Despite the recent COVID-19 restrictions, the world of live poker is slowly returning to its normal life. As of now, there are numerous competitions in this discipline. More major events are planned for the upcoming year.

Today we will discuss the important poker tournaments that deserve your attention. These events attract poker fans from all over the world. You will have a chance not only to watch the game, but also to test your strength.

WSOP 2023

Without exaggeration, we can say that the WSOP 2023 is the largest and most famous poker event that will take place in 2023. The event is scheduled for May 30, 2023. As before, the largest poker tournament will be held in Las Vegas. If you do not have the opportunity to attend the event, try your hand at online tournaments. 

In May, throughout June, and the first half of July, bracelets will be available at the Poker Festival in abundance. If you follow poker games, tournament battles deserve your attention.

The main event of the upcoming tournament will be the Main Event with a $10,000 buy-in. Many consider this direction to be a kind of “World Championship of Poker.” The winner’s name becomes a household name every year; he immediately rises to the status of the official ambassador of the game.

Last year’s Main Event winner was Espen Jorstad representing Unibet. The player managed to win 10 million dollars; he left 8663 other participants far behind.

On July 3, the Big Show will take place as part of the WSOP 2023. Players will have four chances to build a stack to advance to the second day.

The upcoming poker tournament is rich in high-profile events. One of them is Mystery Millions. One of the first events in the series guarantees the winner a massive reward of one million dollars.

What is currently known about the WSOP 2023:

• $6 million guaranteed for pre-published games already announced;
• The famous series will be held for the 54th time. The event is from May 30, 2023, to July 18, 2023.
• The tournament will return to Las Vegas (in 2022, the games were held in Rome).

Asian Poker Tour

The famous Asian Poker Tour will also take place in early 2023. Poker lovers are welcome to Hanoi, Vietnam, from 3 to 12 February. The plans of the tournament organizers have changed slightly. Initially, Manila was announced as the venue.

The Asian Poker Tour will be held in partnership with the Vietnam VSOP. Tournament organizers promise participants even more fun, excitement, and excitement. Players from Asia and other parts of the world can participate in the tournament.

Tournament fans still wanted to see games in Manila. In the second half of 2023, additional games may be organized in APT Manila.

The APT Hanoi Asian Poker Tour is being held for the third time. Interestingly, the winners of all these times were poker players from Vietnam. They have become true legends of Asian poker.

The Asian Poker Tour promises players and spectators many brand-new events yet to be announced. APT President Neil Johnson said that the poker tournament is a great opportunity to challenge yourself and enjoy the beauty of the city of Hanoi.

The main events of the upcoming tournament have already been announced.

• Super Invitational—from 4 to 5 February, 2023.
• Main Event—February 5th to 11th, 2023.
• High roller — from 11 to 12 February, 2023.

PokerStars Live Okada Manila

In January 2023, another major tournament will take place in the Philippines. PokerStars, the world’s largest poker company, is organizing a live tournament jointly with the Okada Manila Millions. Players from all over the world will have the opportunity to participate in the long-awaited games.

The tournament will start on January 3 and end on January 9. Over 7 days of competition, the event organizers promised to give away more than 3 million Philippine pesos.

Okada Manila is a hotel complex with a casino located in the Philippines. There is a luxurious atmosphere and everything necessary for a comfortable stay here. The complex is popular with ordinary tourists and gamblers from all over the world.

Kings of Tallinn

Kings of Tallinn is one of the largest European poker tournaments. It starts in Tallinn on February 24 next year. The venue will be the comfortable Hilton Tallinn hotel.

At the main event, as part of the tournament with a buy-in of 1100 euros, they promise to play a big prize. The largest prize fund at the tournament was recorded in 2020, exceeding 640 thousand euros.

Conclusion

Poker is a game of chance that has fans all over the world. Someone sits down at the table on their own and seeks to beat opponents using their skills, while someone follows the games remotely. These events should grab your attention regardless of which category of poker fans you belong to.

Let’s go back in time with Kings of Tallinn and find out more about the existence of this eventful series of the Baltics. For years they have shown to be a true competitor for one of Europeans finest live poker series, but how they initially started their great concept? And who were the initiators of all this? Which key personalities helped to get KoT to become the KoT like it is now? We will nosedive into the history together with all our readers.

