Barry Carter gives some initial musings on how the World Series of Poker may change after GGPoker bought it last week. Perhaps the biggest story of the year broke last week, as GGPoker bought the World Series of Poker for $500 million .
If you work in the industry, you would have heard this rumour every few months for the last three years. It was no secret the GG and WSOP were essentially ‘engaged’ and now it is official, they are married.
This is probably good news for online players in the USA . The story of GGPoker’s meteoric rise in online poker surprised everyone at a time when it looked impossible to overcome PokerStars. They are by no means perfect but GGPoker has innovated at a pace like we have not seen in poker for years. If this deal with the WSOP is their way of getting into the US market, that is good overall for US players.
I’m not sure what it will do for GGPoker the online site itself, but I have some initial musings about what it might mean for the WSOP. WSOP goes global
Will there be more bracelet festivals in other parts of the world? First of all, GGPoker has pledged to take the WSOP global. This surely means the WSOP will become a rival to the EPT and WPT and host more festivals with bracelets to be won. They have already started with WSOP Paradise alongside the WSOPE. I made a prediction this year we would see bracelets awarded before May and it seems I was a year too early.
If there are no additional bracelet festivals in Europe, I really hope they change the venue of the WSOPE at least, because we are about to have our 7th year at Rozvadov, and it’s time for a change. Could we also see the return of WSOP APAC, which happened just once in 2014?
The big thing on my GG/WSOP wishlist would be to change the way the WSOP is broadcast. PokerGo do an amazing job and I’d want to keep them to produce the shows, but hiding […]
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