode of High Stakes Poker on PokerGO started off with the players still talking about Doug Polk folding the second nut straight to Phil Hellmuth shove with the nut straight last week, but quickly turned into an episode of the Tom Dwan Show – and he wasn’t even in the game when the episode… Continue reading Tom Dwan Dominates High Stakes Poker En Route to $500K Win

A new episode of High Stakes Poker on PokerGO came with a new cast filled with some of the biggest names to take a seat this season and wrapped up with two superstars clashing in what will undoubtedly be one of the most talked about hands in the history of the show.