The RunGood Poker Series may be one of the last to resume its live tournament schedule in the United States – at least it survived the pandemic, as not all were so lucky – and it’s doing so with renewed energy and excitement. Not only has the tour put out
Evidently, a person cannot simply file a massive lawsuit against a list of people and companies and then drop it without consequence. So is the lesson learned by Michael Postle. That is an oversimplification of the most recent court processes involving the former poker pro, of course. It is also
The sites on the partypoker US network of online poker sites in the American market are ready for May tournament series. Interestingly, a look at the websites for BetMGM, one of the brands carrying the series, shows the series in the “tournaments” section for New Jersey and Michigan. Those series
Weekends are always busy for poker players. Sundays are the biggest poker days of the week in the online poker world. Bovada Poker knows this. It’s why Bovada offers a $150K Guaranteed tournament every Sunday for a $162 buy-in, and also with qualifiers as low as $1. And every Sunday
Several states started 2021 with the intention of legalizing online poker. Even more states toyed with the idea of igaming or opened the door to discussions of it alongside sports betting. When it all came down to it, only a few states survived the legislative battles with an igaming bill
When online poker launched in Nevada, the now-defunct Ultimate Poker was the first to virtually open in April 2013. The WSOP’s site – WSOP.com – followed in September 2013. The most recognizable name in poker wasn’t the first but turned out to be the only one that could sustain itself
It happened again. Phil Hellmuth won another round of High Stakes Duel, the second one against Daniel Negreanu. Hellmuth took on Antonio Esfandiari in the first edition of High Stakes Duel on PokerGO. He beat Esfandiari in the first round, which cost each player $50K to play. Esfandiari put in
It was already official that the RunGood Poker Series was returning to the live poker tournament scene in June 2021. With the worst of the pandemic (knocking on wood) in the past, the folks at RunGood are ready to work with their casino partners to bring back their mid-majors tournaments
The Winning Poker Network is always upgrading and improving. Players have been noticing more transparency in the last few years, especially with the flagship Americas Cardroom site. And WPN took its desire to garner more trust with its players to a new level in December 2020 when CEO Phil Nagy
No one could have predicted that the World Poker Tour’s Season XVIII would last for nearly two years. It appears that a pandemic puts inordinate delays on hosting live poker tournaments. But that 18th season that began in July 2019 will finally wrap this month. The WPT Seminole Hard Rock
Back in the olden days, PokerStars had one website – PokerStars-dot-com – that served players around the world. Enter governments and laws and taxes and a global misunderstanding of poker and how it differs from other forms of gambling. In the last decade, PokerStars has had to ring-fence its sites
“We have not yet begun to fight!” says PokerStars, probably, in its case versus the Commonwealth of Kentucky. That is difficult to say, though, considering it all began in 2008. Both Kentucky and PokerStars had significant wins as the case moved through the US court system. Kentucky started it seizing
