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Players to Watch at the 2026 World Series of Poker

Players to Watch at the 2026 World Series of Poker

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That time of the year is upon the poker world once again. The 2026 World Series of Poker kicks off bright and early (for poker players, anyway) at noon on Tuesday, and the throngs will descend on the Horseshoe and Paris Las Vegas like seventeen-year cicadas waiting to breed.…
How Annie Duke Turned Anthrax’s Scott Ian Into a Poker Grinder

How Annie Duke Turned Anthrax’s Scott Ian Into a Poker Grinder

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Welcome to Volume Cures Variance, a PokerNews video series that focuses on musicians who have moonlighted as poker players. Nearly 20 years ago, Anthrax guitarist Scott Ian stumbled into a side career as a sponsored poker pro. The metal legend's poker run, which began in the late 2000s and…
Episode 499: Luke Johnson

Episode 499: Luke Johnson

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Run It Once coach and Know Your Poker YouTuber Luke Johnson joins Andrew for a conversation about solvers, extreme exploits, coaching, and the psychological stress of high stakes poker. Watch a High Stakes Pro Exploit 10NL for 58 Minutes For more information or to sign up for coaching with…
Event 10: Big Numbers; Tons of Friends

Event 10: Big Numbers; Tons of Friends

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$300 Holiday Triple Stack No-Limit Hold’em$50,000 Guaranteed  |  StructureLevel 7:  300/600 with a 600 anteEntries:  302 Mica Lamar Turning our eyes back to the last event of the series, players continue to pile into the Poker Room on Memorial Day to play some poker. We have more than 300 in…
Shaun Davis Wins 2026 Deep Stack Poker Series Main Event Outright for ,530!

Shaun Davis Wins 2026 Deep Stack Poker Series Main Event Outright for $79,530!

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2026 Deep Stack Poker SeriesSeminole Hard Rock Hotel & CasinoHollywood, FloridaEvent 8$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’em$200,000 GuaranteedEntries:  225Prize Pool:  $337,500May 21 – 25, 2026 Shaun Davis, 2026 Deep Stack Poker Series Main Event Champion The big tournament on the 2026 Deep Stack Poker Series schedule was the $1,700 Deep…
101+ Poker Tips: Book Review and Interview with Rick Gleason

101+ Poker Tips: Book Review and Interview with Rick Gleason

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One of the latest poker books on the market is Rick Gleason‘s 101+ Poker Tips That Actually Work: What The Cards Taught Me After Midnight. Rick discovered poker in 2009 and in 2015 moved to Las Vegas to play live poker regularly. After nearly 11 years living in the…
Event 8: Shaun Davis (,530) Defeats Igor Pinheiro (,850) for the Title

Event 8: Shaun Davis ($79,530) Defeats Igor Pinheiro ($55,850) for the Title

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$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’emPrize Pool:  $337,500  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 ante Shaun Davis Shaun Davis opened to 125,000 from his button, Igor Pinheiro moved all in for 1,320,000 and Davis called. Davis: Pinheiro: It was another flip for the title and Pinheiro needed his fours…
Shuffle Up and Deal: 2026 World Series of Poker Begins This Week

Shuffle Up and Deal: 2026 World Series of Poker Begins This Week

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Annual poker celebration It’s that time of year again. Winter is in the rearview mirror and outdoor temps are comfortable, so it is time to spend the next month and a half in the air conditioning, playing poker. That’s right, the 2026 World Series of Poker kicks off on…
Event 8: Igor Pinheiro Doubles

Event 8: Igor Pinheiro Doubles

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$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’emPrize Pool:  $337,500  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 antePlayers Remaining:  2 of 225 Igor Pinheiro Igor Pinheiro open-shipped for his last 710,000 and Shaun Davis called with a chance to end the tournament. Davis: Pinheiro: It was a race and Pinheiro needed to…
Event 8: Shaun Davis Quickly Builds a Big Lead

Event 8: Shaun Davis Quickly Builds a Big Lead

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$1,700 Deepest Stack No-Limit Hold’emPrize Pool:  $337,500  |  Structure  |  PayoutsLevel 26:  25,000/50,000 with a 50,000 antePlayers Remaining:  2 of 225 Shaun Davis Without an all-in moment, Shaun Davis more than doubled his heads-up starting stack in 15 minutes. Two big hands included him, making quads with one hand and tripping…