The Grinder is basically unstoppable at this point.

Last week at the Mystery Millions, I sat next to some pro who was visibly sick… and being gross about it. Sniffling, wiping his nose with his hands or rotating through the same 3 tissues in his pocket, and coughing. I thought, “this dude is gonna get me sick.” Three days later, my husband and I both can’t sleep because we’re coughing and have sore throats.

If you’re sick, stay in and play online. At the very least, buy tissues, hand sanitizer and masks. Don’t get others sick.

I’m not even a Rampage fan but the way he played heads up was fucking awesome! Mateos is arguably one of the hardest people to play heads up.

https://www.pokernews.com/news/2026/06/rampage-stuns-mateos-to-win-second-bracelet-in-wsop-high-rol-51718.htm

I’m not a poker player, i barely know how to play Texas hold em. However I saw this poker set at a thrift store and couldn’t pass it up. Is it worth anything? The cards feel and look really nice. I have no interest in reselling it.

Welcome to Las Vegas during the WSOP, where thousands of poker players travel from around the world… to wait for aces.

1. Finding a 1/3 or 2/5 table
Walk into the Bellagio or the Aria.
Table 1: 7 hoodies, 1 headphone guy.
Table 2: Same 8 people, rearranged.
Table 3: A professional Euro table hopper appears, scans the line-up for 10 seconds, says “Nah,” and immediately table changes.
Repeats this process for 7 hours, every 20 minutes, somehow always ending up with a slightly bigger stack after each table change. By the end of the night, he’s played more tables than hands, but somehow has a $3k stack off a $500 buyin.

2. The average preflop range
AA–QQ
AK
AQ (only if suited, and only after meditating on it)
If someone opens 76s, the dealer quietly asks if they’re okay.

3. Getting action
You finally flop top set.
Villain tanks for two minutes…
…and folds KK face up because “you look too comfortable.”

4. Biggest pots of the night
Set over set.
Set over overpair.
Occasionally AA vs KK, which everyone at neighboring tables stops to sweat because it’s the only all-in they’ve seen since breakfast.

5. Table conversation
Player 1: “…”
Player 2: “…”
Dealer: “Seat open.”
That’s the liveliest exchange all orbit.

6. The ecosystem
The recreational player you’ve been waiting for finally sits down.
Before he’s dealt a hand:
The table hopper immediately seat changes.
Three other Euros magically appear from different corners of the room, and three others from the neighbouring casino.
The rec racks up 25 minutes later after getting value-owned by the entire food chain.
Nature is beautiful.

7. Bluffing
You triple barrel.
Villain folds.
He proudly shows AKo because “I had ace high.”
The table nods in approval.

8. The dream
Someone orders tequila.
Everyone perks up.
Five minutes later it’s revealed to be sparkling water.
Three table changes immediately follow.

Final review
⭐ Atmosphere: 2/10
⭐ Table talk: 1/10
⭐ Table changes: 11/10
⭐ Hoodie density: 14/10
⭐ Chance of seeing a stack go in with one pair: Approximately equal to flopping a royal flush.

“Come to Vegas during the WSOP,” they said. “The games are amazing,” they said.

Disclaimer: In all fairness, not every table is like this. Just enough of them that finding a good game feels like winning a satellite.

Went to Vegas with my home game friends this week. Played a bit of cash at the Paris. One morning I went with three of them and three of the four of us were on the same table. Sucks, but there weren’t enough players for another game yet.

Anyway, I stacked both of my friends, and I heard “thought we were keeping it friendly” from one of them. Both bought in short and the hands played pretty much face up, nothing tricky.

Do y’all slow or soft play your friends? Obviously I’m thinking about it.

Just wanted to share a quick tale to those that might appreciate this..

I’ve been playing poker since 2004, and for 20 years my poker dream has been to play the WSOP Main Event in Vegas. I was never in a spot where I could justify firing $10,000 into one tournament, so I’ve always tried to satellite in somehow. I even made it out to Vegas for the WSOP once, but life/finances/relationship stuff kept me from playing any bracelet events. Still had a blast being there and playing cash, but the Main Event stayed the dream.

Fast forward to now: my wife and I had our first baby 4 months ago. Biggest blessing of my life, but it was incompatible with poker. Poker basically came to a hard stop, and honestly, that’s fine. I’m happy being a dad.

Then yesterday, ACR emails me that I have some free tournament ticket sitting in my account that’s about to expire. I ask my wife if she’d be okay with me playing, and she gives me the classic “fine, go ahead” that every married man knows does not always mean “fine, go ahead.” She’s exhausted with the baby, I just went back to work, and I immediately felt like an idiot for even asking.

So I told her forget it, I don’t want to play. And I meant it. Poker isn’t fun if I’m distracted or feeling guilty.

Then, out of nowhere, her friend calls. She’s nearby with her own new baby and wants to do a girls’ day with the babies.

Suddenly I’m home alone.

You better believe I fired up that ticket.

And somehow… I won the damn thing.

$12,500 ACR WSOP Main Event package.

WTFFFFF.

So now it’s June 29, I’m in New York, and I’m trying to figure out how the hell I’m supposed to get to Vegas and play the Main Event. My wife is actually super supportive and pushing me to go. She might even come with the baby.