Once upon a time….. Former Casino Director of Olympic Casino Risto Suurpold and current Tournament Director Teresa Nousiainen were sitting down together and came up with the idea of starting to organize a great tournament for the poker community of the Baltics. They came up with the name Kings of Tallinn and decided from the get-go that this event must be a ‘tribute to all poker players’. It always has been the aorta of the whole week, to have a schedule based on player’s needs and wishes. Based upon their feedback, the event series became to what it currently, and always, stands for. Because of this approach, you can expect every following year, great new stuff added to the schedule.

What Do We Know About the Most Important Tournament of a Poker Series, Namely the Main Event?

The Main Event of Kings of Tallinn came first to ligt in 2015 and had a very decent player field, topping 140 entries up until the COVID-19 saga, they always managed to attract more players as previous editions. Somewhat, which only can be respected inside out. It has not always had a guaranteed prize pool as they have now, just from 2020 they started with offering a guaranteed prize pool of €500,000. A prize pool which they guaranteed just once, until this year, where they will offer again this extraordinary amount for the Main Event.

Here is a list of all previous Main Event champions:

• 2015 – 140 entries – Prize Pool €137,200 – Ranno Sootla (Estonia) – €37,330
• 2016 – 198 entries – Prize Pool €240,100 – Johan Creutz (Sweden) – €52,200
• 2017 – 247 entries – Prize Pool €234,650 – Matias Knaapinen (Finland) – €45,007
• 2018 – 268 entries – Prize Pool €254,600 – Juha Helppi (Finland) – €62,000
• 2019 – 375 entries – Prize Pool €356,250 – Vitalijs Zavorotnijs (Latvia) – €85,300
• 2020 – 674 entries – Prize Pool €640,300 – Johan Karlsson (Sweden) – €126,900
• 2021 – 298 entries – Prize Pool €280,120 – Claudio Di Giacomo (Italy) – €58,440
• 2022 – 328 entries – Prize Pool €308,320 – Adam Kharman (Australia) – €64,280

It Is the Year of the Rabbit. Which Rabbit They Will Pull Out of the Hat in 2023?

The Kings of Tallinn 2023 poker series will run from February 24^th, ten days straight, until March 5^th. It will be held at the iconic and truly amazing Hilton Hotel’s Olympic Park Casino, but it has not always been organized at the same premise. Initially, back in 2015 during the first ever event, it was Radisson Olympia who had the honors of being the host. Recently, they have published the schedule for 2023 and it promises to be a unique event full of action, with plenty of mixed-games, a team challenge, a great opening event, High Roller, Pot-Limit Omaha Mystery Bounty, and many more in different kinds of poker formats. This brings us to a total of 10 days, 53 events, and 24/7 cash game filled with action.

Here are some of the scheduled events:

Date	Event #	Game	Event	Buy-In	Starting Stack	Levels	Late Reg
Feb. 25	7	NLH	€555 Kings Of Tallinn 2023 Championship Day 1A	€500 + €55	30,000	40 min	Unlimited Re-Entry until the start of second level of Day 2
Feb. 25	8	PLO 4	€250 PL Omaha 4 Cards, 8 Handed	€220 + €30	20,000	20 min	Level 8
Feb. 28	23	8 Game	€350 8-Game	€315 + €35	20,000	25 min	Level 8
Mar. 1	27	NLH	€1,100 Kings Of Tallinn 2023 Main Event Day 1A, Final Day will be played on Saturday, March 4, €500,000 GUARANTEED!!!	€1,000 + €100	30,000	60 min	Unlimited Re-Entry until the start of second level of Day 2

Check out the full Kings of Tallinn 2023 schedule here.

The upcoming weeks we will give you all possible information about the history of the Kings of Tallinn poker event, as well as exclusive interviews with previous winners, but we will also give you a look behind the scenes! So, stay tuned and make sure to follow our social media channels:

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Unibet not too long ago released a cash game format called “Banzai”, a mode that focused on short-stack cash games which created so much action!

For just a 10 big-blind buy-in, it had played jamming left right, and center, with multi-way all-ins a common happening. It has become a great cash game format for poker players looking for action, fun, and a quick time at the online felt.

