It is an unprecedented time in America. The pandemic that is the coronavirus – COVID-19 to be precise – has prompted cities and states around the country to close everything from restaurants to malls, cancel all gatherings that put more than 10 people together in a space. Quarantines range from
The World Series of Poker has been one of the last holdouts amidst coronavirus shutdowns. As tours like the World Poker Tour, Heartland Poker Tour, and numerous others on a national and global scale were cancelling or postponing their events, the WSOP Circuit events moved forward. Initial cancellations found the
The spread of the coronavirus and related precautionary measures around the world – and now in the United States – has impacted the poker world greatly. The affects on some poker entities are more significant in scope than others. The World Poker Tour finished its WPT Rolling Thunder event on
The World Poker Tour was busy in early March. As the WPT L.A. Poker Classic Main Event wrapped up at Commerce Casino in Southern California, the action had two days to move up to the city of Lincoln It was in the northern part of the state, just north of
The number poker tournament and series cancellations related to the coronavirus outbreak around the world are increasing by the hour. Just since yesterday, another dozen or so events have been cancelled or postponed. The initial cancellations happened in Europe and Asia, but as the number of COVID-19 cases in the
The overall New Jersey gambling market remained solid in February 2020. The internet gaming sector as a whole grew significantly – again – as usual, carried by online casino games. And then there was online poker, back to its old ways of decreased revenue. The New Jersey Division of Gaming
The poker world is on the cusp of a shutdown. Coronavirus concerns have grown significantly in the past week for several reasons, not the least of which its classification by the World Health Organization as a pandemic. In Europe, Italy went from precautionary measures to a complete shutdown of all
The World Series of Poker Circuit is well into its 2019-2020 season, both for international and US Circuit series that originally started in July 2019. The second half of each tour’s season began in January. As the end of the season inches closer, the World Series of Poker decided to
It was only a matter of time before the coronavirus made its way into poker. What started as a unique virus outbreak in China quickly made its way to other countries around the world. There is no vaccine yet for COVID-19. It spreads quickly and can be dangerous to some,
For the first five months of the scandal that broke open in October 2019, there was really only one cohesive and evidence-based side to the story. The charges against poker pro Mike Postle were serious and the video proof damning. After a few initial responses from Postle on Twitter to
The Second Annual Global Poker Awards took place on Friday night at the PokerGO Studio at ARIA in Las Vegas. The red-carpet affair featured some a number of voter-determined awards and a few extra honors. Maria Ho and Drea Renee hosted the ceremony, and Global Poker Index and Hendon Mob
High-stakes poker players have quite a few options in the live tournament scene these days, with high roller events now a standard part of most series and even several series dedicated just to high buy-in tournaments. And online, they have the PokerStars High Rollers. The latest installment of this is
