Resorts World is the newest casino and three-hotel resort on the Las Vegas Strip located just north of the Wynn and Encore, which will open its doors on June 24. If you're into cryptocurrency, then there's some good news because the Winklevoss Twins cut a deal to partner up with Resorts World as the first crypto platform in Sin City. Gamblers will be able to access their Gemini crypto wallet at Resorts World.

Despite the fact that Daniel Negreanu was the big betting favorite against Phil Hellmuth in the second installment of their High Stakes Duel on Poker GO, the Poker Brat came out on top of Kid Poker this week to win another $100,000. Hellmuth is now up $200,000, but Negreanu is expected to play a rematch sometime in June for a chance to break even against the 15-time WSOP bracelet winner.

Joon Park from Austin, Texas outlasted a field of 1,818 runners to win the Lone Star Poker Series Main Event at the Champions Social Poker Club in Houston. This special $1,300 buy-in event had a $1 million guaranteed prize pool, but it was smashed due to the huge turnout. Park banked $271,420 for the victory via a three-way chop by outlasting a final table that also included Shawn Rice and Mike Wang.

Casinos and legal card rooms in the state of Colorado no longer have to cap cash games with the $100 max bet law. Voters in Colorado passed Amendment 77 which removed the $100 cap on all table games including poker. That means the poker action at casinos in Blackhawk, Central City, and Colorado Springs will pop off in the next few months after casinos re-opened with six-handed tables.

The 2021 SCOOP Main Event played down to a champion last night. Event #92-High had a $10,300 buy-in and attracted 664 entrants and a prize pool worth $6.6 million. kZhh, Dan 'Dannyz0r' Borlan, and Kayhan 'KayhanMok' Roshanfekr agreed on a three-way money chop, but Hungary's kZhh won the title and first-place prize worth $878,781. The final table also included Beowulf3182, David 'MissOracle' Yan, Christian 'WATnlos' Rudolph, Ka Kwan 'kaju85' Lau, Jareth 'jareth3542' East, and 23tudy23.

The 2021 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown set new record for most entrants in a World Poker Tour event with 2,482 entrants and generated a prize pool worth nearly $7.95 million, which also crushed the initial $2 million guarantee. The final table is set and Sonny Franco bagged the lead with Brekstyn Schutten, Steven Snyder, Ken Aldridge, Albert Calderon, and Viet Vo still remaining. The final six will slug it out at a delayed final table at the Aria Casino in Las Vegas on May 18. First place pays out $1.26 million.

The 2021 WSOP Super Circuit Online Series at GGPoker begins on May 1 and ends May 30 with 18 low-tiered buy-in tournaments with 18 WSOP Circuit rings up for grabs. Plus, they'll give away two WSOP Circuit rings to cash game specialists. The $5 million guaranteed Main Event, which starts May 30, has a modest price tag of $525. You can win a WSOP Circuit ring for as little as $25, while the biggest buy-in is only $840.

Get ready for the brand-spanking new PokerGo Tour launched by PokerGo, which was created to establish a bona fide professional ranking system. This new PokerGO Tour will include 150 international events, including PokerGo's branded events -- US Poker Open, Poker Masters, and Super High Roller Bowl -- in which poker pros compete for the Poker Go Tour Player of the Year and an additional $100,000 in cash.

The GG Spring Festival over at GG Poker recently crowned champions that banked seven-figure scores. Joakim Andersson outlasted a field of 1,089 runners to win the $10K buy-in GG Spring Festival Super Millions Main Event for a score worth $1.5 million. The other day, Mikita Badziakouski shipped a $25K high roller event for $1.1 million.

ESPN will no longer broadcast the World Series of Poker. The 2021 WSOP moves to CBS Sports, which is available via Paramount+ streaming service. The WSOP and CBS Sports agreed to a multi-year partnership. ESPN's coverage of the WSOP was an integral part of the online poker boom in the early 2000s when they aired the epic run by Chris Moneymaker at the 2003 WSOP.

