The story is heartbreaking and mysterious. Susie Zhao was a regular in Los Angeles cash games, a professional poker player on her own terms. She spent much of her time on the West Coast, where the games were good and tournaments were available. Her friends in the poker community called
On Friday night, the first portion of this year’s World Series of Poker ended. The completion of Event 31 wrapped up the part of the WSOP 2020 Online that had been available to players located in Nevada and New Jersey. Meanwhile, the international portion of the 2020 WSOP continues on
The online poker scene is booming with tournament opportunities this summer in some parts of the world. Players outside of the United States have numerous chances to win everything from World Series of Poker bracelets to World Poker Tour titles. The WPT World Online Championships started on PartyPoker on July
Every year, the World Series of Poker adds a charity component to its summer series. There is always at least one bracelet-awarding tournament that forgoes the rake and donates all fees paid by players to a particular charity. This has been happening for well over a decade. This year, the
When Pennsylvania launched its first internet gaming sites last summer, the state could not have known the ultimate benefits of that move. Pennsylvania knew that the additional gaming revenue would help, but there was no predicting a pandemic that would shut down all live gambling establishments for months in 2020.
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The WSOP 2020 Online turned to the GGPoker network of poker sites to host its international slate of tournaments. The fractured state of online poker today means that offering games in the United States must be on an entirely different platform from those available to other countries. The World Series
This summer’s World Series of Poker is now running simultaneously on two poker networks. The first part of the WSOP 2020 Online began on July 1 on WSOP.com in Nevada and New Jersey for the US market, and GGPoker picked up its part of the series in mid-July for many
All things considered, the process of establishing an online gambling market in Michigan has been fairly expedient thus far. Using Pennsylvania as a market, a state that took about one year plus nine months to launch its first online casino site (and more than two years for an online poker
The development team at Poker Central is always working to think of new and original show ideas. Whether it involves new analysis of old tournament footage or reliving classic World Series of Poker moments, Poker Central is always ready to try something new. High Stakes Duel is the latest show
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,
