Two recent announcements put GGPoker in the spotlight. The first was last week’s launch of a new poker hand analysis feature starring GGPoker Pro Fedor Holz. While there is some information available for free, most of it requires a membership. The second announcement was the GG Online Championship, an online
It’s official the WPTDeepStacks brand is retired. It happened at Thunder Valley in Northern California, as WPTDeepStacks wrapped its final tournament. Of course, this is only the beginning for the new WPT Prime brand. The new tour will kick off later this month in Vietnam. After that, it will host
Marijuana dispensaries are all the rage. In 2020, Nevada joined a growing number of states that legalized the sale and taxation of marijuana for recreational use. Poker pro and businessman Phil Ivey is not one to allow a business opportunity to pass by, so he eyed the new market. He
Live at the Bike was poker’s first popular stream of cash games. The Los Angeles-based cardroom Bicycle Casino was the first to create a production focused on a single cash game, often showing high stakes with a revolving cast of players. Since its 2005 debut, it was the only stream
Two of the most well-known players in the poker world will meet up once again to play heads-up. Phil Hellmuth and Tom Dwan will compete in another round of High Stakes Duel, now set for Thursday, May 12. It is sure to be another entertaining evening of action between two
The World Series of Poker begins in little more than one month. Who’s ready? Well, you can’t be fully ready until you register…or at least know how you will register for 2022 WSOP tournaments. And the WSOP now has that information. Caesars Rewards Card Required Previous WSOP players are familiar
The World Poker Tour is in the midst of a press release spree. The announcements have been coming regularly, as the team takes Season XX to a new level. Just last week, we reported that the World Poker Tour added a main tour stop in Las Vegas this summer. The
This was a new tournament for Season 2 of the PokerGO Tour. The PGT (PokerGO Tour) Heads-Up Showdown was a $25K buy-in affair capped at 32 players. This created a prize pool of $800K and would pay out the top four finishers, reserving $400K for the winner. The field was
After a somewhat rocky start to the year, online poker revenue increased in March. The overall internet gaming market, however, has had a better year thus far and improved on that in March. The bottom line – as always – is that online poker revenue will only grow substantially when
The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is a big deal for poker players and online poker watchers around the world. In fact, the 14th anniversary SCOOP is set to begin soon on the global PokerStars site with 318 total tournaments and $75.8M in prize pool guarantees. The burgeoning
It is natural that many online poker players don’t know much about the American Gaming Association. The AGA has never been a staunch supporter of state-regulated online poker in America. In fact, after flirting with online poker law possibilities after Black Friday, the AGA publicly flipped and said it would
In the United States, players only have access to PokerStars if they live in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Michigan. And those sites are not yet connected, so the player pools are limited. American players cannot access the global PokerStars-dot-com website from inside of the US. But there are times that
