Lex Veldhuis Leaves PokerStars & Returns to Poker Streaming

Lex Veldhuis has formally returned to poker streaming following a interval of relative inactivity all through 2025.

Alongside along with his return to the Twitch airwaves, the veteran professional confirmed his departure from PokerStars, ending a sponsorship that spanned over 15 years.

Whereas Veldhuis didn’t disclose particular causes for the cut up, he famous that he’s targeted on a “new chapter” for 2026, getting into the yr as one of the crucial distinguished free brokers within the poker business.

“2025 is within the rear-view mirror,” he instructed his chat. “That is the place I wish to hold it. I do know you are all inquisitive about every thing that transpired. I felt prefer it was time for a brand new chapter, a brand new starting.

“I am enthusiastic about this yr. I am excited to play a variety of poker.”

The query on everybody’s lips is: now he is left PokerStars — will some other poker site snap him up as an envoy?

The place Has Veldhuis Been?

After profitable a maiden World Championship of On-line Poker (WCOOP) title in September 2024, Veldhuis was excited to proceed streaming in a customized studio and instructed PokerNews he had some “loopy new issues deliberate.”

Nevertheless, after being overwhelmed Finest Streamer on the 2024 World Poker Awards by fellow PokerStars Ambassador Benjamin “Spraggy “Spragg, Veldhuis was conspicuous by his absence all through the remainder of 2025.

There was no area for Veldhuis as a captain within the 2025 SCOOP League, and his Twitch streams did not function poker — restricted as an alternative to chess, League of Legends and Zelda: Breath of the Wild.

Lex Stay in Bratislava was a uncommon alternative for Veldhuis to work together along with his neighborhood as soon as once more, and his final look inside poker was on the most recent sequence of The Large Recreation on Tour the place he repeatedly battled with Alan Keating.

Nonetheless, the brand new yr has clearly introduced Veldhuis a brand new alternative to stream once more. Named Finest Streamer on the 2018 and 2019 World Poker Awards, Veldhuis was straight again into it, exploring the motion on GGPoker.

An automatic discover in his chat reads: “Lex is presently enjoying from Netherlands and may solely grind GGPoker, he’s not a sponsored professional for anybody.”

Lex Veldhuis Poker Background

Veldhuis first began enjoying poker in 2004 and stop his criminology research on the Erasmus College in Rotterdam to pursue poker professionally.

In 2009, Veldhuis joined PokerStars as an envoy and repeatedly appeared on early episodes of Excessive Stakes Poker and The Large Recreation. Throughout his time as ambassador and a member of Crew PokerStars On-line, Veldhuis performed tens of millions of on-line arms and obtained Supernova Elite three years in a row.

As one of many best-known poker streamers, Veldhuis has over 300,000 followers on Twitch.

Primarily based in the UK, Will began working for PokerNews as a contract stay reporter in 2015 and joined the full-time employees in 2019. He now works as Managing Editor.

He graduated from the College of Kent in 2017 with a B.A. in German. He additionally holds an NCTJ Diploma in Sports activities Journalism.