There are certain things that are generally not funny. A person walking through an airport should not joke about carrying a bomb. A visitor to a hospital should not joke about death. A person staying in a high-rise hotel should not joke about committing suicide. However, poker player Scott Robbins
This is getting out of hand. Mike Postle is now linked to a PR firm of a woman who assisted him in his legal matters. Despite the woman’s continued attempts to distance herself from a business relationship with Postle, her PR firm is now the owner of a fresh new
The countdowns have been happening. Today marks one week to the WSOP. Perhaps more than in previous years, the poker community is looking forward to the start of the 2021 World Series of Poker – the live events, the ones in Las Vegas, the ones in the Rio Convention Center.
The United States igaming market has been growing, mostly in the area of sports betting. A handful of states legalized online casinos and/or online poker in the past decade as well. While those markets have shown internet gaming’s worth in many ways, especially during the pandemic, the online poker sector
PokerStars is keen on celebrating anniversaries and milestones. It’s a chance to look at how far the poker community has come, and it hints at what the future may hold. The recent 20th anniversary World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) just wrapped on September 15. This provided a good opportunity
The PokerGO team just wrapped another successful live poker series, another group of high-stakes tournaments at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. Some of the biggest names in poker competed in the dozen tournaments. And they brought their big bankrolls with them, as the tournament buy-ins ranged from $10K to
Just when one may have assumed that the World Series of Poker published its final schedules for the 2021 WSOP, one is proven wrong. Just this week, the WSOP announced the addition of 11 online poker bracelet events for players in the United States. Ten of those events will take
Last year, partypoker hosted the inaugural World Poker Tour’s World Online Championships, better known as the WPT WOC. The 71-day series offered 12 official WPT events, each with several buy-in levels. And when it was all over, players had taken home $100,746,175 in prize money. The second iteration of the
There are many celebrities who play poker. There are several comedians who play poker. But then there are celebrities and comedians – who are one and the same sometimes – who love the game of poker. They entrench themselves into the game and the community that surrounds it. Only a
Mike Postle’s enemy of the moment is Marc Randazza. In the long, drawn-out case of poker cheating accusations against Mike Postle, it just becomes more convoluted with every court filing. The public accusations from Veronica Brill that Postle had been cheating while playing poker on a livestream at Stones Gambling
The full online portion of the 2021 World Series of Poker wrapped this week. The 33 tournaments hosted by GGPoker awarded 33 gold WSOP bracelets. Prior to this series, there were two versions of 2021 WSOP Online in the US market. One was for players located in New Jersey and
It normally happens each summer. The World Series of Poker sets its bookend dates for its summer series in Las Vegas, which usually begins during the last days of May and runs through mid-July. Other casinos with prominent card rooms around Las Vegas then announce their own series. Casinos like
