The poker world is on the cusp of a shutdown. Coronavirus concerns have grown significantly in the past week for several reasons, not the least of which its classification by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. In Europe, Italy went from precautionary measures to a complete shutdown of all
The World Series of Poker Circuit is well into its 2019-2020 season, both for international and US Circuit series that originally started in July 2019. The second half of each tour’s season began in January. As the end of the season inches closer, the World Series of Poker decided to
It was only a matter of time before the coronavirus made its way into poker. What started as a unique virus outbreak in China quickly made its way to other countries around the world. There is no vaccine yet for COVID-19. It spreads quickly and can be dangerous to some,
For the first five months of the scandal that broke open in October 2019, there was really only one cohesive and evidence-based side to the story. The charges against poker pro Mike Postle were serious and the video proof damning. After a few initial responses from Postle on Twitter to
The Second Annual Global Poker Awards took place on Friday night at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA in Las Vegas. The red-carpet affair featured some a number of voter-determined awards and a few extra honors. Maria Ho and Drea Renee hosted the ceremony, and Global Poker Index and Hendon Mob
High-stakes poker players have quite a few options in the live tournament scene these days, with high roller events now a standard part of most series and even several series dedicated just to high buy-in tournaments. And online, they have the PokerStars High Rollers. The latest installment of this is
Last week, the plaintiffs in the Wire Act case filed their response to the defendants’ brief. Within days, there were six amicus curiae briefs on file with the US Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, all in support of the plaintiffs. New Hampshire Lottery Commission (NHLC) and NeoPollard Interactive
One of the biggest events on the annual World Poker Tour schedule reached its final table this week. The group of six players remaining in the WPT L.A. Poker Classic went home. They will not complete the tournament until they travel to Las Vegas on April 2 to do so
The annual release of the full World Series of Poker schedule allows other poker rooms around Las Vegas to finalize their own summer schedules. This year, as the WSOP 2020 offerings came out in weekly groupings, poker room managers were able to figure out how to compete with key events.
The World Series of Poker is putting the final touches on all aspects of the 2020 WSOP. This week’s announcement pertains to non-bracelet poker action to be available at the Rio Convention Center during the summer series. While there are 101 tournaments on the official WSOP schedule that will result
It has been awhile since members of Congress have introduced bills like the Restoration of America’s Wire Act (RAWA). From 2014 through 2017, various Congressmen introduced bills in attempts to “restore” the Wire Act to what they thought was its original meaning. Essentially, they tried to revert the meaning of
As March gets underway, the World Poker Tour is still playing out its Season XVIII main tour and WPTDeepStacks. The WPT’s main tour is near its home office at the L.A. Poker Classic and heading to Thunder Valley in the northern part of the state for WPT Rolling Thunder. From
