This just got interesting. Remember how Allied Esports Entertainment was going to sell the World Poker Tour to Element Partners for $78.25M in mid-January? Well, another bidder came to the table and offered a cool $100M…payable in cash, stock, or both…for Allied Esports, if that includes the World Poker Tour.
Some poker entities did plan ahead for International Women’s Day, which will be Monday, March 8. As always, some put more thought into it than others. Women don’t have much say in the matter, though, as men remain the dominating force in poker. From poker company executives to site ambassadors,
This has been an interesting year for poker sponsorships, and it’s only the first week of March. It started with Moneymaker leaving PokerStars and then signing with Americas Cardroom. Celina Lin and Muskan Sethi left PokerStars, leaving that team with only nine pros. A number of players left PartyPoker, including
Just before 2020 ended, Americas Cardroom hired former Team PokerStars Pro Randy “nanonoko” Lew as a consultant. It was a perfect move. Americas Cardroom grew its player base exponentially last year. When poker players around the world entered lockdown in March 2020, many of them flocked to places like Americas
It seems that 2021 will be a year of surprises for World Poker Tour fans. Little more than two months into the new year, we found out that Element Partners is buying the World Poker Tour, the WPT’s main tour is resuming live tournaments at various locations, and it is
On Sunday night, February 28, ESPN broadcast four hours of World Series of Poker action. It summarized on film the two live final tables – one in the Czech Republic, one in the USA – that resulted from online play for the 2020 WSOP Main Event. And the final hour
Senator Tom Cotton has a problem with internet gaming. It is not an addiction to playing games online; rather, it seems to be an obsession promoting false information about igaming and doing anything he can to curb those types of activities. According to a revived bill in Congress, Cotton is
PokerStars is no stranger to being on American television. During the poker boom, there was the PokerStars Million Dollar Challenge and the PokerStars Big Game. But this is a new era for the leading online poker site in the world. It ever-so-cautiously reentered the US market several years ago with
The 2020 World Series of Poker was a far cry from the normal summer series of live poker tournaments in Las Vegas. The coronavirus pandemic forced its cancellation, so WSOP executives took it in a new direction. There was an international version of the WSOP hosted by GGPoker, and its
The scandal involving Mike Postle and his alleged cheating on the Stones Gambling Hall poker livestream continues. And there is no end in sight. This delay – as with most of the others – is by the hands of Postle himself. He filed a lawsuit in October 2020 against 11
The biggest series offered on an American-facing poker site is one-third of the way through its lineup. The Online Super Series – OSS Cub3d XI, to be precise – kicked off on February 7 on Americas Cardroom. The first of three sections of the series was MOSS, the Mini Online
It’s not like PokerStars didn’t give it a chance. When the Stars Group bailed out Full Tilt Poker poker players after Black Friday and took over the brand, they put it on the PokerStars platform. But they kept some of the signature Full Tilt promotions like the Deal. They kept
