Grzegorz Glowny won his way into the 2022 European Poker Prague €5,300 buy-in no-limit hold’em main event via a €530 online satellite on PokerStars. The native of Poland was one of 1,190 total entries in this massive tournament. After seven full days of tournament action, Glowny managed to emerge victorious with the title and the top payout of €692,252 ($754,555 USD).

This was Glowny’s largest recorded live tournament score by nearly $750,000. His previous top cash was $5,221, made earlier at this same series.

In addition to the money, Glowny also became the fifth Polish player to win an EPT main event title. As this year’s EPT Prague main event champion, Glowny was awarded 1,920 Card Player Player of the Year points. This was his first POY-qualified score ever, but it alone was enough to move him into sixth place in the 2022 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker.

Join the best poker room in New York

The final day of this event began with just six players remaining, with Gab Yong Kim in the chip lead and an average stack of roughly 50 big blinds. Armin Rezaei was the first to fall, getting all-in with a three-bet squeeze from the big blind after Glowny raised from the cutoff and Kim called from the button. Glowny called with ADiamond SuitKDiamond Suit, which had Rezaei’s AHeart SuitQHeart Suit in rough shape. The board improved neither player and Rezaei was eliminated in sixth place ($198,162 USD).

Demetrio Caminita’s run in this event came to an end thanks to a preflop battle of the blinds. He shoved for just shy of 2 million with 8Diamond Suit6Diamond Suit when it folded to him in the small blind. Glowny called from the big blind with 5Heart Suit5Diamond Suit. The pocket fives held up and Caminita was sent to the rail with $267,998 USD for his fifth-place showing.

The final four players battled on for more than four hours after Caminita left the table, with a few pauses in play to discuss a deal. Eventually, the quartet came to an agreement that saw them readjust the remaining payouts based on ICM numbers. The deal left $120,768 USD in prize money remaining for the eventual champion. Here is a look at what each player locked up (in USD):

Gab Yong Kim (46 big blinds) – $678,645 USD
Andrea Cortellazzi (37 big blinds) – $631,568 USD
Grzegorz Glowny (37 big blinds) – $633,787 USD
Symeon Alexandridis (23 big blinds) – $542,033 USD

Kim secured the largest guaranteed payout thanks to the deal, but shortly after agreeing to it began to slide down the leaderboard. In his final hand he got all-in on a 10Diamond Suit6Diamond Suit4Club Suit3Diamond SuitQSpade Suit board with 6Spade Suit3Club Suit. His two pair was no good against the 8Diamond Suit7Diamond Suit of Cortellazzi, who turned a flush to take the lead and held from there. Kim went home in fourth place with the payout he negotiated for in the four-way deal.

Symeon Alexandridis got the last of his stack into the middle with his AHeart Suit9Spade Suit leading the AClub Suit8Spade Suit of Glowny. The KSpade Suit3Diamond Suit2Spade Suit8Heart Suit2Heart Suit runout gave Glowny eights and deuces for the win, though, and Alexandridis settled for third place.

With that, heads-up play began with Cortellazzi holding 19,425,000 to Glowny’s 16,300,000. The lead changed hands a couple times, but Glowny managed to win a huge all-in with pocket queens against Cortellazzi’s A-9 to take a decisive lead in time for the final hand of the tournament. Cortellazzi shoved his last eight big blinds with 8Club SuitClub Suit from the button. Glowny called with KClub SuitQClub Suit out of the big blind. The board ran out 10Club Suit7Spade Suit2Heart SuitKSpade Suit4Spade Suit, giving Glowny aa winning pair of kings and the pot. Cortellazzi took home $631,568 USD as the runner-up, while also securing 1,600 POY points. The Italian now sits in a tie for 11th place in the overall POY standings.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded during the final day of action:

Winner photo credit: Danny Maxwell / Rational Intellectual Holdings Ltd.

The 27-year-old poker pro’s incredible run from 2021 has carried over to the new year, as he currently leads all poker tournament players in both titles won and final-table finishes. Imsirovic claimed sole possession of the top spot in those categories thanks to victory in the latest $10,500 buy-in high roller held during the 2022 Wynn Millions series. He overcame a field of 60 entries to earn $180,000 and his fourth title of 2022.

