Anuj Arora has been a staff writer for pokerfuse and Poker Industry PRO since 2018. A former poker player, Anuj was soon recognized as one of the leading journalists in the online poker industry, known for his analytical insights and encyclopedic knowledge of both the US and global markets. Famous for his data-heavy analysis of industry trends, Anuj today leads pokerfuse’s editorial and heads our poker content production.
WSOP’s launch in Ontario has not hindered PokerStars’ growth as it reaches its highest point since its launch in late June.
Despite multiple technical difficulties, PokerStars’ ONCOOP surpassed its overall guaranteed prize money by 13.5%, generating a total prize pool of $1.94 Million.
WSOP Ontario, powered by GGPoker, snatches the lead from PokerStars as the market grows to nearly 750 concurrent seats — larger than any US online poker market, pokerfuse can exclusively reveal.
Poker’s most iconic brand WSOP in association with the largest online poker network GGPoker has scheduled three bracelets for Ontario online poker players.
The PokerStars ambassador and Ontario native crushes the inaugural ONCOOP series taking down five titles for a total payout of nearly $17,000. And there’s still five days to go.
Despite a decent turnout for WSOP’s inaugural Ontario online poker series, players are enjoying big overlays thanks to the ambitious guarantees set by the operator.
WSOP is certainly not holding back its ambitions in Ontario as its schedules a $2.5 million guaranteed Ontario WSOP Circuit Online Series straight out of the gate.
GGPoker begins migrating Ontario online poker players to the new WSOP Ontario after executing the operating agreement with iGaming Ontario (iGO).
PokerStars Ontario once again regains its pole position in Canada’s largest province as the BetMGM Poker Ontario Network’s traffic sees a decline.
Ontario’s richest tournament series so far boasts CAD $2 million in prize money spread over 132 individual tournaments.
BetMGM incentivizes tournament players to register before the start of the tournament by offering them full rakeback.
The second slate of online bracelets on WSOP US is attracting much lower turnouts than normal. Multi-state poker can’t come soon enough.