The World Poker Tour has had a record-setting season thus far. It started 2023 riding high on the massive success that was the WTP World Championship at Wynn in December 2022, the first foray into the WPT-Wynn partnership. The reviews were glowing, and the WPT Main Event that guaranteed $15M
Every online poker site has a flagship tournament series, and BetOnline has its Championship Online Poker Series, also known as COPS. Sometimes, a good poker site can offer several iterations of this type of series throughout the year. BetOnline is ready with its autumn COPS, just in time to usher
The PokerGO Tour has grown in just a few years, now to the point that it hosted and/or included 75 high-stakes poker tournaments just through the month of July. The second half of the year will add 47 more, putting the total for the year at 122 tournaments that fall
It’s a new look, new software upgrade, and new name for Americas Cardroom. Now ACR Poker, the Winning Poker Network changed everything from that name to the domain (now acrpoker-dot-eu) and a new logo. The initial change happened on July 5, but many people were preoccupied with a little tournament
The Northern American contingent of PokerStars has been busy. PokerStars USA had long been working to bring back the live North American Poker Tour (NAPT) and combine the USA and Canada COOP series under one. The slow movement of regulations in these individual markets have kept progress at a snail’s
Delaware was one of the first three states to legalize online poker within its state borders. Along with Nevada and New Jersey, Delaware launched its online poker sites in 2013. It was the smallest of the three markets by far, and it had only one online poker provider – 888poker
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
