The 2022 PokerGO Tour is off to a fast start. It began the year with some Venetian High Roller tournaments in Las Vegas, followed by the new Stairway to Millions series at the PokerGO Studio. Some players then went to Florida for the Lucky Hearts Poker Open, where that high
Less than a year after Vanessa Kade signed on to become an ACR Team Pro, she resigned that position. Details remain somewhat scarce, but Kade would like to keep it that way. She purposely released a brief statement about her departure from Americas Cardroom. And when we asked her for
From 888poker LIVE to the European Poker Tour, this is the year that they return from their pandemic-induced hiatus. Considering Europe was one of the hardest hit parts of the world, it has been most difficult to plan the return of those events. While partypoker LIVE puts its 2022 schedule
The Triton Poker Series cannot seem to catch a break. All they want to do is host high-stakes poker tournaments in various locations around the world. The last time the tour hosted a series was in August 2019 in London. They then set the 2020 season to include South Korea
It doesn’t take a lot of experience in the poker world to know that trying to look at an opponent’s cards is wrong. With that as a given, let’s take it a step further. If a person is going to try to (wrongly) look at an opponent’s cards, it’s probably
The Ladies International Poker Series is ready to host some big events in 2022. Now that the worst of the pandemic seems to have subsided - *knocks on wood* - poker venues are determined to stay open. Poker tournament organizers are more confident about setting series dates. And women feel
At one time, Americas Cardroom had a small lineup of male pro players signed to its team of pros. In late 2020, they brought Ebony Kenney to the team, followed by Vanessa Kade in early 2021. By the end of last year, they signed Katie Lindsay and her husband Chris
Phil Hellmuth is a walking brand. He promotes himself at all times. Sometimes, though, he promotes others, like the Aria Casino, PokerGO, Breinfuel, and Bitcoin Latinum. For the better part of 2021, he carried a bottle of Breinfuel and wore a Bitcoin Latinum hat. No one can say he doesn’t
The latest iteration of the Venom tournament is done and in the books. And a player from Austria named BoBomb14 won $1.18M for finishing in first place. The prize pool for the Venom was $10M, as promised by the Winning Poker Network. But it didn’t get to that number by
The World Poker Tour just finished its first main tour stop of 2022, the first one of Season XX. That WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event attracted so many entries that it became the second largest live field in WPT history. Not a bad way to kick off a
As poker entered 2022, it did so with some new sponsorship deals on deck. Of course, there were two high-profile ambassador deals – Steve Aoki with the World Poker Tour and Chris Eubank Jr with 888poker. There were some other partnerships, though, between poker companies and non-poker-related businesses. Most of
It was fun to watch. The two players took the match seriously, though neither was going to earn a dime from it. They were playing for charities that meant something to them, however. And the spirit of the match is what carried it. Both women dressed to the nines for
