Poker is back on Card Player Cruises. That’s the message from the organizers of the poker-at-sea trips, which have been on hiatus for nearly a year and a half. Just last month, Card Player Cruises announced an Alaska cruise in September and a Caribbean trip in November. The Alaska adventure,
Back-to-back Flack. It’s difficult to find people in the poker world who don’t know to whom that nickname refers. One could also refer to him by his first name only. Layne Flack was one of the best poker players of the past 25 years. He was certainly one of the
Remember Mike Postle? Of course you do. It’s only been a month since our last report. That last article noted that the court ruled in favor of Veronica Brill, that Postle must pay her for legal costs and fees associated with defending herself against the case he dropped. The court
The 2021 World Series of Poker hit the halfway point a few days ago. Technically, the first of five WSOP iterations crossed that mark. The action kicked off on July 1 with the WSOP Online bracelet events aimed at players in the United States. It has been playing out on
They cut it a little close. GGPoker and the World Series of Poker announced their WSOP Online 2021 series schedule on July 20. The series actually begins on August 1. Nevertheless, that schedule is available for the 33 WSOP bracelet-awarding events set to play out on the virtual tables of
It began last week. It is the biggest online poker series ever on Bovada Poker and Ignition Poker. The two sites operate on the same poker platform, which means they combine their player pools, and that comes in very handy for hosting a massive tournament series. It is the perfect
The first iteration of the PokerGO Cup at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas is a wrap. The latest in a series of high-stakes poker tournaments offered a new set of tournaments, a trophy, and a chance for poker pros to shine. The schedule put players in their seats July
After years of waiting, wondering, and anticipating, poker players in Pennsylvania can now log on to the WSOP.com online poker website and play. The launch this week was successful, and a couple days of testing led directly into a full-time real-money poker site. From the time that Pennsylvania Governor Tom
Chris Moneymaker started it. He got angry when PayPal not only suspended his account to investigate his $12K balance, money he held for a group of friends who gathered those funds for a fantasy football league. But he put his foot down when PayPal ended up confiscating every penny in
Most poker players already have the tournament on their virtual calendars. The Venom on the Winning Poker Network begins on July 23, though the four starting days spread out to August 2. And Venom Fever is spreading like a pandemic. Perhaps that isn’t the best analogy. But you know what
Another live tournament series is set to emerge from the pandemic postponement period that consumed much of 2020 and extended into 2021. PokerGO announced that the Super High Roller Bowl is back in its live form. It will consist of nine tournaments set to take place in North Cyprus in
The wild ride that has been the sale of the WPT is over. Allied Esports Entertainment completed its sale of the WPT, obviously including the World Poker Tour, to a private investment firm named Element Partners. Just after the very rough year that was 2020 – that whole pandemic thing,
