10 Most Read Poker News in 2022 at PokerPro

The year is coming to an end, so it’s a perfect time to look back and see what has happened in the poker world in 2022 and what interested you, our dear PokerPro community, the most in the last 12 months. Poker has seen its ups and downs, but it’s fair to say we’ve seen way more good stories this year. Live poker scene is booming with record-breaking fields, new poker stars are born, content creators are putting out the best content ever, but of course poker wouldn’t be poker if there wasn’t a big scandal happening every once in a while.

So, without further ado, let’s have a look at 10 most read news at PokerPro. We’ll start at number 10 and slowly work our way up to the most read news of 2022.

10. We Have Just Witnessed a $7.7 Million Online Cash Game Pot!

The biggest pot in history of online poker has just squeezed into PokerPro’s Top 10. It was a $7.75 million hand played on cryptocurrency site CoinPoker, involving Tony G and another player hiding behind the nickname “HannibalGetya”.

Read more about it here.

9. Greatest Hero Call of All Time at Triton Poker?

Our new segment Top Hands of the Week proved to be quite popular among readers as two articles made the Top 10 list.

Triton Poker has treated us so well in 2022, streaming the Super High Roller tournaments completely for free. And where there are top players, there are also top hands and this hero call from Viktor Kudinov impressed you the most.

8. Luka Dončić Played Cards During NBA Halftime

Young sports superstars and poker. Almost can’t get better than that. The setting is NBA Western Conference Finals between Dallas Mavericks and Golden State Warriors and the start of a halftime got delayed due to a leakage in a celling at American Airlines Center. And what did Luka Dončić do at that time? Played some cards with his teammates.

Read more about it here.

7. $1,000,000 and $500,000 Mystery Bounties Drawn at 2022 WSOP

It seems every year some new poker format or just a different twist on its already prominent feature gets popularized among players and it was Mystery Bounties’ turn this year. Rightfully so as they are a lot of fun!

The WSOP 2022 edition event has seen two of the biggest bounties won – $1,000,000 and $500,000 bounties drawn to a two very lucky players.

Read more about it here.

6. World Champ Espen Jorstad Made His Friends a Lot of Money

There’s a clickbait-y title if we’ve ever seen one, but it’s 100% true! Our new world champ for 2022 Espen Jorstad is very transparent about his poker results and it was no different this year around when he won the WSOP Main Event Championship and $10,000,000.

He revealed that he “only” had about 56% of his own action as he made 14 different swaps with his friends, which meant they’ve earned from $100,000 up to $750,000 for his win.

Read more about it here.

5. Exclusive Interview With Norwegian Poker Star Johnny Lodden Who Announced Return to Poker

One of the poker biggest stars at the start of the poker boom in early 2000s has made his return to poker this year after a long hiatus. Check out PokerPro’s exclusive interview with the Norwegian and let’s make Johnny Lodden great again!

Read more about it here.

4. Professional footballer Max Kruse Scores First WSOP Bracelet

Poker is a great hobby that gets picked by many former professional athletes when they are done with their sporting career as it provides with a similar challenge testing your skills, mental strength, discipline, and it starches the so important competitive ich.

But not many athletes excel at poker during their professional career. One of them might be footballer Max Cruse, who is playing for VfL Wolfsburg in German Bundesliga and has won his first ever WSOP bracelet this year at World Series of Poker Europe.

Read more about it here.

3. Chris Moneymaker Wins His Own Poker Tournament

Chris Moneymaker is definitely one of the “good guys” in poker and it always feels nice reading about his success. It seems our PokerPro community feels the same as him winning a poker tournament was the 3^rd most read news on our site. But, it wasn’t just some random tournament. It was a tournament in the land down under that wore his name!

Read more about it here.

2. Has Robbi Cheated Garrett Adelstein at Hustler Casino Live?

And we’re finally here. The Robbi-Garrett scandal. Without a doubt the biggest poker story of 2022 that will be talked about for years to come. It’s hard to say anything that hasn’t been said already.

If you were living under a rock and have no idea why J4 hand is now called “The Robb”, we advise you to check our edition of Top Hands of the Week article when this scandal was featured.

And if you weren’t paying attention in the last month or so, it was revealed that Hustler’s investigation have found “no conclusive evidence of wrongdoing in the J4 hand, or any other hand played that night.” Is that end of the saga then? Hell no.

Even thought this was by far the biggest story of 2022 that doesn’t mean it was also the most clicked article on our site. That title belongs to…

1. Chess World Champion Magnus Carlsen Among Final 39 in Norwegian Poker Championship 2022

Magnus Carlsen! Five-time World Chess Champion was participating in Norwegian Poker Championship 2022 where he qualified for Day 4 and was among final 39 (out of 1,050 players) who were still fighting to become the Norwegian poker champion.

At the end Magnus couldn’t add poker champ to his resume as he was knocked out in 25^th place, but his bluff against John Erik Dagslott took poker by the storm!

These were the 10 most read news on PokerPro for 2022. It was an exciting year for poker, and we believe we’re going to make another step further in 2023 as well.

We wish you all the best and much success on and off the poker tables!