When Pennsylvania launched its first internet gaming sites last summer, the state could not have known the ultimate benefits of that move. Pennsylvania knew that the additional gaming revenue would help, but there was no predicting a pandemic that would shut down all live gambling establishments for months in 2020.
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The WSOP 2020 Online turned to the GGPoker network of poker sites to host its international slate of tournaments. The fractured state of online poker today means that offering games in the United States must be on an entirely different platform from those available to other countries. The World Series
This summer’s World Series of Poker is now running simultaneously on two poker networks. The first part of the WSOP 2020 Online began on July 1 on WSOP.com in Nevada and New Jersey for the US market, and GGPoker picked up its part of the series in mid-July for many
All things considered, the process of establishing an online gambling market in Michigan has been fairly expedient thus far. Using Pennsylvania as a market, a state that took about one year plus nine months to launch its first online casino site (and more than two years for an online poker
The development team at Poker Central is always working to think of new and original show ideas. Whether it involves new analysis of old tournament footage or reliving classic World Series of Poker moments, Poker Central is always ready to try something new. High Stakes Duel is the latest show
The World Poker Tour and Mike Sexton have been together in one way or another since the beginning. Sexton signed on as an initial commentator for WPT shows, and he was essential in the development of the WPT as a whole, beginning in 2002. His advice as a longtime poker
The little online gambling market in Delaware – often overlooked – finished its second quarter of 2020 with numbers it couldn’t have anticipated. While June internet gaming revenue was down from May, the full quarter shows the power of the online gaming sector in the state. Revenue numbers from March,
Putting the World Series of Poker online as a replacement for the summer series in Las Vegas was destined to be a bit complicated. The coronavirus pandemic has handily complicated everything. Thus, the WSOP 2020 Online produced a schedule that put 31 of the 85 tournaments on the US-facing WSOP.com
The United States portion of this summer’s World Series of Poker is more than half over. In fact, it hit its halfway mark last week. The WSOP 2020 Online playing out in New Jersey and Nevada on WSOP.com is running smoothly, and every day brings a new winner of that
At one point in time, poker was all over television in the United States. There were cash games and tournaments featuring well-known poker personalities and celebrities. That was before Black Friday forced companies like PokerStars out of the US market. ESPN still had the World Series of Poker and the
The Pennsylvania online gaming market remains relatively new, having only launched last summer. While it is easy to compare it to New Jersey and expect internet gambling revenue to similarly rise each month for Pennsylvania. But the market is still finding its way…and during a pandemic nonetheless. As it stands,
