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,
When the coronavirus pandemic swept into the United States in March 2020, threatening to spread as it did in Asia and Europe, nearly every nonessential business and service shut down. Poker was among them. Casinos shut their doors around the country, and poker tours put everything on hold. As the
At this point of a typical World Series of Poker in Las Vegas, players are winding up their WSOP schedules. The last of the tournaments draw some players, but many are on their way home after busting the Main Event. Only a few tables remain in that finale. The poker
The coronavirus pandemic looks like it will hang around until there are vaccines to eradicate it. For poker companies, this means live tournaments are widely viewed as too dangerous. And some casinos haven’t even allowed cash poker games to restart since the shutdowns in March. Most won’t likely be keen
The series is called the Championship Online Poker Series (COPS). It runs on BetOnline and Sportsbetting.ag, two popular online poker sites that share their poker player pools. And that series is back, only this time with more tournaments and bigger guarantees. In May, amidst the coronavirus pandemic that relegated most
The first day of the PokerStars 2020 World Championship of Online Poker is here. It has been two weeks since PokerStars announced its annual WCOOP, and it’s ready to go. Action will kick off today, Sunday, August 30. There are four events with three buy-in levels of each, creating a
Some things happen that can simply be chalked up to this crazy year. “That’s so 2020!” This story fits into that category in some respects, but it is also a very serious crime. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reported today about an arrest and booking that took place on Sunday, August
It was a controversy that spurred another controversy, all surrounding GGPoker and its skins, all of which are currently hosting the World Series of Poker. A Little Background First The first 31 of the 85 WSOP 2020 Online tournaments played out in July on WSOP.com in Nevada and New Jersey.
