The next Triton invitational tournament will take place in Montenegro from May 19th to 21st.
One of the participants, and in the status of a businessman, will be Rampage :
– And it’s official.. I’m playing the Triton $200K invitational in May. Biggest tournament of my life by far, who I should bring as my pro?
"David Peters!" Isaac Kempton suggested.
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Jason Mo, who has previously mocked the organizers for their questionable selection of amateurs, will also play the role of a businessman.
"Signed up to play Triton $200k invitational as a VIP" Jason said. "First real poker in like 9 years lol. Hope I’m not completely awful now."
Jason invited Samuel Mullur to the tournament.
Some other pairs:
- Javid Ismayilov invited Aleksejs Ponakovs
- Ramin Khadzhiev invited Mikita Badziakouski
- Mikalai Vaskaboinikau invited Jesse Lonis
- Ebony Kenney invited Kristen Foxen
Daniel Cates was kicked out of one of Hustler's latest streams.
His opponent made trips on the river and beat Jungle's top pair. Daniel was deeply upset by the showdown; he angrily threw his cards, which ricocheted onto the dealer.
Jungle immediately apologized and tossed in a few chips for a tip (the commentators said it was $200), but it didn't save him. After a while, the organizers took him aside, discussed something, and then Cates returned and collected his chips.
"For those who didn't watch the entire stream, there was some crazy stuff going on before," one Reddit user detailed. "Midway through the session, Nick Airball got so worked up by Jungle's constant ribbing that he left the table too. Then he came back, and in the clip, you can clearly see him rejoicing over Cates being kicked out."
"It was a careless move, but Jungle apologized immediately. It feels like the players themselves insisted on his removal, because the game is much better without him. If a VIP had done this, no one would have noticed."
In the comments, almost everyone supported Cates, but he admitted that he had overreacted:
"Yes yes not good, I apologize and need to break that habit."
"Please always call crybaby Nik a bitch and a pussy. That was comical," one fan encouraged him.
"Man, he had 0 self awareness and was a total hypocrite here."
Jungleman has also been beaten online recently in the CoinPoker Cash Game World Championship. He won against Asianflushie and XIAOJUN7777777 in the Group Stage, but failed to triumph over SeaLlama in the Semi Finals. He will now go up against GoinHardInThePaint for the 3rd-place prize.
David "ODB" Baker recommends moving up in stakes aggressively:
– I think the worst advice mid stakes pros give is on bankroll management. They are too conservative
Take shots, take a little more of yourself in a big spot tourney. Play a little bigger.
You won’t always be successful but you will be better the next time you shot take. You will be better in your normal stakes. Your body and your brain should learn from these experiences so you are more prepared for them the next time.
Being scared to fail means you are usually afraid to succeed
Obviously, you have to have discipline to stop at a point and have a fail back plan (fall back plan)
This doesn’t mean go all in on a tournament or nose bleeds, but take shots at climbing the ladder.
Fedor Holtz did not approve of this approach:
– I think both is somewhat equally bad advice.
You can literally calculate quite closely what the correct risk is to take based on a modulated kelly formula.
It can range from 50 buyins to 5000 buyins and all the advice and ballparks that float around are generally quite poor. It’s not something you should guess, you should run the numbers for different assumptions to get a good feeling for where to actually take risk.
Take larger pieces in softer, smaller fields. Be increasingly more conservative in 500+ runner fields, significantly more so if ROI is expected to be sub 10%, particularly when you think “this is a tough game”.
Your net-ROI is the difference to the markup you might get selling action, so selling is an important tool to balance your variance and particularly when you try to play higher stakes and move up, selling action in a smart way is the best approach to never go broke and maximize your EV.
A month ago, Kristen Foxen was mercilessly trolled for folding kings at the Triton final table.
Read ReadAt the US Poker Open, Kristen took a convincing revenge and delighted the fans. She won the $10,000 tournament and finished second in the $25,000 tournament.
Foxen played an impressive hand in the $25k 4-max tournament.
The eventual winner, David Coleman, opened with a raise from the button, and Kristen defended the big blind. The flop and turn were checked. On the river, Foxen bet $165,000 into a $330,000 pot, and David reraised to $575,000. Kristen thought for a few minutes, then reraised to $1.2 million and took down the pot.
