PokerStars has revealed the PokerStars Player Championship NL Hold’em event for January 2019.

There is an expected prize pool of at least $16 million, including $1 million added to first place, making it the biggest live tournament in the operator’s history.

Read all about it here.

The teaser video is awesome, but that maybe because I love the song.

Teaser videos have been released from PokerStars alluding to a tournament where there will be a prize pool that smashes all previous records.

In the promo videos, shown below, it counts down the company’s largest ever tournaments, with the current first place going to the PCA in 2011, when its Main Event boasted a $15.1 million prize pool. It then just ends, with “There’s Going to be a New Number 1.”

More to be revealed during a live stream from PSC Prague later today.

CardPlayer brings to us the story of high stakes poker pro, Nick Petrangelo.

Petrangelo who hails from Massachusetts has been on the high-stakes tournament scene since 2015, having now amassed $9.4 million in live tournament cashes.

YouTube tells us that highlights on the program will include: “...why high roller fish are better players than regular fish, being 'less chill’ in a hockey game, why tournaments are better than cash games, not being dollar motivated, a six-figure slow roll, a short stint as a bank teller, wanting the farm in Vermont and table draw confidence.”

Rob Yong managed to get himself swept up in the fall-out between Leon Tsoukernik (owner of Kings Casino) and Australian high stakes poker pro Matt Kirk after a high stakes cash game at the Aria ended with Tsoukernik owing Kirk $3 million USD.

Apparently, the debt comes from a late night high stakes heads-up cash game between the pair — with Tsourkernik (who was drunk) allegedly funding his game with repeated loans from Kirk.

Yong has taken his blog to set the record straight in his involvement in the matter.

You can read Yong’s full account of what he remembers happening here.

As a reminder, earlier in the year, all hell broke loose on the 2+2 forum when images of legal paperwork showing Australian high stakes pro Matthew Kirk is suing Leon Tsoukernik over an unpaid debt to of $2 million appeared.

The papers show high profile Las Vegas attorneys David Chesnoff and Richard Schonfeld acting on behalf of Aussie Matt in a bid to get the debt paid.

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The 2018 World Series of Poker schedule has been released, so you can start planning that trip to Las Vegas next summer.

There will be 78 bracelet events to play in from May 29 to July 17 2018.

The WSOP will culminate in the popular $1M One Drop event.

You can see the schedule in full here.