On the first day of April, the World Series of Poker announced its plans for the 2021 WSOP. It was a broad overview but included a live series for Las Vegas later in the year and one in Europe, both preceded by two online series – one for players in
I still remember April 15, 2011. I had already been a freelance writer in the poker industry for a half-dozen years. I did some work each year at the WSOP in Las Vegas, covered certain other tournaments here and there, but I mostly worked from my Los Angeles apartment. I
Sports fans around the world know him as Neymar Jr – or just Neymar – but a few remember him as Neymar da Silva Santos Junior. His face is as iconic in the world of football as anyone else. Many may know him as the face of numerous brands, like
Online poker sites around the world are hosting April tournament series. They signal the beginning of the spring and summer tournament seasons as well as the welcoming of spring. BetOnline decided to do something a little different this month. Players will find a $100 buy-in Main Event on Sunday, April
BetMGM launched its online poker site on the PartyPoker platform in mid-March. It was the second online poker site to launch within the state of Michigan in its newly-regulated market. PokerStars had been the first to launch online poker for Michiganders in late January, which gave the site a significant
Mike Postle filed his lawsuit with a bang and tried to abandon it with a whisper. But the case is not over for him yet. It started with Postle’s behavior at the livestreamed poker tables of Stones Gambling Hall. Livestream commentator and fellow player Veronica Brill brought the issue to
By all accounts, the Heartland Poker Tour seems to be gone. Without so much as a goodbye, the original mid-stakes poker tour catering to middle America since 2005 closed. We reached out to HPT contacts via social media, but most of those accounts now appear to be inactive. No one
The World Poker Tour announced a new partnership this week with Theta Labs for real-time NFT drops. This will immediately make sense to people who are familiar with cryptocurrency, blockchain, and digital files. For the rest of us, even the most seemingly simple of explanations will do little to help.
PokerStars hosts numerous online poker tournament series each year, but the two most popular – and long-lasting – are WCOOP (World Championship of Online Poker) and SCOOP (Spring Championship of Online Poker). As PokerStars makes its way through American states and sets up a spring schedule, SCOOP heads to Pennsylvania,
Poker players around the world are waiting for more information about the 2021 World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, as well as the summer of online events and the WSOP Europe. This announcement, however, was not about that. This is just for the small US market in which WSOP.com
At one time, PokerStars accumulated a full roster of Team Pro members. They represented many countries around the world and a range of poker abilities and strengths. PokerStars’ team was second only to that of Full Tilt Poker. In the past decade – since Black Friday, really – PokerStars slowly
High Stakes Duel was one of the new Poker Central television show ideas to come from the pandemic. The concept was to pit two high-stakes poker players against each other for escalating amounts of money in each round. The heads-up poker matches would be aired online at PokerGO. The first
