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
An overconfident Mike Postle filed his defamation lawsuit in 2020 against everyone from Veronica Brill to ESPN. He sought hundreds of millions of dollars in damages from those he felt sullied his name. He then ghosted his initial lawyer and found absolutely no success in finding another one. And on
Why the World Series of Poker chose to announce its 2021 plans on April 1 – often known as April Fool’s Day – we do not know. They immediately had to clarify that it was not a joke. The WSOP is returning to the live poker tables in 2021, while
The poker community has been focused on land-based gambling during the pandemic. From card rooms to home games, coronavirus impacted every form of live poker. Another part of the industry that has remained shuttered for more than a full year now is floating card rooms, those on cruise ships, the
PokerStars in the United States market is indicating its readiness to connect its sites across state lines. Currently, PokerStars Michigan operates separately from PokerStars Pennsylvania and PokerStars New Jersey. Until the governors of those states sign a multi-state liquidity agreement to allow operators to share player pools across state lines,
Tell me if you’ve heard this one before. Allied Esports Entertainment approves the latest bid by Element Partners for the World Poker Tour. This is the latest move in a bidding war that has seen Element Partners and Bally’s Corporation fight for the World Poker Tour. Allied Esports indicated in
Let’s face it. There can only be one Chris Moneymaker. His 2003 WSOP Main Event victory – winning $2.5M from an $86 online poker satellite via PokerStars – changed the game in ways no one in the industry could have predicted prior to the turn of the century. Moneymaker holds
BetOnline wants to end March in style. Its online poker site has already been running freerolls all month as a part of Poker Freeroll Madness, and the big finale is set for Sunday, March 28. While Sundays are already big days in the real money poker tournament world, BetOnline wanted
The case of PokerStars versus the Commonwealth of Kentucky is over – really this time – at least on the state level. Most thought it was over in December 20 when the Supreme Court of Kentucky ruled against the online poker giant, but parent company Flutter Entertainment appealed once more.
This had to be a tough decision. Last year, PokerStars had to postpone the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold’em Championship (PSPC) that had been set for August in Barcelona due to the coronavirus outbreak around the world. The hope was to host the event sometime this year, but the decision-makers
If this isn’t a bidding war, I don’t know what is. Allied Esports Entertainment is just sitting back and evaluating bid after bid for the World Poker Tour. Element Partners kicked it off in January, but Bally’s chimed in this month, and the back-and-forth bids are now coming in quick
Merriam-Webster defines karma as a force generated by a person’s actions, more broadly as a force affecting the events of one’s life. Canadian poker pro Vanessa Kade had been on the receiving end of vitriol since December 2020 when she expressed her opposition on social media to GGPoker signing Dan
