The World Poker Tour has been through a few things in 2021. On one hand, the company worked hard to reenter the live tournament realm in the post-Covid era, working with casinos and card rooms but navigating state health mandates along the way. On the other hand, the WPT was
Some players have achieved great accomplishments in their poker careers but didn’t seem to gain their due recognition. To be fair, not all top players want to be in the spotlight or represent a poker entity. Some of them just wait for the right fit. Darren Elias is one of
Connecticut Secretary of State Denise Merrill’s website indicates that igaming regulations are in full effect. The “regulation making record” pertains to online casino gaming, retail and online sports wagering, fantasy contests, keno, and the online sale of lottery tickets. And included in the online casino gaming is peer-to-peer gaming, which
Poker fans and players who have watched the last several years of World Series of Poker on ESPN know that Jamie Kerstetter has become an integral part of the broadcasting team. Lon McEachern and Norman Chad have been the commentating due for WSOP on television for nearly two decades. Guest
The 2021 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas is fewer than 30 days from its start date of September 30. It gets closer every day…because that’s how time works. With that said, the WSOP will be tweaking its rules and putting out little tidbits of information as the series
Americas Cardroom just wrapped its August events last week. The primary attraction was, of course, the OSS Cub3d X, the tenth iteration of the full Online Super Series. It ran August 2-31 with hundreds of online poker tournaments and awarded more than $20M. As the Cub3d version of OSS does,
The PokerGO team is busy these days, hosting and tracking high-stakes poker tournaments and series from Las Vegas to Cyprus. This month, they are preparing to bring back the Poker Masters series. It had to go online last year because…well…everything did. But this year’s series will return to the PokerGO
There have been some significant changes in the sponsored pro arena. With the successes of most online poker during the pandemic, some operators have signed on a few new pros. Some have bucked the trend, though, with the loss of some big names. And King’s Casino in Europe seems to
At the beginning of August, the largest Venom tournament ever was playing down to a winner. That was an original Venom, straight No Limit Hold’em with no knockouts, but with its largest guarantee and prize pool to date: $10M. After the last cards hit the virtual felt, BabyBowser from the
The Super High Roller Bowl was a big deal. Of course, it brought some of the most recognized and skilled high-stakes poker players from around the world to Cyprus. The Merit Royal Hotel Casino in North Cyprus was crawling with poker players with a lot of cash and a dream.
Two of the biggest women’s organizations in poker collaborated to organize a survey aimed at women in poker. The Women’s Poker Association (WPA) and Poker Power (formerly Poker Powher) put the survey out and found 438 respondents. The goal of the survey was to ask women about their poker experiences,
PokerStars knows how to walk and chew gum at the same time. More accurately, the online poker operator knows how to operate massive tournament series in various parts of the world on separate platforms but at the same time. Currently, PokerStars’ global site is running the World Championship of Online
