Global Poker Awards Cancels All 2020 Player of the Year Chases

The Global Poker Index (GPI) has announced that it has canceled all of its ongoing 2020 calendar-year Player of the Year races in response to the year’s severe limiting of poker events and festivals because of the global and ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. In a brief statement on its website, the Las Vegas-based GPI also cited …

WSOP Trades on Goodwill With 2020 $10,000 World Championship Main Event

There’s a major twist afoot in the saga of the pandemic-impacted 2020 World Series of Poker. Just a couple of months after a financially successful 2020 WSOP Online series, split between WSOP.com (for the US) and GGPoker (for the rest of the world), the WSOP has announced another Main Event, to conclude in late December. …

Online WSOP Series Reignites “Real Bracelet” Debate

This week, with pandemic-related “social distancing” rules continuing to significantly impact the live-poker world, the Caesars-owned World Series of Poker officially announced an 85-event Online 2020 WSOP to be held beginning July 1st. The electrons had barely been sent across the intertubes before poker players far and wide began offering their takes on the WSOP’s …