In addition to the money and the hardware, Imsirovic also earned a bounty of rankings points for his latest title run. The 360 Card Player Player of the Year points he secured were enough to see him squeak past Jeremy Ausmus to overtake the lead in the 2022 POY race, which is sponsored by Global Poker.

Imsirovic also scored 180 PokerGO Tour points for the win. He now sits in second place on that leaderboard. He is off to an impressive start in his quest to defend both the Card Player and PokerGO Tour Player of the Year awards.

Imsirovic set the record for the most POY-qualified titles in a calendar year with 14 in 2021. He is currently on pace to blow that record out of the water, with one title earned every 16.5 days so far this year. If he somehow maintained his current pace, he would end up with a fitting 22 titles in 2022.

Imsirovic eliminated John Krpan on the money bubble to take a sizable lead into the final table. Cary Katz knocked out short stack Sylvain Loosli (9th – $18,000) to narrow the field to eight. Imsirovic then picked up pocket tens against the pocket eights of 2021 World Series of Poker Europe main event runner-up Johan Guilbert (8th – $24,000) to take another step closer to the title.

Actress, singer, and model Arden Cho’s run in this event came to an end when her A-6 was unable to beat out the pocket queens of bracelet winner and high-stakes tournament regular Sam Soverel. The Teen Wolf star flopped an ace to take the lead, but Soveel rivered a set of queens to take down the pot. Cho earned $30,000 as the seventh-place finisher.

Sergio Aido (6th – $36,000) was the next to fall, with his pocket nines from the small blind failing to hold against the 10-7 that Imsirovic shoved out of the cutoff.

Katz’ got the last of his stack in with K-Q in a three-way pot. Severe short stack Sean Winter flopped a straight with 6-5 to win the main pot, while Matas Cimbolas’ A-9 was good for the side pot. Katz locked up $48,000 for his latest strong showing in a high roller event, increasing his lifetime earnings to just shy of $34.2 million. He currently sits in 15th place in the POY standings.

Not too long after tripling up, Winter ran A-2 suited into the pocket aces of Cimbolas to finish fourth for $60,000. This was his eighth POY-qualified final-table finish of the year. As a result, he moved into 11th on the overall leaderboard.

Sam Soverel committed the majority of his stack preflop with K-10 suited, with the rest going in after a 6Spade Suit2Spade Suit2Club Suit flop. Imsirovic held 5Spade Suit5Club Suit, which remained ahead through a blank turn and river. Soverel hit the rail with $84,000.

With that Imsirovic took roughly a 4:1 chip lead into heads-up play with Cimbolas, a Lithuanian player with a World Poker Tour title to his name. Cimbolas won an early preflop coinflip to close the gap considerably, but Imsirovic was still in the lead when the final hand of the tournament was dealt.

Cimbolas raised to 175,000 from the button with 6Spade Suit5Spade Suit and Imsirovic called with 10Heart Suit6Club Suit from the big blind. The 10Diamond Suit2Spade Suit2Diamond Suit flop drew a check-call from Imsirovic, with Cimbolas’s continuation bet being for 100,000. The 4Spade Suit on the turn saw Imsirovic check again. This time CImbolas fired 450,000. Imsirovic called and the KDiamond Suit hit the river. Imsirovic checked a third time. Cimboolas moved all-in for 1,425,000. Imsirovic thought it over before making the call with his tens and deuces. Cimbolas showed his missed draws and the pot and the title were sent to Imsirovic. Cimbolas earned $120,000 as the runner-up.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded in this event:

Daniel Negreanu became just the third player in poker history to exceed $45 million in career earnings thanks to a win in the 2022 Wynn Millions $15,700 buy-in no-limit hold’em high roller. The 47-year-old Poker Hall of Fame member defeated a field of 40 entries to earn $216,000 and the title, increasing his lifetime total to $45,100,233 in the process. The six-time World Series of Poker gold bracelet winner remains in third place on poker’s all-time money list, behind only Justin Bonomo ($59,182,835) and Bryn Kenney ($57,450,921).

As Negreanu mentioned in the above tweet, he was also awarded plenty of rankings points for the win along with the title and the money. The 360 CardPlayer Player of the Year points he secured for his second title and fifth POY-qualified final-table finish of the year were enough to move him into 20th place in the 2022 POY standings, which are sponsored by Global Poker. He also secured 216 PokerGO Tour points, which moved him into seventh place on that leaderboard. He has already cashed for more than $760,000 since the new year began.

