Phil Hellmuth is a walking brand. He promotes himself at all times. Sometimes, though, he promotes others, like the Aria Casino, PokerGO, Breinfuel, and Bitcoin Latinum. For the better part of 2021, he carried a bottle of Breinfuel and wore a Bitcoin Latinum hat. No one can say he doesn’t
The latest iteration of the Venom tournament is done and in the books. And a player from Austria named BoBomb14 won $1.18M for finishing in first place. The prize pool for the Venom was $10M, as promised by the Winning Poker Network. But it didn’t get to that number by
The World Poker Tour just finished its first main tour stop of 2022, the first one of Season XX. That WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event attracted so many entries that it became the second largest live field in WPT history. Not a bad way to kick off a
As poker entered 2022, it did so with some new sponsorship deals on deck. Of course, there were two high-profile ambassador deals – Steve Aoki with the World Poker Tour and Chris Eubank Jr with 888poker. There were some other partnerships, though, between poker companies and non-poker-related businesses. Most of
It was fun to watch. The two players took the match seriously, though neither was going to earn a dime from it. They were playing for charities that meant something to them, however. And the spirit of the match is what carried it. Both women dressed to the nines for
To Phil Hellmuth, it may have seemed like years that Tom Dwan held the High Stakes Duel title. In reality, it was about six months. But with the holidays and the World Series of Poker in late 2021, it took a while to schedule the rematch. Since the start of
In little more than four months, the 2022 World Series of Poker will begin in Las Vegas. Let that sink in for a moment. It seems as if the WSOP just happened…because it did. But the 2022 series will move back to its pre-pandemic schedule this year, starting at the
The new season and the new year started well for the World Poker Tour. Season XX represents the 20th anniversary of the poker brand. Needless to say, poker players and the WPT itself were anxious to get down to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, where they would
The latest season of the World Series of Poker Circuit is its 17th and started in late November. It started out with a little overlap from Harrah’s Cherokee to the Bicycle Casino and out to sea for the Aruba tour stop. After a break from the holidays, the WSOP Circuit
Americas Cardroom and its sister sites on the Winning Poker Network have been busy. When they closed out 2021, they did so with a December Online Super Series, the 28th one. And that OSS XVIII offered 141 tournaments carrying $15M in guarantees. It ran December 5-19 and gave players plenty
When the World Poker Tour acquired the DeepStacks brand, the WPTDeepStacks tour stayed mostly separate from the main tour. Of course, the stops themselves would sometimes coincide at a location, but the tours stayed separated by a number of factors – buy-ins, tour managers, and sometimes players, as well as
Online gaming revenue in American states that regulate it continued its impressive growth in 2021. While there may be slight dips on occasion, the overall trend remains on an upward trajectory. No market has shown there to be a cap. Online poker is another story. There is only tracking for
