As the coronavirus pandemic spread across Europe and America, it prompted the cancellation of poker tournaments and, subsequently, the closure of casinos and card rooms altogether. Tournament operators quickly gathered ideas to continue poker in this temporary but real realm of contagion and quarantine. There was one online poker company
The poker community has been known to be generous and supportive when it counts. Over the past week or two, the vast majority of live poker players, dealers, and other poker room staff have been laid off. What started with a few card rooms shutting down snowballed over the last
Poker Central has been on the road quite a bit in 2020, more than in previous years. The production company took its offerings to Australia at the end of January for the first-ever Australian Poker Open. It consisted of six preliminary events and the APO Main Event, which saw Michael
It has been a while since PokerStars introduced a new game, a new variant of online poker. The development team put quite a few new ones out into the online poker sphere in 2018 and through the first half of 2019, but they slowed down a bit in the latter
It is an unprecedented time in America. The pandemic that is the coronavirus – COVID-19 to be precise – has prompted cities and states around the country to close everything from restaurants to malls, cancel all gatherings that put more than 10 people together in a space. Quarantines range from
The World Series of Poker has been one of the last holdouts amidst coronavirus shutdowns. As tours like the World Poker Tour, Heartland Poker Tour, and numerous others on a national and global scale were cancelling or postponing their events, the WSOP Circuit events moved forward. Initial cancellations found the
The spread of the coronavirus and related precautionary measures around the world – and now in the United States – has impacted the poker world greatly. The affects on some poker entities are more significant in scope than others. The World Poker Tour finished its WPT Rolling Thunder event on
The World Poker Tour was busy in early March. As the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event wrapped up at Commerce Casino in Southern California, the action had two days to move up to the city of Lincoln It was in the northern part of the state, just north of
The number poker tournament and series cancellations related to the coronavirus outbreak around the world are increasing by the hour. Just since yesterday, another dozen or so events have been cancelled or postponed. The initial cancellations happened in Europe and Asia, but as the number of COVID-19 cases in the
The overall New Jersey gambling market remained solid in February 2020. The internet gaming sector as a whole grew significantly – again – as usual, carried by online casino games. And then there was online poker, back to its old ways of decreased revenue. The New Jersey Division of Gaming
The poker world is on the cusp of a shutdown. Coronavirus concerns have grown significantly in the past week for several reasons, not the least of which its classification by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. In Europe, Italy went from precautionary measures to a complete shutdown of all
The World Series of Poker Circuit is well into its 2019-2020 season, both for international and US Circuit series that originally started in July 2019. The second half of each tour’s season began in January. As the end of the season inches closer, the World Series of Poker decided to