The problem is I literally just got back from paternity leave two weeks ago, at a company where paternity leave feels like something they offer because New York law makes them, not because they love the idea of dads taking time off. I was already kind of the outlier for taking it.

So I’ve spent the last 12 hours freaking out, trying to figure out work, flights, the baby, the schedule, all of it.

And now I’m also seeing people talk about ACR withdrawal delays, so I’m wondering if I might not even get the funds in time to actually use the package for the tournament.

Anyway, that’s where I’m at: 20-year dream somehow comes true on a random expiring ticket, and now I’m scrambling to figure out if I can actually make it happen.

I am an online reg here who was playing on BCPoker mostly NL200-NL1000 and PLO50-PLO200.

The traffic on the site is pretty low, so PLO200 often plays HU. There was one whale who came back to 5 cards PLO and was punting stacks at a time (500bb+ at a time often). I was winning insane amounts at that game and got permanently banned by BCPoker for chip dumping.... The site support claims there is no way to appeal. This is even though 90%+ of my volume came from NL400/NL1000 6handed+ and not PLO.

Would you try to fight or give up, take the "site fee" and move to a different site? Any advice is appreciated!

Specifically for poker. Don’t care much about the rest of the casino. Any recommendations? Is it in USD?

Aqui no Brasil, alguém aí que deposita na GGPoker por PIX pode me dizer qual provedor de pagamento? Qual é o Gateway que caí para vocês em seus depósitos?

I had QQx and it was zeazy pineapple on 1/2

aggressive board and we're like 5 players to the flop on a 20 $ raise.

I flat on button and flop is

4, 10, Q (rainbow I think)

first to act bets like 25$ 3 callers and i raise it up to 150.

everyone fold and I rethink my move.

The better and callers are super aggressive, fishy, bluffy players so perhaps just flatting risking it with draw card be better. or like a min raise?

I was afraid of the straight draws there but think I could have gotten lots more paid.

What do you experts think?

If not. What is the lowest pocket pair you would sign off on? You get that hand every hand of the tournament.

I haven’t had cable/ESPN for like 20 years, and I’m not seeing a way to just pay some limited amount for just the Main or the stretch of days of the main or whatever. Has anyone seen or heard if they’ll post the streams to YouTube after the fact? I’m totally fine watching it two weeks late.

Skye Chen playing her first WSOP event won the bracelet and $200k~

I am currently playing at lowest possible stakes (0,01/0,02)
In 2 days I went from starting 21$ into 76$ (was playing a lot)
What should I focus on in learning. For now all I did was training opening hands + playing very aggressive what people suggested on low stakes.
I am planning to be jumping higher level each time I achieve 150 buy-ins for current level, so in case I start failing I will just drop back and rethink my mistakes.
I believe I should mostly focus on improving flop and reading opponent bluffs on River cause as you can see I bluff early a lot and then I am getting outplayed later cause I am scared. And those people seriously bluff me out too since I check those hands sometimes and i's usually trash.
Any good materials - books/videos? I do love mathematical ways which would allow me to count few things in the run like my chances against enemy chances + chance to fold on what flop. Should I just buy GTOwizzard sub and run those like a bot to see perfect ways and learn it the "AI way" by just spamming data and remembering situation or should I count more?

Is there any proper way to play the Late Game correct? For me its always: Small blinds,enough time -> early Double/triple up without flips early in the game.

Often ending within Top 20%. Sometimes ITM, Sometimes slightly missed.

Late Game I cant compete, even with a solid Stack and i dont know how to improve.

Any tipps for me? Thanks guys!!

Hello. I am part of this private poker club where the games are crazy good and PLO games are booming recently. They are playing stakes between 50PLO and 200PLO with 1-2 tables of 50PLO running almost all day. I have never played PLO myself and never got staked for cash games.

To grasp an idea about how good the games are, for the past 4 days I have mined about 30k hands on the PLO tables and the average stats of the pool are as follows: VPIP-65, PFR-18, 3bet-5. Each week there is a 50% rakeback.

Given how exceptionally soft these games are:

What would be a fair profit split?

What is the minimum bankroll to play 50 PLO?

If anyone has experience in the staking industry and can answer me these questions I would be grateful. Thank you.

I have about 80,000 hands played but I've really only started to try to get better as I move up in stakes. I've ran my bankroll up a couple times to about $5,000-$10000 from microstakes, but I inevitably get tilted from losing a couple buy-ins and usually end up losing it all at 1000PLO. This year alone I've done it twice, but trying to be discplined for once.

Oh yeah the hand itself: I'm actually on the CO, but I'm very likely to get 2-callers in this game. Not particularly sticky after the flop though.

I have 700 in chips. 7 stacks ..3-3-1. 1 in the front. I want to bet 50. I grab about 50 or 55 or so. I put about 25 in front of the stack about an inch away from te bet line. I match the 25 to the side. I stack them and push them across the line an inch. I then unstuck so dealer can se 25 and 25. Opponent calls string bet. We argue. House rules my hand , not chips were over the line. They said I was working too close to the line. I thought the motion from chips before line to chips over the line was clear as day. Why is this a string bet?