The exits continue from Team PokerStars Pro as the end of the year approaches. Contracts are set to expire, and players take stock of their poker lives as a new year approaches. Just one week after two of the most recognizable faces in the PokerStars lineup announced their departure from
Americas Cardroom, the flagship online poker site on the Winning Poker Network (WPN), faces the same issues as many of its competitors. Specifically, the identification and banning of poker bots is a task that players have demanded all poker sites address. WPN CEO Phil Nagy did that earlier in 2019,
The global online poker scene has welcomed a new network in the past few years, as GGNetwork has grown in scope and respectability. GGPoker is the flagship site of the network, but Natural8 is also a well-known skin. And now, GGPoker has taken a huge step in the online poker
PokerStars spent significant time in 2018 – and into 2019 – introducing new online poker variants. The online poker giant experimented with ways that poker players could find new opportunities for challenge and analysis through original variants of traditional poker games. This really all started in 2017, though, with the
James Holzhauer has become a household name for many, not from his many World Series of Poker bracelets or his high-stakes poker play. He became popular when he performed exceptionally well on Jeopardy!, the most popular trivia show on television. However, Holzhauer has an affinity for the game of poker.
His nickname was Gentleman John Gale for a reason. Nearly everyone who met Gale at or around the poker tables found him to be a gentleman. He was kind to all, generous with his time and attention, respectful of other players, passionate about poker, and a genuinely lovely human being.
Season XVIII of the World Poker Tour kicked off in late July and runs through the spring of 2020. The last tournament on the schedule is WPT Choctaw in mid-May, but there will likely be some season-ending events that have yet to be announced. The first event on the main
The World Series of Poker isn’t just a summer series anymore. In addition to the primary WSOP in Las Vegas each summer, there is a WSOP Europe, along with a WSOP Circuit series that runs from July/August to May/June. The WSOP Circuit has grown so much in the past few
The latest edition of a Poker Central high-stakes poker tournament series is complete. Ten players walked away with Poker Masters tournament titles for winning individual events, all of which played out at the ARIA on the Las Vegas Strip. One of those players, Sam Soverel, not only won the Poker
The latest numbers for internet gaming are now available, courtesy of the New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement. New Jersey Attorney General Gurbir Grewal and Division of Gaming Enforcement Director David Rebuck release all gaming revenue results on a monthly basis. All gaming revenue was up for the month of
Delaware internet gaming remains a small market, especially in comparison to New Jersey. And it will likely be a drop in the bucket compared to Pennsylvania when those numbers start to add up. But Delaware revenue from online poker and casino games continues to increase. The 2019 numbers show that
The news just keeps coming out of Pennsylvania. Poker fans waited for a very long time for good news about online poker, and they now have it in spades. PokerStars became the first online poker operator to open in the new regulated market of Pennsylvania when it entered into a
