🎆 Our 2025 Highlights, Fresh Start Week & Huge CoinMasters News

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We’re closing out the year with a special look back at CoinPoker’s 2025 highlights.

To go out with a bang, Fresh Start Week is now live. This is Stage 2 of the $10M Winter Festival.

GamblersFallacy joined Symmetry and secured a historic fifth CoinMasters coin, bringing us closer to the final countdown and the $100,000 poker career.

As a bonus, we also caught up with newly crowned Cash Game World Champion Pedro “Biluzin” Toledo in our latest YouTube video.

And of course, the regular Newsletter Freeroll password is waiting for you below.

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🎫 Stage 2 of the $10M Winter Festival Begins Now

The $10 Million Guaranteed Winter Festival is rolling, and Stage 1 delivered exactly what turbo fans were looking for. 

Starting today, the focus shifts to Fresh Start Week. This stage is all about setting you up cheaply for what’s coming next (our biggest series ever). 

Mega Satellites, plus special New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day events, are dropping a giant batch of low-cost tickets into the $8,000,000 GTD Winter Masters Series. That stage kicks off on January 8.

If you’re planning to play the Winter Masters, this is where you lock up seats without paying full buy-ins.

Join Fresh Start Week

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💸 CoinRaces Boosted to $15,000 Daily

CoinRaces are running extra hot over the holidays. Daily leaderboard payouts increase to $15,000, adding over $100,000 until Feb 1st, which totals $550,000 in value.

Players in NLH, PLO, and PLO5 cash games get six leaderboard resets every day. Shorter sessions still matter, and there’s no need to grind one long stretch to stay competitive.

This boost gives you plenty of chances to pick up extra value while playing your usual games.

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⭐ Huge Numbers: CoinPoker’s Stats for 2025

CoinPoker had a massive year, and the numbers don’t lie. 

➡️ Cash Games: Almost 72 million cash game hands were played this year on CoinPoker. In these games, we had over 94,000 players in 2025.

➡️ Tournaments: Around $91 million guaranteed, but over $104 million paid out over 102,000 MTTs. We had over 11 million entries in our tournaments this year.

➡️ CoinMasters: 671 events, over $11,900,000 awarded, and 524 unique coins given out. Players made over 200,000 entries in 2025 to CoinMasters events.

Now, let’s take a look at some of our big series and events, plus what the CoinPoker ambassadors got up to this year.

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🏆 Cash Game World Championship in 2025

The Cash Game World Championship (CGWC) is the pinnacle for high-volume cash game grinders. In 2025, we brought three separate versions of the event, and the best players in the world showed up. 

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💸 Coin Series of Online Poker in 2025

Every year, our Coin Series of Online Poker gets bigger and bigger. We put together an awesome schedule for our tournament players. Take a look at 2025’s events here.

CSOP Fall 🍂 (September 2025)

The 2025 Coin Series of Online Poker Fall Edition was pure action! 125 events, 23 days, nearly 89,000 entries, and more than $6,000,000 in total prize pools. 

From NLHE to PLO, PKOs, and mixed games, there was something for every kind of poker player.

Biggest CSOP Fall Score:

• $500 Main Event: $243,930 prize pool
• Winner: Jppns13 took home $43,182

Other standout performances: AmsterdamCity and BeastyShem won six events each, clearly dominating their competition. 

CSOP Spring 🌱 (May 2025)

The Coin Series of Poker Spring Edition had over 260 events with a total payout of $3.5 million, absolutely smashing the initial $2.5 million guarantee. We had buy-ins from small to super-sized, and $25,000 in leaderboard payouts. 

Look for these events next year as we surpass the guarantees, add even more events, and make every CSOP better than the last.

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🙋 CoinPoker Ambassadors in 2025

CoinPoker ambassadors continue to show up in the toughest spots, both online and live. 

Strong results, huge scores, and some real poker karma mixed in.

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📺 Inside a Cash Game Champion’s Mind

CGWC inventor KakiTee sat down with newly crowned High Stakes Cash Game World Championship winner Pedro “Biluzin” Toledo to break down the strategy behind his title run. This is a behind-the-scenes look at one of the world’s best, and it is pure gold for dedicated poker players.

KakiTee and Biluzin review the biggest spots, key decisions, and the most memorable hands that sealed the win.

Watch the full breakdown here:

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🪙 GamblersFallacy Wins Fifth CoinMasters Coin Just Before 2026

This year, CoinMasters paid out close to $12,000,000 in rewards over 671 events, and it isn’t finished yet. 

The CoinMasters race took another step forward this week as GamblersFallacy captured the $100 PENGU for $3,054 and secured a fifth unique CoinMasters coin. 

That makes him just the second player to reach five coins, with no Gold Coin claimed yet by the leaders and the Championship Final Table still wide open. Six players hold four coins, hot on the leader’s heels.

And behind the top coin holders, the action didn’t stop. 

• Pizzaman won the $122 BITCOIN Asia event for $9,543 to collect a second coin. 
• ToShine grabbed their first coin after winning the $150 BITCOIN for $22,540. 
• Wenkis added another DOGE by taking down the $25 DOGE for $1,879.
• Parafina earned a second unique coin by winning the $100 DOGE for $4,579.

Here’s what the top of the CoinMasters leaderboard looks like going into 2026:

Coin Counts

As 2025 ends, we have 524 unique coins awarded. 

Here are the coin counts for the leaders:

• Players with 5 unique coins: 2
• Players with 4 unique coins: 6
• Players with 3 unique coins: 14
• Players with 2 unique coins: 72

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📢 Big Tournament Winners This Week

Congratulations to these winners, especially Pizzaman, who also won a Gold Coin this week.

• Pizzaman stayed hot by winning the $200 Sunday Special for $9,625
• Top2amigos took down the HTS-H #33 $500 Sunday Primetime HR Classic Main for $16,450
• IslaHolbox won the HTS-M #33 $75 Primetime Classic Main for $3,434
• GOTCHAZ shipped the HTS-L #31 $10 Primetime Deepstack Mini Classic for $889

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🎫 Big Tournaments Coming Up Soon

These are the big ones—the poker tournaments with the most value coming up.

• $150 CoinMasters Bitcoin, $100k GTD – Sunday 17:05 UTC
• $122 CoinMasters Asia Bitcoin, $50k GTD – Sunday 13:38 UTC
• $200 Sunday Special, $40k GTD – Sunday 18:05 UTC
• $500 Sunday Main Event, $75k GTD – Sunday 18:05 UTC
• $50 Sunday Main Event, $20k GTD – Sunday 18:05 UTC
• $15 Sunday Cup, $7.5k GTD – Sunday 18:30 UTC

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The 3 Funniest X Posts From CoinPoker Twitter

CoinPoker might be a brand, but we’re also a team of poker players. We relate to the madness and bad beats, as well as the big wins. Our Official CoinPoker X/Twitter has steadily churned out high-level memes all year, and that won’t stop in 2026.

Here’s a sample of our finest work this week:

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