Category: Online Poker News

The World Series of Poker (WSOP) and GGPoker joined forces to introduce a special WSOP Paradise Parlay offer. The special promotion was launched just before the WSOP could run its inaugural WSOP Paradise tournament in the Bahamas. 

WSOP Paradise Parlay Offer

The WSOP had a great response to its first ever WSOP Paradise tournament as many of the top poker pros in the world made their way to the Bahamas to take part in the tournament. Now GGPoker has confirmed that it will pay out over $400,000 in prize money via the WSOP Paradise Parlay Offer.

GGPoker decided to give away $400,000 via three avenues. Ten players who registered a minimum of 10 cashes across the 2023 WSOP in Las Vegas and WSOP Paradise will get $5,000 each. Three players who made the final table in both tournaments combined will get $25,000 each and 2 players who won bracelets via the two tournaments will get $100,000 each.

Some of the players who won the $25k bonus include big names like Joshua Arieh, Erik Seidel, Daniel Shak and Isaac Haxton. Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu were among the players who claimed the $5,000 bonus. 

4Poker is one of the smaller online poker rooms in the market but is making news as we close out 2023. The online poker room which was co-founded by Bryn Kenney scheduled 2 Mystery Bounty events with huge guarantees.

The first Mystery Bounty event offered a $22 buy-in and a prize pool guarantee of $100,000 while the second Mystery Bounty event offered a $270 buy-in and a prize pool guarantee of $1 million. 4Poker has already started running Day1s with the final part of the Mystery Bounty events taking place on Jan 15.

Lukewarm Response To 4Poker MB Events 

Bryn Kenney sits at the top of the Hendon’s Mob All Time Money list with over $65 million in career winnings but not everyone know that he is a co-founder at 4Poker. The response for both Mystery Bounty events has been lukewarm so far as the $100,000 event has got 372 registrations out of the 5,000 registrations they need to hit the guaranteed prize pool.

The $1 million event is also struggling as only 219 registrations have come in out of the 4,000 registrations needed to hit the guaranteed prize pool. The way things are going, 4Poker could be facing one of the biggest overlays in 2024.

Online poker lobbyists in the United States have not had as much success as they would have liked in getting online poker legalized in 2023. There are currently only 7 states in the country that have regulated online poker markets. 

New Jersey, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Michigan, West Virginia and Connecticut have legalized online poker and there was talk that New York and Maryland would be next in line but nothing materialized in 2023 for them.

Maryland Could Be Next In Line?

Maryland, New York and Illinois are likely to be the three states once again making a strong push to legalize online poker in 2024. New York seems the least likely of the three states to launch online poker as their legalized betting market went live only in Jan 2022 whereas Illinois sports betting market went live in June 2020.

Maryland currently seems the state most likely to legalize online poker as their a voter poll showed that close to 70 percent of voters were in favour of legalizing online poker. Legislators will need to put that before voters in November 2024 and if voters back online poker legalization, then Maryland could have a legalized online poker market up and running in 2025. 

The official dates for the 2024 World Series of Poker (WSOP) are finally out. The festival will run at Paris Las Vegas and Horseshoe on the Las Vegas Strip from May 28 to July 17, 2024, officials have confirmed.

2024 WSOP Main Event Scheduled for July 3 – 17 

The official schedule of the 55th WSOP is still being finalized but organizers have confirmed that the $10,000 Main Event, the main highlight of the series, will take place from July 3-17. The tournament will feature four starting flights which are likely to run from July3-6.

The 2023 Main Event created a new record after attracting a mammoth field of 10,043 entries and generating over $93 million in total prize pool. The tournament, which is now the biggest Main Event in the history of the WSOP, was won by Daniel Weinman for $12.1 million. 

Breaking Records

Announcing the initial dates of the 2024 WSOP after the successful conclusion of WSOP Paradise in the Bahamas, Ty Stewart, SVP and Executive Director of the WSOP, said they’re once again aiming to shatter records next year and make the 2024 festival the biggest and best poker event in history.

The highly-anticipated World Poker Tour (WPT) World Championship event may have fallen short of attracting the required number of entries to hit its $40 million guarantee this year, but it has succeeded in its goal and that’s what matters. That’s the message from WPT President and CEO Adam Pliska after the flagship tournament of the ongoing World Championship series at Wynn Las Vegas recorded an overlay.

$10,400 WPT World Championship Fails to Meet $40M Guarantee

The WPT World Championship event returned for a second edition this year with a massive $40 million guarantee, making it the largest-guaranteed tournament in poker history. When registration closed, the tournament failed to meet its ambitious guarantee, ending up with an overlay of $2.4 million. 

The WPT is unbothered by that as it remains focused on its goal of creating “the best tournament” for players.

Goal Achieved 

Pliska believes the goal has been achieved, with the WPT receiving plenty of positive feedback from players. That has always been the goal and the team will remain committed to bringing the best poker experiences and contributing to the growth of the game, Pliska said.

The WPT team does not view the overlay as a failure but rather an investment in the WPT brand, the players, and poker as a whole.