Ivan lays out the numbers from the BetRivers Poker’s Summer Warm-Up Series.
The operator ran 68 events over two weeks, drawing more than 11,000 entries and paying out a total of $524,201, just above their $500,000 guarantee.
Some events featured overlays, most notably the $200 Main Event, which fell short with BetRivers covering the $5,000 gap.
The online series boasts a 50 million chip guarantee and will feature six Gold Millions events, 76 Crown Series tournaments, and four WPT trophy events.
The timing is no accident. ClubWPT Gold is clearly positioning itself as the online alternative for players during poker’s busiest season.
To mark the occasion, Octopi is giving all new users 20 percent off annual subscriptions if they use the code HELLMUTH. The deal drops the Personal Plan to $160 and the Professional Plan to $480 for a year.
If that is not enough, you can still stack the POKERFUSE code for two free months, letting you try out the solver before committing.
You can spot the boosted tournaments by the green badge next to their name in the lobby.
The daily majors, all named after US presidents, now have even more reason to get your attention, with added prizes on top of the guarantees. For example:
The WSOP are doubling down this year by signing up some of the best poker talent.
Congrats to Maria for the new chapter!
It’s only May and she’s already got $2 million in live winnings to her name.
(Although that doesn’t include the Triton second place finish from yesterday.)
Krissy remains an absolute force to be reckoned with at the tables! Can’t wait to see her results from the upcoming WSOP!
He’s all about the early grind, just not the tournament variety. He keeps to a strict fitness and poker routine, starting his day before dawn and hitting the cash tables well before most players have even woken up.
He’s not ruling out a Main Event cameo, though: if the cash games lose their appeal, he might jump in. But for now, tournaments are just not his thing. As he puts it, “The tournament grind is just not for me. But maybe I will play the Main Event. It’s a tricky one.”
This documentary-style vlog is everything. The production quality is top-notch, and the storytelling had me hooked from the intro!
Bravo to Marle for being so raw and unfiltered—it made for a fantastic 20-minute watch!
According to PokerNews, Hawkins took down Event #9 at Harrah’s Cherokee for his record-extending 25th WSOP Circuit ring, topping a tough field of 631 players and pocketing over $113,000.
His win comes hot on the heels of news about his bankruptcy filing in Florida, a story that led to a heated discussion on the PokerNews Podcast. Co-host Mike Holtz didn’t hold back, accusing Hawkins of trying to 'squirm and wiggle your way out of all these debts.’
Still, Hawkins’ poker resume is hard to argue with. He now has five more rings than anyone else on the Circuit, and with over $7 million in live earnings, he’s not slowing down.
With only days remaining until the 57th WSOP kicks off, all online bracelet events have now been deployed on the WSOP Online platform. As expected, the series will once again run on the existing 888poker-powered software, with no sign of a transition to GGPoker yet.
WSOP’s software agreement with 888 expires this year, meaning this could potentially be the final online bracelet series held on the current platform unless the partnership is renewed.
For now, a move to GGPoker also appears uncertain. NSUS, the parent company of GGPoker, had its manufacturing license withdrawn in Pennsylvania, raising further questions about the timeline for any future migration to GGPoker.
Despite that, they’re going even bigger with their flagship Sunday tournaments.
The Sunday Dynasty’s guarantee is jumping from $75,000 to $100,000, and the Sunday Storm is getting a $10,000 bump as well. It seems one successful Sunday was enough to convince the team to go all-in on bigger numbers.
The show airs in two parts on May 15, offering what the producers call higher production values, more action, and episodic storytelling compared to last December’s livestream.
It remains to be seen whether poker purists or mainstream audiences will buy in, but the experiment is definitely getting its shot in prime time.
But it doesn’t come cheap.
For $2,500 you get the same level of support that my private clients receive from May 26th to July 15th.
Jennifer Tilly, Xuan Liu, Phil Hellmuth, Shaun Deeb, Daniel 'Jungleman’ Cates, and others gather for Hellmuth’s Home Game — hoping for big hands and bigger reactions.
The highlight is Phil Hellmuth storming off the set after flopping sets in back to back hands. This seems to be a recurring theme, with multiple video links included to Hellmuth losing his cool in various ways, from being slowrolled to having his aces cracked.
Last year, Remi Alamin took his shot at poker glory, surviving Day 1. This year, Aleksandar Kozomara went deeper in Prague, making it to Day 3 and cashing €12,500.
This time, GGPoker is hosting three turbo freerolls for the r/poker community. The winner gets a $10,000 WSOP Main Event pass. All you need is an active r/poker account, a verified GGPoker account, and to be at least 21.
Does this mark the beginning of another epic run, the likes of which were last seen back in 2016?
That was the year Fedor booked six wins from January to December. Accolades included winning nearly $5 million for the WSOP No-Limit Hold’em High Roller for One Drop, $3.5 million for a second-place finish in a Super High Roller Bowl event, and collecting over $3 million for a Triton win.