Jeremy Ausmus has lost heads-up in three tournaments this streak.
"I got this trophy," he boasted on Twitter. "No complaints, cool bird."
Viktor Blom's renaissance continues at Phenom Poker.
Read ReadLast week, Isildur nearly lost all his profits, at one point reaching $1.8 million in losses.
But by the end of the week, Viktor had recouped everything and was $1.3 million in profit.
Since the beginning of April, he has won $3 million, mostly in limit games at the $2k/$4k tables.
On April 16, 48-year-old Sunny Mehta was named general manager of the NHL's New Jersey Devils. Toronto resident Sam Greenwood had high hopes that Sunny would come to save his beloved team:
– Mr. Mehta, As a fellow member of Two Plus Two please reconsider and fix the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Mehta actually played poker professionally from 2003 to 2009 and was active on 2+2, where he has over 1,000 posts.
In 2009, he co-authored the book Small Stakes No-Limit Hold'em.
After poker, Mehta entered professional sports and became one of the first to use advanced statistics to analyze hockey and baseball games.
He initially wrote analytical articles, then, starting in 2010, worked as a consultant for various NHL and MLB teams. In 2014, he was appointed director of analytics for the New Jersey Devils, and in 2020, he became vice president of strategy and analytics for the Florida Panthers.
In 2023, Sunny was promoted to assistant general manager and head of analytics. He won two Stanley Cups with Florida.
A Twitter poll asking "Tell us about the origin of your username" has gone viral.
WSOP Main Event champion Daniel "notontilt09" Weinman chimed in.
"I used to tilt, a lot. Made this my PokerStars handle in hopes of seeing it and not tilting. 8 other people had the same idea before me I guess."
Joe Stapleton announced that he is ending his partnership with PokerStars:
Given the state of the world, it feels selfish to try to make any particular day about myself, but it’s never really stopped me before, so I’m afraid I’ve got some bittersweet news to deliver: EPT Monte Carlo 2026 will be my last event with PokerStars.
Unfortunately, this news won’t help any of you clickbait hacks as we are parting on good terms, mutually and amicably. Nothing to see here except for some recent exciting personal life changes that make being on the road less appealing than it used to be.
It’s important you all know PokerStars has my eternal gratitude.
15 years ago, they took a chance putting a snarky kid from a podcast onto actual television. And when that show was sunk by Black Friday, they had the absolute cheek to put me on European television.
(“Cheek” is English English for cojones (“cojones” is Spanish for…ok, you get it)).
Anyway, that gamble paid off for all of us. But especially for me.
I have achieved far more in life than I could have ever imagined, and it would not have been possible without the faith and support of the super talented people I’ve had the pleasure of working with all these years.
No person is self-made and many, many people at PokerStars believed in me and stuck their necks out for me along the way. However, I would without a doubt have flamed out long ago if it weren’t for the specific encouragement and tutelage of Francine Watson and James Hartigan.
They are extremely talented people who elevate every project they are involved in. There are many, many more people who fit that description, but those two have been most responsible for what great programming you’ve seen and heard over the past 20 years.
Not only has our time together allowed me to somehow pay my bills, I did it having more fun than anyone should ever have at work. But most importantly, my time with PokerStars allowed me to see the world.
That is something more valuable than anything else I’ve ever done and maybe ever will do. It will not be forgotten.
Thank you, PokerStars. And fare thee well.
And most importantly: Don’t forget Spin n Go's are still available to get you started on PowerPath for as little as $0.50!
In the comments on Facebook, many spoke warmly of Joe's work and wished him luck in his family life, which he clearly hinted at.
Some of his hints were less than subtle.
Undoubtedly, other poker rooms have been sending emails Joe's way since his announcement.
CoinPoker ambassador Jonathan Van Fleet shared how to quickly spot an amateur at the table:
How to spot a rec at the poker table:
1. Open limping
2. Cold calling 4-bets OOP
3. Seniors (real jobs, families, actual priorities)
4. Dripping in jewelry (regs are broke or all-in on index funds/crypto)
5. Celebrating small pots like it’s a Game 7 buzzer-beaterMessy chip stacks + not knowing procedure also classic (I do both so list ends here)