After years of waiting, wondering, and anticipating, poker players in Pennsylvania can now log on to the WSOP.com online poker website and play. The launch this week was successful, and a couple days of testing led directly into a full-time real-money poker site. From the time that Pennsylvania Governor Tom
Chris Moneymaker started it. He got angry when PayPal not only suspended his account to investigate his $12K balance, money he held for a group of friends who gathered those funds for a fantasy football league. But he put his foot down when PayPal ended up confiscating every penny in
Most poker players already have the tournament on their virtual calendars. The Venom on the Winning Poker Network begins on July 23, though the four starting days spread out to August 2. And Venom Fever is spreading like a pandemic. Perhaps that isn’t the best analogy. But you know what
Another live tournament series is set to emerge from the pandemic postponement period that consumed much of 2020 and extended into 2021. PokerGO announced that the Super High Roller Bowl is back in its live form. It will consist of nine tournaments set to take place in North Cyprus in
The wild ride that has been the sale of the WPT is over. Allied Esports Entertainment completed its sale of the WPT, obviously including the World Poker Tour, to a private investment firm named Element Partners. Just after the very rough year that was 2020 – that whole pandemic thing,
Shark Week started in 1988. It was a simple week of programming for the Discovery Channel that focused on sharks. It became an annual airing, but it caught on with producers, who began to produce films for that particular week. By the early 2000s, bigger celebrities wanted to host Shark
Typically, the World Series of Poker announces official World Series of Poker tournaments. This time, however, King’s Casino announced its own set of events, the ones set for the WSOP Europe later this year. Half a day later, the WSOP website still had no listing of the WSOP Europe schedule,
Almost every single World Poker Tour event in 2021 has been meaningful – if not historic – in some way. In the comeback year after a pandemic, when the poker industry was unsure how players would feel about returning to live poker, WPT tournaments have shown the strength of the
888poker is making a concerted effort to engage with players. The site recently wrapped its XL Spring Series and launched a massive summer promotion called the Freeroll Splash Party. That campaign runs through the end of September with daily freerolls and more than $1M in total prizes to award. Most
For the first time, the World Series of Poker set a date for its online poker platform for the US market will launch in Pennsylvania. Years of hints and hopes finally transformed into an actual site launch and a date of July 12 for it. The Pennsylvania market has been
Many of the most popular live poker tournaments and series took their action online last year due to the pandemic. The Battle of Malta was one of them. While organizers hoped that the dangers would pass by the planned 2020 series in October, the pandemic simply wouldn’t let up. With
The Wynn had been welcoming players in solid numbers since reopening after the pandemic shutdowns of 2020. From smaller buy-ins to high roller events, the Wynn’s poker room had been bustling in 2021. So, the tournament staff set up the Wynn Summer Classic. That wasn’t new but the schedule was
