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Cryptocurrency poker website ‘CoinPoker’ hosted high stakes action this weekend, with celebrity player Tony G and a whale in the thick of the heads up action.
Tracked on the 2+2 poker forum, the hand began at a 1000/2000 PLO table with Tony G sitting on 547k stack, and nvoskob1986 sitting with 152k – who opened with a preflop raise to 6k.
Tony G threebet to 18k, which nvoskob1986 called, and continuation bet a rainbow flop of Ace, five, Jack.
After some deliberation nvoskob1986 raised all in, which Tony G quickly called.
Tony G Bets Big At CoinPoker

Source – rakeback.com
The turn and river were blanks and nvoskob1986 revealed a flopped two pair, Aces and fives.
Tony G had flopped top two with a backdoor diamond flush draw – having 86% equity when the money went in – which held up, and he took down the 304,575 USDT pot.
What Is CoinPoker?
CoinPoker, being open to worldwide players that deposit anonymously with cryptocurrency – is known for high stakes pots, home to the largest online poker pot in history ($7.75 million).

Tony G won another 222k pot above against the same whale with a full house after flopping a set.
This weekends action caught the attention of poker forum posters as it also takes place during the site’s ‘Crypto Series Of Poker’ (CSOP), a 41-tournament event running now until April 28.

Was a fun night!!! https://t.co/GZ4keECmkX
— Tony G (@TonyGuoga) April 22, 2024

Across the CSOP a million dollars (Tether) in prize money is up for grabs, plus an additional 10,000 USDT for the best-ranked leaderboard players.
On the completely decentralized site players can even use a MetaMask wallet signature to sign in and play, and then seamlessly deposit with Tether, Bitcoin, Ethereum, Solana, Polygon or its native token CoinPoker (CHP) which is used to unlock 33% rakeback.
See our full guide to the best poker sites including several others like CoinPoker that accept crypto deposits.
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The next ID@Xbox Digital Showcase, spotlighting independent games on Xbox and PC, will be held April 29 at 1 p.m. EDT. The event will be carried by IGN as well as live on all of its apps and social media channels.
In a post on Xbox Wire, Microsoft said it anticipated updates on games like Dungeons of Hinterberg, 33 Immortals, Lost Records Bloom & Rage, and others.
Dungeons of Hinterberg is an action role-playing game that also includes social simulation elements. It will launch sometime later this year with day-one availability on Xbox Game Pass.
33 Immortals, by Thunder Lotus (pictured above) is an action-adventure with co-operative multiplayer and roguelike features. “Play a damned soul, and rebel against God’s final judgment,” reads its product page. Players will have to fight for survival against challenging bosses and hordes of monsters.
The show will be carried at IGN.com, as well as over IGN’s Twitch and YouTube channels and Facebook channel.
The last ID@Xbox Digital Showcase was also the first crossover event with IGN, and was held in July 2023. The event showed 20 games in all, including Axiom Verge 2, Vampire Survivors, Everspace 2, Mythforce, Stumble Guys, and more.
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Bitcoin (BTC), the world’s most well-known cryptocurrency, has recently undergone its fourth halving event since its creation.
Halvings, which occur roughly every four years, are designed to reduce the number of new Bitcoin entering the market by cutting the rewards earned by Bitcoin miners in half. This mechanism is built into Bitcoin’s code to cap the total supply at 21 million by the year 2140.
The latest halving, which took place on April 23, 2023, has reduced the daily creation of Bitcoin from 900 to just 450. Previous halvings occurred in 2012, 2016, and 2020. Despite the significant event, Bitcoin’s price remained stable at $63,747 (£51,531), as analysts believe the anticipated halving had already been priced in by the market.
Investors are hopeful that the halving will eventually lead to significant gains, as has been the case with previous halvings. For example, after the May 2020 halving, when the price was around $8,600, Bitcoin surged to over $56,000 within a year. However, Andrew O’Neill, a crypto expert at S&P Global, remains cautious about making price predictions based on previous halvings, stating that the halving is just one of many factors that can drive the price of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin hit a new high of $73,803 (£59,661) in March 2023, following a 175% increase over the previous 12 months. The cryptocurrency also gained legitimacy in January when Exchange-Traded Funds (ETFs) holding Bitcoin were allowed to be traded on the US stock exchange.
Bitcoin a “high-risk investment”
Despite these milestones, the mainstream financial industry still views Bitcoin as a high-risk investment prone to unpredictable and dramatic price swings. Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey has warned that cryptocurrencies have “no intrinsic value” and that investors should be prepared to lose all their money. He also stated that crypto was “pretty inefficient” and not yet taking off as a core financial service.
With more than 19.5 million Bitcoin already mined, only 1.5 million remain to be mined over the next 116 years. The halving mechanism, which occurs every 210,000 “blocks,” ensures a steady and controlled release of new Bitcoin into the market until the maximum supply is reached.
The development follows crypto miners stockpiling near-record amounts of Bitcoin, hoping the token will rise in value and offset a drop in new supply that will cut the rewards for verifying transactions in half. Fees for transactions on the network have also significantly decreased following the halving.
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