There is likely only one player in poker who could go past $36 million in live tournament winnings and not grab every poker headline across multiple media outlets. This week, like many others in poker, one of the quietest men in the game of poker has barely said a word yet has added six figures… Continue reading The Quiet Man of Poker – How Cary Katz Went Under the Radar to Win Over $36m

The World Poker Tour will close out 2018 action with the prestigious WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic. The tournament, held at the iconic Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada, will be the eighth WPT Main Tour stop of Season XVII. It’s an event that comes with a $10,400 buy-in and has been… Continue reading WPT Five Diamond To Shine at Bellagio in December

On December 5, the World Poker Tour returns to the Bellagio Resort & Casino in Las Vegas for the $10,400 buy-in WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic Main Event. The six-day affair promises to be a massive event as the tournament has made a millionaire out of every winner since 2012.

Two more players earned their first World Series of Poker bracelet on Thursday with one player finally completing live poker’s version of the Triple Crown and another player winning an event in a game he just doesn’t play that often. The second-to-last $10,000 Championship event before the Main Event moved on to Day 3 as… Continue reading WSOP: Mohsin Charania Completes Triple Crown with $1,500 NLHE Win

As the 2016 World Series of Poker enters it’s third week of action, the schedule just keeps trucking along. Over the next seven days there will be another 12 bracelets awarded including four in $10,000 buy-in Championship events. This coming weekend brings the Electric Daisy Carnival event which regularly draws away a number of the… Continue reading The Week Ahead at the WSOP: Seniors, Millionaires, Championships

Paul Volpe won his second WSOP bracelet on Sunday at the Rio at the 2016 World Series of Poker. The Millionaire Maker field finally combined for the first time while two vastly different events kicked off.

Harrison Gimbel burst onto the live poker scene in 2010 when the then 19-year-old took down the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure to become the youngest winner in the history of that event. On Wednesday night, Gimbel added another title to his resume after defeating Mohsin Charania heads-up to win the World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder event… Continue reading Harrison Gimbel Wins World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder

The 2015 Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is underway and, already, Mohsin chicagocards1Charania (pictured), who is playing under the user name sms9231, has made waves, taking down Event #4’s high-stakes version for $198,000. The $1,050 No Limit Hold’em Turbois one of just four Turbos on the schedule and was the first SCOOP event to… Continue reading chicagocards1 Wins Second SCOOP Title

The WPT Five Diamond World Poker Classic and the televised WPT Alpha8 Las Vegas both wrapped up in recent days, with two members of the PocketFives community taking home titles. We’ll start with the larger payday, $2.1 million, which went to Andrew luckychewy Lichtenberger (pictured) for taking down the Alpha8 event. In fact, it was… Continue reading chicagocards1, luckychewy Win WPT Titles in Las Vegas