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As they prepare to kick off the second weekend of the 2020 online WSOP after some eventful occurrences, a trio of bracelets have been awarded. Among those crowned was the first World Champion of the World Poker Tour, who surprisingly demonstrated his skills on the virtual felt to capture his first ever WSOP bracelet, and… Read more »
Six events down, 25 to go. On Monday night, Nathan “surfbum” Gamble won the first non-Hold’em event on the 2020 World Series of Poker Online slate, a 12-hour marathon of $600 Pot-Limit O8 Six-Max. For his triumph over 832 other entries, Gamble won $89,424.21 and his second career bracelet. Gamble’s first bracelet came in 2017… Read more »
Played a hand terribly… In a throwback to the days when Mike “The Mouth” Matusow frequently found himself on World Series of Poker television broadcasts flapping his maw in embarrassing fashion, Matusow couldn’t handle his own poor play during the 2020 WSOP Online and laid into an opponent during his live stream. A two-hand live… Read more »
Blitzing through a field highly reminiscent of 2019, Matt ‘Bodeyster’ Bode grabbed his first WSOP bracelet in winning the $500 No Limit Hold’em Super Turbo event in slightly more than six hours last night. Finishing off the fourth event of the WSOP.com leg of the 2020 online WSOP, Bode was able to pick up just… Read more »
The online WSOP for 2020 is entering its first weekend and it isn’t wasting any time. Two more bracelets have been awarded over the past couple days on the New Jersey and Nevada based WSOP.com. It all leads to what is expected to be a big first weekend of action for the 2020 event. Louis… Read more »
At 3PM Wednesday afternoon Eastern Daylight Savings Time, the “online World Series of Poker” took off on its inaugural flight. For the next 68 days, the eyes of the poker world…well, let’s be honest, it is something that nobody has any clue about whether people will watch or even care. What we do know is… Read more »
It’s still the WSOP, I guess? Over the last decade and a half, I have often started these types of articles with something like, “It’s that time of year again,” but this year is not exactly like years past. So while the World Series of Poker starts today, a day that would normally be the… Read more »
No food, no dice Atlantic City casinos will reopen on July 2 after more than 100 days in timeout because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but Borgata will not be one of them. After New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy reversed course and announced on Monday that indoor dining would not be allowed to restart, Borgata officials… Read more »
As Las Vegas slowly begins to restart their casino gaming industry and Florida gets back to action, Pennsylvania and Illinois have been rather slow in getting back in the game. That will change in the next week as Boyd Gaming, who own properties in both states (and Nevada, for that matter), looks to restart operations… Read more »
Getting ready to take their wares totally online for the first time in their history Caesars Entertainment, the World Series of Poker and GGPoker have announced the schedule for GGPoker’s segment of the 2020 “online WSOP.” The 54-event schedule is replete with Texas Hold’em style tournaments, with a smattering of Omaha tossed in, but not… Read more »
The state of Nevada and, in particular, the city of Las Vegas have been devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic and the resulting shutdown. For more than two months, the industry that drives the economy of Nevada, the casinos, have sat silent. On June 4, some of those casinos reopened for customers but, as writer Jeff… Read more »
Time to start taking things seriously Caesars Entertainment is finally doing something it should have done before it reopened its first casino: it has made the waring of protective face masks mandatory for everyone who steps foot inside one of its properties. The company announced the policy change on Wednesday, June 24. It took effect… Read more »
At long last More than three months after closing because of the COVID-19 pandemic, Atlantic City casinos finally have a reopening date: July 2. New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced the date on Twitter Monday afternoon. Murphy minced no words, saying, “If any visitor refuses to comply with our simple safeguards, they’ll be escorted out,”… Read more »
In a third amendment to the policies they established for the reopening of the Nevada gaming scene, the Nevada Gaming Control Board has taken a step that may be a significant change for some participants. After initially not mandating their usage, the latest update from the NGCB will mandate that, if table games are played… Read more »
Breaking the seal Though the coronavirus pandemic has been a boon to online poker (silver lining of the crisis, I suppose), it has devasted live poker. For two months, there was no live poker anywhere in the United States, as some poker rooms have final begun reopening in recent weeks. But the few poker rooms… Read more »
While the live poker world takes its first tenuous steps towards trying to return to some semblance of normal, the World Poker Tour is trying to keep their people busy over the summer. Joining up with partypoker, the WPT will offer the inaugural WPT World Online Championships, a series of poker tournaments with guaranteed prize… Read more »
Same bracelets, different venue In an alternate timeline, likely created if George McFly knocked Biff Tannen on ass, since we are clearly now in the timeline in which Biff won, the 2020 World Series of Poker would be in full swing right now. But alas, In Loving Memory George Douglas McFly. The massive convention halls… Read more »
Despite the continued increase in the number of cases of COVID-19 across the States of America, many places have decided to reopen many of their businesses. This includes Las Vegas, which closed for the first time ever in mid-March and has exploded to life this weekend. But what does the “new Las Vegas” look like?… Read more »
In what was a rather anticlimactic ending to what was one of the biggest stories of the last year, a judge in California has dismissed charges against alleged poker cheater Mike Postle, the club that he was playing at (Stones Gambling Hall) and an alleged co-conspirator from the poker room. The resulting dismissal of the… Read more »
Meadows is cleared for takeoff The Meadows Racetrack & Casino will become the first of Pennsylvania’s dozen casinos to reopen during the coronavirus pandemic. The facility southwest of Pittsburgh plans to welcome its first guests in over two months on Tuesday, June 9. It is able to do so because it is in Washington County,… Read more »
Another reason to stay home The PokerStars Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) is only just winding down today, but the poker room has already announced its next online tournament series, the Summer Series. No rest for the weary. The Summer Series will run June 7-21 at will feature 151 tournaments with $25 million in… Read more »
It seems that the COVID-19 pandemic has made a lot of professional poker players either A) very bored, or B) not very bright regarding the seriousness of the situation. The online “ghosting” sessions of Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates and other high stakes pros has once again put a black eye on the game. But it is… Read more »
I am not one to ride the gossip train, so while I read about Bill Perkins accusing some unnamed poker pro of cheating in an online home game and then Dan Bilzerian calling someone out by name, I decided not to write about it because the whole thing still felt very “rumory” to me. Just… Read more »
The second heads-up challenge went significantly more smoothly for Phil Galfond than did the first one. On Tuesday, Galfond wrapped up his challenge against Ioannis “ActionFreak” Kontonatsios, coming out on top with a €114,765.66 profit. It was a similar setup to the one against VeniVidi1993, just shortly and for higher stakes. The game was €150/€300… Read more »
Long-awaited announcement has arrived Nevada locals and tourists yearning for a trip to Las Vegas can finally get excited. On Friday, Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak announced via a press release that “pending the evaluation of trends in Nevada’s COVID-19 data,” he will allow the state’s casinos to reopen on June 4. Casinos have been closed… Read more »
