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by Card Player News Team | Published: Feb 18, '26
The PokerGO Tour Last Chance series was aptly named. The festival not only gave several players a final shot at qualifying for the season-ending PGT $1,000,000 Championship, it also resulted in a buzzer beater in the PGT points race that locked up the tour’s Player of the Year award for Alex Foxen. The New York […]
by Erik Fast | Published: Feb 18, '26
Chad Eveslage took advantage of the many mixed games events offered on the PokerGO Tour’s schedule during the 2025 season, winning the inaugural $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Mixed Games event and the $25,000 H.O.R.S.E. event at the World Series of Poker to secure his fourth career bracelet. The two PGT-qualified victories helped propel him […]
by Art Parmann and Justin Young | Published: Feb 18, '26
Jeff ‘Boski’ Sluzinski has been involved in quite a few aspects of poker in a career dating back two decades – from the early days of the online game and the boom of the 2000s to vlogging and eventually becoming an ACR Poker ambassador. The Michigan native found the game after a stint playing Magic: The […]
by Erik Fast | Published: Feb 18, '26
The 2025 PokerGO Tour season was massive, with more than $443 million in total prize money awarded across 147 qualified events with approximately 31,700 total entries. The final half-dozen of those events were held inside the PokerGO Studio at ARIA Resort & Casino in Las Vegas from Jan. 5-10. The PGT Last Chance series kept […]
by Craig Tapscott | Published: Feb 18, '26
Tyler Phillips caught the poker bug at a very early age, along with his older brother Carter. While Carter made a name for himself on the circuit during the height of the poker boom, taking down a European Poker Tour main event and two World Series of Poker bracelets, 33-year-old Tyler has caught fire as […]
by Kevin Haney | Published: Feb 18, '26
As this is the final planned article in the Spice Up Your Home Game series it seems like a good idea to highlight a few exotic variants that didn’t fit neatly in past installments. Around 10 years ago there was a game called Duck Flush that got its 15 minutes of fame in high-limit mixed […]
by Tim Fiorvanti | Published: Feb 04, '26
It’s been a steady, but meteoric climb to the top for Jesse Lonis, who has risen from a mid-stakes tournament grinder to high roller crusher in less than five years. Lonis first popped up on the radar in the 2021 Card Player Player of the Year race, ending the year in 43rd place. He improved […]
by Sean Chaffin | Published: Feb 04, '26
Even among the most intrepid travelers, visiting all seven continents is a rare feat. Antarctica is simply too far off the beaten path, not to mention brutally frigid. But high-stakes poker pro Ben Tollerene had longed to visit the Great White South and was able to cross it off his bucket list. Antarctica’s scenery astounded […]
by Erik Fast | Published: Feb 04, '26
New year, new race. The points have officially been tallied for the final 2025 Card Player Player of the Year standings presented by CoinPoker, and it was another massive year on the live circuit. The top 10 finishers alone collectively accumulated more than $84 million in POY earnings. As the 2026 campaign gets underway, we […]
by Craig Tapscott | Published: Feb 04, '26
Aaron Johnson started playing poker professionally in 2014, and very quickly made a name for himself on the mid-major tournament circuit and even had a couple of deep runs in the World Series of Poker main event. Johnson broke through in 2018, cashing 11 times on the Mid-States Poker Tour including a win, two runner-up […]