PokerStars has a signature tournament series, the World Championship of Online Poker, better known as WCOOP. Last year, it celebrated its 20th anniversary on the global dot-com site. Historically, it runs in the fall months. Due to its popularity, PokerStars introduced another version in 2009, the Spring Championship of Online
On this year’s International Women’s Day, several writers honed in on women’s poker groups and organizations. It was a positive focus on a day that often shows where poker falls short for non-male demographics. While some people did point out those shortcomings – okay, it was me, I did it
One person made the Russian attacks in Ukraine personal for the poker community. That was former poker pro Eugene Katchalov. He remains the top live tournament earner in Ukraine after a long and successful career in poker. While he now works in the esports world, he is never far from
The Winning Poker Network is in a giving mood these days. Its flagship poker site, Americas Cardroom, just finished awarding a group of prize packages to the Prime Social Texas Poker Championship Main Event. Each package was worth $9K and gave players the opportunity to head to Houston to play
The Wynn has become a leader in Las Vegas tournament series. Its Wynn Classic series – Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter – brings big guarantees and lots of tournament options four times each year. Last year, the Wynn tried something a little different by hosting the Wynn Millions…with a $10M
Perhaps it was public pressure. Maybe it was that PokerStars had to consult with lawyers. Whatever happened, PokerStars did officially cancel its planned European Poker Tour stop in Sochi. In fact, the site went a step further and suspended all Russian players’ accounts until further notice. We addressed the issue
The World Poker Tour celebrated International Women’s Day this week, as it does each year. With an executive team consisting of more women than men, the WPT continues to increase its commitment to bring more women into the game of poker as players. One of the ways it will do
The RunGood Poker Series has been on fire since its post-pandemic return. And it started the new year the same, kicking off 2022 with a new record for its tour. Thunder Valley Casino was the first stop of the 2022 season, and it brought players from around the country to
For many years, International Women’s Day was one day in a year that some online poker sites offered a special tournament or spotlighted their female sponsored pro. In recent years, things have begun to change. There are more women in poker, and many of those women speak up. Their collective
It hasn’t even been four months since the 2021 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas wrapped up. Under normal circumstances, the release of the 2022 WSOP schedule so soon would be unprecedented. But the late schedule of the 2021 games followed by the back-to-summer schedule of this year puts
Phil Galfond hinted at it. On December 31, the longtime poker pro and founder of Run It Once Poker announced the online poker site’s closure. It stopped running on January 3 of this year. After many years of hard work to create a unique site that would cater to a
The World Series of Poker first partnered with GGPoker in an official capacity during the pandemic. As it turns out, that initial collaboration was only the first of many steps toward a complicated but beneficial relationship between the two influential poker giants. Though the WSOP had had a history with
