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.
It’s finally happening! GGPoker, in partnership with WSOP, will launch its regulated online poker room in Ontario, Canada at the end of the month.
A second domain ggpoker.ca has been added along with the WSOP domain in a recent license update indicating a two-skin player pool in Ontario.
The Ontario Poker Championships by partypoker Ontario is the largest schedule hosted by any operator in the newly launched market.
The upcoming Championships will be BetMGM’s first online tournament series in the regulated Ontario online poker market where it launched in April.
Every Saturday, the site is offering one package to the WPT World Championship Main Event, worth over $12,000.
Michigan joined the multi-state poker compact back in May, but MI poker operators’ upcoming tournament series indicate that there is still some way to go until Michiganders can play against other states.
The seven-figure event on WPT Global gets underway and, much like the $1 For $1 Million tournament, the Main Event will also have a very soft field.
The tournament is guaranteed to have an overlay of well over $900,000. Regardless of the overlay size, it will end up as the tournament with the biggest value in the history of poker.
With $346 million in total prize money and nearly 200k entrants, the WSOP 2022 series ends with jaw-dropping numbers.
Across all the online bracelets that have run so far in the four states, $11.4 million in prize pool has been generated. Two more days of online bracelets remain.
With late registration still open, there is still a possibility that this year’s Main could break the record for the biggest turnout ever seen at the $10k Main Event.
Here is the exclusive first glimpse of PokerStars Ontario software and what the operator has in store for poker players in Canada’s largest province.