Online gaming revenue in American states that regulate it continued its impressive growth in 2021. While there may be slight dips on occasion, the overall trend remains on an upward trajectory. No market has shown there to be a cap. Online poker is another story. There is only tracking for
The list of players who are usually able to complete in events on the PokerGO Tour is limited. With tournaments beginning at $10K and increasing exponentially, few players are able to justify those buy-ins, making the competitors and winners an elite group of poker players. For something new, PokerGO wanted
The US justice system is rarely swift. Often, it takes years upon years for a criminal case to see an actual courtroom, with more years tacked on for appeals. This must be an onerous burden for a victim’s family and friends. So must be the case for those suffering from
The tournament will finally happen…on Americas Cardroom…for charity. GGPoker had promised a heads-up tournament for the winner of an online tournament in December 2020. That tournament had been a $100K freeroll to celebrate the birthday of GGPoker’s newest sponsored pro, Dan Bilzerian. Alex O’Brien won that freeroll for $10K and
The Hendon Mob (THM) and Global Poker Index (GPI) announced the final nominees for most categories in the upcoming Global Poker Awards. The initial nominations and collections of potential nominees was vetted, voting panel members participated in the preliminary voting round, and then they submitted their final votes. Why are
The current season of the World Series of Poker Circuit only started in late November, after the late WSOP in Las Vegas. The Circuit started in North Carolina, hit the Bike in Southern California, and then took the action to Aruba in December. It may be a new year, but
The Mid-States Poker Tour had quite a successful Season 12 in 2021. Despite a pandemic that put a hold on live poker for a good part of 2020 and threatened almost every stop thereafter, MSPT held its own. The tour started and ended 2021 at the Venetian in Las Vegas,
Chris Moneymaker made the initial snowball. Mike Matusow teased being a part of it. But it’s Lena Evans, founder of Poker League of Nations, who is rolling that snowball down the hill. Evans is the first-named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against PayPal, a giant in online payment processing
This article is an inevitable one. As a new year begins, it is necessary to look at the online poker industry in the US – specifically, the state-regulated market – and the larger igaming market. Black Friday drove global poker sites out of the US more than 10 years ago.
This signals what could be the end of articles about Mike Postle. While that doesn’t seem likely for someone who clearly feels that much of the poker community wronged him, it is the end of this part of the Mike Postle story. Attorneys for Todd Witteles and Veronica Brill, via
Just last week, we reported that three well-known members of team partypoker ended their contracts heading in to 2022. Isaac Haxton was the most widely known of the three, though poker fans have become familiar with Louise Butler and Joni Jouhkimainen. That still left a significant number of players representing
It’s on…again. It took many months, but High Stakes Duel will return on January 26. Phil Hellmuth will take on Tom Dwan again in a heads-up match at the PokerGO Studio, and this time, they’ll play for a $400K pot. High Stakes Duel started in 2020 as a PokerGO original.
