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WSOP Europe Adds €1K Ladies Championship event.

WSOP has announced a brand new €1,000 Ladies Championship at WSOP Europe Prague, taking place on April 4 and open exclusively to female players.

The winner will earn a one-of-a-kind gold bracelet with a custom gemstone design. Notable names already confirmed include Leo Margets, Vanessa Kade, Shiina Okamoto, Xuan Liu, Kitty Kuo and Andrijana “Lijapoker” Gligoric.

The 2026 WSOP Europe runs March 31–April 12 at the Hilton Prague, highlighted by the €5,300 Main Event with a €10 million guarantee.

WSOP 2026: Another 10,000-Player Main Event?

Chances of the WSOP 2026 Main Event surpassing 10,000 entries have increased to 58%, up 13%, according to prediction market Kalshi.

Last year’s Main Event narrowly missed the milestone, attracting 9,735 entries. Still, the market remains optimistic that the field will once again clear the 10,000-player mark in 2026, which would make it the third time in WSOP history to do so.

The record was set in 2024, when the Main Event drew 10,112 players, the largest field ever. That followed another historic turnout in 2023, which saw 10,043 entries.

With recent precedent and continued interest in the game, expectations are building that the WSOP Main Event’s massive fields may be here to stay.

Lex Veldhuis might be without a sponsor, but he’s doing better than ever.

It goes to show that not all partnerships coming to an end mean change for the worse. Lex’s parting ways with PokerStars (after 17 years) seems to have really invigorated him!

Maybe we could all learn something from mixing things up a bit.

All-in-Pav: 'Sometimes people act like getting dealt aces is cheating. Trust me, it isn’t.’

Over the next ten minutes you can sit back and watch all of All-In-Pavs stream highlights from 2025.

Tom Dwan, the man who put fear into the hearts of poker pros everywhere in the mid-2000s, sat down for a special Q&A with Run It Once Elite.

The session covered Dwan’s rise to fame, his famously aggressive style, and some of the most memorable pots in poker history.

At over 1.5 hours long, the Q&A covers a lot of ground—something we’ll have to catch up on later, as I definitely don’t have an hour and a half to listen to it this morning. But I will. Looking at the comments, people absolutely loved it.

BetRivers Poker is inching closer to launching in New Jersey, per Anuj’s reporting.

The operator already connects Pennsylvania, Michigan, Delaware, and West Virginia, and New Jersey will make it five, a first for regulated poker networks in the US.

While the company once hinted at a 2025 launch, the timeline has slipped a bit, but the goal remains firm: get New Jersey online as soon as possible.

This might be the most American thing I have ever seen.

Drinking water out of the tap suits us Brits just fine.

Got to hand it to ClubWPT Gold, they nailed this one. 👏

Turns out DNegs was mentioned in the Epstein files, but maybe not in a way you would expect!

It shows the reach of poker, has no bounds.

PokerGO Tour Mixed Game Series is underway.

Some of the best players in the world will be gathering at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas to test their skills in some non-Hold’em poker variations.

The series features variants like H.O.R.S.E., T.O.R.S.E., Big Bet Mix, Dealer’s Choice, 8-Game, and 10-Game mix, with buy-ins ranging from $5k all the way up to $100k. This will be a real treat for all fans of mixed games out there!

Doug Polk analyzes semi-final matches of the AI poker challenge.

Following on his earlier video, Polk is back analyzing more AI-on-AI poker violence as the remaining four LLMs clash for the spot in the final round.

While proper AI poker may be somewhat boring to watch and lacking crazy moves, this is the total opposite. Doug is doing a fine job keeping a straight face while doing the “analysis,” but it’s just an uphill battle when you realize that our heroes have difficulties reading their hole cards and/or the board, and don’t seem to know all the rules of Texas Hold’em.

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