With the additional benefits of just 1% rake, it has become so much more popular. Once you shove all in and hear that “Banzai!” sound effect, you are in full swing of the cash game mode.

With stakes available at 5NL, 10NL, and 20NL, it is great for low-stakes recreational players to have a spin and see how far they can run their stack up.

What Is Banzai Flip?

As part of Unibet’s January release, they have brought in the Banzai Flips promotion from Jan 23 – Feb 28, allowing players to battle through 10 villains in an arcade Street Fighter style and get to a grand prize.

You are Jean Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport, only this time instead of a fight to the death you are trying to beat your enemies in fair, randomly-generated poker flips.

As you luckbox your way to the top, you will get in sight of the grand €100 prize! You might be wondering how much it costs to take part in this?

Absolutely nothing! If you sign up to Unibet and log in, you will get credited a free token followed by one free token every week – if you are a real money poker player, you will get up to 9 tokens every day through rakeback.

You have the opportunity through Banzai Flips to load up your token in this poker arcade machine and spin your way to a €100 prize.

How to Win at Banzai?

Winning Banzai requires players to be smart with short-stack play – if you specialize in tournament poker, you might find yourself with an edge in this poker cash game format.

To win at Banzai on Unibet poker, follow these simple tips:

• Be the Aggressor, not the Caller – by pushing fold equity on other people, you give yourself the most chance of winning pots. If someone jams from an early position and you are in the big blind with a marginal hand like QTos, you should think about how your equity is against their overall range, not just that you have a “pretty hand”.

• Ace From Space – Have an Ace in your hand? Jam it all in and hear “Banzai”! Having almost any Ace in your hand at 10 big blinds gives you the license to put your stack in, as you’ll be scooping up the blinds so often, or even get it in with a good amount of equity.

• No Gamble No Future – You cannot overfold in Banzai, that would be a critical mistake. Letting people run you over will be an easy exploit for them, sometimes you just have to put it in with AK even though you “always lose with this hand”.

It’s that time again… 22 January, to be exact. Yes – get ready for the next leg of the PokerListings Ranking Series, an exciting collection of monthly tournaments hosted by a major international poker venue, namely the fantastic Portomaso Casino, Malta, and which will continue monthly until April 2023.   

This is a venture of which we are very proud, as we do our bit to merge real money online poker with the traditional Bricks & Mortar variety. It’s a logical development for us at Pokerlistings to follow on from our daily service to our community in providing the latest online poker bonuses and offers via our dedicated info pages and regular updates. Contributing to live poker is a no-brainer, as they say.

This latest edition of the PokerListings Ranking Series is the third of six tournaments, so it’s absolutely not too late to get involved in the Leaderboard that will award the eventual series winner with a €550 seat to the Main Event of The Festival Malta (15-21 May, 2023), and the runner-up a €250 seat in the PokerListings Deepstack Championships during the same event.

To have an impact on the Leaderboard you need play just one tournament in the series, with points per event being awarded as follows:

• 1^st           100p
• 2^nd          80p
• 3^rd           60p
• 4^th           50p
• 5^th           40p
• 6^th           30p
• 7^th           20p
• 8^th           10p

As for the next leg itself, like all our tournaments, it’s well worth playing in regardless, as the €150 buy-in features a €5,000 guaranteed prize pool and is a great way to combine poker with time in the sun in a popular and picturesque setting that is the delightful Mediterranean island. Have fun in the sun…

Expectations were high for the rerun of the World Series of Poker Circuit (WSOP-C) Calgary this year, but even those high expectations turned out low.

After a record Main Event prize pool last January in the inaugural running of WSOP-C Calgary, expectations were high for this year’s rerun. Even those high expectations turned out to be too low however as Deerfoot Inn & Casino has been flooded with players during the first week of the series.

The $1,700 Main Event is still yet to run, with Day 1a kicking off at 11am on Jan 19, but the events so far have blown past even the most optimistic pre-series estimates. When the series came to Calgary for the first time last January, the 4-Flight event shocked organizers when it went above 1,100 entries – this year, it nearly hit that number in the third flight, then blew passed it in the final Day 1.

