Series, missions, leaderboards, bonuses — we collected information about all the promotions available at all the Best Online Poker Sites in one article. So, regardless of whether you favor PokerStars or WPT Global, there is something for everyone!
The 2025 World Series of Poker has now come and gone, and we are left with the memories of the 100 events that took place. We threw out ten predictions for this year’s series and are going to look back on them to see how we did.
The final month of Summer on WPT Global begins with incredible events for tournament players around the world. In this article, PokerListings will tell you about the biggest and most interesting WPT Global tournaments for the first weekend of August 2025.
Retired NBA star and well-known poker player Gilbert Arenas is facing federal charges for allegedly organizing illegal high-stakes poker games out of a Los Angeles mansion. The indictment, unsealed this week, reveals a detailed picture of a professionally run poker operation — complete with chefs, security, and raked pots — that now has Arenas and five others in serious legal trouble.
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Could Ontario rejoin the global online poker pool and even link up with players in the US? According to recent developments — it’s not just possible, it’s actively in motion.
The National Heads-Up Poker Championship is officially coming back—and yes, Mike Matusow is still the reigning champ.
After more than a decade on ice, the iconic $25,000 buy-in invitational is being revived by PokerStars and PokerGO, with new episodes premiering exclusively on Peacock this fall. From there, the show will be available on PokerGO’s platform and PokerStars’ media channels. For fans who remember the golden era of poker on NBC, this is as close to a time machine as we’re likely to get.
Following his first and enormously successful post on X (ex-Twitter), one of the best poker players ever to walk the Earth, Stephen Chidwick, has been running an Ask Me Anything there.
PokerListings took all his answers as they were up to July 29th, 2025 — the AMA is ongoing, so you can read the rest as they come out. For your convenience, we also divided the answers into three thematic categories.
The poker world didn’t exactly throw a party when the Senate snuck in a last-minute amendment to the One Big Beautiful Bill of America (OBBBA). That small line about limiting gambling loss deductions to 90% sent pro grinders and casual players into a panic — especially after the House passed it on July 3, 2025. But now, there’s finally a flicker of hope coming out of Washington… or, more accurately, out of Las Vegas.
The Irish Poker Open has long held its place as one of Europe’s most beloved (and iconic) poker festivals. Being a perfect combo of competition and off-the-table activities, the festival draws in unforgettable personalities from around the world each year.
In 2025, one of these was Ukrainian player Olena Nadtoka, whose entrance in a latex jumpsuit and magnetic table presence quickly made heads turn. But this wasn’t just about style — Olena proved she could play, reaching the final table of the Ladies Event and running deep in the Main Event.
After the festival, Olena’s vlog caught fire on social media. So logically, we reached out to her to talk about her experience, poker mindset, and what’s next in her fast-growing career.
Here’s the full interview, presented uncut and unfiltered — just like her presence at the table.
Note: This interview was conducted remotely and edited lightly for clarity. All questions and answers appear in full, in the order they were given.
You wouldn’t take on a marathon without some solid training. The same goes for WCOOP. And with the 2025 World Championship of Online Poker fast approaching, PokerStars is once again offering players a way to warm up their brains and bankrolls before the main series begins.
From August 3 to 18, the WCOOP Boot Camp returns, serving up a mix of tournaments, free strategy sessions, and leaderboard prizes — all designed to help players sharpen up before the lights go up on poker’s biggest online stage.
The Battle of Malta will return this year for the 2025 Autumn edition which will run from October 28 to November 5 at the Casino Malta and luxurious Intercontinental Hotel, right in the middle of St. Julians. With more than €2,000,000 in guaranteed prize pools and a whopping €1,500,000 reserved for the Main Event alone, it will be a true battlefield again to look out for!
The Battle of Malta, once brought to the market by Pokerlistings, has grown to an incredible event which is ten times more popular than it was in its first years. This year, they will celebrate their 10th Anniversary, something truly unique in the world of poker, especially on a small island like Malta. Ironically enough, PokerListings is now proudly Media Partner of the event!
