The World Poker Tour and Mike Sexton have been together in one way or another since the beginning. Sexton signed on as an initial commentator for WPT shows, and he was essential in the development of the WPT as a whole, beginning in 2002. His advice as a longtime poker
The little online gambling market in Delaware – often overlooked – finished its second quarter of 2020 with numbers it couldn’t have anticipated. While June internet gaming revenue was down from May, the full quarter shows the power of the online gaming sector in the state. Revenue numbers from March,
Putting the World Series of Poker online as a replacement for the summer series in Las Vegas was destined to be a bit complicated. The coronavirus pandemic has handily complicated everything. Thus, the WSOP 2020 Online produced a schedule that put 31 of the 85 tournaments on the US-facing WSOP.com
The United States portion of this summer’s World Series of Poker is more than half over. In fact, it hit its halfway mark last week. The WSOP 2020 Online playing out in New Jersey and Nevada on WSOP.com is running smoothly, and every day brings a new winner of that
At one point in time, poker was all over television in the United States. There were cash games and tournaments featuring well-known poker personalities and celebrities. That was before Black Friday forced companies like PokerStars out of the US market. ESPN still had the World Series of Poker and the
The Pennsylvania online gaming market remains relatively new, having only launched last summer. While it is easy to compare it to New Jersey and expect internet gambling revenue to similarly rise each month for Pennsylvania. But the market is still finding its way…and during a pandemic nonetheless. As it stands,
Every year, many stories emerge from the World Series of Poker in Las Vegas as memorable ones. From the 2019 WSOP, few will forget Kenneth Strauss. What started as a humorous or disturbing incident, depending upon one’s perspective at the time, turned into a terrorist threat. From the perspective of
The case hasn’t gotten much attention in the world of gambling, but it involves online card games and allegations of an “illegal gambling racket.” And it is playing out in the United States District Court in Nevada with a website called Skillz at the center of it. Two plaintiffs –
It appears that the New Jersey online gambling market hit its ceiling, at least for now. The New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement released its June revenue report, and it didn’t display the type of internet gaming growth to which the industry had become accustomed. Sports wagering increased as some
As online poker players in Pennsylvania already know, PokerStars is the only site available in the new regulated market there. This has been the case since PokerStars PA launched in November 2019. The site has been doing well, and PokerStars in Pennsylvania has offered numerous tournament series and specials for
The inaugural online version of the World Series of Poker completed its first full week of tournaments, having now declared 12 new WSOP gold bracelet winners thus far. The WSOP 2020 Online got underway in the United States on July 1, offering one bracelet event per day for players located
The start of the inaugural WPT World Online Championships on PartyPoker is approaching quickly. In less than one week, the new series with $100 million in prize pool guarantees will get underway. The World Poker Tour made few changes to the series since it announced the full schedule one month
