Anyone who plays on Americas Cardroom or follows the online poker site on Twitter knows about the downtime. It mostly occurred with tournaments, and they were often cancelled due to “technical issues.” It has been frustrating for players, not to mention the ACR team. Not only does the site lose
Ever year, it seems, rumors run rampant that the World Series of Poker will abandon the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino in Las Vegas. There is always speculation that the WSOP will move to a different Caesars property. That speculation has increased substantially in the past few months due to
PokerStars announced the second PSPC just a few weeks ago. The PokerStars Players No Limit Championship will return for another iteration of the tournament in Barcelona in 2020. It will be a part of the EPT Barcelona festival next year. Considering the success of the first PSPC at the PokerStars
There are no shortages of updates from PartyPoker these days. Most recently, PartyPoker put through a major software update. The biggest beneficiaries were players using Mac devices, but all players saw additions to the tournament screens and the lobby. Players were also given a new option to set a one-click
There have been whispers of online poker in Kentucky since last year. Now, it is part of a campaign promise by Attorney General Andy Beshear as he vies for the governorship the upcoming election this November. Gambling expansion is far from the issue upon which the governor’s race will hinge,
Most players know it as MPN. The Microgaming Poker Network has been a staple in global online poker for more than a decade. For those who remember Prima Poker from 2003, that was the start of what would become known as MPN. Microgaming turned that site base into a poker
The PokerStars news team has been busy. In this latest update of PokerStars changes, there are additions and subtractions from the online poker offerings – mostly additions. The subtraction is relegated to 6+ Hold’em Spin & Gos. There will be no more of them. But the additions include everything from
From the perspective of a person unfamiliar with the intricacies of poker – especially online poker – the game’s future may look dim. The news from Facebook and Carnegie Mellon in July of this year told of an artificial intelligence (AI) bot created to beat a table of five poker
It was Poker Central’s first adventure to London. Its high-stakes tournaments had been confined to the Aria on the Las Vegas Strip for years, but it took some events to London this year. The announcement in July noted that the first-ever British Poker Open would take place at Aspers Casino,
The PokerStars Caribbean Adventure has been a part of poker since 2004. It was one of the first major poker entities to combine the new love for online poker with the more traditional live poker tournaments into an excursion in one of the world’s most beautiful locations. The PCA thrived
Online poker continues to struggle in New Jersey. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement released the final revenue numbers from August 2019 that showed poker down from the previous month and year. This fits that plagued the trend for much of 2018 and into 2019. There have been a
The first-ever British Poker Open ended this week at Aspers Casino in London this week. The whirlwind schedule of 10 high-stakes poker tournaments played out in less than two weeks. Poker Central, originators of the US Poker Open that takes place in Las Vegas, introduced the British Poker Open this
