A legend confesses to a shocking loss, some familiar faces win big at Bellagio and more from the past week around the poker universe...

Legendary poker player and commentator Mike Sexton made an appearance on Joe Ingram’s podcast after his recent WPT championship and made the shocking confession that he lost around $500 million by selling his Party Poker stock too early!

We’re down to 6 players at the WPT Five Diamond Classic at The Bellagio in Las Vegas. $1.9 million is up for grabs on Saturday (December 10) for first place. Also of note, former NFL star Richard Seymour finished 18th in this event.

Online legend and 2016 WSOP 3rd place finisher Cliff Josephy took down the $5k WPT Five Diamond event for $169k

Fun ride from being the shorty to the one who got em all #5WeeksTooLate #SeatsOpen pic.twitter.com/m6x5sTRPkR — Cliff Josephy (@JohnnyBaxPoker) December 9, 2016

Jason Koon is having nice time at The Bellagio as well:

Jason Koon won the #WPT5D $25,000 High Roller I yesterday at @BellagioPoker for $412,800, topping a field of 43 entries. — World Poker Tour (@WPT) December 9, 2016

The final EPT event is underway in Prague

2016 WSOP November Niner Fernando Pons announced an interesting bounty concept. The player who eliminates Pons in an upcoming tournament in Spain will receive their body weight in Desperados Beer.

Oleg Vasylchenko (Ukraine) won the WPT Prague Main Event.

In case you are unaware, British pro Jake Cody has started an awesome Youtube vlog series where he films live sessions and talks strategy as well as his life as a poker pro:

Here’s a great article about ways to improve your poker game while you’re away from the tables.

High stakes pro and superstar Twitch streamer ‘TonkaaaaP’ has started a great new Sit & Go strategy series on Youtube:

Episode 3 of ‘Table Talk with Polk and Papi’:

The Poker Guys continue to make us all smarter with another episode of ‘The Breakdown’:

The Staples brothers have both revealed their superpowers to the world. Jaime finally revealed his secret royal flush manifestation powers (@16:32). And Matt is clearly a psychic:

And finally, a famous poker celebrity has decided to generously donate more money to the high stakes poker community.

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