For two players, the heads-up online poker challenge was an almost-daily battle from November 4 forward. They agreed to play a total of 25,000 hands of No Limit Hold’em at $200/$400. Sometimes, it was a grind but always one that presented opportunities for new strategies and approaches. Doug Polk and
Chris Moneymaker entered 2021 with a big announcement. Evidently, he was only starting to make news. On February 3, he announced that he was an investor in a startup hobby tech company called Guaranteed Breaks. A few hours later, he revealed that he is the latest ACR Team Pro, partnering
One of the entities in the United States gambling market that did well during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 was internet forms of gambling. Sports betting, online casinos, and even online poker did well. For the World Series of Poker, it hurt the live tournament plans. Both the WSOP summer
High-stakes poker tournaments returned to Aria on the Las Vegas Strip last weekend. It wasn’t easy, as health protocols to protect players and tournament staff from Covid-19 requires many changes and hassles. The poker room had been open for several months, but the tournaments were deemed too risky until this
In just a few days, Americas Cardroom and its sister sites on the Winning Poker Network (WPN) will kick off the first Online Super Series of 2021. The Mini Online Super Series, otherwise known as MOSS, gets underway on Sunday, February 7. The entire OSS will run from February 7
Las Vegas Sands seems to be entering a new phase, a new post-Adelson age. A new CEO is in place, and the company is now considering online gaming opportunities. Longtime Las Vegas Sands CEO and the one responsible for growing it into a multi-billion-dollar company, Sheldon Adelson, died on January
Who’s excited about the expanding US online poker market? PokerStars certainly is. It launched its online poker site this week in Michigan, the first to do so under new state regulations. It shouldn’t be a surprise, though, as it was the first one to launch poker online in Pennsylvania…and remains
Actor Hank Azaria loves a good poker game. Before the coronavirus pandemic, when people could visit each other and socialize, he was a part of a regular home game. Hank Azaria also loves to raise money for charity. He consistently shows up for charity events of all sorts, especially those
The story of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event had everything. The first foray of the World Poker Tour back to the live poker realm in the United States had millions in prize money, tons of masked poker players, and quite a few poker pros. It had an
Michigan started 2021 with a new online poker law in place and licenses issued to numerous online casino and sports betting operators. State lawmakers toiled for years to draft and pass online gambling bills and put a new industry into motion. Several lawmakers were key in making this happen. Now-former
With more players joining the tables at Bovada Poker and Ignition Poker than ever before, the operators decided to offer something extra each month. And with Bovada and Ignition sharing their online poker tables for bigger fields and prizes, the sites were able to introduce the Monthly Million. On one
It didn’t start as well as they hoped. PokerStars planned its new Blowout Series as a massive series to take players out of a rocky (to put it mildly) year and into 2021 with great online poker opportunities. The series ran from December 27 to January 19, offering 268 tournaments
