In a remarkable ruling that could have implications for thousands of online poker players, both PokerStars and Bwin have been ordered to refund losing players in the Netherlands. This week’s Dutch court ruling found that the two online gaming companies had been illegally offering games from 2006 to 2021 and therefore the €hundreds of thousands lost by two gamblers were null and void. According to reports in De Telegraaf newspaper, a man from Almelo lost €217,000 on PokerStars, across a mix of poker, casino games and sportsbetting. In a separate case, a man from Staphorst lost €187,000 on Bw ..read more

Josh Arieh has been relaying his story from the dark day of Black Friday which took place 13 years ago, threatening to destroy online poker. The high-stakes crusher kicked off his career in 1999 and was one of poker’s stars during the boom. He now has six WSOP gold bracelets to his name and already had two by the time of Black Friday, but that fateful day could have changed everything. My Black Friday story The week leading up to Black Friday, the games on FTP were great. 200-400 was going all week and there was even 2k-4k Omaha 8/b running regularly. I had recently won a ‘Poker After Dark ..read more

Stephen Chidwick and Aram Zobian were the big winners at the US Poker Open last night, the Englishman bagging the $25k Championship title and $429,000 with Zobian taking the overall series Golden Eagle trophy.   The eighth and final event of the highroller series at the PokerGO Studios in Vegas’ Aria Casino drew a very healthy 52 entries at $25k per head, with eight players paid from the $1.3million prizepool. It took over an hour for the money bubble to burst and when it finally gave, it was Kristen Foxen who missed out, getting it in good against Stephen Chidwick only for the flop to ..read more

The race for the US Poker Open overall title is heating up with Aram Zobian grabbing a $264,290 victory in event #6, followed by Eric Afriat scooping the $288,000 top prize in event #7 Rhode Islander Zobian already had second and third place finishes to his credit coming into the first $15k buy-in event of the 8-tournament highroller series at the PokerGO Studios in the Aria. There were 62 entries from which only the top nine finishers would find a cash from the $930,000 prizepool, as well as all-important leaderboard points towards the Golden Eagle Trophy and $25,000 PGT Passport bonus. Da ..read more

Ryan Hoenig has achieved the remarkable feat of going heads-up in five consecutive WPT events, and winning the last three! The impressive streak took place at the 2024 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown, where plenty of strong fields lined up to compete. Hoenig’s journey so far at the South Florida casino saw him arrive for the series scheduled from April 3 – 23 and have an almost perfect run from April 5 through 13. It also wasn’t just five heads-up results in a row, but an amazing seven final tables. It’s also interesting to note that six out of these seven cashes have come in a mixed game ..read more

To most, Mike Postle will forever be the crotch-gazing cheat with a win-rate only ever seen in poker’s darkest days. To a select few supporters, however, Mike Postle is a poker God, and this week saw him being put on a pedestal once again… To anyone brand new to the game of poker, the tl;dr of Mike Postle’s claim to infamy is that he was outed for cheating on a livestreamed cash game back in late 2019. The Postlegate scandal, as it came to be known, saw multiple investigations, numerous lawsuits, and even claims of domestic abuse and scams. More than four years on, Postle appears to have re ..read more

Todd Witteles has fired shots at Justin Bonomo over his well-documented multi-accounting cheat spree back in 2006. When questioned on the scandal in a recent interview, Bonomo was immediately defensive and claimed that it wasn’t even against the rules back then and certainly not comparable to today’s poker world. Upon hearing this, Witteles was like a dog with a bone refusing to let go and see the matter glossed over once again. Since this comes up every so often when @JustinBonomo decides to lie about the past… In 2006, cash multi-accounting WAS common, provided you didn’t have 2 accounts ..read more

Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu were both to the fore at the US Poker Open in Vegas this weekend, but neither could quite finish things off as David Coleman and Matthew Wantman bagged Golden Eagle trophies. Event #4 on the eight-tournament schedule saw Hellmuth reach the final table of the $10k buy-in NLH tournament in good shape, joined by fellow fan favourite Jonathan Little. For Little it would end in 6th place, the author of ‘Excelling at No Limit Hold’em’ unsure whether his river call was justified or not…  David Coleman with back to back eliminations. This time Jonathan Little ..read more

The electrifying Omaholic Series is back on GGPoker, an event that promises to be the best online PLO series of all time. The series runs from April 14 to April 29 and features a staggering $10 million in guaranteed prize money. This is a great opportunity for PLO enthusiasts to engage in a variety of formats, with buy-ins designed to suit all bankrolls, ranging from $20 to $10,300. One of the most exciting aspects of the Omaholic Series is the $1 million Mystery Bounty. Players have the chance to draw a $100,000 top prize, adding an element of surprise and excitement to the competition in ..read more

Jesse Lonis and Dan Smith are the latest big winners in the US Poker Open series currently playing out at the PokerGO studios at the Aria in Vegas. Lonis was among 99 entries to the first of the $10k buy-in NLH tournaments on the 8-event schedule, the hopefuls chasing not only a payday but points towards the overall Golden Eagle leaderboard trophy and $25,000 bonus. Fifteen players would make the money, including highroller crushers Stephen Chidwick (12th for $24,750) and Sean Winter (7th for $39,600). By the time the final seven congregated on day two, Lonis was out front in chips, closely f ..read more