There can never be enough World Series of Poker bracelets. The summer of 2023 delivered 95 live bracelet events in Las Vegas at the Horseshoe and Paris casinos. At the same time, the WSOP put up 34 online bracelet tournaments for players in four American states. There were 20 online
The Moneymaker Poker Tour kicked off in May 2023, with Chris Moneymaker working to make it happen alongside well-known tournament director Tony Burns as the tour’s Executive Manager. The promotions began as far back as March 2023, and the Palm Beach Kennel Club in Florida was ready to welcome players
The first half of 2023 has not been the best for US igaming revenue. The still-burgeoning online poker market in the United States continues to struggle, not making the most of its interstate possibilities. But even the entirety of igaming, which includes poker and casino games, struggled in the first
A funny thing happened while the World Series of Poker was running its course in Las Vegas. While the poker community was playing, watching, or following the WSOP and all of the tournament series this summer, lawmakers in the little state of Rhode Island legalized online poker. In fact, the
Summer camp may be over, but poker goes on. The biggest poker festival in the world runs each summer in Las Vegas, and when it wraps, the poker community usually takes a moment to breathe. Nearly two months of the World Series of Poker, along with other live tournament series
The 2023 World Series of Poker is over, at least the summer series that takes place in Las Vegas. There will be a WSOP Europe and a new WSOP Bahamas, and there is always the possibility of more online poker bracelet events. But the summer set, the one with 95
The World Series of Poker owns the rights to the Poker Hall of Fame, the way that the poker community has honored the greatest in the game. It has been a way to pay respect to those in poker who created it, molded it, fought for it, changed it, set
Winning Poker Network has been busy this summer. Of course, it sent its Americas Cardroom sponsored pros and quite a few of satellite winners to the 2023 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas. Several of the pros lived in a house together and filmed the latest season of the
The 2023 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas is over. There were 95 tournaments held at Paris Las Vegas and Horseshoe Las Vegas from May 30 through mid-July. We’ll recap the online bracelet events and Main Event separately so as to dedicate this final wrap-up to all of the
They did it. The World Series of Poker hosted its largest Main Event in 54 years of the series. The 2023 WSOP Main Event surpassed the record by more than 1,200 players. And the 10,043-player field translated into a prize pool of $94M. And as the 2023 WSOP’s 95 live
All signs pointed to a big year. The World Series of Poker showed strong numbers in 2022, the first big year after the pandemic and the first series held at Paris Las Vegas and Bally’s-now-Horseshoe Las Vegas. The 2022 WSOP Main Event showed the second-largest attendance in its history. Players
When the WSOP World Championship began at the 2023 World Series of Poker, other live tournaments wrapped so the entire focus could be on the Main Event. It is the center of attention for so many poker players and fans, and it takes up quite a lot of space in
