Many poker fans know the name: Dan Smith. He’s a high-stakes poker player, one who has earned more than $36.7 million to date in live tournaments alone. Prior to the year of the pandemic, Smith trekked the world to play in Triton Million tournaments and European Poker Tour events, though
The World Series of Poker Main Event final table is set. Well, the final table is one of two taking place this month and one of several WSOP Main Event tournaments in 2020. But the one set on GGPoker is the first step to finding the international champion that will
The overwhelmingly popular feeling around the world is that 2020 should suck it. PokerStars knows this and wants to provide a way for poker players to kick 2020 off the calendar. The new Blowout Series is one way to do that, all while welcoming in the new year with a
Playing a good game of poker involves taking risks. Players often say that you can’t view chips for their dollar values; rather, you must make moves based on the facts and odds. You can’t play scared. That advice, however, doesn’t involve risking the physical health of the players and others
The end of the calendar year brings online poker series. Santa wouldn’t forget the players at 888poker, so he delivered the year-ending XL Winter Series. It will kick off this week on December 10 and run through December 20, dressed up in an attractive package of reasonable tournament buy-ins. Inside
It’s the holiday season, and online poker sites are feeling festive. Poker players are in various stages of quarantine due to the coronavirus pandemic. It’s the perfect time for an online poker series. Bovada Poker decided to offer a series this month but one with fast structures (turbo!), numerous events
It seems that GGPoker chose the “all publicity is good publicity” mantra. This week, GGPoker announced that Dan Bilzerian joined Team GGPoker as a brand ambassador. The site is celebrating with a massive freeroll next week, all kinds of media promotion, and glowing words from lead GGPoker Ambassador Daniel Negreanu.
As with everything else in 2020, the Poker Hall of Fame nomination process is different. Poker fans normally take time in the spring or summer to nominate their favorite players, a final list of nominees then goes to a select group of judges, and they decide on one or two
News in the online realm of the gambling industry regarding billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson typically revolves around his avid dislike of online gambling. The idea of online casino games has inspired him to spend tens of millions – at a minimum – of dollars to fight it from the
Just a few days ago, the WSOP launched its Online Super Circuit Series, an 18-event tournament series available to players located in Nevada and New Jersey. To give players outside of the United States an opportunity to earn their WSOP gold rings, the World Series of Poker again partnered with
It started over the holiday weekend for players in New Jersey and Nevada but will continue through December 14. The WSOP.com Online Super Circuit Series is offering 18 WSOP gold rings over the course of 18 days. And the series is guaranteeing more than $1 million in guarantees. A flurry
Poker tours have been cautious to return to live tournament action. Poker itself was the last game to return to most land-based casinos, and most poker rooms offered cash games only. Considering capacity limitations and travel dangers amidst the coronavirus pandemic, few tours (and casinos) believed they could host safe
