Michigan started 2021 with a new online poker law in place and licenses issued to numerous online casino and sports betting operators. State lawmakers toiled for years to draft and pass online gambling bills and put a new industry into motion. Several lawmakers were key in making this happen. Now-former
With more players joining the tables at Bovada Poker and Ignition Poker than ever before, the operators decided to offer something extra each month. And with Bovada and Ignition sharing their online poker tables for bigger fields and prizes, the sites were able to introduce the Monthly Million. On one
It didn’t start as well as they hoped. PokerStars planned its new Blowout Series as a massive series to take players out of a rocky (to put it mildly) year and into 2021 with great online poker opportunities. The series ran from December 27 to January 19, offering 268 tournaments
Earlier this week, the World Poker Tour announced that Allied Esports Entertainment sold it for $78.25 million. Compound that with the ongoing and unpredictable nature of the coronavirus pandemic into 2021 after nine months of it in 2020. It all adds up to a WPT year is going to be
The WSOP.com platform for online poker in the United States market will remain the same for years to come. WSOP has operated its American online poker on the 888 platform since 2013. Since then, the site has continued to operate in Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware. Caesars Interactive Entertainment is
On the last day of the Trump Administration, as US President-Elect Joe Biden and Vice-President-Elect Kamala Harris awaited the opportunity to take the oath of office and assume their news roles, the US Court of Appeals enters its decision in the Wire Act case. Interesting timing, no? Strangely enough, there
The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) revealed its final 2020 statistics. There is good news and bad news. The latter is that 2020 was a horrible year for the gambling industry in general due to the pandemic. The good news, however, is that internet gaming was in place to make
The World Poker Tour announced today, January 19, that Element Partners will buy the World Poker Tour and all of its assets from Allied Esports Entertainment for $78.25 million. Interesting news, indeed. The last time the World Poker Tour changed hands was when it was WPT Enterprises. In December 2018,
To new poker players, OSS Cub3d XI on ACR seems like a wild jumble of acronyms. For Americas Cardroom players – or any players on Winning Poker Network sites like Black Chip Poker – they know this means a set of three poker tournament series online that offers something for
It is back. The PartyPoker MILLIONS Online debuted several years ago. It didn’t happen in 2020 because, well, coronavirus. PartyPoker became the go-to site for many tours that took their live events online because of pandemic-related cancellations and closures. PartyPoker hosted numerous World Poker Tour series, along with the Irish
Let’s try it again. That is the feeling of the Poker Central executives and high-stakes poker pros who want high roller tournaments to return to Aria on the Las Vegas Strip. They tried it in December. Late last year, Poker Central announced a set of three $10K buy-in High Roller
PokerStars wants to give its online poker players in New Jersey the chance to be a part of a substantial tournament series this month. The Winter Series returns for PokerStars NJ and FOX Bet players located within the borders of New Jersey on January 21. The series will be the
