New Interactive Map From The Global Poker Index

For all you flag and map nerds out there, enjoy!

The Global Poker Index has created an interactive map so you can see the GPI Player of the Year in a much more fun way!

You can scroll over the map to see winners per country, click on the country to find out more details about the player and zoom in and out.

GPI Player of the Year categories include:

  • 2018 GPI Player of the Year
  • 2018 GPI Female Player of the Year
  • 2018 GPI Player of the Year Americas
  • 2018 GPI Player of the Year Europe
  • 2018 GPI Player of the Year Asia
  • 2018 GPI Player of the Year LATAM
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Highroller Dan Smith on The Poker Life Podcast

High stakes poker pro Dan Smith sits down with Joey Ingram on the Poker Life Podcast.

The pair talk the high roller scene, his recent game against Daniel Negreanu and his charity initiative the Double Up Drive.

To date Smith has helped raise more than $45 million for charity via his Double Up Drive.

You can watch the podcast with Smith and Ingram below.

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WATCH: The Video DNegs Played Before Proposing To Amanda Leatherman

On New Year’s Day Daniel Negreanu rang in 2019 by announcing that he proposed to Amanda Leatherman!

After meeting 13 years ago, an off and on again relationship, and Dnegs buying the ring 10 years ago, he finally gave it to her.

Here you can watch the very video Negreanu played to Leatherman before popping the question.

Spoiler alert, if the title of the video didn’t give it away, she said yes!

Congratulations to the pair!

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Jungleman Calls Out Tom Dwan Over The Durrrr Challenge

Daniel “Jungleman” Cates is calling out his rival Tom Dwan to find out if The Durrrr Challenge is ever coming back; nine years after it started.

Rumours of the pair working out an arrangement to play their final hands have been rumbling on for years.

Things were looking up back in 2017 when Jungleman revealed he was in talks with Dwan to play a additional hands of the challenge, after Doug Polk called the challenge the “biggest scam in poker history.” However, the talks didn’t come to anything—at least that has publicly been revealed—with zero hands being played in the past five years.

Dwan is losing to Cates by $1.2 million with 30,665 hands remaining.

If you need to brush up on what the Durrrr Challenge is, you can read more about it here.

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