by Card Player News Team | Published: Mar 12, '14

David Sands has retired, and yet, the poker tournament shot clock debate rages on. During last week’s World Poker Tour L.A. Poker Classic main event, the players in the field were asked whether or not they felt that poker tournaments should implement a shot clock into the game, speeding up the decision making process and […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Apr 11, '16

For the first time in it’s 14-season history the World Poker Tour will be ending it’s season with a new event, the WPT Tournament of Champions. The tournament will feature the champion of every WPT main event from this season, who each won their $15,000 seats as part of their prize package, as well as […]

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Sep 10, '26

Kiat Lee won his fourth Triton title in the last 18 months, taking down a $40,000 mystery bounty event in Jeju for $619,000 and 8 bounties.

by Erik Fast | Published: Sep 10, '26

Blake Ellinghaus topped a 294-entry field at bestbet Jacksonville to capture the WPT bestbet Scramble title for $294,900.

by Card Player News Team | Published: Sep 10, '26

CoinPoker held its largest CoinMillion event ever with 3,628 entries at the outset of the Global Online Poker Championship.

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Mar 18, '26

Yuri Dzivielevski completed one of the most incredible streaks in mixed game tournament history with a victory in the $100,000 buy-in Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games. The 34-year-old secured the $1.3 million first-place prize to cap off a stretch in which, in rapid succession, he won a $15,000 event and finished second twice on […]

by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Mar 18, '26

On Dec. 12, Card Player columnist and high-stakes tournament pro Sam Greenwood posted to Twitter/X, asking who were the next breakout players on the circuit. “When people list the best poker players in the world, the players who are picked are players [that are already] running hot. I want people to call their shot. Who […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Mar 18, '26

Just three days before winning the Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games title, Yuri Dzivielevski went on a late-series heater at the 2026 PokerGO Tour Mixed Games festival. The 34-year-old strung together back-to-back-to-back top-two finishes in the final three events, including one outright win, to be steal the series championship. Dzivielevski had not recorded a […]

by Craig Tapscott | Published: Mar 18, '26

Justin Saliba graduated from the University of Dayton with a degree in chemical engineering, but the former college soccer player had already fallen in love with poker and decided to pursue his dream in Las Vegas. The 31-year-old has been on an incredible run over the last few years, going from a relatively anonymous online […]

by Alex Fitzgerald | Published: Mar 18, '26

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