The top six finishers made the money in this event, with Sergio Aido being eliminated on the bubble. Reigning Card Player and PokerGO Tour Player of the Year Ali Imsirovic was the next to fall, with his KHeart SuitKDiamond Suit failing to hold up against the AClub SuitKSpade Suit of Negreanu. An ace on the flop left Imsirovic in rough shape, and he warned $30,000 as the sixth-place finisher when the turn and river brought no help. The 120 POY points he earned for his eighth final-table finish of the year were enough to see him climb into second place in this year’s standings. He now sits in third on the PGT leaderboard as well, having already cashed for more than $1.2 million this year, with three titles won along the way.

Sean Winter was the next to fall, with the last of his extreme short stack being committed with Q-5. He ran into pocket aces for Sergi Reixach, which held to narrow the field to four. Winter earned $48,000 for his seventh POY-qualified final table of the year, moving into 18th in the POY race as a result.

Brock Wilson had also navigated his way into the money on a short stack. He got all-in with 10-5 sited and was up against the pocket sevens of Ren Lin. The pocket pair held up and Wilson was sent to the rail with $66,000. He now sits inside the top ten in both the Card Player and PokerGO Tour points races.

The lead changed hands between Negreanu and Lin a few times during three-handed play. Negreanu spiked an ace on the river with A-8 against Lin’s pocket tens to double into the lead. Roughly half an hour later Lin got all-in with ADiamond Suit6Diamond Suit against Negreanu’s 9Heart Suit9Diamond Suit. The pocket nines remained best by the river and Lin was eliminated in third place ($96,000).

With that Negreanu took roughly a 5:3 chip lead into heads-up play against Reixach. he was able to extend that advantage in time for the final hand. He shoved from the button for just under 8.5 big blinds effective with 9Heart Suit8Spade Suit and Reixach called with 4Heart Suit4Club Suit. The board ran out 9Club Suit3Heart Suit2Spade Suit5Diamond SuitKHeart Suit to lock up the pot and the title for Negreanu. Reixach was awarded $144,000 as the runner-up, increasing his career earnings to more than $8.9 million.

Here is a look at the payouts and rankings points awarded at the final table:

Photo credit: Daniel Negreanu’s Twitter account.

The Supreme Court of California has determined not to put on hold a November ballot procedure that has been funded by Native American people seeking to increase their tribal gambling establishments’ gaming options by the approval of in-person betting on sports. The tribes are also seeking to add some roulette as well as dice video games to their gambling enterprise offerings.

The initiative, which has taken care of to qualify for the state ballot in November after gathering over 1.5 million signatures, was challenged in court by 2 certified cardrooms– Cal-Pac Rancho Cordova in Sacramento Area and the Los Angeles County-based Hollywood Park Gambling Enterprise.

The lawsuit of the two cardroom operators declared that the tally procedure backed by the Tribes violations the state Constitution due to the truth that several subjects such as live roulette games, dice video games and also sporting activities betting, are covered. Both cardrooms additionally protested against one of the arrangements, under which the Indigenous American tribes can start lawsuit, for the state, against other parties that breach various other betting limits under the existing The golden state laws.

For the time being, the Exclusive Attorneys General Act provides the right of private citizens to take violators of particular state laws to court and get 25% of the monetary penalties, while the state obtains the other 75%.

According to the legal agents of the Hollywood Park Casino and the Cal-Pac Rancho Cordova, the consent of exclusive enforcement suits and the gaming growth through the legalisation of live roulette and dice video games are serving special interests that are not related to the permission, tax as well as regulation of sporting activities betting in the state.

Two Cardrooms to Refile Their Lawsuit in Los Angeles County Superior Court

Up until now, the High court of California has actually rarely disqualified ballot steps due to accusations of covering a variety of subjects. Typically, it has actually upheld previous campaigns whose arrangements were in some way associated with a much more general subject. Previously this week, the court rejected a hearing on the legal action filed by the abovementioned cardroom drivers, in a one-line order that gave no indicator of any difference in between the six justices.

