Enjoying poker with skilled hockey participant in New York, GGPoker partnering with a on line casino in Toronto, and the World Poker Tour letting us know the place the’ll be within the first a part of 2025 are a few of the brief stacks CardsChat picked up in its newest orbit of poker information.
GGPoker goes dwell
GGPoker is now the official sponsor of the Nice Canadian On line casino Resort Toronto’s poker site, and because the proprietor of the World Sequence of Poker collection, the on line casino will probably be Ontario’s dwelling to WSOP Circuit and ring occasions.
The on line casino opened in 2023. It hosted its first WSOP Circuit collection final spring, which was additionally sponsored by GGPoker. The world’s largest on-line web site additionally operates WSOP.ca in Ontario. Final March, 324 entries into the Primary Occasion had been gained via GGPoker.
That satellite tv for pc system will certainly be up and working for WSOP occasions that will probably be held on the Nice Canadian On line casino Resort Toronto sooner or later. Dates for the 2025 collection ought to be launched quickly.
GGPoker bought the WSOP model from Caesars Leisure final yr for $500 million. The partnership provides the NSUS Group — the corporate that owns GGPoker — a type of hometown poker site because it’s primarily based out of Toronto. By the best way, NSUS is pronounced as “solutions.”
Getting crunchy at Turning Stone
Drop the gloves at Turning Stone Resort On line casino in New York on Jan. 28, and tackle some skilled hockey gamers on the Syracuse Crunch Knockout Poker Match, that includes gamers from the minor league hockey workforce that feeds the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The $125 occasion will function a line or two of Syracuse Crunch gamers, and whoever knocks a participant out, will get an autograph and the jersey off their again. Turning Stone will even raffle off two full workforce signed jerseys on the finish of the occasion.
Registration will start at 5 p.m., two hours earlier than the beginning of the match.
World Poker Tour releases partial schedule
The WPT launched the schedule for the primary half of 2025 of its championship occasions.
“With the arrival of the brand new yr, we sit up for the twenty third season of the World Poker Tour,” stated WPT CEO Adam Pliska. “Poker gamers, globally, can mark their calendars for some wonderful WPT festivals to return within the first half of 2025.”
Placing the worldwide into WPT World, the schedule is loaded with worldwide occasions that take gamers to all corners of the world beginning in Phnom Penh, Cambodia from Feb. 19-24 with a buy-in of $3,500.
In line with the WPT ,”The WPT Cambodia Championship is the marquee match of the general pageant at NagaWorld Built-in Resort that additionally contains the $1,100 WPT Prime Cambodia Championship working Feb. 14-18.”
