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It is always important to look at which hands you block and which hands you do not block because that can influence your decision. If there are easier spots at the table, you do not always need to take the thinnest possible edge against the toughest opponent. I was running over the entire table and doing really well.
After many hours the final table of six players eventually gave way to start of day chip leader Jonathan Jaffe who took down a career-high score of $1,537,600. GTO Wizard equips players with the tools and insights needed to dominate cash games and tournaments through precise, unexploitable strategies. Shaun Deeb is the reigning WSOP Player of the Year, having cashed in 18 live events, six online bracelet events, and reached five final tables in 2025. New for 2026, the final table will return after a three-week break and be played live on August 3–5 for a prime-time ESPN broadcast.
Williams’ biggest poker moment came earlier this year when she took down the Borgata Winter Poker Open $1,000 Hybrid Championship for $52,540. In 2022, she won a $40,000 guaranteed No-Limit Hold’em Monster Stack event for $6,604. « I started playing in middle school watching Moneymaker or whatever, » she said. And when asked why she played in the Ladies Championship, her answer was simple. But Williams was unfazed, telling PokerNews on break that she doesn’t monitor social media and that no one that she’s played with has had an issue with her. And while her table mates greeted her with friendly smiles and open arms, her deep run created a stir in some anti-transgender social media circles.
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While some poker experience is helpful, there are plenty of events suitable for players of all skill levels. The break gave players respite from the gruelling Main Event grind, the chance to drum up sponsorship deals, and fly family and friends to Las Vegas for the biggest final table of their lives. In our section, you’ll find useful services and programs for players who want to keep improving, track their progress, and get more insights into their game at both cash tables and tournaments. PokerListings has been a leading force in online poker since 2003, delivering poker news, stories, interviews with professional players, strategy tips, live streams and deals to millions of poker enthusiasts. Play resumed Monday with 14 players remaining, but after a little over two hours of play, that field had been trimmed to the final table of nine, with Molenaar rising to the chip lead with 61 big blinds.
Last year, the Millionaire Maker was one of the most talked-about stories of the series, controversial but compelling, it remains a standout event that always draws a massive crowd. The summer then moves into the million-dollar-inspired events as the $1,500 Millionaire Maker and $1,000 Mystery Millions, get underway on June 17 and June 23. Daily Landmark Mega Satellites will run from May 26-July 13, which pay out multiples of casino value chips that can be used to buy into events. Few expect the months-long gap that was a hallmark of the November Nine era; however, there is no doubt that any meaningful pause marks a big shake-up for 2026, and one that will surely spark debate among players and fans. Playing just one entry in all 100 bracelet events at the 2026 WSOP would set you back a staggering $1,101,950!
Even after being on camera in various capacities for years, when I worked as the WPT Live Update Hostess in Season X, the larger poker community still pushed back. Thankfully, Wicked Chops Poker created this position for me on their weekly poker show where I popped in and gave them the major headlines from the industry for five minutes. As a tournament reporter, I was so behind the scenes and so low on the ladder that I did not feel that pressure. A lot of people would say poker was pretty nasty with misogyny during that period. But, as someone who walked by the media room a half dozen times this summer and never saw a soul inside it, I doubt people would grasp just how many people were in there.
If you think it is a value bet, what worse hands are you getting value from? Every time they bet, they are realistic about why they are betting. In this hand, we already have multiple clues. Thinking about an entire range is difficult, but if we can eliminate enough of the best hands, that helps us quite a bit.
Coverage starts at 11am on Wednesday and runs through to the champion being crowned on Saturday. That record could well be broken once registration closes after the first level of Day 2 on Wednesday. The APT Incheon Main Event is poised to break its record for total entries on Tuesday
But I’m putting in a couple hours every day and trying to get better. I’m still learning stuff every day. What strategy did you follow when you first started playing? I think the very first one I played in I got second and won maybe $80.
- Jumalon and Saaskilahti returned to action Wednesday evening as the lone remaining participants in the $10,000 Main Event, which started on July 2 with 9,208 players.
