What happens in Vegas starts at Americas Cardroom. The US-facing online poker site is giving away WSOP packages by running their Takedown promo from May 5th to 22nd, guaranteeing 20 packages to the WSOP Main Event. Players can go to Sin City or keep the cash. “The WSOP Main Event is on the bucket list of every poker player and fits in with our other land-based promos we’ve run this year in Uruguay and Texas,” stated Chris Moneymaker, Team Pro for Americas Cardroom. “We can’t wait to see our players in Vegas, donning the ACR gear.” Each of the WSOP packages is…

PokerGO, the world’s largest poker content company, has announced the live streaming schedule for the 2022 WSOP. Poker fans around the world will be treated to streaming of 21 unique gold bracelet events, including the prestigious Main Event. “PokerGO is thrilled to continue its longstanding partnership with the World Series of Poker and present the 2022 WSOP live streaming schedule,” said Mori Eskandani, President of PokerGO. “We know how passionate and loyal the millions of poker fans around the world are, and how much they love the WSOP, which is why PokerGO remains committed to providing the best-in-poker coverage of…

Two California cardrooms announced today that they have filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court challenging the legality of a November 2022 ballot initiative promoted by nine California Indian Tribes – an initiative which would legalize sports wagering, allow roulette and craps at Indian casinos, and grant one-way permission for tribal casinos to sue their card-room competitors. The cardrooms, Hollywood Park Casino and Cal-Pac Rancho Cordova, are asking the court to bar the California Sports Wagering Regulation and Unlawful Gambling Enforcement Act from the November ballot because it violates California’s constitutional rule that ballot initiatives can involve only a…

As we reported on our gambling news video from March 29th, The Rise of Interstate Poker Compacts in America, the shared liquidity agreement between Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware has now grown to include the state of Michigan. This is just the first step of expansion that industry insiders believe will also include Pennsylvania and possibly West Virginia, for starters. It’s also worth noting that while this agreement clearly benefits online poker the most, it is not exclusive to poker. In fact, the specific wording of the announcement was that the purpose of shared liquidity was to benefit players who…

The possibility of Interstate games is within view for Michigan online poker players, and that would be a very big deal. Currently, poker players in Michigan can only compete against one another. But if the state were to join an interstate poker compact with other states, that could change. Currently there is just such a multi-state online poker compact in existence between the states of Nevada, New Jersey, and Delaware. Michigan want’s to join that multi-state agreement, which would allow players there to compete online against players in the other states within the compact. This would not simply benefit Michigan…

Following twelve intense days of play at the Rio, Germany’s Koray Aldemir wins the 2021 World Series of Poker. Overcoming the 6,650 participants from around the world, Aldemir won his first-ever Main Event victory on Wednesday night, boasting $8,000,000 in prize winnings and taking home the highly coveted Main Event bracelet, a 10k yellow and white gold bracelet encrusted with 2,230 rubies, white and black diamonds. “It felt great. It’s the biggest final table in the world, so it’s a dream come true. Probably every poker player thinks about this moment when they watch this, believing ‘maybe I could be…