Jennifer Newell has been writing about poker and gambling since 2004. As the online gaming sectors have changed and grown, particularly in the United States and Canada, she has followed it all and written about it for websites like World Poker Tour and PokerScout. In her free time, she runs a small business, reads, cooks, and enjoys music.
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Poker Pro Brad Booth Safe According to Family Members
Last month, we wrote an article about Canadian poker player Brad Booth. He had been missing for more than one month from his then-residence in Reno, Nevada, and there was a significant effort to find him. Today, slightly more than two months after his roommate last…
Great Canadian Set to Reopen Casinos as Revenue Suffers
In two weeks, Great Canadian Gaming Corporation will reopen a significant number of its casinos in Ontario and New Brunswick. And it cannot happen soon enough for this entertainment company. A quick look at the 2020 financials thus far shows that the revenue is necessary for Great Canadian Gaming to…
Playground Poker Opens Without Poker Temporarily
Poker players have quite a few options in Canada, most of them online. Due to the ambiguity of poker laws in most provinces, Canadians can access numerous online poker websites for real-money action. Live poker is not as prevalent. Those within driving distance of Playground Poker in Montreal, though,…
Canadians Represent Well in WSOP 2020 Online
Just like that, the World Series of Poker for the summer of 2020 is over. It started with 31 tournaments in two American states, primarily aimed at players in the US market. And the second section, filled with 54 events on GGNetwork sites like GGPoker and Natural8, ran from mid-July…
Admired Poker Ambassador Mike Sexton Dies of Cancer
The past week has been a sad one for the world of poker. First, poker icon Linda Johnson informed the poker community that one of its most beloved members – Mike Sexton – was in home-based hospice care. He was battling advanced prostate cancer that had spread to other organs…
PokerStars WCOOP Starts Strong and Runs to October 3
The summer of online poker is in full swing, providing more opportunities for tournament action than players have seen in many years. From the World Series of Poker to the World Poker Tour, poker tour operators took their live tours to the online poker space. The WSOP did so…
BCLC Reveals 2019-2020 FY Report and Covid-19 Impact
No matter how most companies performed in the first three months of 2020, the period of April through June is going to show the economic damage of the coronavirus pandemic. Companies around the world are adjusting their expectations and releasing financials that do not reflect their hopes for this point…
Two Canadians Among 38 Players Remaining in WSOP 2020 Main Event
The World Series of Poker Main Event is on a break. The last half-dozen tournaments are playing out on GGPoker right now, with only a few opportunities left for players to grab the remaining WSOP 2020 Online gold bracelets. There were 85 bracelet events at the start, thirty-one of which…
Canadians Win Again as WSOP 2020 Faces Final Week
The 2020 World Series of Poker is already coming to a close…but after another week of action! Since July 19, players on GGPoker have participated in some of the 54 tournaments that comprised the international version of the WSOP 2020 Online. Canadians have made their mark so far.
Loto-Québec Celebrates Online Anniversary and New Deals
This month, Loto-Quebec celebrated the tenth anniversary of its online gaming site. It did it by awarding $54,000 to some lucky players. Meanwhile, Loto-Quebec expanded its online gaming portfolio with Live5 and Everi Digital. There are a lot of good things happening for Loto-Quebec and its players. But the loss…