- The duo battled for well over two hours, trading the lead several times after they began their heads-up match virtually even.
- It feels good that the guarantee was honored, and the players got a good product.
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Life Outside Poker is a new podcast for PokerNews hosted by Connor Richards that seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them on a personal level. He was also featured in an episode of Bracelet Hunt, a documentary series filmed during the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in which players compete for a coveted gold bracelet. He has worked at poker events all around the world, including the Aussie Millions, Latin American Poker Tour, European Poker Tour (EPT), and many more. He also serves as PR & Media Manager for PokerNews, where he acts as a liaison for players, venues, and poker fans. It seeks to pull back the curtain on poker players and allow viewers and listeners to get to know them personally. Several poker players came to Williams’ defense on social media, including streamer Patrick Leonard and Global Poker Award winner Caitlin Comeskey, who also ran deep in the Ladies Championship.
2023 APT Taipei Main Event champion Punnat Punsri will join the Day 3 field from the Natural8 ‘Onlive’ flight with 492,000. Haohui Ma had an eventful couple of levels, starting with a dramatic double-up when he got his pocket kings in against Tomoya Kojima’s aces and drilled a two-outer on the river. Not a bad payday for a roughly $1,765 buy-in. If you’re playing at a higher level, or if you just want to stop by and watch those who are, the PokerGO Tour will be back on the beat with its fall schedule. Both rooms will also offer regular mixed games. No matter where you might toss the dart on the calendar, you’ll find something to play, so we did a deep dive on the schedule to map out the rest of 2026.
You can watch daily livestreams of the 2026 WSOP on the WSOP’s YouTube, X, Facebook, and Twitch channels. Yes, the entire 2026 WSOP will be available for free livestreaming. No, PokerGO is no longer livestreaming the World Series of Poker, although they are still involved with the production of the livestreams.
And I’ve been receiving so many nice tweets and shout-outs from a lot of well-respected players; Matusow, Hellmuth, David Baker, Alex Livingston, the list goes on. I’m asking players their pick to win, and many of the older guys are rooting for you. But that’s one thing that I did every day before my start time during the main. I was fifth overall out of eleven players left.
But the number of big blinds, stack sizes, and positions at the table dictate how you have to play. The former pro learned the game while traveling between cities and found that many of the same qualities that made him successful on the ice carried over into poker. Against better players, yes, it can. Additionally, some players would check-raise their best kings, which makes it a little more likely they have weaker pairs instead of top pair. Find out on Sunday, when he talks through the hand exclusively with PokerOrg. The hand has sparked plenty of debate online, with many suggesting that Saaskilahti misread the board.
He had an inferior hand — J♦3♦ — and if he were to call, he’d drop to a 12-1 chip disadvantage. Jumalon, with the Q♠ in his hand, bet 180,000,000, leaving his opponent with just eight big blinds behind. Jumalon held a comfortable chip lead until that point.
It wasn’t I was an amazing writer or that I had some elite level of poker acumen. In the meantime, I was quietly developing a very unique skill set virtually no one else had. As a poker fan, I got behind the ropes access to everything and made money to boot, so it always felt like a blessing. Since PocketFives Live only covered the members of the online community, we also had a lot more latitude than other outlets. These were the days when outlets that weren’t PokerNews were only allowed to post once an hour.
Be sure to check out the schedules for upcoming events, and come back again soon for the latest updates and information! PokerNews is getting ready to report on the following events and festivals. We are the official live coverage partner of several major poker festivals including the World Series of Poker.
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Because it’s much easier to truly improve at the game than it used to be. It’s no secret that the quality of poker training has increased by orders of magnitude since the boom years. If you stick to those, you’re much safer and more secure than you would have been in even casino poker rooms 25 or 30 years ago.
