Tony "Tony G" Guoga

It’s every player’s dream to head out to Vegas and return with jewellery, but poker-loving Suzie Williamson’s story had a unique twist to it.

The self-styled ‘Baltic Blonde’ is touring Australia for a full month indulging her passion for travel as well as her love – and work – for poker.

How good do your odds need to be to call a €48,000 all-in bet in a cash game… when you’re basically holding a 5 high hand and the pot is sitting at €128,000?

It’s set to be 36 hours straight of monster PLO action when PartyPoker’s The Big Game hits the screens next month

It may well have been a year of German domination at the highest levels of poker, but it has also seen glimpses of past-heroes taking to the felt on the comeback trail.

Rafe Furst is the latest to jump on the cryptocurrency bandwagon from the poker world - he announced the launch of his cryptocoin investment company.

PokerNews removed the mask of true ownership and revealed that PokerStars "own a large majority of the business."

Recent efforts to ‘future-proof the industry’ include a white paper suggesting that some cryptocurrencies be allowed as payment methods.

The BellagioPOTS fast becoming one of the must-watch Twitch streams for fans of the game, with the likes of Eli Elezra, Tony G and Andrew Neeme showing up in last season’s shows.