WPT Rolling Thunder Poised for Even More Poker History Moments

When J.C. Tran won the inaugural WPT Rolling Thunder event at Thunder Valley Casino Resort back in 2013, everyone on hand that night knew they had witnessed something special. Tran was Sacramento’s poker superstar and he clinched his second career WPT title in his own backyard. But what nobody could have known at the time is that Trans victory on the felt was just the start of something else, equally as special: a partnership between World Poker Tour and Thunder Valley that, this year, is celebrating 10 years of tournament history.

Meet the Final (Two) Tables of Massive Triton Jeju Main Event

The $100,000 buy-in Triton High Roller Series Jeju Main Event drew a record-breaking 216 entrants, hitting such a large number, in fact, that the field was unable to reach a final table as scheduled for Saturday Instead, 15 players return for Day 3 of the tournament, each of them looking to take home the most coveted title of a Triton series in Jeju that has broken records from the start. Through 11 days of action, more than a dozen players have banked seven-figure prizes through nine events – and the Main Event only continues that trend.

High Stakes on the High Seas Has Always Been Part of WPT DNA

In the early 2000s, the poker world was on the precipice of exploding in popularity in a way few could have imagined. Online poker and hole card cameras would completely change the game, as risk-takers and visionaries explored their dreams of what poker could be. Even in such an environment, the thought that a major poker tournament aboard a cruise ship could be successful seems incredible in retrospect. Holding a televised event with all of the production concerns that come with a brand new show on a ship actively at sea seems farfetched.

The Comprehensive 2024 World Series of Poker Player’s Guide

There are less than 100 days until the 2024 World Series of Poker kicks off, and as the poker calendar ramps up toward the busiest time of the year, the full schedule of live events has landed. Every poker player with a dream will be hoping to follow in the footsteps of 2023 WSOP Main Event champion Daniel Weinman in poker’s most famous tournament, but there will at least 98 other opportunities to clai m a WSOP gold bracelet this summer at Horseshoe Las Vegas.

Five Things to Watch During Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju

As the calendar turns over to March, poker tournament action is ramping up towards what will be an incredibly busy spring and summer. The Triton Super High Roller Series Jeju sees the tour making its first trip to Korea since 2019, kicking off a 19-event series featuring No Limit Holdem, Pot Limit Omaha and Short Deck tournaments with buy-ins ranging from $15,000 all the way up to $150,000 on Tuesday, March 5.

Landon Tice Needles Jeremy Becker After Scoring Victory at Wynn

Now this is fun. In the lead-up to this summers Landon Tice vs. Jeremy Becker crossbook bet, Tice, the Only Friends podcast co-host fired a shot across the bow by besting a 512-entry 2024 Wynn Million $400 No Limit Holdem event for $32,025 – putting Becker on notice and giving him the needle by posing in the winners photo with Beckers traditional three-five offsuit card combo. The bet, which is actually between Daniel Negreanu (Beckers backer) and Matt Berkey (Tices mentor) is set to take place during the 2024 World Series of Poker.

Ten Players Poker Fans Want To See in HCL’s Million Dollar Game

Its going to be tough to top the iconic record-setting $3.1 million cash game pot from 2023, but Hustler Casino Live is going to give it a try. From May 28-31 the popular cash game livestream is bringing back its Million Dollar Game, an event that will almost assuredly generate some of the most preposterous pots of the year. But if theres one thing diehard poker fans have learned – high stakes with huge stacks is simply not enough.

Meet the Final Table of the 2024 EPT Paris Main Event

The best televised (and livestreamed) poker is driven by narratives and hands that will go down in infamy, and the 2024 EPT Paris has had both of those elements on lockdown. After a Day 5 in which David Kaufmann wriggled out of a devastating set over set cooler when Ami Barer made a painful (and ultimately devastatingly incorrect) hero fold, Kaufmann ran away with the chip lead and set himself up with every chance to win his first major title.

Keating, Polk, Airball Headline 2024 HCL Million Dollar Game

When you set poker’s all-time broadcast cash game record on your livestream theres only one thing left to do. Do it again. Thats exactly what Hustler Casino Live announced they are going to do on Wednesday when they unveiled the dates and initial lineup of the2024 Million Dollar Game. Running from May 28-31 on the Hustler Casino Live YouTube channel, the 2024 Million Dollar Game will start with $500/$1K blinds and, as advertised, requires all players to buy in for a minimum of $1,000,000.

The Winners And Losers of the 2024 WSOP Schedule

Its time to start booking those flights and making hotel reservations for a summer trip to Sin City now that the World Series of Poker has (finally!) dropped its complete schedule for the 2024 WSOP. As expected, its a sprawling seven-week schedule that brings back many of last year’s marquee and Championship events with buy-ins ranging from $300 (Gladiators of Poker) to $250,000 (Super High Roller). Our editorial staff gave the 99-event live schedule the once over and provided some key takeaways as to the winners and losers of the latest lineup of WSOP bracelet events.

Miami John, Poker’s Iron Man, Presses Pause to Focus on His Health

In March of 2020, just before the world shut down, Miami John Cernuto was honored with The Hendon Mob Award at the Global Poker Awards. At that point in time, he had 517 recorded live cashes on The Hendon Mob, which was the most of any player all time. All hes done since the world opened back up is rattle off another 71 cashes, including 17 tournament victories. Cernuto recorded a cash on New Years Day 2024 to make it 38 consecutive years with at least one tournament result.

Sean Perry Needs You To Believe He’s Sports Betting’s Golden Boy

With four weeks left to go in the Survivor NFL contest at Circa, there were 13 contestants left out of a starting field of 9,267. Each contestant had to pick one football team each week. If that team won, they moved on. If that team lost, they were out. They could only pick each team once in a season, and the last person standing wins the whole pot, which reached over $9 million this season.

New Aussie Friends Made Konstantin Held’s WPT Cambodia Win ‘Surreal’

Friendship is a funny thing in the world of poker, especially when it comes to tournaments. The same people who youre battling against for titles and life-changing sums of money are the ones you grab a late-night meal with and talk through hand histories and theories with. Its rare in such an individualistic pursuit as poker that two friends can come out of the same event with a significant victory. And yet when it does happen in just the right way, the tense atmosphere that surrounds the endgame of a tournament can become a scene of celebration.

Jaime Staples Isn’t Living a Lie Anymore

Jaime Staples was on top of the world, or so it seemed. In the year leading up to March 2018, the poker streamer lost 115 pounds and won a $75,000 bet. He was championed in the mainstream press and became an inspiration to thousands. But not a day goes by when the 32-year-old desnt regret the whole thing. In the years that followed the Ultimate Sweat the weight-match wager Staples completed alongside his younger brother, Matt what should have been a victory lap morphed into a nightmare of anxiety, weight gain, and frequent trips to both the emergency room and therapy.

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