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
This article is an inevitable one. As a new year begins, it is necessary to look at the online poker industry in the US – specifically, the state-regulated market – and the larger igaming market. Black Friday drove global poker sites out of the US more than 10 years ago.
This signals what could be the end of articles about Mike Postle. While that doesn’t seem likely for someone who clearly feels that much of the poker community wronged him, it is the end of this part of the Mike Postle story. Attorneys for Todd Witteles and Veronica Brill, via
Just last week, we reported that three well-known members of team partypoker ended their contracts heading in to 2022. Isaac Haxton was the most widely known of the three, though poker fans have become familiar with Louise Butler and Joni Jouhkimainen. That still left a significant number of players representing
It’s on…again. It took many months, but High Stakes Duel will return on January 26. Phil Hellmuth will take on Tom Dwan again in a heads-up match at the PokerGO Studio, and this time, they’ll play for a $400K pot. High Stakes Duel started in 2020 as a PokerGO original.
The World Poker Tour is ready for 2022. It is a fresh start to a new year, one that has the potential to play all the way through the year with few postponements or cancellations. It will be an improved post-pandemic schedule, reminiscent of pre-2020 years filled with numerous live
The poker tour dedicated to high-stakes players wasted no time in getting its second season underway. Season 2 of the Poker GO Tour (officially the PokerGO Tour Presented by Guaranteed Rate) kicked off on January 5 at the Venetian on the Las Vegas Strip. There were four events on the
BetOnline and Sportsbetting.ag share their online poker platforms. That partnership comes in very handy for cash games but especially for large poker tournament series. It means more players can participate in the same events, which allows for bigger prize pool guarantees. Enter the Championship Online Poker Series, better known as
The new year of the RunGood Poker Series got underway just a few days after 2022 began. The crew and players headed to Thundery Valley in Northern California to play in the first RGPS tour stop of the year. And the turnout was impressive. This year, the stops on the
It happens around the end of a year or the beginning of a new one. Sponsored pro poker players sometimes exit their contracts, whether at the behest of the online poker operator or their own free will. The end of the year always brings some changes. And this year, they
