Dan Katz

Show’s over in Arizona ClubWPT Gold has withdrawn from the Arizona online poker market, giving players just a few days to submit prize redemption requests. Arizona players received the news on Friday, just before games were shut down on Saturday, August 8. The online poker site – or “sweepstakes” site as they would call it…

The 2026 World Series of Poker just ended, so how about some more World Series of Poker? GGPoker has announced the schedule for WSOP Online 2026, which is already set to kick off next week. Running August 16 through September 29, WSOP Online features 33 gold bracelet events and over $66 million in guaranteed prize…

Did the fix actually fix anything? Never has a Poker Hall of Fame election come and gone without controversy. The Powers That Be tried to head off some of the angst this year by tweaking the voting process, but after Jason Koon was the lone inductee this week, some of the top players in the…

Poker pro Jason Koon, in his first year of eligibility at age 40, has been elected to the Poker Hall of Fame. Koon is the only person in the Hall’s Class of 2026. “When I found poker, I was immediately and forever in it,” Koon wrote in a social media post on Tuesday. “It was…

Am I missing something here? The World Series of Poker has relented to pressure from players and will award those who won an WSOP Online Circuit ring a $5,000 WSOP Paradise prize package. The short-lived controversy began last Wednesday, when a player called out the WSOP on social media for telling him he would not…

Take your time, no rush With the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event final table kicking off in just three days, the WSOP has implemented a rule change. Announced on social media, the WSOP has decided that there will not be “shot clock” at the final table. In the social media post, the WSOP…

Nothing to see here Two of the WNBA’s biggest stars were caught on camera wagering hundreds of dollars on an upcoming game between their teams. And perhaps the craziest part is that they weren’t really “caught” at all – they happily talked about it, filmed the bet themselves, and the league posted the video on…

Quarter-century of poker Online poker giant PokerStars has announced that the 25th running of the PokerStars World Championship of Online Poker (WCOOP) will be September 6-30. That is about all we know for the time being – complete schedule and details will be published in the coming weeks – but it enough for now for…

Love-ly casino resort The Las Vegas Strip might get more interesting looking in the next few years. On Wednesday, Clark County commissioners approved a plan to develop land across from Mandalay Bay into a 752-room casino resort, featuring a hotel tower with a giant, heart-shaped façade. It sounds like quite the ambitious project – a…

Divulging draft secrets The NFL suspended Arizona Cardinals director of college scouting Ryan Gold indefinitely for violating the league’s gambling policy. His attorney said this week that he is appealing the punishment and that the accusations are “blatantly false.” The sports world has unfortunately seen several betting scandals in the last couple of years, but…

Just like the old days For the first time since before the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Series of Poker is airing on the ESPN family of networks. Starting Tuesday night, ESPN and ESPN2 will broadcast episodes of the 2026 WSOP Main Event, culminating with the Main Event final table in early August. Ninety-nine of the…

Poker pro Jared Greiner took to social media earlier this week to detail the horrifying ordeal of returning to his Las Vegas-area Airbnb after playing in the WSOP, only to be assaulted, threatened, taped up, and robbed. In a post on X, Greiner shared a screenshot of a series of texts he sent, saying that…

All eyes on me Perhaps it is a little unfortunate that in writing about someone who won a cherished World Series of Poker bracelet, much or most of the focus is on the runner-up. But when the runner-up is Phil Hellmuth, that’s a big part of the story, like it or not. On Wednesday night,…

Hurtling towards the finish As the 2026 World Series of Poker winds down and we wait for the Main Event final table, there are still a handful of bracelets to be awarded. One of those went to David Peters last night, who won Event #94: $10,000 6-Handed No-Limit Hold’em for $1,001,391. Reflecting on a less-than-satisfying…

The attention of the poker world might be on the 2026 World Series of Poker Main Event, which started Thursday, but let’s not forget that there are still other WSOP tournaments going on. Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu won one such tournament, the $100,000 High Roller Pot-Limit Omaha event, for the eighth bracelet of…

Poker player, vlogger, and influencer Doug Polk has announced that he is “stepping back” from his role in the management of The Lodge Card Club near Austin, Texas. “As many of you know, I’ve always enjoyed building businesses and taking on new challenges,” Polk said in a social media post Friday morning. “With several other…

The company you keep It seems Nines are lucky this summer. On Tuesday, Shaun Deeb won 2026 World Series of Poker Event #74: $1,500 8-Game Mix for his ninth career WSOP bracelet. His accomplishment comes just a day after Michael “The Grinder” Mizrachi won his ninth WSOP title and just a few days after Benny…

Call of the year? In just her second-ever World Series of Poker event, Skye Chen won the 2026 WSOP Ladies No-Limit Hold’em Championship, outlasting Aubrey Williams in a thrilling heads-up contest. It was the largest Ladies event in WSOP history, with 1,475 entrants, eclipsing last year’s record of 1,368 entrants. After Lisa Teebagy was eliminated…

Benny Glaser has had a heck of a poker career, but boy, this past year has been something. Among other accomplishments, in 2025, he became just the seventh player in history to win three bracelets in a single World Series of Poker. And now, he has won the $50,000 buy-in Poker Players Championship, the most…