In the modern poker era, very few have made it to the final table of the WSOP Main Event twice. One such player is the Belgian great Kenny Hallaert, who finished fourth in the World Championship this summer for $3 million after previously winning $1.64m in sixth place just nine years ago. After an exhausting […]

The nosebleed world of the high roller and super high roller poker poker events are, to many, the stuff of legend. For others, they are their everyday place of work. Comfortable at seemingly any stakes, PokerStake’s Justin Saliba is one of those poker players. Crushing at No Limit Hold’em and Pot Limit Omaha, Justin has […]

Over the past year, Adam Hendrix has won well over $3 million playing live tournament poker. Despite this, the 2025 WSOP Main Event finalist continues to play events that included $400 and $1,000 entries. Is he the most committed poker player on planet Earth right now? The PokerStake player’s recent results suggest exactly that.

Tournament poker is a notoriously testing business to operate in. One player who has conquered the live and online game with flair is the PokerStake player Samuel Mullur. Winning over $5.1 million at the live felt, Samuel’s victory in the 2023 GGMillion$ High Rollers Championship in The Bahamas as part of the inaugural WSOP Paradise […]

Jeju in South Korea is the destination for the Triton One festival, which aims to bring lower stakes players into the hallowed halls of fame usually reserved for those playing high roller or super high roller events around the world. The Triton Poker Series now offers events with buy-ins between $2,000 and $10,000 via the […]

The Wynn Las Vegas is about to host its famous Signature Series between August 21 and September 7. With the $1,100-entry No Limit Hold’em Main Event having a $400,000 guarantee, the series as a whole will create big winners with very manageable buy-ins on offer for all. Four of the players taking on the tournaments […]

In a poker world often defined by those who have been around since the poker boom, one of the game’s biggest recent winners is a player who cut his teeth during the COVID pandemic. Brandon Wilson’s recent rise to prominence has seen him become one of the world’s most in-form high roller and MTT crushers. […]

Every new player that joins PokerStake is a crusher and the latest is no different. Tony Lin, commonly known as Ren Lin, has been winning at poker for many years and is one of the most consistent players on the circuit. Selling to the forthcoming $51,000-entry Onyx Championship event, the talented Chinese player could be […]

After a frantic eight weeks of action in the World Series of Poker (WSOP), elite poker players have barely had time to catch their breath, unpack their hoodies, or put their AirPods on charge before another major poker festival is back. The European Poker Tour is back in action in just over a fortnight’s time […]

After eight weeks of pulsating poker action, 100 bracelets were won in live events, and the Poker Hall of Fame got not one but two legendary new inductees. The 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) broke new ground at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas this summer. The 56th annual WSOP had something […]

Poker players don’t come any more experienced that Erik Seidel. The 65-year-old New Yorker, who has won 10 World Series of Poker bracelets in a glittering career that has spanned almost 40 years, is perhaps poker’s greatest journeyman. Sitting comfortably among the top players ever on The Hendon Mob’s All-Time Money List, Seidel took time […]

One of the closest races for WSOP Player of the Year ever came down to a handful of points as Shaun Deeb beat fellow PokerStake player Benny Glaser to the unique annual prize. As the last few events ticked by, Glaser had the chance for gold but fell just a few pay-jumps short in one […]

The opening day of the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table will likely be talked about in poker circles for years to come. An electric crowd at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas bore witness to hand after hand of excitement, and it took just 59 hands to reduce the […]

It was a day of rest for the nine remaining hopefuls in the 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event, but the action was far from over at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos in Las Vegas. Six events were in action on Monday, including the culmination of the Lucky 7’s and the final Deepstack tournament […]

After enduring a particularly dramatic – and loud – Day 7 of the WSOP Main Event, the final 24 players resumed normal operations on Day 48 of the 2025 World Series of Poker. A total of 15 eliminations were needed to bring the field down to the final table of nine, with four-time Poker Player’s […]