The 2015 World Series of Poker final table finished this week in Las Vegas, with the final nine playing for a combined $24.8 million. According to analysis of tax liabilities of the November Nine by taxabletalk.com, the IRS collected nearly $8.5 million of the prize money.

Poker pro Joe McKeehen won the top prize of $7,683,346, so the IRS actually made more off the final table than the winner. McKeehen reportedly will take home $4,297,394 after taxes, but that doesn’t factor in any pieces of himself that he might have sold.

Source: Cardplayer.com

Robert Georato is the official World Series of Poker Circuit Main Event Winner of Harveys Lake Tahoe. Georato won the Main Event Monday evening, earning his third WSOP Circuit ring and $153,505. This is the biggest live tournament cash of Georato’s career.

Here are the final-table finishers. Click here for full results.

1 - Robert Georato - $153,505
2 - Patrick Rhamey - $94,912
3 - Jacob Dahl - $69,337
4 - Phong Nguyen - $51,401
5 - Joseph Brown - $38,656
6 - Steve Brecher - $29,488
7 - Sean Drake - $22,812
8 - George Saca - $17,900
9 - Janet Fitzgerald - $14,244

Source: WSOP.com

On Monday November 9th the last 31 player of WSOP Circuit Rozvadov Main Event return to the tables to play for the prize pool of more than one million Euro and the Champions ring. Here you can watch the hole action in replay.

The second and penultimate day of the World Series of Poker Circuit €1,650 Main Event at King's Casino in Rozvadov saw 282 players return to the tables with more than 30 late entrants bumping the overall field to 715.

Ultimately, 31 players advanced to the final day and Denishev claimed the lead with 1,633,000. He's followed by 2015 WPT National Vienna champion Zoltan Gal (1,572,000) and the aforementioned Erdar (1,569,000).

Other big stacks and notables include Michael Magalashvili (1,394,000), Quirin Zech (1,048,000), Rozvadov Circuit ring winners Miltiadis Kyriakides (783,000) and Vasili Firsau (415,000), Aleksei Ivanov (753,000), and Amir Mozaffarian (593,000).

Source: pokernews.com

Mian Wei has won the 2015 World Poker Tour UK High Roller event, a title that came with a coveted winner’s trophy and £100,000 in cash.

Wei was one of 48 players to exchange £5,000+£250 for 50,000 tournament chips and the chance to become a WPT champion.

After two days of playing, on final table he beat players like Michael Mizrachi or Steven Warburton. Congratulations!

Source: pokernews.com

It’s been 116 days since the elimination of Alexander Turyansky set the final table of the 2015 World Series of Poker $10,000 no-limit hold’em main event. In the intervening months the November Nine have studied and practiced, preparing to return to the Rio All Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas to battle it out for the bracelet, the title of World Champion and the $7,683,346 first-place prize.

Now the November Nine are now just a day away from resuming action. Each of the final table players is already guaranteed $1,001,020 after navigating the field of 6,420 entries, but they all now surely have their eyes on the title.

Over the past seven days on PokerStars, Russian poker pro Alex "joiso" Kostritsyn won roughly $420,000, the most in the online world during the period, according to tracking data from HighstakesDB.

On Thursday November 5th at 6pm (18:00 cet), finally the €25.000 buy-in „WSOP Circuit Super High Roller“ will kick off at King's Casino Rozvadov.

A nice mix of poker big names and several business men already announced to show up at the tables to play for the most wanted champion ring and a guaranteed prize pool of €500.000.

The tournament is played over two days with a starting stack of 100.000 chips and 60 minutes levels. A re-entry option and late registration is available until the start of day 2 on Friday November 6th at 6pm (18:00 cet).

Here a small list of the Super High Roller preregistration: Patrik Antonius, Jani Vilmunen, Thomas Bichon, Martin Kabrhel, Besim Hot, Jan-Peter Jachtmann, Roger Hairbedian, Qurin Zech, Hans Olymp, Leon Tsoukernik, Paul Newey, Elliott Smith, George Danzer, „Renato“ and Andreas Eiler.

As of November 12, room PokerHeaven.com will cease all poker game play after ten years in the industry.

Alexander "joiso" Kostritsyn has been regularly battling Viktor "Isildur1" Blom at PokerStars $1k/$2k HORSE tables over the last week, and more often than not, getting the better of his Swedish counterpart.

Yesterday, he made his biggest win so far, winning over $400k at HORSE.

Yesterday's Biggest Winners

joiso +$483.1k
RaulGonzales +$162.1k
Lottenice +$61.9k
Crazy Elior +$61.3k

source: highstakesdb.com