By all accounts, Michigan online gambling legalization should have been done months ago. Not only was it on the precipice at the end of 2018 – just before the then-governor vetoed it – online gambling was set up to succeed in 2019. Bill sponsors had met with the new governor,
In a move that surprised many in the poker world, Daniel Negreanu announced that he will no longer be an ambassador for PokerStars. This ends a 12-year sponsorship that put Negreanu on the front lines of PokerStars’ advertisements and promotions. He played online, attended live tournaments around the world, worked
The 2019 World Series of Poker was going to offer a fair amount of coverage via online live streams, courtesy of its affiliation with Poker Central. PokerGO was to be the platform by which poker fans around the world could log on and view some of the final tables and
The Winning Poker Network has been planning a significant software upgrade for its overall poker client for some time, and the implementation phase has finally begun. WPN actually began releasing a public beta version of its new client in April. It was a play-money version of the software, but it
The last time we checked in with the World Poker Tour in March, there several major tournaments that wrapped up around North America, as well as three that held final tables at the HyperX Esports Arena in Las Vegas. The WPT Rolling Thunder in California finished with Erkut Yilmaz winning
Anniversary celebrations are always special, but the 50th of anything is something to be commemorated in unique ways. The World Series of Poker is adding yet another way to do that this year. The 50th Annual World Series of Poker is less than two weeks from getting underway, and a
The Nevada online poker market is a solid one in that the WSOP poker site garners a reasonable amount of player traffic from players visiting or living in the state. With its offering in New Jersey, also, it is the only site to share online poker liquidity in the two
The World Poker Tour is heading for the end of Season XVII this month, as it completes a stop at Choctaw and then heads to Las Vegas for an ARIA event, several final tables at the HyperX Esports Arena, and a Tournament of Champions. Even so, the WPT is ready
The massive Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is underway on PokerStars. It started on May 12 and offered 201 total tournaments and a cumulative guarantee of more than $75 million. And as it was moving along, meeting its guarantees and attracting tens of thousands of players to the online
Of the online poker sites focusing lately on poker bots, PartyPoker has been one of the largest operators to take a stand with transparency. Last month, PartyPoker reported that its Poker Fraud Team detected and closed 277 bot accounts between December 2018 and March 2019. And per that in-depth investigation
For the first time in many months, New Jersey’s internet gaming sector showed a monthly decrease in revenue during the month of April 2019. While it has come to be expected from online poker, it is unusual for online casinos to decrease from month to month. And to see a
Several online poker sites have taken steps in recent months to rid their online poker tables of bots and various mechanisms that create unfair playing environments. There have been different methods employed by PokerStars and PartyPoker, and the Winning Poker Network has forged its own path to eliminate bots and
