Americas Cardroom promoted it for months. All sites on the Winning Poker Network hosted the tournament, one that has become synonymous with breaking records and accumulating massive prize pools. And the Venom struck again. This Venom tournament didn’t set a new record, but that’s not to downplay its success. It
MicroMillions has become such a popular online poker series with players that PokerStars runs it several times each year. Often, the series plays out over the course of 10-14 days, giving players multiple opportunities to get in on the micro-stakes poker tournaments. Just last November, PokerStars hosted MicroMillions 18. It
The poker industry ain’t what it used to be, especially with respect to poker pro sponsorships. There was a time that poker sites had so many sponsored pros that one needed a spreadsheet to track them. Sites like PokerStars and Full Tilt Poker had pros in various categories and tiers.
For two players, the heads-up online poker challenge was an almost-daily battle from November 4 forward. They agreed to play a total of 25,000 hands of No Limit Hold’em at $200/$400. Sometimes, it was a grind but always one that presented opportunities for new strategies and approaches. Doug Polk and
Chris Moneymaker entered 2021 with a big announcement. Evidently, he was only starting to make news. On February 3, he announced that he was an investor in a startup hobby tech company called Guaranteed Breaks. A few hours later, he revealed that he is the latest ACR Team Pro, partnering
One of the entities in the United States gambling market that did well during the coronavirus pandemic of 2020 was internet forms of gambling. Sports betting, online casinos, and even online poker did well. For the World Series of Poker, it hurt the live tournament plans. Both the WSOP summer
High-stakes poker tournaments returned to Aria on the Las Vegas Strip last weekend. It wasn’t easy, as health protocols to protect players and tournament staff from Covid-19 requires many changes and hassles. The poker room had been open for several months, but the tournaments were deemed too risky until this
In just a few days, Americas Cardroom and its sister sites on the Winning Poker Network (WPN) will kick off the first Online Super Series of 2021. The Mini Online Super Series, otherwise known as MOSS, gets underway on Sunday, February 7. The entire OSS will run from February 7
Las Vegas Sands seems to be entering a new phase, a new post-Adelson age. A new CEO is in place, and the company is now considering online gaming opportunities. Longtime Las Vegas Sands CEO and the one responsible for growing it into a multi-billion-dollar company, Sheldon Adelson, died on January
Who’s excited about the expanding US online poker market? PokerStars certainly is. It launched its online poker site this week in Michigan, the first to do so under new state regulations. It shouldn’t be a surprise, though, as it was the first one to launch real money online poker in
Actor Hank Azaria loves a good poker game. Before the coronavirus pandemic, when people could visit each other and socialize, he was a part of a regular home game. Hank Azaria also loves to raise money for charity. He consistently shows up for charity events of all sorts, especially those
The story of the WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open Main Event had everything. The first foray of the World Poker Tour back to the live poker realm in the United States had millions in prize money, tons of masked poker players, and quite a few poker pros. It had an
