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Rampage is feeling good after his WSOP win.
Ethan 'Rampage’ Yau is excited after winning his second WSOP bracelet, outlasting a very tough final table.Josh Arieh is hunting for a bracelet.
With only 60 players remaining in the $5k 6-max event, Josh Arieh is coming back to a decent stack, looking to increase his bracelet count (and claim some valuable points for the Fantasy Draft, of course).
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Jeremy Ausmus talks about Poker Hall of Fame.
In his latest vlog, Ausmus breaks down this year’s Poker Hall of Fame situation, talks about the nominees, who he thinks might get inducted, and more.PokerStars Open Malaga Main Event wraps up.
It was Norway’s Oskar Bilstad lifting up the trophy and picking up €178,840 in prize money for his extraordinary run in this big-field event.
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Jen Harman sharing her thoughts on this year’s Hall of Fame nominees.
Just like quite a few other well know pros out there, Harman is somewhat disappointed that the likes of Josh Arieh, Jeremy Ausmus, and Gus Hansen did not make the shortlist for this year’s Poker Hall of Fame.BetRivers Poker Micro Mania pays over $50k in prize money.
The low-stakes focused series attracted nearly 8,000 entries across 30 affordable tournaments, dishing out $53,000 in prizes, with the $10 Main Event attracting the largest individual field of 483 entries.How to turn $120 into a $100k tournament entry.
The poker dream is still very much alive. It may be harder, but there are still people turning a couple of hundred bucks into entries to massive tournaments with life-changing prizes.Feel we can all relate to this 🤣.
Catch the full episode of Hellmuth’s Home Game via Poker Night in America.Ahahah, this is perfection from 888poker’s Aaron Barone.
Want one immediately!Rampage wins WSOP bracelet number 2.
👏👏👏The women who played the WSOP Ladies event were happy Aubrey Williams played, it’s just everyone else that has an issue.
If everyone in that event like and respect Aubrey, let’s please move past it.Mike Matusow with a good WSOP improvement idea.
I actually think he is talking a lot of sense here—words I never thought I would say.
Organizers have been listening to lots of player feedback this year, but will they consider this one?
Micheal Mizrachi wins his 9th WSOP bracelet.
The Grinder is absolutely unstoppable!Garrett Adelstein on why he thinks Robbi knew she had J4 all along.
I’ll say his analysis is very compelling!Yesterday
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Watch Grinder going for his ninth WSOP bracelet.
Streaming tonight is the final table of the $10k PLO Championship, with Michael 'Grinder’ Mizrachi starting as the chip leader and looking to add another title to his impressive resume.
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Check out an interview with Skye Chen, the Ladies Championship winner.
After winning in the largest-ever Ladies Championship, Chen remains very humble. She explains that she doesn’t really play that much poker and although she’s a winning player at small stakes cash, this victory wasn’t something she saw coming.Ninth WSOP bracelet is well within The Grinder’s reach.
Combining a massive chip lead and his tremendous experience, we wouldn’t bet against Michael Mizrachi in this one.Attack medium stacks near the bubble.
This piece of tournament strategy advice can come in really handy, especially in lower buy-in events, where many players will be reluctant to go broke before the bubble bursts.Ladies and gentlemen, he is back!
Will Kassouf is back at the World Series of Poker. He’ll be playing in the Main Event, so get ready for some shenanigans.There is a $150 WSOP Express ticket up for grabs.
Put in your guess, try to predict the order of the final four players in GGMillion$, and you could be walking away with a $150 WSOP Express ticket.Brad Owen is looking to make things happen at the WSOP.
It has been a rather quiet series for the popular poker vlogger so far, but he is running deep in a Mixed Big Bet event and things could change.Another week, another WSOP controversy unpicked.
PokerNews brings together Chad Holloway, Mike Holtz, Ben Ludlow, and Hayden “Big Red” Hetland for another round of WSOP drama.
The star of this episode is Patrick “Pads” Leonard, who got hit with a “dead hand” ruling that has the poker world scratching its head.
WSOP Ladies Final Table wraps up.
WSOP’s official highlights video covers the $1,000 Ladies Championship final table, where the stakes were high and the tension higher. Skye Chen took home the bracelet and $194,630, with Aubrey Williams and Lisa Teebagy rounding out the top three.
The video gives a quick rundown of who cashed and just how much, with payouts ranging from over $16k for ninth to nearly $200k for first.
The real main event: Japan’s summer at the WSOP.
According to PokerNews, the 2026 WSOP has been taken over by a wave of Japanese players, fans, and energy.
The article spotlights figures like Koji Fujimoto, whose win against Nick Schulman drew more excitement from his Japanese followers than the Hall of Famer himself. Fujimoto isn’t just a champion, he’s a teacher, bringing dozens of his students to Vegas for the ride.
Meanwhile, poker influencer Masato Yokosawa organized an event that imported nearly 300 Japanese players for a special freeroll. Naoya Kihara, Japan’s first WSOP bracelet winner, is still making deep runs and acting as a translator for his countrymen.
PokerNews suggests the Japanese boom is less about luck, and more about a grassroots movement driven by community, teaching, and a little YouTube magic.
Knockout season is coming to GGPoker.
The Bounty Hunters Series is returning to GGPoker in July, and the numbers are big. The series boasts $80 million in guaranteed prizes, hundreds of knockout tournaments, and daily six-figure guarantees.
The buy-ins start at just $5.40, so you do not need to be a high roller to join the fun. The highlight is the $108 Mystery Bounty Main Event, set for July 27 and 28, with a $5 million guarantee and a single $100,000 bounty up for grabs.
Winner of WSOP Ladies Event crowned.
It was a stacked final table, but the narrative was definitely overtaken by Aubry Williams run.David Williams playing in Magic The Gathering tournament.
Nerds gonna nerd.Daniel Negreanu cashes in 5 PLO events this WSOP.
Again, Tim Duckworth has all the stats we need.Guess who’s back leading another WSOP final table?
Michael Mizrachi is once again proving that old habits die hard, sitting atop the $10K PLO Championship final table with huge stack.For the first time in almost a year, GGMasters just posted back-to-back overlays.
The June 22 edition drew 6,488 entries, leaving GGPoker to cover a $104,656 shortfall.
The week before, another overlay cost them nearly $75k.
A great take on the discourse around the recent WSOP Ladies event.
Read it.
Throughout this deep run at the 2026 WSOP Ladies Championship, one of the finalists, Aubrey Williams—a self-identified transgender woman—has faced a barrage of vitriol. Much of this has been channeled through online platforms, where her presence has been used to fuel hateful, mean-spirited discourse, complaining about tournament eligibility and painting her participation as “reverse discrimination.”