The new season and the new year started well for the World Poker Tour. Season XX represents the 20th anniversary of the poker brand. Needless to say, poker players and the WPT itself were anxious to get down to the Seminole Hard Rock Casino in Hollywood, Florida, where they would
The latest season of the World Series of Poker Circuit is its 17th and started in late November. It started out with a little overlap from Harrah’s Cherokee to the Bicycle Casino and out to sea for the Aruba tour stop. After a break from the holidays, the WSOP Circuit
Americas Cardroom and its sister sites on the Winning Poker Network have been busy. When they closed out 2021, they did so with a December Online Super Series, the 28th one. And that OSS XVIII offered 141 tournaments carrying $15M in guarantees. It ran December 5-19 and gave players plenty
When the World Poker Tour acquired the DeepStacks brand, the WPTDeepStacks tour stayed mostly separate from the main tour. Of course, the stops themselves would sometimes coincide at a location, but the tours stayed separated by a number of factors – buy-ins, tour managers, and sometimes players, as well as
Online gaming revenue in American states that regulate it continued its impressive growth in 2021. While there may be slight dips on occasion, the overall trend remains on an upward trajectory. No market has shown there to be a cap. Online poker is another story. There is only tracking for
The list of players who are usually able to complete in events on the PokerGO Tour is limited. With tournaments beginning at $10K and increasing exponentially, few players are able to justify those buy-ins, making the competitors and winners an elite group of poker players. For something new, PokerGO wanted
The US justice system is rarely swift. Often, it takes years upon years for a criminal case to see an actual courtroom, with more years tacked on for appeals. This must be an onerous burden for a victim’s family and friends. So must be the case for those suffering from
The tournament will finally happen…on Americas Cardroom…for charity. GGPoker had promised a heads-up tournament for the winner of an online tournament in December 2020. That tournament had been a $100K freeroll to celebrate the birthday of GGPoker’s newest sponsored pro, Dan Bilzerian. Alex O’Brien won that freeroll for $10K and
The Hendon Mob (THM) and Global Poker Index (GPI) announced the final nominees for most categories in the upcoming Global Poker Awards. The initial nominations and collections of potential nominees was vetted, voting panel members participated in the preliminary voting round, and then they submitted their final votes. Why are
The current season of the World Series of Poker Circuit only started in late November, after the late WSOP in Las Vegas. The Circuit started in North Carolina, hit the Bike in Southern California, and then took the action to Aruba in December. It may be a new year, but
The Mid-States Poker Tour had quite a successful Season 12 in 2021. Despite a pandemic that put a hold on live poker for a good part of 2020 and threatened almost every stop thereafter, MSPT held its own. The tour started and ended 2021 at the Venetian in Las Vegas,
Chris Moneymaker made the initial snowball. Mike Matusow teased being a part of it. But it’s Lena Evans, founder of Poker League of Nations, who is rolling that snowball down the hill. Evans is the first-named plaintiff in a class action lawsuit against PayPal, a giant in online payment processing
