Over the past few years, the weekly $10,000-entry GGMillion$ event has become the go-to high roller online. Playing down to a final table of nine players from Sunday nights, Tuesday’s live-streamed showdown for the title is broadcast as-live on the GGPoker YouTube channel to poker fans who can claim free prizes, bet on their favorite… Continue reading The Growth of GGMillion$ and How Jeff Gross is at the Heart of It

Playing in the $1,000,000 guaranteed GGMillion$ is a dream for many online poker players. The $10,000-entry weekly event is the playground of big-league players such as Artur Martirosian, Ole Schemion and Niklas Astedt. As we found out, however, it’s just as attainable as a dream to win for players who play $100 buy-in events or… Continue reading How to Stake a GGMillion$ Winner

The Austrian player Moritz Dietrich won the biggest top prize ever captured online as he took down the 2024 WSOP Online Main Event. Outlasting a final table featuring players such as Isaac Baron, Benjamin Rolle and his heads-up opponent Evgenii Akimov, Dietrich made a stunning comeback to turn around a massive heads-up deficit to triumph… Continue reading Moritz Dietrich Wins WSOP Online Main Event for $4 million as Akimov Falls Apart

What do you get if you invite two of the world’s best poker players, and half a dozen players who bring the game of poker life better than most in the world? A table full of nutcases. The latest cash game to catch fire was screened on PokerGO and saw Phil Hellmuth and Jeff Gross… Continue reading Nutcase Poker Night Sees Ninja and Phil Hellmuth Rule the Felt

The World Series of Poker’s debut of the popular GGPoker Flip and Go format took place this weekend and, love it or hate it, the tournament and its opening flights brought some old-school action back to the players in the Rio.

More partypoker POWERFEST tournaments wrapped up on Thursday in what was another entertaining day on the virtual felt. The biggest win of the day went to ‘ChimneyBarrel,’ who won $88,000 for topping the field in the $5,200 PLO [6-Max] tournament.

Saturday’s partypoker POWERFEST action is in the books and there were several big scores from the day. The biggest belonged to ‘relentless,’ who bagged first place in the $2,100 NLHE [6-Max, PKO] tournament for $21,185.50 plus $33,764.08 in bounties.

More partypoker POWERFEST action came our way on Monday. The biggest win of the day came from ‘eccone,’ who took first place in the $530 NLHE [8-Max, PKO] tournament to earn $15,600.82 plus $21,545.70 in bounties for a total of $37,146.62.

More booming partypoker POWERFEST action took place on Sunday and there were plenty of big prizes awarded. The biggest of them all went to ‘NotDarwin‘ for taking down Event #137-SHR: $5,200 $1M Gtd [Phase Final] for $283,237. Just two days prior, ‘NotDarwin’ had the biggest score on Friday when he won Event #119-HR: $530 Mix Max NLHE… Continue reading POWERFEST: ‘NotDarwin’ Wins $283,237

Monday brought another full slate of online poker action courtesy of partypoker’s ongoing $20,000,000 guaranteed POWERFEST series.

The partypoker POWERFEST kicked off on Sunday for what plans to be an incredible series of online poker tournaments. ‘SpanishFly’ was the day’s biggest winner, but plenty of other players hauled in impressive paydays.

As 2019 draws to a close, PocketFives takes a look back at the year that was in poker news, going month-by-month through the biggest and most important stories of the year. When the calendar turned to February, a number of the top online poker players attempted to take a stand against PokerStars and a much-heralded… Continue reading 2019 Retrospective: PokerStars Boycott Tops February Headlines

Former world-ranked #1 Steven ‘SvZff’ van Zadelhoff topped a 62-player field in the PokerStars $2,100 Sunday High Roller to win $38,529. With seven places paid, ‘x_zola25‘, ‘kissyingui‘, and ‘jays94‘ all cashed before RYE’s ‘bencb789‘ hit the rail in fourth place for $14,419. Sweden’s Johannes ‘Greenstone25’ Korsar then took the bronze medal for $20,009, before ‘edoiler‘… Continue reading SUNDAY MAJORS: Steven van Zadelhoff Ships Sunday High Roller

World ranked #1 ‘Lena900‘ continued his good form this Sunday and won the PokerStars $1,050 High Roller Club Sunday Supersonic for $48,876. The Swede came through the 249 player-field after a successful heads-up battle against ‘Darwinsfish‘ who banked $36,338 as runner-up, with ‘pm_marke‘ awarded $27,016 in third place.

On Wednesday, partypoker announced the addition of well-known Twitch Poker streamer Kevin Martin to their expansive stable of Team Online pros.