Before the coronavirus pandemic, high-stakes poker players often found high-stakes tournaments around the world. Whether in Macau or Las Vegas, at European Poker Tour (EPT) stops or at the Aussie Millions, there were a variety of live options. Now that the world is in some form of seemingly perpetual lockdown,
The long-awaited grudge match of year (decade?) began yesterday. It took the form of a heads-up poker game, recently dubbed High Stakes Feud, at the PokerGO Studio on the Las Vegas Strip. Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu finally took their years-long war of words to the table, and they did
As the coronavirus pandemic rages on, the World Poker Tour is again taking the opportunity to work with its subscription online poker arm, ClubWPT, to offer players more poker alternatives. This time, the World Poker Tour and ClubWPT offer the $200,000 ClubWPT TV Challenge, a chance to win a $50,000
One year ago this week, PokerStars launched its online poker site in Pennsylvania. It was the second state in which PokerStars reentered the US market after Black Friday in 2011. And PokerStars was the first operator to offer state-regulated online poker in Pennsylvania. In fact, one year later, PokerStars remains
People have been anxiously waiting for months for a result of the Wire Act case. The United States Court of Appeals for the First Circuit heard oral arguments in June 2020 in the case of New Hampshire Lottery Commission, NeoPollard Interactive, and Pollard Banknote v. US Attorney General William P.
When Pennsylvania legalized state-regulated online poker and gambling, operators applied for licenses. The Pennsylvania Gaming Control Board (PGCB) ultimately awarded seven of them that included online poker in 2018. The summer of 2019 delivered the launch of several online casinos, complete with slots and table games, but no operator hinted
One of the most popular poker television shows of all time was High Stakes Poker. It aired on the Game Show Network (GSN) from 2006 through 2011, starting with commentary from Gabe Kaplan and AJ Benza. Eventually, Kara Scott replaced Benza and Norm Macdonald replaced Kaplan. GSN filmed the high-stakes
The annual COOP event for the people of (or in) New Jersey is over, and the numbers were big. PokerStars revealed the final tallies for the 2020 New Jersey Championship of Poker (NJCOOP) that took place October 10-26. The series offered 54 tournaments and $1 million in guarantees. And when
As online poker grabs more and more players from around the world, GGPoker of GGNetwork is celebrating quite an accomplishment. It entered Guinness World Records™ with the totals from the World Series of Poker Main Event nearly two months ago. Remember the interesting decision to take the WSOP online with
In a year overwhelmed by a pandemic, it didn’t seem likely that we’d be writing much about live poker tournaments. But here we are. The poker tour hosted one disorganized event and tried to pay its players in precious metals. The founders disappeared, then reappeared to claim to want to
The European Poker Tour fell into the same coronavirus pandemic hole as every other poker tour. The closures of casinos around the world – not to mention travel options – forced poker tournament operators to cancel nearly everything since March 2020. The EPT did manage to get in one tour
The last year – technically more like a year and a half -- was a period of tumult for poker pro Raymond Davis. In fact, he spent much of it behind bars in a jail cell on numerous charges, with more added as courtroom appearances went badly. When we last
