Wynn poker room switching poker apps, The Mirage’s last days, and the North American Poker Tour schedule are some of the shorts stacks CardsChat picked up in its latest orbit of poker news. The Mirage’s volcano will erupt for the last time in July. (Image: The Mirage)Wynn Poker Room Switching to PokerAtlas The Wynn Las Vegas has switched poker rooms apps from Bravo Live to Poker Atlas. Both apps provide both live and static information about card rooms, such as phone numbers, tournaments schedules, how many tables are available, how many players are currently playing, and allows players to put ..read more

Christina Gollins is a two-time World Series of Poker champion after winning the $600 Housewarming at Commerce Casino, good for $105,444. The opening event brought in 1,483 entries who built a prize pool of $763,745. Christina Gollins now has two World Series of Poker Circuit rings after winning in Los Angeles. (Image: WSOP) Known as “Baby Shark” on the tournament trail, Gollins is now over the $700,000 mark in lifetime tournament cashes. This was her largest cash by $22,000. Her top-10 cashes all came since 2021, and includes her first Circuit ring from a $400 event at Bell Gardens (also in L ..read more

Steve Albini, a serious poker player whose day job was recording some of the most influential musicians of the last 25 years, died of a heart attack Tuesday, May 7. He was 61. Steve Albini won his second WSOP bracelet in a $1,500 HORSE event in 2022. He passed away Tuesday. (Image: WSOP) Albini owned Electrical Audio, a recording studio in Chicago that became a sort of Mecca for some of the biggest bands of the 90s and beyond. The list of bands he recorded goes into the 1,000s, and includes some of the biggest cultural influencers of the last several generations — Nirvana, The Breeders, The Pi ..read more

An NBA player booted for life, a casino owner breaks the hearts of a hockey fanbase, and the World Series of Poker getting behind a veterans organization are the short stacks CardsChat picked up in its last orbit of poker news. Dave Riley is one of the many people that receives support from Disabled American Veterans. The WSOP is donating up to $30,000 to the organization this weekend. (Image: DAV) WSOP to donate to vets group The WSOP will donate up to $30,000 to Disabled American Veterans — if enough people take part in the 72 hour “Pokerthon” that will take place on the World Series of Poke ..read more

In a little more than a month, poker players throughout the world will descend on Las Vegas for the 55th World Series of Poker and a chance at big money and the coveted bracelet. For those who can’t make it to the desert to witness the action in person, PokerGO will again be the place to watch as the players battle for bracelet after bracelet. Fans watched Daniel Weinman win the 2023 WSOP Main Event title on PokerGO. (Image: WSOP) PokerGO, which can be had for as low as $6.66 a month, will begin streaming from The Strip starting May 30, and promises to provide more than 300 hours of live broad ..read more

High-stakes tournament poker regular Dan Shak made a deal with the Commodity Futures Trading Commission for $750,000 — or $214,000 less than what he won playing tournament poker since December — after facing accusations he manipulated the gold and silver futures market. Dan Shak, PokerGO Tour champion, has settled with the Feds. (Image: PokerGO) The deal closed an investigation by the Federal commission, “resolving CFTC charges that Daniel Shak of Las Vegas, Nevada engaged in spoofing and in a manipulative and deceptive scheme in the gold and silver futures markets,” according t ..read more

Resorts World Las Vegas announced a massive small buy-in poker tournament series that will give the thousands of players in town for the 2024 World Series of Poker a chance to build their bankrolls. Comfy seats and table-side gourmet dining await the players at Resorts World Summer Poker Series in June. (Image: Resorts World) While WSOP events up the Strip at the Paris and Las Vegas Horseshoe cost up to $250,000 to buy-in, Resorts World is keeping the buy-ins of its 82-event Summer Poker Series between $200 and $400. Each tourney has a prize pool guarantee of at least $5,000, with the $400 No ..read more

Save the dates: The World Series of Poker is set to return to King’s Resort in Rozvadov, Czech Republic for the 15th version of its series in Europe. Running from Sept. 18 to Oct. 6, 15 bracelets will be won in tourneys with guarantees totaling $15 million. Max Neugebauer is the 2023 World Series of Poker European Champion. Will he defend his title in October? (Image: WSOP) The €10,350 Main Event starts Oct. 4. Last year’s Main Event champion, Max Neugebauer, won €1.5 million for being the last of a record-breaking field of 817 entrants. In fact, the attendance record of the Main Event has inc ..read more

Consistency is one of the best indicators of greatness, something champions and Hall of Famers in any sport possess. While the mortals stare and wonder on the rail how these poker stars are able to consistently perform, others simply go out and do it. Erik Seidel wins another big-buy in event for $145,000. (Image: PokerGO) Erik Seidel is one of these “others” and he went out and did it again, this time in the first event at the U.S. Poker Open, a $5,100 no-limit hold’em contest that attracted 116 entries. The wins adds another $145,000 to a pile of tournament cashes worth $46.2 million he’s co ..read more

It’s the middle of March. My mother is sitting in a hospital bed while I try to shuffle a cheap used deck of cards from the Tropicana found in a drawer. We’re 2,000 miles away from Las Vegas in a rehab unit on the top floor, and we’re both sick of this place because she’s been in the same building since the ambulance rushed her here two days before Christmas. The cards are thick and stiff and go everywhere when I try to riffle them, so I end up shuffling the deck one-by-one, placing the top card on the bottom, one after another, until all 52 find a new spot. I’m reminding Theresa the rules of ..read more