Ukraine's Pavel Veksler faded a field of 1,880 runners to take down the 2021 Iish Poker Open Main Event, which was hosted at partypoker for a second year in a row due to the pandemic. partypoker pros Patrick Leonard and Matthew Staples went deep, but missed the final table. Pavel Veksler and Bulgaria's Stoyan Obreshkov cut a deal heads-up, but Obreshkov busted in second place and Veksler won the title and a first-place prize worth €266K.

London banker Talal 'raidalot' Shakerchi and high-stakes poker player is also one heck of an online poker player. Playing on PokerStars as raidalot, Shakerchi binked his fifth SCOOP title with a victory in 2021 SCOOP Event $2,100 HORSE. Shakerchi won a SCOOP in back-to-back years after he won his fourth SCOOP last spring. He's now a member of the 5 SCOOP Club with Jason Mercier, Luke Schwartz, and Shaun Deeb.

PokerStars expanded their growing list of PokerStars Ambassadors by adding three well-known pros and three popular Twitch streamers. Sam Grafton, Andre Coimbra, and Parker 'tonkaaaaP' Talbot are the pros that are now the latest PokerStars Ambassadors. In addition, Twitch streamers Lasse ‘WisternJL' Jagd Lauritsen from Denmark, and Keith 'AccidentalGrenade' Becker and Mark 'naigo1' Foresta from America also become the next generation of PokerStars Ambassadors.

The 2021 World Series of Poker will run a full slate of live bracelet events starting this fall. The 2021 WSOP returns to the Rio Casino in Las Vegas starting September 30 and running through November 23. The $10,000 buy-in WSOP Main Event begins with four flights starting November 4. The WSOP Online series also returns this summer for both US and international players. Plus, the 2021 WSOP Europe returns to the King's Casino in Roz Vegas between November 19 and December 8.

It's been a wild ride following the big to buy the World Poker Tour. A raising war broke out to buy the WPT between Element Partners and Bally's. In one corner, there's the unknown entities making up Element and their current bid is up to $105 million. In the other corner, Bally's is well-known gambling brand that operates casinos and racetracks across America. Bally's previously bid $90 million, but now they must decide if they want to make a higher bid for the WPT.

Get ready for the largest Spring Championship of Online Poker (SCOOP) in PokerStars history. Starting Sunday, April 4 and running through April 28, PokerStars will host 102 events for 2021 SCOOP and a total of 306 tournaments ranging from $2.20 to $25,000. The 2021 SCOOP has a whopping $100 million in guaranteed prize pools, which makes it the largest guaranteed COOP in history. The $10,300 buy-in Main Event High No-Limit and $5,200 Main Event Medium NL both have a $5 million guaranteed prize pool.

PokerStars made a tough decision to pull the plug on the second installment of the PokerStars Players No Limit Hold'em Championship (PSPC), which was supposed to take place at the end of the summer of 2020, but never came to fruition due to the pandemic. PokerStars live events were shuttered in 2020, but the red spade hoped the PSPC could return in 2021, but the logistics have made it a daunting task, so they'll focus the PSPC returning in 2021.

Actor George Segal passed away after complications from heart surgery at the age of 87. The comedic actor was nominated for an Oscar for his work in "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" Poker players will recognize Segal as "Bill" from "California Split", a buddy film directed by Robert Altman in 1974 about a pair of degen gamblers from Los Angeles that also featured Elliot Gould.

Canada's Vanessa 'Niffller' Kade faded a field of 69,876 runners to win PokerStars Sunday Million special 15^th Anniversary Party with $12.5 million in guaranteed prizes and $1.5 million set aside to first place. Kade defeated Poland's Talibenes heads-up for the title and sick score. Talibenes banked a cool million as the runner-up. This special Sunday Milly final table included players from Russia, Bulgaria, Norway, Netherlands, Romania, Poland, and Canada.

Mark your calendars, or set your phone alarm. The second installment of High Stakes Duel will take place exclusively on PokerGo for the highly-anticipated heads-up battle between Phil Hellmuth and Daniel Negreanu. Love them, or hate them... this heads-up joust will be must-see TV because the poker world cannot wait to see a Hellmuthian meltdown at the hands of Kid Poker. PokerCentral will air the first part of High Stakes Duel II: Hellmuth vs Negreanu for free on PokerGo starting March 31.