The corpses of small businesses litter the ring, but there is one still slugging it out, and that’s Poker Central.
Despite COVID-19 turning his live tournament business into dust motes, Cary Katz and his team dove into the lab and came out with a rapid-fire response.
Katz partnered with partypoker to create the Poker Masters Online. With 18-games cut to ribbons, the results have been outstanding with $17.8m dished out to an average field size of 88-entrants, and given that buy-ins have ranged between $10,000 and $25,000 you know the high stakes brethren have not been sitting on their arse picking toe jam.
In addition to moving his live empire online, Katz has hurried to provide his PokerGO subscribers with a reason to stop watching ‘The Tiger King’.
‘2020 Hindsight’ is the new PokerGO Original due to start Tuesday 21 April.
The concept is a simple one.
Solve For Why founder, Matt Berkey, will guide viewers through the ins and outs of six of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) Main Event’s most celebrated episodes.
The series begins with the event that thrust Jonathan Duhamel into the limelight – the 2010 WSOP Main Event.
Here is a look at the final standings of that event.
Results
- Jonathan Duhamel – $8,944,310
- John Racener – $5,454,955
- Joseph Cheong – $4,130,049
- Filippo Candio – $3,092,545
- Michael Mizrachi – $2,322,992
- John Dolan – $1,772,959
- Jason Senti – $1,356,720
- Matt Jarvis – $1,045,743
- Soi Nguyen – $811,823
Berkey’s Credentials
Berkey’s tongue won’t turn to stone in this one because he featured heavily in it. The Nevadan based star finished 43rd and will have picked up plenty of insight into the inner workings of the minds of these incredible players.
The appointment is no surprise. Berkey is Vegas-based, so he can waltz into the Poker Central Studios to get to work. Despite making his living playing high stakes live cash games, Berkey has earned $4.1m playing live tournaments.
Amongst Berkey’s tournament highlights are a fifth-place finish in the 2016 Super High Roller Bowl (SHRB) for $1.1m, a win in a $25,000 Aria High Roller, and bubbling the final table of the 2017 World Poker Tour (WPT) LAPC, and finishing third in the $1,111 Little One for One Drop at the WSOP, the same year.
Most critically, Berkey is a top-rated poker coach.
PokerGo costs $10 per month or $8.25 if you buy an annual pass for $99. If you get behind the paywall you can watch High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, and footage of various live tournaments (remember them).
Other PokerGO originals include The Big Blind, Pokerography, Stories From The Felt, Insiders, The Championship Run, Dead Money, The Super High Roller Club, Deep Issues and Poker Nights.