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Zodiac tournaments for another $9,200 before finishing third in the $109 Mega Deep for a $10,000 addition to his bankroll. The best was yet to come in the PokerStars Big Blowout event where Hardcastle finished Day 1 in 11th place with 27 players remaining. Leonard Bows Out To Quads Patrick Leonard ran into quads Fellow Brit Patrick “pads1161” Leonard started Day 2 with the chip lead but could only muster a 15th place finish. He came unstuck during the 1,000,000/2,000,000/250,000a le...

He’s Doing It #ForLinda The 38-year-old Hebert, who had $667,664 in lifetime earnings prior to the win according to The Hendon Mob, had been vocal that he was playing the tournament for his mother, Linda, who died over the summer following a pulmonary embolism. He explained: “I texted her, ‘Man, one day I hope I can win a bracelet. It’s something I always dreamed of and I just don’t know how many more chances I’m going to have to do that.’ She texted me back ...

On Monday night, the 2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Main Event domestic tournament – which played its first two days on WSOP.com – saw the final eight players of a 705-player field gather at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas to play down to a winner. Even before play began, three-time bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva was deemed ineligible to proceed with participation after reportedly testing positive for COVID-19 (published rules stated that any player who t...

2020 World Series of Poker (WSOP) $10,000 Main Event on WSOP.com attracted 705 players who played down to a final table of nine. Today, those players return to action, minus three-time bracelet winner Upeshka De Silva, who was deemed ineligible to proceed with participation after reportedly testing positive for COVID-19 (published rules stated that any player who tested positive would be disqualified and receive ninth-place money of $98,813). The other eights players are at the Rio All-Suite H...

On the day Upeshka De Silva was disqualified from the WSOP Final Table for a positive COVID-19 test, there have been further ramifications for the Main Event with the news that the heads-up match will be postponed. It has since been revealed that the match will now take place on Sunday, January 3 at 5 p.m. PST. Argentinas Damian Salas was set to play the winner of tonights final table on Dec. 30, but according to CodigoPoker Salas has been denied entry to the United States. This is due to ...

De Silva Reveals All De Silva explained more about the situation in a series of follow-up tweets, with the three-time bracelet-winner explaining that he had been quarantining since Dec. 10 but ultimately tested positive on Dec. 20. The following day, he immediately reached out to WSOP Vice President Jack Effel (pictured). The two discussed the situation, and Effel asked De Silva whether he had tested himself that day. De Silva had not, leading Effel to say that hed see De Silva on Sunday, Dec....

Ireland’s “Xingyun888” is the player to catch when the first cards are pitched at 6:00 p.m. GMT on December 22. They return with 4,643,847 chips in what is there their first Super MILLION$ final table from 10 attempts. The Irish grinder is guaranteed $57,502 regardless of where they finish tonight, which is their largest-ever GGPoker score. Nick Petrangelo is one of the best no-limit hold’em tournament players ever yet this is, remarkably, his first Super MILLION$ final ta...

After just over eight hours, Day 2 of the 2020 GGPoker WSOPC #6: $170 Mini Main Event has come to an end with nine players making it to the final table which will take place on Saturday, December 26 at 7:30 p.m. GMT. The tournament attracted 13,912 unique players who reentered 3,566 times to get to a total of 17,478 entries. This means that a prize pool of $2,733,559 had been collected which easily surpassed the $2,000,000 that was guaranteed for the sixth event of the WSOP Winter Online Ci...

Freeroll Your Way Into The XL Winter Series Main Event One cent satellites aside, you can play your way into the XL Winter Series for free thanks to the XL Winter Main Event Freerolls. These run every day and are open to 888poker players who have recently made a deposit into their accounts. There are plenty of other opportunities to secure freebies from 888poker, too. The site is hitting random tables with gift drops throughout the XL Winter Series that grant special prizes and XL tournament t...

Freeroll Your Way Into The XL Winter Series Main Event One cent satellites aside, you can play your way into the XL Winter Series for free thanks to the XL Winter Main Event Freerolls. These run every day and are open to 888poker players who have recently made a deposit into their accounts. There are plenty of other opportunities to secure freebies from 888poker, too. The site is hitting random tables with gift drops throughout the XL Winter Series that grant special prizes and XL tournament t...