The year of Poker Open action started in February. Poker Central hosted the 2019 US Poker Open at its PokerGO studio in Las Vegas in February. Buy-ins ranged from $10K to $100K in the 10-tournament series. By February 23, all events had been completed and David Peters emerged as the
The people at PartyPoker are continuously making changes. Every player will not be pleased with every alteration or rule change, but PartyPoker has consistently been aiming to make play fairer and the online poker experience better for the masses. For months, the updates from PartyPoker pertained to bots and HUDs.
The saga of Texas poker clubs has turned another page and taken the story in a new direction. When two prominent Houston poker rooms – Prime Social Poker Club and Post Oak Poker Club – were raided on May 1, it looked as if the longtime skirting of poker laws
On the evening of September 4, 2019, Aaron Van Blarcum won the WPT Legends of Poker. It was his first tournament title and largest score of his poker life thus far. The World Poker Tour started its 18th season with a new favorite and then an old favorite. In July,
The Stars Group has been hard at work preparing for the launch of its brand in Pennsylvania’s online gaming market. In partnership with Mount Airy Casino, PokerStars’ parent company is licensed to offer online casino games, online poker, and an online sportsbook. The Stars Group has yet to set launch
Online poker players knew that PartyPoker had planned for a KO Series in September. It was happening. However, PartyPoker only revealed the full schedule of all 283 tournaments a little more than a week before the series was set to start. It is teed up and ready, though, with action
The World Series of Poker Europe will begin little more than one month from now. And it will now be larger than anticipated with five events added. When the 2019 WSOP Europe schedule was first announced in April, there were 10 gold bracelet events that were to promise €14 million
When the incident happened at the 2019 World Series of Poker Main Event on July 5, many found it amusing. A middle-aged man moved all-in on Day 1 of the biggest tournament of the year, dropped his pants to expose himself to the table, removed his shoes, and hurled a
When the PokerStars European Poker Tour (EPT) first hosted a series in Barcelona, Spain in 2004, there were 229 players in the Main Event. A Swede named Alexander Stevic won it for €80K. This year, there were 1,988 entries in the EPT Barcelona Main Event, and winner Simon Brandstrom walked
When Phil Galfond began talking about launching his own poker site years ago, players were interested. When the respected pro began putting the wheels in motion to actually make it happen, players were excited. Not only did Galfond invite the public’s participation in many major decisions, he explained all of
The news came from an unlikely source. An anti-malware software company discovered and wrote a detailed account of PokerTracker software being hacked. PokerTracker is one of the best-known online poker software companies in the business. It launched in 2001 and quickly became a favorite tool for hold’em players during the
Imagine winning $1,525,000 in a poker tournament and not being allowed to it all. The casino holds back $152,000 of it because someone else claims it. Nick Marchington was that player. In July, he finished in seventh place on poker’s biggest stage. It was the 2019 World Series of Poker
