The last time we checked in with PartyPoker more than a week ago, it was a bit messy. The much-anticipated return of the PartyPoker MILLION Sunday tournament didn’t exactly go as planned, and a flight of players didn’t get their seats into the Day 2 portion of the event. However,
The announcements came via Twitter on Wednesday, November 13. Liv Boeree and partner Igor Kurganov both tweeted that they have parted ways with PokerStars. As two of the most well-known of the ever-dwindling list or players on Team PokerStars Pro, it was a startling announcement but one that isn’t all
PokerStars won the hearts of many poker players in Pennsylvania simply by being the first operator to launch online poker under the new regulations. It had been two years since the lawmakers of Pennsylvania chose to legalize and regulate online poker. And the summer months came and went with several
High-stakes poker players have gathered in Las Vegas again to play a tournament series hosted by Poker Central. This time they are playing in the Poker Masters, ten tournaments that with buy-ins of $10K to $100K and seven-figure prize pools. The last round of high-stakes tournaments of this nature took
There has been a lot of talk about revamping the World Series of Poker Player of the Year system. It didn’t even work this year. Someone at the World Series of Poker made an error when attributing points to the top players on the leaderboard over the summer, and it
Americas Cardroom hosted the first Venom in July 2019 and set records. The $2,650 buy-in onlne poker tournament offered three starting days and a massive $5 million prize pool guarantee. And when the entries were counted, the prize pool totaled $6,382,500. Not only was that a new record for an
The date was quickly approaching. Next week, the first official brief was due to the United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit. However, instead of abiding by the court’s deadline and moving this case along, US Attorney General William Barr and his Justice Department filed for an extension.
It’s live! PokerStars made its debut in the Pennsylvania regulated market this week with its land-based casino partner, Mount Airy Casino. After little more than two days of soft-launch play for testing purposes, the state gaming regulator approved the site for a full launch. Any person of legal age, with
Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear won a hard-fought election this week for the governorship of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. As a supporter of gambling expansion in his state, Beshear has vowed to continue pushing lawmakers to legalize casinos, sports betting, fantasy sports, and online poker. With his victory in the
The World Series of Poker Europe finally wrapped weeks of live poker tournaments at King’s Casino in Rozvadov. What started on October 13 and brought a total of 15 bracelet events in the weeks that followed is now done and in the WSOP history books. The first 10 events of
Things have been going well – in general – for PartyPoker. With Rob Yong taking charge of changes per customer feedback, players have been happy. They felt as if they’ve been heard, and PartyPoker has been wasting no time in implementing changes at a fairly fast pace. One of those
It was a tight race. And it all came down to the last tournaments at WSOP Europe in Rozvadov, Czech Republic. It took until the final day of the final tournament of the series to determine the player who would be the 2019 WSOP Player of the Year. That player
