The inaugural $1,100 NorCal Poker Championship Main Event wrapped up with a seven-way chop as Nicholas Elder was declared the first-ever champion at Graton Casino Resort. Elder took home a first-place ...

Tournament players in the US competing at PokerStars Exclusively on FanDuel have a little more incentive to show up regularly for the Nightly Stars events. A new weekly leaderboard will award $2,500 ...

For 25 years, WCOOP has represented the pinnacle of online tournament poker. This year's festival continues that tradition with 121 events spread across High, Medium, and Low buy-in tiers, creating ...

One lucky patron of the PT's Gold at 8275 S. Fort Apache Road managed to turn a casual visit into something a lot more, as a simple $1 spin on a video keno machine resulted in a progressive win that ...

The poker world received sad news over the weekend that Wisconsin poker legend “Big Al” Emerson passed away. The update was shared by his longtime friend, Phil Hellmuth, on social media. “Folks, today ...

The European Poker Tour (EPT) returns to Barcelona on Sunday, with thousands of players set to pass through the halls of Casino Barcelona for one of the biggest stops on the poker calendar. Players ...

A cigarette-smoking poker dealer has been arrested on suspicion of starting a 131-acre wildfire that threatened homes and led to evacuations in San Diego, California. Brandon Glasgo, 30, was taken ...

Every summer, thousands of recreational poker players arrive in Las Vegas imagining what it would feel like to make a real run in the WSOP Main Event. For serious tournament players, it’s the dreamm ...

There is one word to describe Jack Hays’ reaction after winning the RunGood Poker Series Golden Expedition Southern Indiana $800 Main Event: disbelief. “I’ve been playing for 21 years. I’ve been ...

Fedor Holz doesn't play poker near as much as he did 10 years ago. But the legendary German high roller showed up to compete in a six-figure buy-in tournament at the PokerStars European Poker Tour ...

Part 2 of the 888poker 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Documentary ended with four of the five ambassadors bagging their stacks for Day 2, and Ian Simpson earning the unwanted title of the first ...

Eliot Thomas is an Editor at PokerNews, specializing in casino and poker coverage. He is on the ground in Barcelona covering the European Poker Tour and has previously worked at the World Series of ...