In the first few days of the 2025, PokerStake player Jeremy won the biggest prize he’s claimed so far this year. Scooping the most PokerGO Tour Points in 2024, the six-time WSOP bracelet winner then played the PGT $1m Freeroll Championship, and eventually beat Nick Schulman heads-up for the top prize of $500,000.

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 […]

The 2025 World Series of Poker Main Event was officially the third largest in WSOP history. In fact, since GGPoker’s takeover of the brand, the WSOP Main Event has been bigger and better than ever before and the numbers back that statement up. Bigger prizepools, eight figure top prizes and some of the most magical […]

Day 5 of the $10,000-entry World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event saw 522 starting players whittled down to 202 survivors, as the German player Sebastian Schulze bagged up the biggest stack of the World Championship so far at 12.7 million chips. With debutants and professionals in the field with Schulze, Day 6 and onwards […]

An intense day of action in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event saw Mat Frankland win a controversial $40,000 in bubble prizes, while two former world champions remained in the hunt for a second title. Both Greg Merson and Damian Salas survived on Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event, but they weren’t […]

On Day 3 of the 2025 WSOP Main Event, 3,453 players were reduced to 1,476 as former world champions, Hall of Famers and even the reigning Main Event winner were all sent packing. As the day ended, just 15 players needed to bust to burst the money bubble and put the remaining players in profit. […]

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 […]

The remaining action in the 2025 World Series of Poker (WSOP) features 15 new WSOP bracelet events and with the $10,000-entry WSOP Main Event World Championship progressing during the final days of the 56th annual WSOP too, everything is on the line as Las Vegas builds to a climax this summer. Who will take over […]

The latest action at the World Series of Poker saw a pulsating day’s action put Phil Hellmuth on a possible collision course with his son, Daniel Negreanu battled to survival and Cary Katz finally ended a long wait for bracelet glory. Las Vegas, Nevada was packed to the rafters on a day where the Horseshoe […]

The 56th annual World Series of Poker kicked off in Las Vegas yesterday, and from 923 entries, just 634 players survived Day 1a to progress with chips. After the WSOP legend Billy Baxter opened the show with the official ‘Shuffle Up and Deal’, Day 1a saw former champions perish or profit from the opening day’s […]

The Dutch poker player Govert Metaal was always a unique character at the poker felt. Gregarious, giving, a born gambler, Govert enjoyed the vagaries of lady luck and built enduring friendships at the felt. He also won big… very big. After tournament cashes worth almost $3.3 million, Govert heads to one of his favorite poker […]

In each and every poker tournament any professional ever took down, there was a period where the eventual champion faced elimination down like a boss. Reduced to around 15 big blinds, it’s a part of the game that tests every player’s mettle at some stage. The bold survive, the weak are blinded away.

On December 6th, the World Series of Poker Paradise series begins in The Bahamas, with 15 WSOP bracelets on offer to players from all over the world. One player who will be determined to become the first player ever to win both the WSOP Paradise Main Event and the WSOP Main Event in Las Vegas […]

Players of all levels have been enjoying using PokerStake in recent months. With the forthcoming WSOP Super Main Event sending hundreds of players into what might be the juiciest tournament of all-time, the big poker events just keep on coming. One player who is making the most of the relatively new opportunity to sell poker […]

The 2003 WSOP Main Event winner Chris Moneymaker just cannot be kept quiet. For over two decades, the 2003 world champion has had a huge bearing on the present and future of poker. In 2024, he’s still earning a superb crust as a tournament professional, with the latest title for the Americas Cardroom Pro coming […]