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At 61, Phil Hellmuth still owns poker’s bracelet record and still melts down at bad beats. Now his two adult sons are entering the same WSOP events he’s dominated for decades, and his psychiatrist wife is watching it all unfold.
Doyle Brunson passed away in Las Vegas on May 14, 2023, at the age of 89. More than two years later, the ten-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner remains one of the most-searched figures in poker, driven by his enduring legacy and an unlikely source: a short biography written for teenage readers that has become one of the internet’s most-requested poker book summaries.
Phillip Ivey Jr. holds 11 World Series of Poker bracelets and more than $54 million in tournament winnings, but his poker legacy is now inseparable from the edge-sorting lawsuits that cost him roughly $20 million and years of legal battles with two casinos.
Dan Bilzerian’s public image has long been built on guns, private jets, and poker winnings no one can verify. In 2026, the more consequential headlines have come from a federal indictment and a sworn financial disclosure filed for a congressional race.
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IG Group is buying Underdog for up to $1.3 billion, betting that the startup’s swift pivot from daily fantasy sports to prediction markets last year will unlock far more value than its original pick’em and best ball games ever could.
Mike Klubnika, the developer behind 2023’s surprise hit Buckshot Roulette, has released Machine Party, a multiplayer party game that replaces traditional minigame consequences with brutal deaths and body horror.
British broadcaster ITV has launched ITV OddsFinder, a horse racing odds comparison app that aggregates real-time prices from licensed UK bookmakers, marking the network’s return to the betting space months after shutting down its short-lived ITV Win casino platform.
ThrillTech has secured a Category A1 Manufacturer’s Licence from Greece’s Hellenic Gaming Commission, becoming the first specialist iGaming jackpot provider licensed in the country. The approval allows the company to offer its ThrillPots side-bet jackpot product to regulated operators in the Greek market.
Former Congressman George Santos has agreed to pay more than $35,000 and accept a three-year trading ban to settle federal allegations that he manipulated prediction markets on Kalshi by gaming a contract tied to his own attendance at this year’s State of the Union address.