The huge numbers didn’t stop there either. Every open event so far has exceeded the expected numbers with the first seven events of the 15-event series amassing more than $1.25 million in prizes already.

Huge Interest From the Start

The opening event of the series, the Big 30 Stack drew more than 500 entries, a preview of what was to come. That $400 one-day game ended up with $165,675 in prizes and Joon Park of Surrey BC took down almost $32,000 Cdn for his investment. Local Twitch poker GOAT and Big Brother Canada (BBC) winner Kevin Martin started ring-hunting early, and came within a single spot of winning one in his first event this series, finishing second to Park.

That was just a preview. The second event of the series was the 4-Flight, which is traditionally a big event, but it still blew past the expectations. When the dust settled on the fourth flight, the field was a truly stunning 1,539 for a total prize pool of nearly $600k.

Local player Nicholas Lee broke through for the first win of his career, and he got a Circuit Ring to go with the win. He pocketed just over $76k for the win in a $400 game that saw seven five-figure payouts.

Two more open events drew big numbers in the early part of the series, with the Mystery bounty getting 544 entries and the PLO Bounty getting 395. Even the Seniors Event drew huge numbers with 384 entries and more than $126k in prizes.

Big Names to Start Second Half

The second half of the series kicked off with Event #8, the Two-Day $1k event that drew a few more big names. Martin was still hanging around firing whatever events he could find, and a few other BBC alumni joined him for the game. ACR streamer Jon Pardy and PokerStars streamer Arlie Shaban, both also former housemates on the Canadian reality show, came for the event and cashed on Day 2.

Adel Elseri, another former contestant on BBC, joined the three poker streamers for a bit of a reunion. Elseri is a bit less experienced at poker than his BBC buddies, but while they were playing the $1k event he was busy cashing in the smaller Bounty event across the casino. (Pictured from left: Arlie Shaban, Jon Pardy, Kevin Martin, and Adel Elsari)

The big three streamers then jumped into the $1k Turbo on the following day with Martin and Pardy booking cashes. Martin got into the money on just 3 big blinds, then spun that up onto the final two tables.

When the numbers get this big, it draws even bigger names. Martin is a regular around these parts, having grown up a few hours south of Calgary in Lethbridge, so it wasn’t a huge surprise to see him grinding it out for a ring. Pardy and Shaban were obviously here for the poker, but also to catch up with their reality show buddies.

Typically in a series like this, those may well have been the biggest names on the list, but the massive numbers early in the series also piqued the interest of Canada’s 10^th highest poker earner, Mike “GoLeafsGoEh” Leah. He came in from Ontario for the $1k Turbo looking for his seventh Circuit ring, and he’ll no doubt figure highly in the upcoming high roller and Main Event.

High Roller and Main Event Still to Come

There is still lots of action upcoming in the WSOP-C Calgary. The $1,700 Main Event kicks off on Jan 19 with the first of three starting flights and there are live Mega Satellites to that event running Jan 19 and 20. Sunday Jan 22 features the $2,200 High Roller that finishes out on Monday and there are side events and satellites filling the rest of the schedule.

The 2022 running of this series ended up with a record prize pool for the Main Event, but this year’s version is already blowing the early numbers from last year out of the water. It remains to be seen how big the Main Event will get, but another record prize pool seems almost certain at this point.

While it’s true that the world of real money online poker is indeed a wide-reaching industry that allows poker fans from around the globe to collectively enjoy this fascinating and rewarding game, the ‘global’ element isn’t always a literal one. Not all players are able to (legally) take advantage of the offerings of online poker operators, so it’s always good to see access to this or that site expand.

The latest example of this means that poker players in the Czech Republic can celebrate, as GGPoker and King’s Slots have announced that, following the Czech Republic’s Ministry of Finance recently issuing a licence, the shiny new GGPoker.cz will soon open to the Czech market!

GGPoker has certainly made a name for itself as a leading and popular online poker provider in recent years, not least as a champion for recreational players who, importantly, are what keeps the industry ticking along nicely.

Would-be kings and queens of the virtual felt in the Czech Republic will now be able to enjoy the delights of Texas Hold’em and Omaha cash tables, Sit & Go games and online poker tournaments around the clock.

