When Michigan officially joined the Multi-State Internet Gaming Agreement (MSIGA) back in May, Michiganders were excited to know when they would be allowed to compete with players in New Jersey, Nevada, and Delaware, the three other states that are part of the compact. 

Now, it looks like Michigan players would have to wait a little longer before they can play multi-state poker.

Shared Liquidity Not Happening Anytime Soon

There are three online poker networks currently operating in Michigan – PokerStars MI, BetMGM MI, and WSOP MI. Before they can proceed with combining their player pools across the four states, they need to comply with multiple requirements set out by the Michigan Gaming Control Board (MGCB). 

Looking at the upcoming tournament offerings from each operator, we can say that shared liquidity isn’t happening in Michigan anytime soon. 

The WSOP announced a separate online bracelet series for Michigan, while PokerStars MI will once again host the Michigan Championship of Online Poker (MICOOP) this September.

Multi-State Poker Could Go Live in MI by Early 2023

It took New Jersey around seven months before multi-state poker went live there. Nevada and Delaware waited much longer. If Michigan were to adopt a similar timeframe, then players in the state won’t become part of a shared pool until early 2023. 

Neither the MGCB nor any of the three operators released a statement on their current liquidity status.

Ireland is set to have its biggest-ever Pot-Limit Omaha (PLO) event when the Irish Poker Festival Killarney launches next month. The series takes place at Gleneagle Hotel’s INEC Arena from September 29 to October 2 and comes with over €400,000 in guaranteed prizes. 

Ireland’s Biggest PLO Event 

Among the events on the schedule is the Irish Omaha Championship 7-Max which is the country’s biggest PLO event. The tournament costs €2,500 to enter and players begin the action with 40,000 chips played to 40-minute levels. Players are allowed single re-entry. Day 1 is scheduled for September 30, while Day 2 takes places on October 1. The tournament, which will award €75,000 in guaranteed prize money, will crown a winner on October 2. 

Other Highlights

Apart from the PLO event, there are other huge tournaments that players can get their teeth into, including the Irish Poker Cup which has a buy-in of €500 and has a guaranteed prize pool of €200,000. The tournament gets underway on September 29 and runs through October 2. 

Players may also compete in the €400 buy-in, €50K GTD Paddy Poker Mystery Bounty (September 29-30), €750 buy-in, €30K GTD High Roller One Dater (October 1), and the €300 buy-in, €25K GTD Killarney Poker Cup (October 1-2).

PokerStars is going to set September on fire as the online poker operator has just released the schedule for the 2022 World Championship Of Online Poker (WCOOP).

PokerStars will offer $85 million in guaranteed prize money during 2022 WCOOP which takes place from Sep 4 to 28.

WCOOP continues to be among the most popular online poker tournaments in the world. PokerStars launched WCOOP in 2002 and the tournament has continued to get bigger with every passing year, with over $1.1 billion in total prize money paid out during WCOOP tournaments.

2022 WCOOP Has Action For Everyone

The 2022 WCOOP will feature a range of different poker tournaments, formats and buy-ins that will appeal to poker players from different walks of life. As usual, PokerStars has a nice selection of low stake events which start from $5.50 and some super exciting high stakes events where the highest buy-in is fixed at $25,000.

The 2022 WCOOP will feature a total of 6 Main Events where three of them will be No-Limit Hold’em and the other three will be Pot-Limit Omaha. The most popular tournament at the 2022 WCOOP is arguably the WCOOP 92-H World Championship of NLHE/Main Event which has a $6 million guarantee and a $10,300 buy-in.

The full schedule for the 2022 World Series of Poker (WSOP) Online on GGPoker is finally out. The action kicks off on August 14 and will run through September 27, with 33 gold bracelets on offer. The announcement comes just days after the conclusion of the live WSOP festival at Bally’s in Las Vegas which ended up awarding over $347 million in prize money. 

2022 WSOP Online Main Event Features $20M Guarantee

The upcoming online series in GGPoker is expected to once again shatter records, with the schedule headlined by the $5,000 buy-in WSOP Online Main Event which has a guaranteed prize pool of $20 million. The tournament will run from August 28 to September 27, wrapping up in a live-streamed final table which will be handled by GGPoker ambassadors Ali Nejad and Jeff Gross.

Other Highlights

Other events to watch for include the $1,000,000 Mystery Bounty scheduled to run from August 8-22. Similar to the inaugural live edition which was part of the live series in Las Vegas, the online version also comes with a $1 million bounty prize.

There are also a handful of tournaments on the schedule with buy-ins of $5,000 and above apart from the Main Event, such as the $5,000 6-Handed NLH Championship, the $10,000 Super MILLION$ High Roller NLH, and the $5,000 Short Deck Championship [3-Stack].

Phil Hellmuth and Scott Seiver’s highly-anticipated High Stakes Duel rematch is scheduled to take place on August 22 at the PokerGO Studio in Las Vegas. The Poker Brat remains the most successful player on the show with nine wins and just one defeat. He outclassed Seiver during Round 4 of High Stakes Duel III and is aiming to score a second win against the 37-year-old high-stakes legend. 

The upcoming match comes with a huge $1.6 million pot, but there will be more than just money at stake!

Will Seiver Redeem Himself?

A victory for Seiver will prevent him from suffering the same fate as Antonio Esfandiari and Daniel Negreanu both of whom were swept by Hellmuth in all of their three matches against him. Seiver will also earn bragging rights if he ends up defeating Hellmuth as he becomes just the second player to beat the 16-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner on High Stakes Duel (the first being Tom Dwan).

Hellmuth Needs to Win

Hellmuth hardly gets praises as a player partly due to his behavior at the table. Many pros, especially the younger ones, also believe his skills are not on a par with the best players in the game today.

But a victory in the upcoming match will be a way for him to silence his naysayers, those who continuously criticize his skills despite proving time and again that he can win big tournaments against top-notch opponents.