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Nov 11, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
When the stakes are high, Bryn Kenney seems to find a different level in his game. The New York native has always excelled on poker’s biggest stages, finding ways to close when life-changing money is on the line. Nowhere has the 38-year-old been more successful than on the Triton Super High Roller tour.
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Nov 11, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
Nick Marchington was a wide-eyed, 21-year-old rookie on the poker scene when he made his first major final table, taking seventh place in the 2019 WSOP main event for $1,525,000. He may not have been quite ready for the big stage back then, but on Sunday under the lights of the North American Poker Tour main event final table, the British poker pro proved to be more than capable. “I was a spring chicken, especially in tournaments,” Marchington admitted.
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Nov 10, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
While Patrik Antonius is a Poker Hall of Famer with $29 million in career tournament earnings, along with millions more won online and in cash games, he had his hands full with a stacked final table in the $200,000 buy-in Triton Invitational at Sporting Monte-Carlo in Monaco. Some of Europe’s biggest high-stakes crushers were on hand to battle Antonius for the $5,130,000 first-place prize, but it was a complete unknown that ended up giving him the most trouble.
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Jul 15, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
Editor’s Note: This column originally appeared in July of 2023, but since no changes were made to the Poker Hall of Fame in the last year, it remains relevant and is being re-run with the appropriate edits. There’s no doubting Patrik Antonius’ worthiness for the Poker Hall of Fame. The 43-year-old has a stellar poker résumé that boasts millions in high rollers wins and extended time in some of the biggest cash games in the world.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
Dylan Weisman is really good at pot-limit Omaha. In fact, he’s one of the best, and there’s a strong argument to be made that he currently stands at the top of the mountain. The PLO specialist earned his second career World Series of Poker bracelet late Friday night, topping a massive field of 1,469 entries in the $1,500 pot-limit Omaha event for $294,311. “It’s very unique when you win a tournament,” Weisman said.
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Jun 8, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
While limit hold’em has seen more popular days in poker history, there were still 104 hopefuls who turned out for the $10,000 championship event at the 2024 World Series of Poker, all vying for the $308,930 first-place prize and the bracelet. In the end, the title went to Florida poker pro John Racener, who picked up his second career WSOP title. “I am just so happy to be out here, being able to play and grind,” he said after the win.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
Despite all of his scores on the high roller circuit, including numerous final tables at the PokerGO Cup, Poker Masters, and U.S. Poker Open, Dan Shak had never won an event at the PokerGO studio. The hedge fund manager and part-time poker player changed that on Thursday by taking down the $10,000 big bet mix event at the PokerGO Mixed Games series. The 64-year-old picked up $133,200 for the win, bringing his career totals to more than $14.5 million.
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Mar 9, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Alex Livingston |Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
After cashing in half of the events offered, Max Hoffman was crowned as the third ever champion of the PokerGO Mixed Games Series. The Massachusetts native racked up $376,300 in total prize money to fend off defending series champion Dan Zack to take the trophy and $10,000 leaderboard bonus. Hoffman’s campaign started a week and a half ago with a fifth-place showing in the $5,000 8-Game event for $31,150.
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Feb 24, 2024 | 
cardplayer.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
David Sklansky is perhaps the most prolific poker strategy writer ever, a three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, and an all-around authority on all things gambling. In fact, when working as a casino consultant he even carried a business card with the title of ‘resident wizard.’The self-proclaimed “black sheep” of his family found poker while attending the University of Pennsylvania and was quickly drawn to the world of professional gambling.
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Jan 4, 2024 | 
playcrazygame.com | Julio Rodriguez |Julio Rodríguez
Even with one of the best teams in Mexican football, America could begin its title defense in Clausura 2024 without many of its key playersAndre Jardin will therefore be forced to make some modifications and use the team’s younger players, as he did on matchdays of the last tournament. According to the latest reports, Águilas footballers will report in two groups. the first of them will do so with The absence of Angel Malagon, Julian Quinones, Henry Martin and Kevin Alvarez.
