The World Series of Poker, in conjunction with new owner GGPoker, completed its inaugural Super Main Event in the Bahamas this week. The WSOP Paradise series, in its second iteration, offered a small-but-mighty lineup of bracelet events this December, many with guarantees, online poker components, and big poker names. Of
The Mid States Poker Tour just wrapped its Season 15 at Hollywood Casino Columbus in Ohio. But before that tour stop’s Main Event even finished, the MSPT had news about its Player of the Year leaderboard. Umut Ozturk won it – again. For the second year in a row, Ozturk
It was the most sought-after ticket in poker. Nearly every player in or around the poker world tried to win a Golden Passport, a symbolic but very real seat into the ClubWPT Gold Invitational Freeroll with its $5M prize pool. With approximately 2,000 passports available and awarded randomly – mostly
The World Poker Tour season now matches the calendar year, which means the WPT World Championship at Wynn Las Vegas wraps the main tour and WPT Prime tour for the year. With the wrap of the WPT Seminole Rock ‘N’ Roll Poker Open Championship in Florida at the beginning of
Each year, the Global Poker Index uses its proprietary live tournament ranking system to allocate points to players. This ranks them overall as well as by the Player of the Year standards. When the year finishes and players earn all of their points from a year’s worth of live tournament
It was a much anticipated match-up. High Stakes Duel 5 was on the docket for November 2024, well over a year since the last HSD match between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk in August 2023. The newest edition of HSD would feature longtime poker pro Patrik Antonius, who was riding
The PokerStars-sponsored Women’s Winter Festival wrapped in London this week. And according to PokerStars Ambassador Kerryjane Craigie, the festival became the largest women’s poker event outside of Las Vegas. The series offered women four days of tournaments and activities in London November 21-24, with The Hippodrome Casino hosting the poker.
There is nothing quite like the summer months for poker. Many people refer to the Las Vegas scene from the end of May through July as poker summer camp, as there are tournaments and series in nearly every poker room in Sin City. But in the last few years, December
The Women in Poker Hall of Fame tallied the votes, verified the qualifications and numbers, and put it all together. This week, WiPHoF announced that this year’s inductees will be Kristen Foxen and Jeanne David. In addition, Starla Brodie will be posthumously honored as the first in the new Pioneer
BetMGM has been a quiet but strong force in the US online poker market for years. With online casinos, sports betting, and online poker, BetMGM has delivered a product that is connected to the massive MGM Resorts empire and a refreshing change from standard options like WSOP and PokerStars. Its
The nationwide elections held on November 6 gave voters many choices. They were able to vote on everything from office of the United States President to members of Congress, governors, members of state legislatures, statewide referendums and constitutional amendments, and local propositions. The results of the election for higher offices
After years of waiting for something to happen that would boost Pennsylvania online poker, two major events have taken place within weeks of each other. The most highly anticipated occurrence was that Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro finally instructed the Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) to move forward with the signing
