PokerStars is keen on celebrating anniversaries and milestones. It’s a chance to look at how far the poker community has come, and it hints at what the future may hold. The recent 20th anniversary World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) just wrapped on September 15. This provided a good opportunity
The PokerGO team just wrapped another successful live poker series, another group of high-stakes tournaments at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Some of the biggest names in poker competed in the dozen tournaments. And they brought their big bankrolls with them, as the tournament buy-ins ranged from $10K to
Just when one may have assumed that the World Series of Poker published its final schedules for the 2021 WSOP, one is proven wrong. Just this week, the WSOP announced the addition of 11 online poker bracelet events for players in the United States. Ten of those events will take
Last year, partypoker hosted the inaugural World Poker Tour’s World Online Championships, better known as the WPT WOC. The 71-day series offered 12 official WPT events, each with several buy-in levels. And when it was all over, players had taken home $100,746,175 in prize money. The second iteration of the
There are many celebrities who play poker. There are several comedians who play poker. But then there are celebrities and comedians – who are one and the same sometimes – who love the game of poker. They entrench themselves into the game and the community that surrounds it. Only a
Mike Postle’s enemy of the moment is Marc Randazza. In the long, drawn-out case of poker cheating accusations against Mike Postle, it just becomes more convoluted with every court filing. The public accusations from Veronica Brill that Postle had been cheating while playing poker on a livestream at Stones Gambling
The full online portion of the 2021 World Series of Poker wrapped this week. The 33 tournaments hosted by GGPoker awarded 33 gold WSOP bracelets. Prior to this series, there were two versions of 2021 WSOP Online in the US market. One was for players located in New Jersey and
It normally happens each summer. The World Series of Poker sets its bookend dates for its summer series in Las Vegas, which usually begins during the last days of May and runs through mid-July. Other casinos with prominent card rooms around Las Vegas then announce their own series. Casinos like
The World Series of Poker in Las Vegas becomes the center of the poker universe for a month and a half each year – each year but 2020 because…you know. The WSOP not only sets up an entire convention center full of bracelet-awarding tournaments, it hosts a massive room of
Let’s just start off by saying that there is only one Rounders. Neither one of the new movies are trying to be a Rounders or depict the realities of a life in poker. With that said, however, one of the movies – The Card Counter – has a particular tie
Back in April of this year, the World Series of Poker made news on several fronts, not the least of which was to announce a fall edition of the WSOP live in Las Vegas. But a few weeks later, they also revealed that the WSOP was ending a longstanding deal
The World Poker Tour has been through a few things in 2021. On one hand, the company worked hard to reenter the live tournament realm in the post-Covid era, working with casinos and card rooms but navigating state health mandates along the way. On the other hand, the WPT was
