The 2021 World Series of Poker hit the halfway point a few days ago. Technically, the first of five WSOP iterations crossed that mark. The action kicked off on July 1 with the WSOP Online bracelet events aimed at players in the United States. It has been playing out on
They cut it a little close. GGPoker and the World Series of Poker announced their WSOP Online 2021 series schedule on July 20. The series actually begins on August 1. Nevertheless, that schedule is available for the 33 WSOP bracelet-awarding events set to play out on the virtual tables of
It began last week. It is the biggest online poker series ever on Bovada Poker and Ignition Poker. The two sites operate on the same poker platform, which means they combine their player pools, and that comes in very handy for hosting a massive tournament series. It is the perfect
The first iteration of the PokerGO Cup at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas is a wrap. The latest in a series of high-stakes poker tournaments offered a new set of tournaments, a trophy, and a chance for poker pros to shine. The schedule put players in their seats July
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
