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Daniel Colman Winning Streak Continues at SHRPO

Daniel Colman has won the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO), continuing the extraordinary winning streak that’s looking like one of the greatest of all time. Despite his outspoken dislike of the limelight, Colman...

Scott Seiver Argues With SHRPO Payout Structure

Poker pro Scott Seiver and the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open (SHRPO) found themselves at loggerheads this week after the former discovered an issue with the payout structure in the $100,000 Super High Roller. Although the...

$300K in Prop Bets: PLO Grinder Bets on 100x Buy In Profit

News of a $300,000 Pot Limit Omaha prop bet recently piqued the interests of Isaac Haxton and a slew of community members. Looking for some side action and something to help refocus his mind, Bren ‘YaAaRnY’ Lenton...

PokerStars Allows Users to Donate FPP to Charity

PokerStars (and other poker sites) have had great success in getting their players to donate to charities in times of need, particularly after some of the worst natural disasters in recent memory. And in general, poker players...

Olivier Busquet Defends Pro Palestine T-Shirt at EPT

Olivier Busquet has defended his decision to wear a “Free Gaza” T-shirt at the final table of the EPT High Super High Roller Event in Barcelona, a tournament he went on to win for $1.18 million. Busquet and friend Daniel...

Rumors Swirl Around Daniel Cates Hitman Allegations

Did Daniel Cates, long considered one of the best online and heads-up poker pros in history, hire a hitman to enforce an outstanding debt? That’s the question the poker community is currently asking after the American...

Busquet and Colman Spark Controversy with T-Shirts at EPT

Poker players Olivier Busquet and Daniel Colman shared their political views at the recent European Poker Tour (EPT), but not without stirring some controversy, to no one’s surprise. The ongoing conflict between Israel and...

Invisible Ink Poker Cheat Banned from Connecticut Casinos

Invisible ink has long been a popular way for everyone from spies to small children to hide messages in plain sight. It’s also popular as a way to mark objects to be scanned later, such as allowing people admission to an...

Allen Kessler Boycotts Quantum Reload Tournaments

Quantum reload tournaments are a relatively new innovation in the world of tournament poker, allowing players to buy in at a high level to enter the tournament at a later level with more chips. But while such entries may give...

Phil Hellmuth’s Ice Bucket Challenge

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is currently sweeping the globe like a wave of water-fuelled benevolence and in the last 48 hours it finally infiltrated the poker world. After targeting some of the world’s biggest stars,...