The story of the 2020 World Series of Poker took an interesting turn this week. In lieu of the planned 51st Annual World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, brand executives decided to offer an online poker alternative – one for US players and one for those in other locations
Online poker traffic is still soaring at Americas Cardroom on the Winning Poker Network. Numbers have been on the rise since the start of the coronavirus pandemic that shut down live poker options for players around the world. Americas Cardroom has been hosting everything from online poker charity events to
This was an unexpected turn. US District Court Judge William Shubb dismissed all charges and motions against Mike Postle, Stones Gambling Hall, and Stones’ employee Justin Kuraitis. The judge made this ruling just weeks after oral arguments regarding the motions to dismiss the cases, motions by Stones, Kuraitis, and Postle.
The numbers are in for one of the largest online poker tournament series in the history of the game. The World Series of Poker wanted to host an online series for its international WSOP Circuit players, and GGPoker wanted to envelop those events into a much larger series. They did
The World Poker Tour had planned for years to expand its offerings online. And when the coronavirus pandemic forced the WPT to postpone or cancel one tournament after another in its Season XVIII – both on the main tour and WPTDeepStacks – the company accelerated its online plans. The WPT
Typically, PokerStars doesn’t run a major online poker series in June or July because so many players from around the world are in Las Vegas for the World Series of Poker. From the end of May to the middle of July, the best option for any site is to run
There are few scandals that grab hold of the poker community as a whole, that rock its foundations and shatter what many people knew and believed. The UltimateBet scandal was one of the big ones, complete with superuser accounts. The Full Tilt meltdown after Black Friday was another, as was
Poker operators have been clamoring for a new and improved United States online poker market for years. After the disaster of 2011, better known as Black Friday, everyone from operators to players repeatedly appealed to states to legalize online poker. A few did it. Nevada, Delaware, and New Jersey have
Remember the Wire Act case? It was kind of a big deal before the coronavirus pandemic flipped everyone’s worlds upside down. The case of the New Hampshire Lottery Commission and NeoPollard Interactive versus United States Attorney General William Barr and the US Department of Justice (DOJ) just inched forward a
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted many inequities and troubles in today’s world. And as dire situations often do, it inspired many in the poker world to find ways to do something to help. The charity poker events online took shape barely weeks into the stay-at-home orders in the United States
The World Series of Poker had few choices. When the coronavirus pandemic shut down live tournament options around the world, the company had to cancel numerous tournaments on the WSOP Circuit US-based and international tours. A solution for the US-based tour was fairly simple: Take it online. They announced and
The World Poker Tour made some tough decisions in the past few months. The coronavirus pandemic forced WPT executives to cancel or postpone all of the remainder of its Season XVIII events from mid-March onward. For a poker tour that specializes in live tournaments, the shutdowns everywhere from Asia to
