There are obvious differences between live and online poker, such as how and where people play them. There are then many, many contrasts between the two types of poker regarding the speed of play and skills involved to the types of events offered and their availability. Those are the topics
The World Series of Poker Europe is usually the last chance to win a WSOP bracelet each year. That is not so this year, as WSOP Paradise will make its debut with fifteen gold bracelet events December 3-15 in the Bahamas. With so much focus on the inaugural WSOP Paradise,
The holidays are generally filled with get-togethers, social gatherings, food, and drink. For online poker players, the holidays are ideal times to take advantage of holiday specials and online poker holiday promotions. Enter Ignition Poker. Americans will be dealing with the Thanksgiving weekend – or just the Turkey Day holiday
West Virginia finally did it. And New Jersey appears to have been the driving force. West Virginia joined the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA), becoming the fifth state to do so. This gives online poker operators the incentive to launch poker sites in that state because they can link WV
In 2022, the World Poker Tour reestablished its presence in Las Vegas in December. The tour celebrated its 20th anniversary by bringing back the WPT World Championship but taking it to Wynn Las Vegas. The series was such a success that the 2023 WPT-Wynn series is scheduled for a longer
The original iteration of the PokerStars North American Poker Tour (NAPT) was an incredible success in 2010 and into 2011…until it wasn’t. Black Friday ruined many things, including the NAPT. It was going to be a tough task to bring it all back. The buy-ins would be lower – in
There was no doubt that the 2023 WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas would be big. The schedule spanned more time and included more events than the much-acclaimed inaugural WPT-Wynn series last December. There are more events on the schedule. And the WPT Main Event has an eye-popping $40M
When ACR Poker names its flagship online poker tournament series, it’s serious. The Online Super Series (OSS) has had numerous iterations through the years. The Mini Online Super Series (MOSS) and Bigger Online Super Series (BOSS) are the main offshoots of the primary OSS, but there is also the XL
When most people in poker think of the end of the poker boom, they think of Black Friday. It was the Friday in April 2011 that the United States Department of Justice seized four of the largest poker sites in the world and indicted many of their executives on federal
The term is used often but deserves more attention beyond the words themselves: responsible gambling. There are many versions of a definition for responsible gambling or, as some now call it, safer gambling. Putting together the definitions from Canada’s Responsible Gambling Council (RGC), American Gaming Association (AGA), National Council on
It’s not like PokerStars to sit back and accept the status quo. For years, PokerStars was the global online poker market leader by a fair margin. Of course, Black Friday put the brakes on all of that. But PokerStars took its punishment before slowly and carefully reentering the US market
In September, Georgia police officers raided a poker room. In October, representatives of Entain Foundation met with lawmakers to work toward a comprehensive yet reasonable gambling proposal to introduce into the state legislature in 2024. These two events are not directly related. Entain Foundation does not support or have any
