by Julio Rodriguez | Published: Jun 13, '22

Scott Seiver is having a great summer at the 2022 World Series of Poker, having won his fourth-career bracelet in the $2,500 no-limit hold’em event along with $320,059. But his luck may have soured on Sunday in the $1,000 Flip & Go event, held during the series at Bally’s and Paris Las Vegas. The event […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Dec 07, '24

David Einhorn founded and manages a hedge fund with billions of dollars worth of assets under management, and is himself reportedly a billionaire, but that won’t take much of the sting away from the $500,000 cooler he experienced in the Bahamas. The occasional high-stakes participant sat down to battle it out in the Triton Million […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Jun 11, '15

Professional poker player and media personality Bernard Lee has chosen two amateur poker players to each receive a $777 buy-in to a World Series of Poker bracelet event in Las Vegas, Nevada next month. The buy-ins were among 20 prizes Lee distributed in celebration of the eighth anniversary of The Bernard Lee Poker Show. “I […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Jun 29, '12

Sunday’s $1 million buy-in event at the World Series of Poker has a 48-player cap, but there may be hundreds of people financially sweating the action. By selling shares, some of the game’s best have found the funds to play the largest open buy-in event in poker history and fight for the $18 million first-place […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Jun 24, '12

Germany’s Jan-Peter Jachtmann has emerged victorious in the 2012 World Series of Poker $10,000 pot-limit Omaha championship, capturing his first WSOP gold bracelet, the $661,000 first-place prize and 1,140 Card Player Player of the Year points, catapulting him into 80th place in the overall standings. “For me, this was the highlight. I came over here […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Dec 24, '25

Phil Hellmuth, the all-time leader in World Series of Poker titles with 17, thinks there are simply too many WSOP bracelets awarded each year. During a break in the action on the set of PokerGO’s No Gamble, No Future, Hellmuth made his perspective clear in an interview with Card Player. “I went public saying that […]

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 […]