It is winter in the United States…in the middle of a pandemic. PokerStars and FOX Bet stepped up to give poker players in Pennsylvania something to anticipate. PokerStars has been hosting its Winter Series on its dot-com site for years. The last one wrapped up in January 2020, but this
The year in the rearview window – 2020 – was harsh on most businesses and industries in the United States. New Jersey was no different. And Atlantic City took a beating on every front, from restaurants to general tourism and, of course, gambling. The coronavirus pandemic forced casinos to close
The Delaware Lottery released its December net proceeds from iGaming, which means the entirety of the 2020 year is now available. And the numbers showed tremendous growth, as expected. Due to the shutdowns of Delaware racinos – not to mention limited capacity for most of the open months – caused
On the morning of January 12, 2021, Sheldon Adelson died at the age of 87. Just last week, Adelson took medical leave of his position as CEO and Chairman of Las Vegas Sands Corporation due to complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. He had been diagnosed with the cancer in 2019. Dr.
Many people remember when Team PokerStars Pro was the ideal sponsorship opportunity. The team was famous for Chris Moneymaker and Daniel Negreanu for many years, but there were players from around the world that represented the site. The site also signed celebrities from time to time and kept a rotating
Exactly one year and nine days from the signing of the Lawful Internet Gaming Act into law. Governor Gretchen Whitmer signed that bill on December 20, 2019 to legalize internet gaming and poker, sports betting, and fantasy sports. On December 29, 2020, Whitmer signed an amendment to that bill, which
For more than 14 months, PokerStars has been the sole state-regulated online poker website in Pennsylvania. It’s not that PokerStars intended to hold a monopoly on the industry in the state. Several Pennsylvania-based casinos purchased online poker licenses and signed partnership deals with ipoker operators years ago. And after PokerStars
The World Series of Poker is hosting a WSOP Online Circuit Series for players in New Jersey and Nevada. It will begin next week – January 14 – and run through January 31. Moreover, WSOP.com will host a monthly online series throughout 2021, alongside monthly freerolls, leaderboards and second-chance events.
The World Poker Tour has had enough of this pandemic. The live tour has been almost completely on ice since the mandated shutdown of casinos around the world – and travel and gathering prohibitions – in March 2020. Some casinos have been cautiously reopening recently, with poker rooms as the
During the coronavirus pandemic of 2020, many US-based poker players sought more options for online poker at sites like BetOnline.ag and SportsBetting.ag. The two sites share online poker tables and provide a comfortable space for micro-stakes and small-stakes players. As 2021 got underway, the pandemic made clear that it wasn’t
Damian Salas traveled around the world to win the 2020 WSOP Main Event. When he made the international World Series of Poker Main Event final table, he traveled from his home country of Argentina to the Czech Republic to play the rest of the tournament live. He won $1.5M. He
It had to happen someday. Chris Moneymaker wasn’t going to be a PokerStars ambassador forever. Nonetheless, it was startling news. On December 31, Chris Moneymaker posted a video on his Twitter page announcing that he decided to leave PokerStars, effective immediately. This ended a 17-plus-year partnership, one that started after
