This was a new tournament for Season 2 of the PokerGO Tour. The PGT (PokerGO Tour) Heads-Up Showdown was a $25K buy-in affair capped at 32 players. This created a prize pool of $800K and would pay out the top four finishers, reserving $400K for the winner. The field was
After a somewhat rocky start to the year, online poker revenue increased in March. The overall internet gaming market, however, has had a better year thus far and improved on that in March. The bottom line – as always – is that online poker revenue will only grow substantially when
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is a big deal for poker players and online poker watchers around the world. In fact, the 14th anniversary SCOOP is set to begin soon on the global PokerStars site with 318 total tournaments and $75.8M in prize pool guarantees. The burgeoning
It is natural that many online poker players don’t know much about the American Gaming Association. The AGA has never been a staunch supporter of state-regulated online poker in America. In fact, after flirting with online poker law possibilities after Black Friday, the AGA publicly flipped and said it would
In the United States, players only have access to PokerStars if they live in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Michigan. And those sites are not yet connected, so the player pools are limited. American players cannot access the global PokerStars-dot-com website from inside of the US. But there are times that
The World Poker Tour has a lot of empty space on the 2022 calendar, both for the main tour and WPT Prime. Though we know that announcements are forthcoming, it is nice to have two announcements in the past week to provide some excitement. The most recent news added a
Americas Cardroom is currently in the middle of its High Five tournament series. It started on April 8 and continues through April 27. There is still plenty of time to get in on the millions of dollars in guarantees. Specifically, the second Main Event of the High Five has a
Next year, New York said. We should be able to do it next year. New York lawmakers have been saying that for seven years. Kentucky has been pushing state-regulated online poker since 2018. Neither state could get it done this year. So…next year? New York: No Again This year, as
Much of the PokerGO Tour takes place in Las Vegas. It is the nature of the year-long high-stakes poker tournament series, as many of the events are PokerGO events and take place in the PokerGO Studio on the Las Vegas Strip. So, when the opportunity arises to play some PokerGO
The World Poker Tour took its action to Florida again, this time for the Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown. This casino in Hollywood is a regular stop for the World Poker Tour, as players have always come out in droves for the festivals and the WPT Main Event. The WPT
The summer of poker in Las Vegas just got busier. The Orleans just got in on the action by releasing its 2022 Orleans Summer Open schedule. Prior to this one, we had the following: -World Series of Poker (WSOP) -Wynn Summer Classic -Venetian DeepStack Championship -Golden Nugget Grand Poker Series
This is the year that PokerStars returns to the world stage, complete with all of its diverse tournament offerings and opportunities. Two years of pandemic cancellations and postponements were in the past. In February, PokerStars confirmed that EPT Prague would run in March and announced the return of EPT Monte