The event has grown immensely over the years, and with the two largest events of the island having their own personal ‘Battle of Malta’ last year by setting their dates within the same timeframe, they even outdid themselves even more. Whatever people say or think, this has been the perfect step for the poker ecosystem in Malta, with two events overlapping in terms of dates.
An assortment of poker’s elite players are set to take to the tables at the luxurious Bombay Club in the heart of Tallinn next week for the latest installment of the Bombay High Stakes Week.
This high-roller event is set to attract the likes of Phil Ivey, Dan “Jungleman” Cates, and, for the home team, reigning €25k Main Event Champion, Ottomar Ladva, who scored €225,600 for his efforts. Another representative of the home contingent that is likely to take to the felt is Markkos Ladev, who shipped last year’s €10K Bombay Invitational for €128,000.
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The SiGMA Poker Tour is back and landing in Malta from September 3–7. This stop is shaping up to be one of the top poker tournaments in Malta this year, and a great warm-up for everything that is about to go down at the Rocky Island!
If there’s one thing you can count on in the poker world, it’s that EPT Barcelona delivers — every single year. Record-breaking fields, illustrious victories, simply an event where Poker Stars are born!
In 2025, this stop on the European Poker Tour isn’t just a tournament like any other; it’s shaping up to be bigger, better, bolder, and more epic than ever before. The fun part? Our PokerListings team will be present at the venue, providing you with cool content, just as it was during the Irish Poker Open earlier this year in Dublin.
Let’s be honest here: Is there a better stop of the EPT throughout the year? Barcelona is epic, known for being the first real big stop after the WSOP marathon. Sun, Sea, Sangria… What else do you need?
If you like free poker and good structure, we’ve got something for you. PokerListings has teamed up with WPT Global to bring you a weekly password-protected freeroll series running all summer long — and every one of them comes with a $50 guaranteed prize pool. You just need the right password to play.
The setup is simple: the freerolls run every Thursday at 18:00 UK time or 19:00 CET, starting July 24 and continuing through September 11. The games are 9-handed No-Limit Hold’em, with 3,000 starting chips, 6-minute blind levels, and a nice balance.
PokerStars is giving players across Ontario and the US another reason to start packing for Vegas. The latest addition to its Power Path lineup is the Silver Pass, a $3,000 USD package to NAPT Las Vegas 2025 — and yes, it can be won starting from just $3.
The Silver Pass promotion kicked off on July 14 and runs through mid-September in Ontario, and mid-October in the US, offering multiple qualifying paths on PokerStars for players in Ontario, New Jersey, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.
So what exactly is on the table? Here’s what to expect from the new Silver Pass promo — and what’s waiting in Vegas this November.
The Chesterfield Poker Club in the picturesque Tallinn, capital of Estonia, has just hosted The Festival Weekend Sviten Special, and the results were outstanding for The Festival Founder Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk in more ways than one.
Photo Credit: Václav “LemonPoker” Dušek – Martin “Franke” von Zweigbergk
The World Series of Poker is many things — prestigious, iconic, life-changing — but what it hasn’t always been is accessible. GGPoker is hoping to change that with WSOP Express, a new satellite ladder that lets you turn a 50-cent buy-in into a five-figure tournament package. The system is now live, running continuously on GGPoker, and offers three types of high-value Passes that can be used at WSOP Ring events, bracelet events, or the luxurious WSOP Paradise.
Unlike previous step satellites, WSOP Express isn’t just about climbing the ladder — it’s about letting players choose how they climb it. Whether you start from the ground up or skip steps using direct buy-ins, the endgame is the same: a ticket to the biggest tournaments in poker, plus travel expenses. Here’s how it all works.
Complete simple missions to earn entries into freerolls with prize pools of up to $20,000 in the 888poker Poker Waves promotion, running until October 11.
For the first time in iPoker (and RedStar Poker) history, the Summer Festival offers a massive €3,000,000 guarantee across the series from July 24th to August 11th, 2025.
The series has a fairly standard schedule for the iPoker Network — daily NLH and PLO tournaments in a variety of formats with buy-ins ranging from €1 to €500 — but there is also a wide range of promotions available, making the series more appealing to a variety of players, including cash game and Twisters players.