The East Coast Poker Tour looks to reinvigorate the live poker tournament scene There’s great news for professional poker players as a few MGM casinos are breaking the bank to come up with a brand-new poker tour. Joining forces on the east side of the country are MGM National Harbor, MGM Springfield and MGM Borgata, […]

The poker pro has won the same WPT Poker Open tourney two years in a row Besides winning tournaments and cash prizes, making history in a poker event might be one of the greatest satisfactions for a professional poker player. All throughout the 18 seasons of the World Poker Tour (WPT), there have been players […]

New categories have been added to this year’s awards in order to offer more options No matter what the activity is, fans have always liked to be taken into account for any event they can participate in, even more if it involves the people they have follow so passionately. For the upcoming Global Poker Awards […]

New Hampshire’s fight against the DOJ will resume next month It is almost common knowledge that some cases that have to be decided in court can take a long time in getting resolution, especially with all the possibilities to get an appeal. One of those cases is the one pending between the New Hampshire Lottery […]

Ten events are in the lineup starting this Thursday For poker fans, this week comes loaded with great poker tournaments in a repeat of previous years. Card Player Poker Tour (CPPT) and Ocean’s Eleven Casino are back for their eleventh CPPT Ocean’s Eleven San Diego Classic, building upon the previous success seen at these events. […]

The venue “forgot” to register the games with regulators before they were held Now that different forms of gambling are legal in a few states, it doesn’t mean that authorities will lay back and not keep a close eye on gambling businesses to ensure that they’re sticking to the rules. A casino in Pennsylvania received […]

The additional options are designed to attract players who want a lower buy-in It seems to be that the World Series of Poker (WSOP) is keeping interest high in the upcoming games by releasing information about this year’s events little by little. A few days after publishing the schedule for large summer events, it announced […]

The remaining six will have to wait to see who claims the title, as the final game isn’t until March 31 The members of the final table have been decided for the World Poker Tour (WPT) Gardens Poker Championship. Six players will be battling for the championship title, with the final table to be played […]

The former host of Mythbusters is a long-time fan of the movie and its props There are movies that touched people so deeply that stay with them for a long time and Rounders, one of the most all-time best movies about poker, has become more than a reference point for poker players. After the 2000s […]

Several changes have been made in response to concerns over the voting process The organization behind the Global Poker Awards (GPA) has just released details of the new process, just a few days after the date for this year’s ceremony was confirmed. The awards will take place in Las Vegas in early March, and there […]

The complete lineup of the deep-pocket games for the upcoming WSOP series is now available The World Series of Poker (WSOP) has released a second set of events for the upcoming series this summer. For those waiting to start planning this poker year in advance, there will be 17 different variants featured in the 2020 […]

James Holzhauer is just as adept at global trivia as he is at cards Like many others that start a poker career playing online, James Holzhauer was once a professional online poker player, but his interests are now focused on competing in a famous trivia game show. Holzhauer is currently competing to get the title […]

The WSOP Circuit grinder secures the elusive ring at long last As this new year starts, so are the different poker events across the world with some of them already presenting its winners. This is the case for the 2019 WSOP Circuit Choctaw $400 NLHE event, and the happy winner is 39-year-old pro Maurice Hawkins, […]

The man who broke into the home of Darren Elias last year finally faces justice The man who broke into the home of poker pro Darren Elias last March has finally learned his fate. Elias wasn’t at home when the incident took place, but, his two-year-old daughter was, along with a 19-year-old babysitter, who was […]

Stephen Chidwick pulls through to take the award The numbers were closed and counted and, for the first time, a British player finished first in the 2019 race for the Card Player Player of the Year (POY) race. This award is sponsored by Global Poker and Stephen Chidwick has been listed in the top 50 […]