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by Erik Fast | Published: Dec 16, '21

It took nearly two weeks to play out the 2021 running of the largest and most prestigious poker tournament in the game: the World Series of Poker $10,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event. When all was said and done, it was 31-year-old German high-stakes tournament pro Koray Aldemir who walked away with the championship gold […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Nov 11, '21

What a difference a week can make! Phil Hellmuth started off his 2021 World Series of Poker campaign on fire, making repeated deep runs in his quest for a record-furthering 16th bracelet. Unfortunately for the man known as ‘The Poker Brat,’ it was his comments about fire during a profanity-laced tirade at a final table […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: May 27, '21

The World Series of Poker Circuit moved online during the live poker shutdown of 2020, and an all-online schedule was announced for 2021 with more than 180 rings to be awarded across 13 WSOPC online festivals this year. A number of the tour’s top competitors have added to their gold ring collections in recent months. […]

by Erik Fast | Published: May 13, '21

Joe McKeehen has arguably built the strongest tournament résumé of any World Series of Poker main event champion in the modern era. McKeehen’s crowning poker achievement, of course, is still when he outlasted a field of 6,420 entries, closing out the biggest and most prestigious poker event in the world in dominant fashion at just […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Nov 14, '19

Joshua Adkins has won the 2019 World Poker Tour bestbet Bounty Scramble. The 26-year-old poker pro outlasted a field of 349 total entries who came out to bestbet Jacksonville for the $5,000 buy-in main event. Adkins managed to come away with the title despite this being the first WPT event he ever played in, securing the top prize of […]

by Steve Schult | Published: Apr 30, '19

Asher Conniff became a household name in the poker world by accident. In 2015, he was playing online poker in New Jersey and mis-clicked into a satellite for the $15,000 World Poker Tour Championship. He won his seat into the event and went on to win it for $973,683. Since his nearly seven-figure score, Conniff […]

by Card Player News Team | Published: Aug 09, '16

The 47th annual World Series of Poker is over… at least for everyone but the nine fortunate individuals who make up this year’s November Nine. There were 107,833 total entrants in the 2016 summer series who were paid out more than $221 million in prize money, but the main event accounted for 29 percent of […]

by Erik Fast | Published: Dec 02, '15

The come-from-behind win, from a fan perspective, is arguably the most compelling result in the world of competition. When we lack a clear rooting interest, the natural human tendency for empathy entices us to pull for the underdog. This is an understandable emotional response, but sometimes our sense of fairness and hunger for drama undercuts […]

by Brian Pempus | Published: Nov 16, '15

Name: Joshua Beckley Age: 25 From: Marlton, New Jersey Years Playing Poker: About 10 Lifetime Tournament Earnings: $222,231 Top Poker Accomplishment: Final table of 2015 WSOP main event Twitter: @Joshua1Beckley East coast poker pro Joshua Beckley made the most out of his first trip to the World Series of Poker. In July, the 25-year-old pot-limit […]

by Diana Cox | Published: Sep 23, '15

One year has passed since the Card Player Poker Tour awarded more than $2.3 million to poker players across Los Angeles. Action this year begins Sept. 21 when the first tournament of the 2015 CPPT Los Angeles swing got underway at the Bicycle Casino. Action will continue until Oct. 25 when the main event wraps […]