Marco Trucco, Head of Europe for GGPoker, had this to say about the poker world’s latest partnership: “I’m delighted to work with King’s slots s.r.o. to extend GGPoker access to Czech players. We will have a lot to offer the market in 2023 and beyond, including WSOP satellites, massive tournaments, the most exciting cash games, exclusive promotions and more!”

The feeling is mutual, as evidenced by Leon Tsoukernik, majority shareholder of King’s Entertainment group: “We are excited for this announcement and the continued development of our partnership with GGPoker globally. As the leading casino and poker venue in Europe, home of WSOPE, it was only natural for both our companies to come together to introduce GGPoker to our local audience in Czech Republic.”

GGPoker is, of course, a well-known name amongst online poker players. If Kings seems familiar, that’s due to being a key player in the Bricks & Mortar poker world. King´s slots s.r.o. is a subsidiary of VESTAR GROUP which, through King´s Entertainment a.s., operates three casinos in the Czech Republic: King’s Casino Rozvadov, the newly expanded Admiral Casino in Rozvadov and King’s Casino at the Hilton Hotel in Prague. Not surprisingly, then, this will prove a welcome match-up among players.

The alleged cheater Mike Postle faced an unceremonious exit from a $500,000 GTD poker tournament at the Beau Rivage Casino in Biloxi, Mississippi last night.

With a known history in the Mississippi poker scene, Mike Postle has been found to have made a deep run in the Million Dollar Heater poker series, which had a Main Event with a buy-in of $1,200.

Using his first and middle name to register, Mike Postle wore glasses and covered his face with a hood and face mask to conceal his identity, but poker players in the field would not be fooled by his disguise for too long.

Good Morning Twitter! Welcome to 2023!

I woke up with a message from @Mawkswell

“Unreal just played with Mike Postle he was using an alias floor confirmed it was him”

Postle is in Biloxi. Final table resumes today…he is playing for 200k!@Angry_Polak @Joeingram1 pic.twitter.com/AE4yliakU0

— Angela Jordison (@Angelajordison) January 16, 2023

Attention was placed on ‘Mike Lawrence’ or Mike Postle, especially as he made the final ten players from 1,074 runners in the tournament. Poker players in the room still remembered the allegations against Postle, where he was thought to have used a phone with direct access to hole cards in real-time on the Stones Gambling Hall live stream.

After an ensuing legal battle against poker players from Stones, he avoided any charges due to the poor laws in place in California against poker cheating. Despite being hidden from the poker world since 2019, his sighting at this tournament in Mississippi has caused quite a stir in the poker community.

Before the Stones cheating scandal, Postle had cashed for $571,215 in live poker tournaments with his last one coming just before the Stones investigations began in late 2019 by Joey Ingram.

Postle’s deep run in the tournament would eventually see him not get his hands on the $200k top prize, as he would get slow-rolled in brutal fashion.

Found on a video on the GulfCoastPoker Facebook Page, Postle would battle against Brock Gary with seven left on the final table:

With the action going straight to a flop of 6s4h5c and Postle all in for his remaining chips, Gary sat in the tank covering Postle and seemingly in the blender.

After letting out a big sigh, Gary called and flipped over 6c6h for the top set, a delightful slow-roll for those who believe that Postle cheated at Stones, whilst Postle rolled over TsTh for an overpair.

A safe run out of 2d on the turn and Qs on the river made sure the alleged poker cheater was sent on his way, taking his lifetime tournament cashes to over $600k instead of closer to $800k which is what he would have got had he won the tournament.

Postle was heckled by spectators on his way out, as he was denied the ultimate poker villain story from winning the Million Dollar Heater Main Event.

Brock Gary would eventually chop with Kooroush Gahedi and Jeremy Eyer for $144,380 each, with Gahedi taking the title.

Postle’s cheating scandal would encapsulate a run of cheating since 2019, whether it is Ali imsimrovic and his dream machine allegations, which would have him banned by GGPoker and PokerStars Live, or Bryn Kenney’s stable full of frog poison shamans and ghosting.

In most recent times, we saw the allegations from well-known high-stakes cash pro Garrett Adelstein against Robbi Jade Lew, which would be found moot after an external investigation by Hustler Casino.