The coronavirus pandemic continues. It first prompted the shutdown of all casinos in the United States in March. While most casinos reopened to some extent in June, July, or August, Covid-19 continues to lurk and present continual threats. This will prevent casinos from opening to full capacity indefinitely. Even as
Progressive knockout tournaments are all the rage in poker these days. In fairness, players have been flocking to them for well over a year. But the numbers show that there are never enough PKOs. Last month, Americas Cardroom announced its latest online poker tournament series as an all-PKO festival called
(Trigger warning: Details of sexual assault and murder) On Monday, September 14, Judge Kelley Kostin oversaw a hearing for the preliminary examination of charges against Jeffrey Bernard Morris. He faces a first-degree homicide charge in the murder of 33-year-old poker pro Susie Zhao. The hearing, broadcast live on Zoom, included
Almost one year from the start of the case against Mike Postle, some of the plaintiffs decided to accept a settlement offer from two of the original defendants. This was anything but a clean ending to an already messy situation. King’s Casino doing business as Stones Gambling Hall and one-time-maybe-still
It was inevitable. The WSOP Global Casino Championship had to be online. The persistent coronavirus pandemic won’t have it any other way. And the World Series of Poker was determined to host the Global Casino Championship in any way it could. So, it will be held online at WSOP.com on
It seems like PokerStars has been offering a lot of tournaments and series this year for its Pennsylvania players. That is true. Why shouldn’t PokerStars show love to the Pennsylvania market? It dominates that market…as it remains the only online poker site available to those players. Years after Pennsylvania lawmakers
The WSOP 2020 Online is over. There were 85 tournaments – 31 for the US market and 54 for those in some parts of the international market – and they are now in the history books. GGPoker released the numbers for its 54 tournaments, and they include these highlights: --Total
About 10 days ago, PokerStars kicked off its 2020 World Championship of Online Poker, better known as WCOOP. Action started on Sunday, August 30 with four events, and approximately one-third of the schedule is already complete. The series – PokerStars’ signature online poker series and the one that laid the
One of his very closest friends broke the news on Sunday evening, September 6. Linda Johnson wrote: “Mike Sexton passed away peacefully about an hour ago surrounded by family members. Please keep his memory and his family in your thoughts. Mike really appreciated your comments and messages to him. He
It happened so fast. The WSOP Main Event played down from 1,171 players to 38 in one day, and then from 38 to one winner in fewer than seven hours. It was not on television, there were no interviews or bios of the finalists, and the players had no faces
It has been a busy year for PartyPoker, though not in the way it planned. The operator had every intention of staying busy with its usual online poker offerings online but had a full slate of live tournaments scheduled around the world. The coronavirus pandemic put a painful halt to
It has been a wild decade for PokerStars. From one merger to another and a fairly consistent move away from online poker as its focus, the company may again be putting its poker product back in the spotlight. That is courtesy of the most recent financial reports from Flutter Entertainment,