The Native American tribe commented that it was pleased with the judgment yet was not shocked that the Supreme Court had actually made a decision to deny the cardrooms’ demand to remove the tally measure. They have explained the cardroom gambling establishments as the main opponents of the suggested initiative and shared hopes that The golden state citizens would handle to translucent their “wasteful” and “misleading” tactics and remain to sustain regional Native American tribes.

The plaintiffs, which in December 2021 filed their situation directly with the High court now intend to refile it in Los Angeles Area Superior Court intending to get a more favorable ruling as the situation proceeds.

On the other hand, the tribal action is still on the November ballot. A variety of competing procedures have been suggested, but they have still not gotten entering into the ballot.

Andrew Moreno has been in the poker world for roughly two decades, with the vast majority of that time spent focusing on cash games. The 38-year-old had accumulated around $850,000 in tournament scores along the way, but MTTs were always a secondary focus. Just shy of a year ago he publicly committed to playing more tournaments and has quickly found impressive success on the circuit.

Since making a Twitter post about ‘getting back on the tourney grind’ in March of 2021, Moreno has cashed for more than $1.9 million dollars. The highlight of his incredible run was when he took down the massive 2021 Wynn Millions $10,000 buy-in main event, defeating a field of 1,328 entries to earn $1,460,106.

Moreno secured the second-largest score of his career on Monday, Feb. 21 when he outlasted a 542-entry field to emerge victorious in the 2022 Venetian DeepStack Extravaganza I $2,500 buy-in no-limit hold’em ‘UltimateStack’ $1 million guaranteed event. He took home $242,293 for the win, increasing his lifetime tournament earnings to just shy of $2.8 million.

In addition to the title and the money, Moreno also scored 1,260 Card Player Player of the Year points as the champion. This was his second POY-qualified score of the year, having finished eighth in a $575 Run Good Poker Series event at Jamul Casino just a few weeks earlier for $6,520 and 70 points. With these two deep runs, Moreno now sits in sixth place in the overall POY race standings, which are presented by Global Poker. He made his first top 20-finish in the year-end POy standings last year and is now well-positioned to try to top that showing in 2022.

Moreno is not the only member of his family to find a big score at Venetian Hotel and Casino in recent weeks. Ten days earlier his brother, poker vlogger ‘Johnnie Vibes’ Moreno, finished as the runner-up in the Mid-States Poker Tour Venetian Poker Bowl VI $1,100 buy-in event for a career-best $124,675 payday. Andrew’s wife, Kristy Arnett Moreno, is no stranger to live tournament success either, having made the final table of the 2018 World Series of Poker Circuit Bicycle Casino main event. The former Card Player writer and video host finished fifth in that event for $55,150.

Plenty of accomplished players made deep runs in this tournament, including WSOP bracelet winner Barry Hutter (7th – $35,142), 2021 MSPT Riverside main event winner Daniel Sepiol (12th – $16,646), World Poker Tour Rolling Thunder main event winner David Larson (14th – $14,180), Peter Neff (16th – $12,331), Timothy Reilly (17th – $12,331), 2019 WPT Venetian main event winner Ben Palmer (19th – $10,481), 2021 POY-race runner-up and WPT Venetian champion Qing Liu (22nd – $9,248), bracelet winner Ryan Laplante (27th – $8,015), two-time bracelet winner Eric Baldwin (31st – $6,782), 2013 WSOP main event champ Ryan Riess (33rd – $6,782), Alex Foxen (35th – $6,782), and FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver (37th – $6,165).

Brent Hart earned $166,462 as the runner-up finisher, increasing his career earnings to $710,415. The L.A. resident now sits in a tie for 15th place in the 2022 POY race.

Here is a look at the payouts and POY points awarded at the final table of this event:

High-stakes poker player Garrett Adelstein was a super nice guy in a recent live stream from the Hustler Casino in Gardena, California.

In a clip posted to Twitter by another poker player, Adelstein is seen on the losing end of an all-in hand with KSpade Suit 10Spade Suit on a board reading QHeart Suit 3Heart Suit 3Club Suit 4Diamond Suit KDiamond Suit against his opponent’s pocket fours for a full house.

The pot was worth about $180,000.

Only the end of the action was shown in the video, and it looked like Adelstein called all in. His opponent inexplicably told Adelstein “good call,” only moments later to say “just kidding.”

Adelstein barely reacted to the situation, a classy move despite the slow roll.

He later posted a Tweet about the hand, continuing to shrug off the poor etiquette.

