The World Poker Tour has some catching up to do. Three factors allowed it to do so after a year-long live poker hiatus due to the pandemic: vaccine distribution, abundant testing, and serious sanitation protocols in place in many Las Vegas casinos. As we just discussed a few days ago,
Michigan online poker players waited long enough. The state government took years to agree to legalize and regulate online poker and then agree to interstate liquidity for the games. The latter happened in December 2020. Online poker sites could then launch in early 2021, but no operators indicated that they
Everyone knows about the typical madness that takes place in March. Betting on those college basketball games is very popular, and many American bettors place their wagers on BetOnline.ag and SportsBetting.ag. Both are US-facing sites. Many poker players have discovered, especially over the past year, that the online poker games
(Trigger warning: Mention of sexual assault and murder) The Oakland County District Court in Michigan agreed to a second felony murder charge against Jeffery Bernard Morris. The March 8 hearing before District Judge Kelley Kostin considered new evidence to back up the prosecution’s request for probable cause for felony murder.
When the coronavirus pandemic put the live poker industry – among many other industries worldwide – on hold in early March 2020, the World Poker Tour was one of the affected entities. It started with the cancellation of the popular WPT Venetian in Las Vegas, then some WPTDeepStacks events in
Some poker players like big buy-ins and they cannot lie. (Sir Mix-a-Lot feels the same way about something similar.) Americas Cardroom is the place to be for those players this week, as the last leg of the Online Super Series runs its week of big buy-ins. The Bigger Online Super
This just got interesting. Remember how Allied Esports Entertainment was going to sell the World Poker Tour to Element Partners for $78.25M in mid-January? Well, another bidder came to the table and offered a cool $100M…payable in cash, stock, or both…for Allied Esports, if that includes the World Poker Tour.
Some poker entities did plan ahead for International Women’s Day, which will be Monday, March 8. As always, some put more thought into it than others. Women don’t have much say in the matter, though, as men remain the dominating force in poker. From poker company executives to site ambassadors,
This has been an interesting year for poker sponsorships, and it’s only the first week of March. It started with Moneymaker leaving PokerStars and then signing with Americas Cardroom. Celina Lin and Muskan Sethi left PokerStars, leaving that team with only nine pros. A number of players left PartyPoker, including
Just before 2020 ended, Americas Cardroom hired former Team PokerStars Pro Randy “nanonoko” Lew as a consultant. It was a perfect move. Americas Cardroom grew its player base exponentially last year. When poker players around the world entered lockdown in March 2020, many of them flocked to places like Americas
It seems that 2021 will be a year of surprises for World Poker Tour fans. Little more than two months into the new year, we found out that Element Partners is buying the World Poker Tour, the WPT’s main tour is resuming live tournaments at various locations, and it is
On Sunday night, February 28, ESPN broadcast four hours of World Series of Poker action. It summarized on film the two live final tables – one in the Czech Republic, one in the USA – that resulted from online play for the 2020 WSOP Main Event. And the final hour