WSOP Main Event Final Table Takes Place August 3-5
“The artist paid attention to some strange detail in our lives and summed it up. As he walked through the sea of tables during the WSOP Main Event, Smit found himself in a room filled with observers, many of whom were masters. For an artist whose career has been built on observing human behavior, poker proved to be one of the richest and most fascinating subjects Smit had ever encountered. “This whole time I’d been doing small-scale drawings that had a lot of text, and it had a lot of humorous aspects. He arrived as an artist curious about a world he never imagined he would explore. Celebrated cartoonist Guy Richards Smit found unexpected inspiration at the WSOP, where poker’s greatest skill mirrored his own craft.
This year’s livestreaming stage will be moving from Horseshoe to the Paris Ballroom. ESPN App is not free, but it includes streaming for all Poker News Daily ESPN shows and games for $29.99 per month or an extra $10 per month to bundle Hulu and Disney+. Poker’s world championship event, won by Michael Mizrachi last year, kicks off July 2 at Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas. The WSOP announced in April that the Main Event, for the first time since COVID, would return to ESPN, the top sports network in the U.S. But poker fans will notice many similarities from past summers, including familiar faces such as Jeff Platt, Norman Chad, and Lon McEachern being part of the coverage. Changes to television and livestream coverage have been made for the 2026 World Series of Poker (WSOP).
Professional player, coach, and author Alex Fitzgerald shares the four questions you to ask yourself when you are deciding whether to bet. The Main Event was decided in a huge hand in which Saaskilahti faced a potential hero call. I hope I can someday make another run like this year. So, I’ll go and enjoy some sunshine and some poker. That would be a nice event to attend. Unfortunately, I cannot play the Main Event this year because I have to go to Guatemala for business that week.
In his spare time, Ben is an avid music lover and concertgoer, especially of jam bands. One of his first jobs ever was actually working as a PokerNews live reporter in 2011. An avid comic collector and diehard fan of the Miami Dolphins, Holloway writes a nationally syndicated poker column and is known for tweeting unique poker-related thrift store finds throughout Las Vegas.
PokerNews is back again providing unrivaled live reporting coverage of the greatest spectacle in poker for each bracelet event. Those are just the first two bracelet events out of 100 this summer (plus 30 online at WSOP Online). Feature tables will be set up in Paris throughout the summer, with free coverage of the 99 non-Main Event bracelet tournaments daily on your preferred streaming platform. The four-letter network will then televise two edited hours of the final table after it ends.
There you can access all the results and photos from each event. You can also click the event itself to see coverage of each event. See the full 2026 WSOP schedule below and find the buy-in and date of every single official event at this year’s Series.
PokerNews produces and provides live play-by-play updates and chip counts for publication on the World Series of Poker website, as well as on PokerNews.com. In 2011, Sarah Grant was hired to host videos by PokerNews and PokerStars covering events all over the world. The players have returned from break, and play has resumed. He bowed out in third place, falling short in his latest bid to capture poker’s most coveted mixed-game title.
And there was only one tournament where I did a rebuy. That tournament ended up hitting the guarantee on its own and reached $1,100,000. The final decision was to reschedule that first flight as two turbo flights.
Benny Glaser Wins 2026 Poker Players Championship for 9th WSOP Bracelet in 11 Years
Will WPT scale down the event and return to Vegas in December, or move to a less crowded spot in January? The season finale has taken place at Wynn Las Vegas over the last few years, but competition with WSOP Paradise is fierce. While a third APT win hasn’t yet been in the cards for him so far in Incheon, he did finish 6th of 184 entries in the $2K High Roller on Thursday for just over $17K in his third career cash on the tour. Most of my family is in China, especially my mom, and I want to have more time to spend with her.
It took just over three hours of play to knock out the first seven players, but McKeehen and Greufe were very deep, so finding a winner lasted even longer than that. \ »I caught some cards and I won some big pots. It seemed every time the pot got really big, especially three-handed, I had the best hand. That was helpful.” No matter what happens with the season finale, it’s clear that WPT is intent on establishing a greater presence in Las Vegas, especially during the times of year when WSOP isn’t around. Nothing has been announced yet, but players have been locking in a seat with victories in WPT championships throughout the year, so it’s going to happen.
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