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A new big name in betting ESPN BET, the sports betting site wearing the name of the US’s dominant sports media brand, has gone live in 17 states. Long thought to be an impossibility because ESPN is owned by family-oriented Disney, ESPN BET’s launch on Tuesday marks the official marriage between the sports network and… Read more »
He came to the final table with the chip lead, and he finished the night with all the chips in the tournament. Fittingly, it took about twelve hours for Sami Bechahed to use his large chip stack to seize the championship of the first North American Poker Tour event in twelve years on Saturday night.… Read more »
Here’s a phrase we haven’t been able to use in about a dozen years. Saturday will mark the true return of the North American Poker Tour to the tournament scene as the final table of their stop at Resorts World Las Vegas takes place. The final seven men from the 1095-entry field have been determined… Read more »
Limited access for the moment In a surprise to sports fans in Florida, Hard Rock Bet has gone live with a limited, early access launch. Just last week, the Seminole Tribe of Florida, which owns Hard Rock Bet, announced that retail sports betting was finally coming in December, but was mum about online betting. Tuesday… Read more »
Two weeks of live streams The World Poker Tour has announced the live streaming schedule for the upcoming WPT World Championship. Starting December 7, viewers will get 14 days of streams, the first half of which are mostly cash games, with the back end leaning heavily on the headline WPT World Championship tournament. “We developed… Read more »
The 2023 World Series of Poker Europe is underway at the King’s Casino in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, and it has been notable in that new names have appeared on the medal stand. In the first four tournaments, players who aren’t household names have been taking the gold bracelets. This isn’t to say they aren’t successful… Read more »
Worth the wait After two years of legal battles, the state of Florida will finally get sports betting. On Wednesday, the Seminole Tribe of Florida announced that it will launch “A New Era in Florida Gaming” in December as it begins to offer craps, roulette, and sports betting at its six casinos. “The Seminole Tribe… Read more »
Daniel Geeng went into the 2023 PokerGO Tour PLO Series II with just five lifetime live tournament cashes on his resume. He nearly doubled that in a week and a half, cashing four times, winning the final event, and being crowned the PGT PLO Series II champion. If there was someone who was going to… Read more »
The PokerGO Tour’s PLO Series II is down to its final events, but not until some dominant performances were capped on Saturday and Sunday. In both Event #7, a $10,000 PLO tournament, and Event #8, the $10,000 PLO Hi/Lo tournament, the player who entered the final table with the chip lead was able to win… Read more »
With much of the European poker world occupied with the start of the 2023 World Series of Poker Europe at King’s Casino in Rozvadov, there has been a handful of players that have peeled off to Las Vegas for the second running of the PokerGO Tour PLO Series II. Two men, Bryce Yockey and Joao… Read more »
15 more bracelets up for grabs The 2023 World Series of Poker Europe is underway at King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic, setting off on a three week festival during which 15 gold bracelets will be awarded. The Main event for the 14th running of WSOP Europe is slated to begin November 10. When the… Read more »
Main Tour The World Poker Tour has announced the first half of its Season XXII schedule, comprised of four Main Tour stops and seven WPT Prime stops. Seasons used to overlap calendar years, but the WPT finally changed this last year – perhaps nudged in this direction by the COVID-19 pandemic – now keeping each… Read more »
Over the weekend, the PokerGO Tour PLO Series II has proven to be more popular than any other tournament series that the PGT has put on. After their first event had 172 entries, the next two events – with larger buy-ins – have sustained their player numbers. Along the way, Eelis Parssinen dominated on his… Read more »
The first tournament for the PokerGO Tour’s PLO Series II is in the books and it was certainly a stunner. First, the players turned out in droves for a non-Texas Hold’em event, something rarely heard of. Second, the eventual champion of the tournament, Matthew Wantman, had to fight from the final table basement to capture… Read more »
With the second running of its Mixed Game tournament series in the rearview mirror, the PokerGO Tour set its sights on another overlooked (at least here in the States) version of poker. Pot Limit Omaha will take to the stage of the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas as the PLO Series II begins its ten-event… Read more »
The $100,000 Super High Roller Bowl Pot-Limit Omaha is down to its seven-handed final table. Leading the way in the debut of this nosebleed stakes event is Isaac Haxton with 4.495 million chips. And by leading the way, we mean so far ahead that he can’t even see the Peloton. Haxton’s closest competitor entering Wednesday’s… Read more »
New, curious gold bracelet series We’re not sure exactly when they did it, but GGPoker and the WSOP quietly changed the structure terms of its much-hyped $5,000 WSOP Paradise Main Event in the Bahamas in December. Fortunately, David Lappin, a poker pro and host of “The Chip Race” podcast, wasn’t so quiet, pointing out late… Read more »
In the finale of a great ten days of poker at the PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas, Maxx Coleman demonstrated his skills across an array of games in winning the $25,000 Ten-Game Championship Event of the PGT Mixed Games II last night. It wasn’t without some challenges as ‘Chino’ Rheem pushed Coleman nearly to the… Read more »
The PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas have been abuzz this week with the second running of the PokerGO Tour Mixed Games schedule. Earlier this week, a trio of champions were crowned in several different formats and disciplines. As they enter the final few tournaments on the schedule, David ‘Chino’ Rheem is atop the standings in… Read more »
Coordinated stalling In a software update coming “sometime this month,” GGPoker implementing a change to its multi-table tournaments to try to stop max late registration abuse. Using this tactic, groups of players will buy-in to a tournament at the same time at the end of the late registration period. The way GGPoker’s software is currently… Read more »
It may only be through the first two events, but the 2023 PGT Mixed Games II tournament series is already bringing surprises to the fore. In Event #1, David Funkhouser was able to top some bigger “name” players as he came from the middle of the pack for the win on Friday. Today, in Event… Read more »
Coming off the success of their inaugural event earlier this year, the PokerGO Tour figured it was time to run a successful series again. The PokerGO Tour Mixed Games II series of non-Texas Hold’em tournaments started on Thursday with its first event, the $10,000 H.O.R.S.E. battle. After a throng of players flooded the PokerGO Studios… Read more »
Today is October 2, 2023. Abbreviated in the American format, that’s 10-2. If, as a poker fan and player, that reminds of the late, great Doyle Brunson, it should. Today, several poker rooms around the world are commemorating “Doyle Brunson Day” to celebrate the life of the legendary “Godfather of Poker,” who won both the… Read more »
When you come to the final table of a poker tournament holding more than half the chips in play, you’re pretty much expected to win the tournament. That’s the exact situation that Isaac Haxton found himself in on Saturday at the Super High Roller Bowl VIII, and he didn’t disappoint. On his way, he picked… Read more »
The PokerGO Studios in Las Vegas have been bustling of late, with the Poker Masters in September and now the eighth running of the Super High Roller Bowl. The $300,000 buy-in tournament has once again drawn the crème of the tournament poker world – or at least those who could conjure up $300,000 to get… Read more »
