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… Continue reading Who Should You Back at the 2025 U.S. Poker Open?

Just days after Jeremy Ausmus was crowned the latest PGT Championship winner for $500,000, the PokerGO Tour begins again. The season-starting PGT Kick-Off festival features five big buy-in events, with the first four costing $5,300 to play and the other costing $10,100, five events will not only shape the early leaderboard in the race to… Continue reading Who’ll Kick off the 2025 PokerGO Tour Season on Song?

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.

The holidays are here and that means it’s time, once again, to pick out a few choice items that make for a perfect gift for the poker players in your life. After the garbage year that was 2020, 2021 proved to be a little bit better and therefore deserving of a better gift guide. So… Continue reading The Better Poker Holiday Gift Guide For 2021

A busy day on both Day 1f and Day 2abd of the WSOP Main Event saw a wizard take his seat, several huge names power to the top of the leaderboard and the biggest single day of action in the Main for over two years. It was an incredible day of action as the Rio… Continue reading WSOP 2021: Big Names Shine on Day 2abd of Main Event, Hellmuth Makes Grand Entrance for Day 1f

When you first look down at your hole cards after the dealer pitches your cards, you immediately begin to formulate a plan on how to play that specific hand. In most cases, you’re simply waiting for your turn to fold, but in those instances where the poker gods have blessed you, you look down and… Continue reading Maria Konnikova Turned a Premium Hand into The Biggest Bluff

After tabulating the votes of over 130 Nomination Panel members, the Global Poker Index, along with their partner PokerCentral, has unveiled the nominations in thirteen of the 20 categories of the first ever Global Poker Awards.

Hosted by Lance Bradley and Donnie Peters, The Fives Poker Podcast is LIVE this week from the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure with daily episodes bringing in all of the guests and action from the PokerStars Players No Limit Championship and the PCA Main Event.

Exactly one year ago today, Maria Konnikova was basically a complete unknown in the poker world. Sure, some people knew that a New York Times bestselling author had enlisted the assistance of Erik Seidel to learn how to play poker so she could write a book about it all, but almost nobody would have been able… Continue reading One Year Later: Maria Konnikova Ready For Next Chapters

There are still plenty of PokerStars Platinum Passes left to be won in 2018. However, only five more Platinum Passes are available to be earned as a part of the PokerStars Platinum Pass Adventure.