Guardian journalist Rob Davies asks: "What connects Tommy Robinson, Bonnie Blue, Leicester City FC, the tiny African island of Anjouan and an apparently respectable family of property investors from Mill Hill?"
It's a tale that also involves CoinPoker, among other poker and gambling sites, and is well worth a read.
Pass the sugar! Joe Hachem's at it again. The 2005 WSOP Main Event champ has just won another trophy, at the Crown Casino in Melbourne. Hachem beat Chi Troung heads-up to take down the 48-strong A$1,250 Limit Omaha Hi-Lo event at the 2026 Victorian Poker Championship.
This is the way to do it. Aram Oganyan max late-regged Event #7 of the Poker Masters and is now chip leader with five players remaining. See stacks in the post below.
Adrian Mateos extends lead at top of Poker Masters leaderboard. The Spanish pro made the final table of Event #7: $15,700 NLH at the PokerGO Studio on Monday night, and with Nick Palma finishing eighth, he's going to end Tuesday night with a bigger lead in the race for the Purple Jacket.
Mateos is second in chips, while Aram Oganyan leads. Cherish Andrews has recorded her first cash of the series and will be looking to make it a big one when action resumes on Tuesday. You can watch the livestream from 4pm ET on the PokerGO YouTube channel.
From 11 big blinds to a $171K WPT title. Ivelin Kolev mounted a final-table comeback to win the WPT Prime Cyprus Championship. He was the shortest stack and down to 11bb with six players left, but recovered to beat Said Tahar heads-up.
The $1,100 tournament attracted 953 entries, with Kolev winning a $171,600 package that includes a $10,400 WPT World Championship seat.
Negreanu jumps into Poker Masters: After a bit of a break from the tables, Daniel Negreanu is back in the action for Event #7 of the PGT Poker Masters.
Day 1 play is streaming live on the PokerGO YouTube channel, with Negreanu at the feature table – check it out below.
Lonis wins 3rd WSOP bracelet: After late-regging the WSOP Bracelet Event #16 – NLH $350K GTD Mystery Bounty, Jesse Lonis struck pay dirt with a third WSOP bracelet win.
Moneymaker LIVE for Venom: The ACR Poker Team Pro is taking over the site's Twitch and Kick channels to livestream his Day 2 play in the $1.5M GTD Venom PKO PLO.
As of writing, he's got a top five stack with 62 players remaining and is nearly ITM.
'Disrespecting the game. That's what you did'.
On the bubble of last week's Poker Masters $10K NLH event, Canada's John Krpan took issue with Clemen Deng not forcing his opponent all-in for his last chip.
Deng, as the big stack, obviously did so in order to prolong the bubble and maximize the chips he could win while his opponents waited for the shortie to bust.
Nick Palma tried to explain the strategy but Krpan wasn't having it, saying "I don't want to hear from you anymore."
WPT Prime Cyprus Championship final table streams today. The $1,100 Main Event attracted 953 entries at the Chamada Prestige Hotel and Casino, with the tournament scheduled to crown its champion today. The livestream starts at 2:30pm EEST or 7:30am ET.
Said Tahar is the chip leader, with a stack of 80bb, and there's $171,600 and a seat to the $10,400 WPT World Championship for the eventual winner. Here's the final table seat draw.
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