Michigan is moving along at a solid clip toward launching online poker and casino sites. And compared to states like Pennsylvania that took more than two years from the signing of the bill to the launch of its first poker site, Michigan is wasting no time. This may be a
The path of 888 and the WSOP.com poker site to the Pennsylvania internet gaming market has been a confusing one. And there has been no evidence of expediency whatsoever. Nearly three years after Pennsylvania legalized online gaming and nearly one year after PokerStars became the first – and still only
New Jersey online poker players have a busy month in October, especially with the most recent announcement by PokerStars. In one week, PokerStars will launch its annual New Jersey Championship of Online Poker (NJCOOP). With a total of 54 events and $1 million in guarantees, the series will offer a
The World Series of Poker is ready to offer another WCOP Circuit series. It will be another online event and one only for US players located in New Jersey and Nevada. It is unclear if players in Delaware can participate. (They were able to play in the June series but
The World Poker Tour just wrapped up its inaugural World Online Championships (WOC) on PartyPoker last week. And now that the craziness of 71 days of real money online poker tournaments has settled, the WPT released the final numbers. The highlight? The WPT WOC awarded $100,746,175 to players in the
The World Poker Tour recently announced that it struck a partnership with Poker League of Nations to run a series of freeroll tournaments online at ClubWPT in October. Players from around the world will be able to participate. Those with existing ClubWPT accounts will be able to play, of course,
Two weeks ago, a yearlong legal matter – the lawsuit known to many in the poker world as the Postle cheating case – ended…for the most part. Or so we thought. The list of plaintiffs included Veronica Brill (the woman who brought the cheating allegations to the larger poker community
One of the longest online poker series of the summer wrapped this week, as the World Poker Tour crowned the final major WPT winner of the World Online Championships on PartyPoker. A full 71 days of online poker history is in the books. On a serious note, it was bittersweet,
Remember when the Garden City Group distributed payments from Black Friday online poker operators? You may be forgiven if the memories are a bit foggy. It has been nearly two years since the last update from the firm tasked with distributing the money from the US Department of Justice to
Another chapter of the Black Friday saga is over. PokerStars founder Isai Scheinberg received his sentence from the US Court this week, putting an end to the final case stemming from the online poker indictments of April 15, 2011. Judge Lewis A. Kaplan ultimately decided that Scheinberg made a mistake
The end of the PokerStars 2020 World Championship of Online Poker signals that the summer of massive real money poker tournaments is almost over. And WCOOP not only did well, it surpassed its cumulative guarantee by awarding nearly $100 million. Since the coronavirus pandemic shut down most poker options around
The poker world had two unique opportunities to say goodbye to Mike Sexton, both before and after his death on Sunday, September 6. What remains after the tears and laughter is the charge to carry forward the lessons learned from Mike, perhaps some of his visions and goals as well.