The lack of response by @GmanPoker here is straight class. This is the model for all professionals. pic.twitter.com/2ST2dKdWUu

— Johnnie VIBΞS (@JohnnieVibes) February 19, 2022

The Golden State Warriors roster is full of poker-playing card sharks, but they took a break from their private games to host a charity poker event earlier this month.

The Warriors hosted the 8th annual Warriors Community Foundation Poker Tournament, presented by MGM Resorts, on February 5 at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco. The event raised $2.5 million for the Warriors Community Foundation, according to an announcement Monday.

Net proceeds will be awarded to Bay Area non-profits ahead of the 2022-23 NBA season as part of the Warriors Community Foundation’s annual grant cycle.

The buy-in and re-buys at the tournament totaled over $1.8 million, with the money raised through a live auction totaling over $600,000. Top prizes at the auction included cookies baked by Ayesha Curry and a Kelley James guitar, signed by Stephen Curry, Draymond Green, and Klay Thompson.

The team’s poker interest also extends to team ownership. Minority team owner Chamath Palihapitiya has a few cashes at the World Series of Poker and has gone on record talking about experiences playing in some of the biggest cash games in Las Vegas.

Green in 2019 appeared on a Poker After Dark high-stakes cash game.

Apparently poker pro Igor Kurganov is helping Elon Musk manage some of his fortune.

According to a report from Bloomberg, Musk gifted $5.7 billion worth of Tesla stock to charity in the span of 10 days in November, but “[w]here that donation is going is a mystery.” Musk reportedly disclosed the donation in a regulatory filing this week.

Kurganov, a fixture in many super high-stakes poker tournaments over the past handful of years, has been “recently enlisted” by the billionaire Musk to help run The Musk Foundation.

Per the report: “The Musk Foundation in the past couple of years has made eight-figure grants to the city and local school system near his South Texas spaceport, a $100 million ready-made competition to fight climate change and millions of dollars to a pair of Covid-19 researchers […] Almost all of those recipients have been primarily working with Igor Kurganov, a professional poker player-turned-philanthropist, who Musk has recently enlisted to keep in contact with grantees and consider their proposals.”

Kurganov is the co-founder of Raising for Effective Giving (REG), an organization created by a group of poker players that recommends “highly cost-effective charities.” The nonprofit was formed in 2014 during the summer World Series of Poker.

Other REG founders include poker players Liv Boeree and Philipp Gruissem.

Wynn Resorts announced Tuesday that it has entered into a deal to sell all of the land and real estate assets of Encore Boston Harbor.

The Las Vegas-based casino developer will sell the assets to a group known as Realty Income for $1.7 billion in cash. Wynn Resorts will continue to operate the property.

The news follows plans by Wynn Resorts to sell its online gambling unit at a steep discount from a prior valuation, according to reports.

“Simultaneous with the closing of the transaction, we will enter into a triple-net lease agreement for Encore Boston Harbor with Realty Income,” Wynn Resorts said.

“The lease will have an initial total annual rent of $100.0 million and an initial term of 30 years, with one thirty-year tenant renewal option. Rent under the lease will escalate at 1.75% for the first ten years of the lease and the greater of 1.75% and the CPI increase during the prior year (capped at 2.50%) over the remainder of the lease term.”

Wynn Resorts will retain its 13 acres of land on the east side of Broadway in Everett, MA, on a portion of which, the casino company plans to construct an expansion that is expected to include additional covered parking along with other non-gaming amenities.

Eventually, Wynn might end up also selling the land and real estate assets of the expansion to Realty Income, the announcement said.

The transaction is subject gaming regulatory approvals, among other government sign-offs.

“Encore Boston Harbor is the premier gaming resort on the East Coast and the valuation we achieved in this sale reflects the property’s quality,” said Craig Billings, Wynn CEO. “Equally important, the bespoke structure and terms of the lease allow us to maintain a great deal of operating flexibility across economic cycles. The proceeds of the transaction also provide us with liquidity for several of our upcoming development projects and the potential to retire other debt.”

The casino, located about five miles outside Boston, opened in 2019 at a total cost of $2.6 billion. It was the first Las Vegas-style resort-casino near Boston.

Wynn Resorts stock ($WYNN) was up 4.5% Tuesday following the announcement.